Every Wednesday I’m going to share some videos. Some old, some new, some forgotten, anything goes…

This week we have The Knife, Mew, Two Door Cinema Club and more…

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I am surprised I have controlled myself for this long with only a brief mention of Ellie Goulding. I first heard Ellie on Huw Stephens’s Radio One show back in the middle of last year, I don’t know what exactly made me go on the hunt for more but I did and I have been in a little Ellie Goulding shaped musical bubble ever since…

For full article including MP3's & videos continue reading here… These Are Sounds

2000 Trees Festival 2009

After what I was convinced was going to become a complete washout of a festival I actually had an awesome time :)

Friday's lineup (for me) was nowhere near as good as Saturday's. A lot of heavy stuff, metal and although there were a few bands I really enjoyed and watched fully there was a lot of milling around… and drinking Badgers Bottom. Honestly, Badgers Bottom (a very very strong and pungent local cider) is the best stuff that can pass your lips. A few pints of that and you're anyones.

Some people I met last…

not blogged here for quite sometime. guess i've had other things going on.

anyway here i am having a ramble about musicy goodness.

going to see You Animals tomorrow at The Old Blue Last for one of their single launch dates. i have seen them many times as Komakino but never as You Animals so am really looking forward to it as i always enjoyed Komakino so much as a live band. i am very aware though that that was then and this is now and that the band have changed and moved on… - MySpace

heard Ellie Goulding on…

you know the 1001 albums you must hear before you die? well i have gotten hold of a excel file that lists them and you can mark once you have listened to them and it adds the score up as you go.

i am determined to do this. i want to hear each of these albums at least once before the day i die.

it's a bit geeky doing it in excel but i don't care… i have my record collection in an excel file with many columns full of relevant/irrelvant (depending on your POV) information.

i can't believe i…

i haven't blogged here for quite some time!

so i am here now and want to share with you three bands i hope make it this year. they are three bands that i love. some for long than others but i really want to see all three go on and have a little (or a lot!) success!

1. This Beautiful Thief - they are a friend's band, so obviously i'm gonna say they are good. but really, they are :) i would really recommend downloading the recordings they have put up for free download, either on here or at their…

I know I am supposed to hate Kings of Leon, cos I have always slated them and I admit now it was porbably cos I just didn't 'get' them, cos I am seriously enjoying Only By The Night. And now I am going back through their older stuff I see it all in a new light and it's a good light :)

Another album I have been thoroughly enjoying is TV on the Radio's Dear Science, probably more so than KoL's. I liked them before but this album is just wow, I love it.

I am…

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Ares
Mercury
Halo
Biko
Trojan Horse
Signs
One Month Off
Zephyrus
Better Than Heaven
Ion Square
Intimacy
Bloc Party

We Were Lovers

we meet inside the café,
the air is thick like hospital,
choked by the gold on your finger,
we were lovers.

bury the thoughts that resurface,
those hands were mine.

and now our love has been forgotten,
like it was never there,
we're just sitting here like strangers,
you gave me yourself for just a little while,
but it was you,
it was really you.

staring into my coffee,
it is not black just a shade of brown,
too scared to let our eyes meet,
what will we see?

and now our love has been forgotten,
like…

Bloc Party - Intimacy

Track 1 - Ares
An awesome opener, enough to rival Like Eating Glass, but I still reckon LEG has the edge! Kele's vocals on this track are so interesting he shows off his speech, falsetto, yeling and everything else he seems to be able to do. The voices in the background remind me of the start of Prince Charming - funny. To me this is a nice merge of old skool Bloc and new skool Bloc.

Track 2 - Mercury
When first hearing this I truly hated it. It has since grown on me and…