Category Archives: Music
Blissful
As I said before, this is blissful. Like a scene from a religious experience. The most uplifting song I’ve ever heard. I present the song Inní mér syngur vitleysingur by Sigur Rós, taken from the album Með suð í eyrum … Continue reading
Happy With That
It’s not often that things satisfy expectations so I thought I should give some credit where it’s due. I’ve never bought digital audio in the past for a number of reasons: Digital audio always seemed like an intangible product compared … Continue reading
Influences
I was driving around today, listening to the NME Classics 3 CD compilation I bought a few weeks back when I switched to the 3rd CD (covering the end of the 80s and the 90s era) as Jenny wasn’t overwhelmed … Continue reading
Do You Know Whats Wrong With My Guitar?
Ok, I said had a few “Dear Lazyweb”s. This is the second in the series. I put my home ‘studio’ back together to work on Jokosher as I had moved my PC, laptops, guitars and amp to my parents house … Continue reading
V Festival 2005
Ok, no updates for a while as I’ve been ill for the last few days of last week and I was at V Festival all weekend. This post is especially aimed at Rachel who asked me to write a new … Continue reading
The Secret Band
The band I mentioned a few weeks back, that are being looked after by my former band‘s lead singer with growing assistance from myself have been getting growing radio and news coverage. I will be responsible for the more business, … Continue reading
Busy doing everything and nothing
As always. I’ve got a million things going on and not enough time to do them all. My cold has now gone thankfully, but I’ve spent the last week in a flurry of activity. I’ve been trying to restore some … Continue reading
Your Votes Required
Please vote for Jono Bacon‘s band Seraphidian to play at this years Download Festival before Monday 11th April. They have been selected as one of the 10 top unsigned Metal Bands by Kerrang Magazine and if they win, will play … Continue reading
Ubuntu Jingle released
It’s not great, it’s not pretty but I have finally made the Ubuntu jingle for LUG Radio. To be honest, after all the fanfare thats been made about it, it’s not even very good. You can download it from here. … Continue reading
Ubuntu jingle latest
As some people may know I’ve been trying to make an Ubuntu jingle for LUG Radio. So far this has been nothing short of painful. If you read this post you’ll see I bought 2 new soundcards to try to … Continue reading
All Soundblasters are not equal
Recent readers will know that I bought a new Creative Labs Soundblaster Live soundcard as they seem to be very well supported under Linux, in a bid to finish this goddam Ubuntu jingle for LUG Radio. Well it arrived today … Continue reading
Ubuntu Jingle Update
After getting annoyed with the frustratingly fiddly process of getting some kind of decent input from my microphone via my soundcard and trying Dynebolic on various machines which run out of RAM as it’s a live CD or stutter because … Continue reading
I’m watching the Brit Awards…
I’m going out in a minute but I’m watching the Brit Awards (the British music awards). Best British Rock Band… Surely I can’t be the only person in the world that is able to recognise the fact that Franz Ferdinand … Continue reading
Ubuntu Jingle
I decided to do an Ubuntu jingle for LUG Radio. If you don’t already know, LUG Radio is a Linux radio discussion show that goes some way to recreating the loud, opinionated and very funny nature of our Wolves LUG … Continue reading