tUnE-yArDs

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 Posted in Music | No Comments »

I should have written something about this lady a while back especially as it was the only album I bought last year. tUnE-yArDs is Merrill Garbus an American songstress who uses the mix of lower and upper case letters in the ...

My Life as a playlist - 30 songs for 30 years

Thursday, December 24th, 2009 Posted in Music | No Comments »

I was browsing through Dave Schneider's new website and noticed he had written a page summing up his life as a playlist of his favourite tunes. Dave Schneider is a star of some of my favourite comedy shows including The ...

Suicide

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006 Posted in Music | No Comments »

Suicide are an uncompromising pioneering duo made up of Alan Vega (vocals) and Martin Rev (keyboards and all the other music). Penniless and living in a performing arts commune in New York in the 1970s, they decided to make music ...

Radioactive Man

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005 Posted in Music | No Comments »

Radioactive Man aka Keith Tenniswood is probably best known as one half of Two Lone Swordsmen (TLS) a partnership formed with the legendary (and therefore more famous) Andrew Weatherall. Tenniswood had been a key member of the Wetherall production team ...

The Human League

Monday, April 11th, 2005 Posted in Music | No Comments »

The Human League enjoyed huge comercial success particularly with their 1983 album Dare which sold by the truckload and made lead singer Phil Oakey the most eligible batchelor in Yorkshire since er…Compo. However it has always been the early years ...