Les Hurlements d’Leo

Remem­ber how I almost stayed in Paris to watch a band? They’re play­ing the Corner Hotel this Thursday! Les Hur­le­ments d’Leo is a group of 8 sexy guys play­ing infec­tious French gypsy ska and singing odes to “la joie et l’an­archie’. When in...

Bowie

I went. It was worth it. That was the extasis I was after; Chords lift­ing and sur­round­ing, that voice soar­ing. He played Five Years, and Hang on to Your­self and Ziggy Star­dust and Heroes and Ashes to Ashes. He played four tracks from Low (Sound and...

Talking about jargon…

Can anyone tell me the dif­fer­ence between ‘autoch­thonic’ and ‘indi­gen­ous’ (in cul­tural stud­ies terms not botanic terms[1]) and explain why I’m start­ing to see autoch­thonic more? [1] Although, come to think of it, dai­syn­erd and maybe even jet­speaks,...

Ani, Bowie & life

I might have made the wrong decision… Ani di Franco didn’t trans­port me last night. She was com­pet­ent and funny, and some of her poems were unbe­liev­ably good. I loved hear­ing a few of my favour­ite songs and she made me think a lot about...