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The Police & KT Tunstall live in Belfast

By on June 21, 2008 in General

Went to see The Police and KT Tunstall at Stormont last night. It was brilliant. KT Tunstall is excellent live. Especially Black Horse and the Cherry Tree, which she does mostly solo using echo loops. The Police were excellent as well. They played several tracks that I didn’t recognise that were really heavy and good. The famous singles that everyone knows were good as well.

Here are some pictures (taken on an iPhone). BTW the concert was on the back cricket square at Stormont. This is shown in this picture from 2005.

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Playing along

By on June 2, 2008 in General

Love the drum kit. You can plug an iPod in and play along to your favourite tracks. This is so much fun its probably illegal. Plus it seems to be good exercise.

New Nina Kinert album

By on May 30, 2008 in General

Just got the new Nina Kinert album. It’s on my iPhone, but I haven’t listened to it yet (apart from snippets on her MySpace page). The last album was brilliant. I mentioned it here. Looking forward to hearing the new one, Pets & Friends. Now where are my headphones…

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Update: The album is good. Not sure if it’s as good as Let there be love.

More from The Hot Puppies

By on April 5, 2008 in General

I’ve written about The Hot Puppies before. They’re excellent. They have some new stuff out and a new album forthcoming. The new stuff isn’t on iTMS yet but there are 4 new tracks on their MySpace site. Well worth a listen. I love a lot about their music. The vocals are exquisite. But the good thing is that the rest of the music complements the singing really well. I see they are playing a gig in Cardiff on May 10th. I’ll be in that general area working. I might stay for the Saturday and go see them. Here there are live performing Shoot em in the head –

New finds: CSS and The Bastard Fairies

By on March 23, 2008 in General

I discovered two new bands in the last few days.

CSS – first seen performing Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death from Above on Later with Jools Holland filler on the BBC HD channel. They are very good. From Brazil but the vocals remind me a lot of the music coming out of Scandinavian countries recently. Such as The Knife, Nina Kinert, Victoria Bergsman, The Concretes, and others. Excellent stuff.

The Bastard Fairies – first seen via a Youtube link to their We’re all going to hell video. Good fun 🙂 Their album is good as well. Check out the ukulele group version of Brand New Key.