Yonderboy
Just got back from seeing a storming Yonderboy set at the Joseph’s Well in Leeds. Wasn’t sure what to expect as I’d only heard one or two tracks before I got there but the band had a great accomplished sound and I was humming Frightened Rabbit all the way home. Great stuff.
Have a listen on [...]
Every silver lining has a Cloud: Spotify down, glitches, playlists lost
That was me trying to form a pun using the following ingredients:
Every cloud has a silver lining
Spotify is in the cloud
Spotify is the silver lining.
Edit: several days later, my playlists returned intact. Thanks, Spotify!
I’ve just logged into Spotify to find that the playlists that I’ve been carefully putting together have all but vanished: Spotify seems [...]
Written a program to restore iTunes Library
Huzzah! I’ve managed to add the 5000 tracks automatically back into iTunes from the backup that I had.
An arbitary 5000 tracks got accidentally deleted from my library and (to cut a long story short) although I had a backup of the lot, I didnt want to lose the meta data associated with the tracks by [...]
Just to add to the pain..
Just to add to the pain, after managing to recover all my lost music from the HDD [see thread] simply using windows XP’s own scandisk (!), I stepped a little boldly again and ended up getting an arbitrary 30GB of music deleted. This time was worse, because an arbitrary 30GB is harder to restore from [...]
Oh god, my Music library
OK, so I accidentally toasted my substantial music collection last night. Everyone who knows me knows that I pride this eclectic, pedantic, hoarded and polished music collection more than anything else that I own: it’s essentially my life’s work thus far, and to lose it is comparable to losing a limb. Therefore I’m pretty careful about [...]
“Sounds like the Way to Come Back”
Woke up this morning, hung-over to hell. Bacon’s frying, sausages are grilling, coffee’s brewing… and the new Oasis single comes on Radio 1. Cue volume up, head banging, hangover (temporarily) forgotten.
The new album is out 6th-Oct, and if it’s as much of a return-to-form as this single hints that it might be, then I’m [...]
Upcoming gigs
Quality! Grasped in my hot, clammy hands I’ve got tickets to see Travis, the Subways and Mercury Rev! All in two weeks! It’s going to be a busy fortnight, especially as I’m starting my Masters course properly on monday… (apparently the course I’m doing bends you over a desk straight away, so I’m a bit [...]
Album of the week : Underworld - Everything Everything
I reckon I might start an ‘album of the week’ feature, more for my own enjoyment rather than because I think anyone will actually it. My dissertation is imminent so I can’t really spend much time typing here. I just wanted to say that I spend a lot of time listening to music and at [...]
