No Milk Today
Don't you hate it when you make a special effort to get off your arse during your lunch break in order to get a - pre-holiday - hair cut. A special effort that is wasted because there's a sign up saying: "Closed for one day only - Tuesday 9th September". Bugger !
Joey Barton scores for England u21s and Richard Dunne knocks one in for Ireland against the Turks. Whoop whoop !
Where did this "myth" about pre-pubescent boys having better voices than the equivalent females come from ? I've never heard of it myself. Granted I've not spent a life gracing the pews of my local House of "God", but nonetheless somebody must have gone to great lengths over the years to get people to believe it to be true. So much so that it would appear that "research" had to be conducted to disprove it.
I know I shouldn't say it, but I think it had more to do with the sexual preferences of those in charge rather than any musical superiority.
Meanwhile over in the good ol' US of A, money talks. Apparently the abuse was only discovered after an eagle-eared vice cop noticed that the all-boys choir was actually slightly worse than a secular girl's choir he had heard a couple of weeks earlier - honest !.
Quite impressed with what I've heard of this CD by Elbow. A Manchester band as well (well.....Bury actually but it IS in Greater Manchester).
There's not much else floating around at the moment that's catching my attention. I'm sure that that's more my fault than the - no doubt - hundreds of talented and original bands out there. As I get older I still need that injection of new music to keep me sane. By the same token though, as I get older I find myself delving deeper into the past, to the music of my youth. I don't think its just a nostalgia trip either. As more music from yesteryear is digitally remastered, we get a chance to hear anew some of the classics of 30 - 40 years ago. At the moment for example, The Kinks, The Small Faces and The Who are all getting the repeat button ticked, and they sound better than they ever did.
Sure I was brought up on these bands but, when I heard them all those years ago, it was through the 1" speaker of my plastic, mono "tranny". More often than not it would have been through the awfully woeful "earpiece" that came with it. These days it's just *fab* to be able to hear the seperate instruments, voices and also the sheer talent that was beginning to emerge from these "beat groups", who, incidentally, were only going to last "a few weeks or months" © my Dad (and many others) 1964.
Blaine Watch
Well he's......errr.....still sitting and writing or sleeping or..............................let's face it: who gives a shit ?
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