Lazer Guided Melody – Tangents From Listening To Too Many Records
Tangents From Listening To Too Many Records
Right; it’s been a busy year – best crack on. Awash with Album of the Year write-ups we may be (they start in mid-October, nuzzling up against the time zone when idiots start putting up the Christmas decorations), but when you scribble about music it kind of comes with the territory. Mandatory behaviour; look sharp, … Continue reading LGM’s Favourite Albums of 2015, #10 – #2
So Luke Haines – man, musician, author, artist, goatherd, lower league journeyman footballer – did do a record. And not just any record; no simpering up to The Man with “Please let me do a record” plastered across his chops. No; this most modern day Peter Ustinov locked himself away in his Luke Haines room, … Continue reading A Meditation Upon The Futility of Life, and Luke Haines’ ‘Raving’
The 2014 Best Of. The relentless march of. I’ll show you mine if you show me yours, etc. Sleaford Mods at #10 in The Guardian’s year-ending; presumably the same Sleaford Mods who, when I announced that I preferred them when they were called Goldie Lookin’ Chain, spent the rest of weekend tweeting me … Continue reading LGM’s Favourite Albums of 2014, #10 – #2
Truth be told I was thinking of avoiding the favourite albums piece this year. Because… well, this type of jape has become something of an industry. Ubiquitous; a parade of the same old records shuffled arbitrarily into position. And I’m old, and cranky, and desensitised by mid-November at the very latest as the earnest and … Continue reading LGM’s Favourite Albums Of 2013 #10 – #2
Why is it we appreciate the artistes that we do? The popstrels, the boppers, the groovers, and the associated proponents of vaudevillian chart fodder that regularly clog up our hipster turntables? Perhaps we admire their tailoring above all else. The sparkly sheen of their eye shadow, or how they’re kind to animals. Maybe – just … Continue reading Luke Haines / ‘Art Will Save The World’ – A Review
For the past six months or so, we’ve been mooching in and about the Significant Albums released every year since 1980. And if we’ve learned anything at all, it’s that we really shouldn’t be changing light bulbs with wet hands. That young people are evil. And that, when you compare these release schedules side-by-side, there’s … Continue reading Nostalgia In A Different Hue, Or Two: The Most Significant Albums Of 2006
Art Will Save The World – Niall McCann’s documentary diving into dark, twisted and magnificent heart of a certain Mr Haines. Too early to learn if there’ll be any kind of national / international cinema release (although by rights there should be), but the premier will take place during next month’s East End Film Festival … Continue reading Meanwhile: Here’s The Trailer For The New Luke Haines Film
Part One: here. Part three – that’ll be a tomorrow kind of thing (when I’ll bang on at length about a certain record that – quite frankly – if you don’t own you’re not human). Then, after a quick cocktail, we can all go for a lie down (although not together – that would just … Continue reading Lazer Guided Melody’s Best Albums Of 2011 (Part Two)
Taking the measurements for your anti-hipster manifesto. Once, the idiots were just the fools gawping in through the windows – now they’ve entered the building. You can hear them everywhere. They use the word “cool”. It is their favourite word. The idiot does not think about what it is saying. Thinking is rubbish. And rubbish … Continue reading The Rise And Overdue Fall Of The Idiots
Lazer Guided Melody - Tangents From Listening To Too Many Records 