Last night I saw Martin Taylor and tonight I dragged Mike to a free gospel thing, with Big Al Carson (nickname thoroughly deserved). Martin Taylor was virtuosic, of course. Firefox is telling me virtuosic isn’t a word, but whatever. But he’s just so .. safe. He won’t suddenly do something outrageous [...]
Did I ever mention how wonderful Regina Spektor’s voice is? Human of the Year gets more and more powerful everytime I hear it. A morning of concentration and I’m free for summer. The new Wordpress release is nicknamed Getz, in honour of the tenor saxophonist who took every opportunity to chat up [...]
Saw the Esbjörn Svensson Trio on Sunday night at the Usher Hall, I hadn’t been quite so excited about a gig in a long time! After the brilliance of the show at the Barbican in 2005 I knew what to expect and I had that strange nervous chill that only gets you when you [...]
(She could have had it too.)
Regina Spektor at the Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow, 20/02/07
Regina Spektor might be one of the oddest creatures on the planet - angular, pale and toothy yet still bizarrely pretty. She can even get away with wearing Borat on her chest.
She came out and of course opened with Ain’t No Cover [...]
A slight redesign and I’m suddenly a lot happier with the appearance of the site. A page for scripts and maybe a page for words will hopefully appear too, though there’s little chance of anything substantial before a holiday of some kind.
Saw ‘Trail of Dead at (the?) Oran Mor in Glasgow last night, [...]
Hundred Reasons played King Tuts last night, a reasonable start to a new year of gigs I suppose. Good, not amazing, they were exactly as you’d expect and stayed extremely close to the recorded versions of their songs, though it’s not as if the crowd was expecting anything more. Still, after the acclaim [...]
Seriously, will anyone ever tell Vladimir Putin their true thoughts on that fruitful democracy of his?
Smooth Russian connection:
Saw Regina Spektor at the Shepherds Bush Empire on the 23rd, she was fantastic. Her songs are full of bizarre scenarios and character profiles and odd happenings and everything fits together so perfectly it’s as if she [...]