Cross posts: Public Service Music Radio in the UK

Over at Music is Our Hot, Hot Sex you can now read all three of my posts on the public service music radio in the UK.

Radio 1
Radio 2
Radio 3

Enjoy!

Meh. Meh. And thrice I say "Meh"

Monday - sore throat, could hardly talk. MEH.
Tuesday - better voice (just) but aching limbs, general bleugh. MEH. Went home ill by 10.30am.
Wednesday - Exhausted. Stayed home ill. MEH.
Thursday and today - back in the office. Voice back, general urgh-ness reduced. Unfortunately workload hasn't gone down in absence. Several students with significant support issues to field. MEH. MEH. MEH.

At least if I can force myself to endure Children in Need I get the pay-off of a Moffatt written double Who mini-episode...

Slight Learners

Yes, it didn't break the mold of TV comedy drama. As the always wonderful Nancy Banks-Smith put it "it was so slight that you could have - you were positively tempted to - poked a small hole in it with your little finger."

A gentle way to pass a Sunday evening, and just what I needed in a house full of newly plastered walls and general chaos.

And yes, David Tennant was very geeky and very lovely.

The 'Troubled Diva' John Barrowman interview

Come on, read it! You know you want to! (BUT BEWARE!!! ***minor Doctor Who season 4 spoiler...***)

Me: the imposter

So, SO true.

I am definitely one of the 70%.

Updated Buffy book list

My sidebar list of Buffy-related materials has been updated (and I may have forgotten something so may yet be updated again!)

Rachel is back...

... with a cracking post on the voices of the net. She's been in debate with Andrew Keen and Microsoft on Richard Bacon's FiveLive radio show.

Nice to see Rachel back on the internet as capable as ever of sparking debate and thought: she's had a rough time for too, too long.

To try and cheer me... here's my lovely dress I bought in Lincoln

The photos don't really do justice, but that about sums up my days at the moment...

On the upside, ssh, but Blogger is now letting me save draft posts and upload pictures again....

My CD /DVD driver appears to have packed up

****SOB****

I now dare not use the computer to load tracks to iTunes, play music or burn anything.

****SOB****

Arcade Fire Review: 31 Oct 2007, Nottingham Arena

The full review of Arcade Fire at Nottingham Arena is here at the new music blog set up by lovely George.

Just to say here that we had an incredible time and that the delight of patting Win Butler on the shoulder to say thanks for such a great gig was awesome! I was very chuffed to get a nice new t-shirt as well, even if by the end it was as shoogy (I meant soggy!) as if I had got caught in a rainstorm!


And Cloud wore a great T-shirt too!

TV recommendation: Shooting the Past (Saturday 3 November 2007)

Poliakoff is an acquired taste, but Shooting the Past remains one of my favourites of his works. With the divine Lindsay Duncan (god, I love that woman so much) and the utterly wonderful Liam Cunningham... and its about photography and histories... what could be better?

Thanks Mark (TV Today) for the tip off: though I do have it on DVD...

Best titled post of the day

Eine Kleine Rob wins this for a real gem:

Then they came for Ann Coulter and I did not speak up because I was too busy organising the street party

What we did this week: A Very British Coup

Cloud says it well for part 1. A Very British Coup remains a thrilling dramatic ride.

If there is any justice, a 20th anniversary DVD edition will come out next year.

When Perkins makes his national broadcast.... oooh, it makes me have chills just thinking about what happens in the studio!

New Music Blog and Arcade Fire review

Just to let you know, we had an utterly awesome time seeing Arcade Fire last night (despite the knob-end pillock who nearly drove the band to cease the gig when he threw something directly at Win Butler that hit him in the face*).

There will be a review - hopefully with some of Neil's pictures - but it may be first appearing as an exclusive on the new music blog: Music Is Our Hot Hot Sex.

Am sure you will enjoy book-marking the new site anyway, which was set up by the lovely George. So far there's a couple of gig reviews and a piece on music radio for your delectation. We're working on the sidebars etc, so stay with us!


* The NME review online is just plain inaccurate on this matter though. The review will say how so.

Work, blah, blah

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sadly, not even the uplift of Arcade Fire has managed to stop today being utterly excessively busy and exhausting.