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Kingdom of the Absurd: July 2014
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Kingdom of the Absurd. Unpopular music musings from someone old enough to know better. Random other stuff at irregular intervals. Wednesday, July 23, 2014. The thicke end of the wedge. Much has been made of Robin Thicke’s indifferent album. As opposed to hundreds of thousands for his last effort. We all love a bit of schadenfreude but the sheer quantity of glee could easily be pronounced professional trolling (by proxy? Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Earlier this month I was at The Cornbury Festival where, fo...
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Kingdom of the Absurd: April 2015
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Kingdom of the Absurd. Unpopular music musings from someone old enough to know better. Random other stuff at irregular intervals. Monday, April 6, 2015. Not waving but yachting. Deborah Orr pretty much. Nailed the Tidal argument. And by making parallels with the. 8216;100 letter’. From businessmen protecting their own interests she did few favours for an artist community that sought to portray the thought that they were doing us one. We all know that. 8216;trickle down’ doesn’t work. All the acts in the ...
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Kingdom of the Absurd: September 2014
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Kingdom of the Absurd. Unpopular music musings from someone old enough to know better. Random other stuff at irregular intervals. Wednesday, September 3, 2014. Credit where it’s due….here we are bleating. About recorded rock music being dead and Royal Blood. Pop up and score a number one album. Not only that but it’s the fastest selling rock album in three years. I usually have issues with some of the music lumped under the label of rock but there’s no doubts here, Royal Blood is a proper rock album.
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Kingdom of the Absurd: March 2014
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Kingdom of the Absurd. Unpopular music musings from someone old enough to know better. Random other stuff at irregular intervals. Friday, March 14, 2014. Ghost Town (slight return). The debate was sparked by two. Clearly a band would always want to play their home-town but nothing would be more embarrassing than failing to sell out in your back-yard, having a guest list that’s bigger than the box office sales print-out may also be a big issue. Tours take a number of factors into consideration f...By issu...
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Kingdom of the Absurd: Islands in the stream
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Kingdom of the Absurd. Unpopular music musings from someone old enough to know better. Random other stuff at irregular intervals. Tuesday, January 20, 2015. Islands in the stream. We can’t predict the future but we can waste a lot of time in arguing about it, without any resolution. This piece from July 2013. Covers a lot of the territory very effectively and. This feature gives a good idea for a potential resolution in streamingissues. End of year countdown. Clean Bandit feat Jess Glynne - Rather Be.
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Kingdom of the Absurd: December 2014
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Kingdom of the Absurd. Unpopular music musings from someone old enough to know better. Random other stuff at irregular intervals. Thursday, December 11, 2014. Record of the year. The annual parade of lists has begun. A cavalcade of opinion that naturally coincides with the end of each year and, as a happy happenstance, with the peak purchasing period for recorded music. You can blame Christmas and unimaginative people for that. What I’ve missed. 160; . Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Record of the year.
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Kingdom of the Absurd: Bay of Pigs
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Kingdom of the Absurd. Unpopular music musings from someone old enough to know better. Random other stuff at irregular intervals. Tuesday, February 24, 2015. The Guardian chose to. Partly for the crime of being ‘the boy most likely to’. I have long wondered why and how some acts break big leaving others unjustly unheard by the masses. It is often a matter of luck, timing or contacts. Do I believe that James Bay or George Ezra are better than, say,. We can kick James Bay (and. Out with the bold. As a West...
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Kingdom of the Absurd: February 2014
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Kingdom of the Absurd. Unpopular music musings from someone old enough to know better. Random other stuff at irregular intervals. Friday, February 21, 2014. Lo, it came to pass that of the 9 Brits Awards I. The presence of the latter usually results in large sales spikes for those acts who are invited to appear and particularly those who win awards. It rarely matters that we might’ve all thought they were crap, derivative or uninspiring. Last year’s sales spikes. Wednesday, February 19, 2014. I should ha...
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Kingdom of the Absurd: August 2014
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Kingdom of the Absurd. Unpopular music musings from someone old enough to know better. Random other stuff at irregular intervals. Wednesday, August 20, 2014. You can't stop the rock. Last week The Guardian (of all people) published a weird time-frozen piece about how women were abandoning pop for rock. Last time I was musing on rock’s inability to break big. Radio 1’s rock show moving to a more palatable hour of broadcast will undoubtedly help. We may believe that young people no longer have ap...I saw a...
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