Crackerwax

So after spotting an amazing offer from Matthew Gehrett for his services in theme song writing I decided to send him the requested fee.

This is the result!

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I quite like it, not sure about the battle axe malarkey but fuck it, it sounds good and not a little Scott Weilandy. So it’s fine by me.

Given that Tony went to so much effort to create a new game — in the vein of the debut album game from last year — I felt I had to play along.

The basic gist of the game is that you compile your own list of ten songs to appear on your imaginary film soundtrack.

Being a lover of music I thought I’d give it a go, so I chose my ten songs and have complied the list here! (more…)

Lily Allen’s really dropped a bit of a bollock recently with her half formed outpourings of anguish at the prospect of losing money to the evil of illegal downloads.

Not that I want to start rambling on about the lack of any concrete statistics to support the recording industry’s notion that downloads are killing music but I would like to point out that a download does not equate to a lost sale.

There are at least three ways that this can be the case. (more…)

Get yourself over to the brilliant You Have To Burn The Rope, it’s a proper treat.

It’s all about the music. All about the music…

I just got rudely awoken, no not by the dustmen, but rather by work. Harrumph.

Well seeing as I’m awake now and can’t get back to sleep (roll on 07:30 train!) I may as well post this most excellent video by the highly talented Rhett and Link.

I think they’re friends of the wonderful iJustine, then again aren’t we all?