Rock on!
According to Gideon Rachman in the FT, their review of the Led Zeppelin reunion concert made the ‘most read’ list on the site. Oh, those merchant bankers…
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Music
A collection of 19 issues
Go! Team
Good interview with the fantastic Go! Team in the Guardian – new album out on 10 September.
Music on the train
Lyric (from the Dears, Ballad of Humankindness) that struck a chord with me on the train today:
And I turn on the news
And there’s always some dude
Who’s relentlessly bringing me down,
Telling me how there are too many dark people out there who’ll never be
Words and meaning
Some aimless wandering on the web, via the BBC World Service theme tune “Lillibullero”, leads me to the Ulster protestant folk song, The Protestant Boys (which is sung to the same tune).
Reading the lyrics, I’m struck by how we forget the meaning of old lyrics very easily. I
Joe Strummer on Plastic Bertrand
“I don’t like saying, “You’re a punk and you’re not.”
There was a record out there called “Ca Plane pour Moi” by Plastic Bertrand, right? And I guarantee you if I had to play it for you right now you’d go, “Right! That is rockin!”
Now,
The birth of the iPod
Wired tells the story of how the iPod came about.
French jazz
The hive mind at Ask Metafilter discusses where to find good French jazz.
Welsh national anthem
Paul Flynn provides illustrations for a phonetic version of the Welsh national anthem:
My hen laid a haddock, one hand oiled a flea,
Glad farts and centurions threw dogs in the sea,
I could stew a hare here and brandish Dan’s flan,
Don’s ruddy bog’s blocked up
Uitmarkt 2006
In Amsterdam for Uitmarkt 2006 – the sort of open-access culture that Amsterdam does really well. It’s a three-day preview of the year’s forthcoming events, from classical music, through books to theatre. We had a great time at the singalong event for the year’s forthcoming musicals – a mix
Opera clips
A selection of YouTube opera clips collated at OperaTube.