“It was the day my Grandmother exploded” – A Few Words About Iain Banks
Posted by IPreferTheirOldStuff in Features on April 6, 2013
The Wasp Factory, Espedair Street, Complicity, Use Of Weapons, The Player Of Games, Walking On Glass, The Bridge, Feersum Endjinn, Excession, Consider Phlebas… If any of these titles means more to you than just writing down the spine of a book then, like me, you were no doubt hugely saddened to hear that author Iain […]
March Musical Highlights – Some Easter Listening For You
Posted by IPreferTheirOldStuff in Music Reviews on March 31, 2013
Well, we’re a quarter into 2013 if you can believe that and the appearance of good albums shows no sign of dwindling. As you can see above I have a fine clutch of records that you might want to investigate this month and may hopefully help soundtrack what remains of your Easter break! As always […]
I Prefer Their 90s Stuff Part 2 (cloudcast)
Posted by IPreferTheirOldStuff in Cloudcasts on March 6, 2013
I decided it was time to do another cloudcast, a continuation of the last one I did, a selection of tunes from the nineties. A few relatively well known in amongst some that I hope may be less familiar to you. And yes I know I’ve made a mistake, the Half Man Half Biscuit track […]
Awesome Science is, er, Awesome!
Posted by IPreferTheirOldStuff in Music Reviews on February 26, 2013
HUMANFLY – Awesome Science (Brew Records) Leeds metallers Humanfly returned this month with their fourth album Awesome Science, and my, what an awesome beast it is too! I only became aware of the band with their previous album/EP Darker Later, and in that record’s raw thirty eight minutes it ploughed more metal genres than you […]
