Culture
The end of ticket touting in the UK?
According to this Guardian Unlimited article the UK Government may actually be about to get serious about ticket touting (scalping for you US people) and put laws in place to stop it. I certainly hope that something is done about this problem sooner rather than later.
The touting issue is something that as a regular concert [...]
Christmas 2007
I’ve just posted some photos of Christmas so far - our second Christmas starts tonight as Jordan is back and expecting a visit from Santa, then tomorrow we have 16 people coming round for food…should be fun! Have a great New Year’s Eve everyone!
Check out my photos on my moblog here.
I’ll Be Home For Christmas
And so another Christmas Eve is upon us! Steph is (as usual) working a stupidly long shift at work, you have to feel sorry for her…she left before 7am this morning and probably won’t be back until 7pm. Jordan is off to his Dad’s later today and coming back just before New Year’s Eve so [...]
This Year’s Gigs: 2007
This year I have been lucky enough to see the following people play live…
Bloc Party
Biffy Clyro
Chris Cornell
The Deciphers
Doug Walker
The Feeling
Foo Fighters
Idlewild
Incubus
Jack McManus
Kings Of Leon
Maximo Park
Mute Math
Now It’s Overhead
Pearl Jam
The Police
Serj Tankian
The Shins
I must have see The Deciphers around 10 times and Biffy twice along with Idlewild a couple of times. Not my busiest gig year [...]
Where did all the good music go?
This depresses me:
Today Syco Music (Simon Cowell’s label which is part of Sony BMG) are celebrating holding the No.1 spot in three of the UK sales charts. They have the top 3 albums in the artist album chart with Leona Lewis, Shayne Ward and Westlife. They are also numbers 1 and 3 in in the [...]