Top of the pops this week must surely be The Kasai All-Stars, a band of 25 musicians from the Kasaï region of the Congo. The band also feature on the second Congotronics album. If the music itself wasn’t good enough, their album surely has one of the best titles of any album, ever: In the […]
Sorry for being a bit of an obsessive, but I found these two rather charming Leonard Cohen videos on YouTube. One is an interview with Leonard backstage in the city of Hamilton, Ontario by Macleans Magazine earlier in the summer. The second video is a short excerpt from a documentary called This Beggar’s Description […]
Although I wrote up a review of Leonard Cohen in the Manchester Opera House last month, I was lucky enough to see him again last week at the O2 last week, so I thought I’d put down a few recollections of that concert too. The set list was the same as Manchester, but there were […]
“Towards the end of his life, Marconi became convinced that sounds once generated never die, they simply become fainter and fainter until we can no longer perceive them. Curiously enough, one of the rescue ships [of the Titanic], the Birma, received radio signals from the Titanic 1 hour and 28 minutes after the Titanic had […]
