10.20.04
Aural Pleasure
Last weekend Bob and Ben had a four-day weekend and came up to Brummieham to go to the Katie Melua concert with Hanne and me. They’d been in our apartment for no longer than a couple of hours before they figured out how to set off our VERY noisy burgler alarm (though quite WHY we have a burgler alarm when you need to get past two security gates and the conceirge before you can even get to the apartment i’m not quite sure)…. so Hanne and I now know NOT to press the big red buttons by the front door! Other weekend events include bowling and watching Shark Tale (which was surprisingly funny!).
Monday featured the concert, which was amazing! Her voice was so crisp and clear it was like listening to a CD in your living room. The venue (a cordoned off half of the NIA) only held a couple of thousand people, so it was a very intimate affair (although she still appeared quite tiny from our seats up in the nosebleed section). But it was the music that we came to hear, and it was brilliant. She sang all the songs from “Call Off The Search” and a couple (”Spiders Web” and “Thank You Stars”) from her upcoming album, which is definitely on my to-buy list!
Speaking of buying CDs, i’ve started to get back into the habit lately. More and more of them are being packaged with “bonus DVDs” (to entice people into buying them as opposed to just downloading, and I think it’s a great idea! Today I received “The Very Best of MTV Unplugged 3″ (a brilliant series! This latest one has an unplugged version of REM - End of the World As We Know It, which i’ve always wanted to have on CD), “The Best of Groove Armada,” and “Red Hot Chilli Peppers Greatest Hits and Videos,” all of which came with Bonus DVDs featuring videos of all the tracks found on the audio CDs (and more!)…. yay!
Anyway…. time for bed now. I still haven’t gotten used to waking up so early for work every morning 
PS Oh yeah… i forgot to mention: tune in to Resonance FM next Tuesday (26/10/2004) @ 9am GMT. Dave (my brother, who i’ve known for almost 20 years) will be playing some folky music or summin. Rah!
Hesam said,
October 20, 2004 at 11:45 pm
Why aren’t you supporting the electronica artists?? All I see is Groove Armada, but that’s not enough.
Why don’t you go to see the DJs play anymore? Why don’t you support them?
WHY?
WHY!?
Mum said,
October 21, 2004 at 6:08 am
Why are you still saying ‘gotten’ when you don’t live in USA anymore?
WHY?
WHY?
Gaz said,
October 21, 2004 at 8:16 am
Well, I usually listen to di.fm at home, but there aren’t enough people here that support it for me to enjoy it with.
(Obligatory Monty Python reference: “Help, help! I’m being repressed!”)
Hesam said,
October 21, 2004 at 11:53 pm
haha you’re an american
Jacques said,
October 28, 2004 at 7:22 am
… and you ended that sentence with a preposition!