It wasn't my intention to only update this once a week, but... Quite a busy week, we even had an anthrax scare in work!
Spent last weekend in Dublin, the first time I'd been there in FOUR YEARS!! Went to quite a lot of pubs and ended up at Voodoo on Saturday night - sort of popular RnB stuff and a very mixed crowd(!). Had a fun time, but the city really needs to sort out their public transport system - there are too many people to cope with, even for someone like me who had come over from London. One top tip - don't EVER get a 16A Dublin bus to the Airport unless you've got at least an hour to spare!
Back in London I managed to miss Superchunk but I finally got round to seeing A.I (in the new cinema in Wood Green). The popular view seems to be that if you're a Spielberg fan you won't like the middle section, and if you're a Kubrick fan you'll hate the last section. I can appreciate the last argument up to a point but overall I have to say that I liked it, it was actually better than I'd expected. Although it is a fable/ fairytale, I thought it would have worked better had it ended about 40 minutes earlier (don't want to go into detail and spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it). Bizarrely I read an interview with Toyah who thought that the last section was great and the rest was boring!
Oh yeah, and on Thursday I went to see Les Savy Fav, Enon and Econoline at the Garage, and LSF were totally great, even better than the other times i had seen them. Enon, however, had an off night and were oddly disappointing. 'Proper' review v.soon.

OUT ON MONDAY.....

ALBUMS
Aphex Twin Drukqs (warp)
A long five years since the last album 'Richard D James' - 30 tracks from hardcore drum n bass, music concrete and beautiful piano tunes - double cd

Pulp We Love Life (Island)
Out a last, another long-awaited release. Production from scott walker, quite intrigued to hear this.

Piano Magic Seasonally Affective (Rocket Girl)
double cd collection spanning 4 years of Piano Magic - singles (As &Bs) ,compilation tracks and some rare stuff.

SINGLES
Lo Fidelity Allstars Lo Fi's in Ibiza (Skint)
not my usual sort of thing, but a damn fine single nevertheless.

Mogwai My Father My King (Rock Action)
inspired by Arthur Baker and recorded with Steve Albini. Twenty minutes long and one of their best releases to date.