Feeling a bit under the weather this last couple of days, I struggled out to see Múm and Four Tet in an excessively hot, sweaty packed Dingwalls, both acts were well worth it. In case you don't know Four Tet is Kieron from Fridge, whom I may have been a bit hard on the other week, because his solo laptop/ turntable set was great yesterday. I found Múm absolutely fascinating, although they didn't live up to their recorded work. I took about 15 minutes to really click, and the crowd had dwindled a lot by the end, but I'm glad I stuck with them.

As for this site, the blogger archives can now be accessed in a tidier form from this page. World Cup and Big Brother stuff is on the discussion board.

The archives should be back to normal tomorrow. This means that the new-content-per-day has fallen behind, though here's a review of Ballboy to keep things ticking over...

Slight panic today when I realised that a lot of the blog archives have vanished. Although anything before February seems to be lost forever, the rest is being backed up right now. Hopefully this will also mean that those archives will be more manageable.

I seem to have a compulsive urge to talk about Big Brother and the World Cup at every opportunity, but I've decided to take it to the discussion board in an attempt to keep this blog page a BB/WC free-zone, and also to breathe a bit of life into that ailing message board!

Oh yeah, and the DJ Shadow sample I've been curious about seems to be from a record by Colonel Bagshot - thanks to the Audio Galaxy discussion page for helping solve that.

Even more stuff - a review of Solex has been added.

How am I supposed to concentrate on this when the World Cup, Big Brother and best of all 24 seem to taking over my life. I spent a while last night trying to work out some complex spread betting on the group stage of the world cup, but I haven't committed to anything yet. I'm not sure if I should fill this site with football when you can get that all over the web, so I'll try and stay off it here.

Despite all this, I have updated the Yo La Tengo gig page with a review of their fantastic "Sounds of Science" show in London recently. Incidentally, if anyone is having trouble getting a 'The Sounds of the Sounds of Science" CD try the band's own website.