I need to blog more, 6 so far this month is just poor.

If you're familiar with this blog you may have read me going on about Feral Mare a fair bit, well their drummer and a friend of mine, Tom Clements has recently joined this other band who I'm liking very much. The name is run, WALK! and people who listen to XFM may be familiar with them as they were recently part of that uploaded thing right? well they could've won the chance to support the subways and unfairly lost out.

But anyway, they're really good, saw them the other day in the railway inn in winch, £5 entry you can't go wrong. The songs sound much better live aswell, it may be because the recorded tracks don't have tom on them, he's been described as changing the band "from the white stripes to death from above on crack" a observation fairly made.

run, WALK! - GOD! I hate old friends


In other news, I love itunes, it may because i'm using a mac now but i was once adversely against apple's music player. It does have downsides but majoratively its awesome, the genius feature is bona fide ingenuity. Well my last played on itunes are:

Girl Talk - Don't Stop

Laura Marling - Captain and the Hourglass

The Streets - Fit But You Know It

There was a boom of singer-songwriters a couple of years ago, the undeniably pants James Blunt really brought that about but there always have been amazingly good singer-songwriters. Like Willy Mason. He's just amazing, each song of his I think I really do enjoy.

Willy Mason - When the River Moves On
Willy Mason - Save Myself

I'm liking more and more, the individual indie types. For instance Conor Oberst's new album is actually rather good, I listened to it and latched on pretty quick, I did indeed like it straight away. He's definitely a talented musician

Conor Oberst - Milk Thistle

Also Laura Marling and Lightspeed Champion, they're both great and I've covered them on here before. They've both got a unique indie sensibility and also in Laura's case a voice which sounds like it's from someone so much older, which is not a bad thing! It's a fantastic voice!
One of my many favourites of her work:

meh

my life's just taken a big u-turn, it seemed like it wasn't going foward and now I know why, she didn't want it to. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCKKKKKKKK!

Thanks for messing me around! Building my hopes up and then just knocking me down! GREAT ONE! *Big thumbs up!!!!*

Funny thing is, never felt this way about any one before and it never builds to anything yet this turn of events wrecks me inside badly. I'm not a happy bunny. Has all that time of mine been wasted? Doing nice things for her, buying stuff for her, almost NEVER turning down an invitation and in turn inviting her to all the parties I'm invited to even if she knows no one else.

I know I've made a good friend and I don't really want to lose the friendship BUT I wanted it to be more, the (now apparent) false inclinations and the constant changes of heart just feel like she's taking the piss.

If love is just a game how come I've never won?

The Cribs - You're Gonna Lose Us

Laura Marling - You're No God

Kings of Leon - Wasted Time


Comments to cheer me up?

To be honest I am a rather cynical person, it would take something very strong to make me feel emotional, perhaps a sense of danger or the death of a relative or close friend. Something like that could make me cry.

These tracks make me feel really, and I mean really emotional, I don't know why particularly either, but for the weaker minded I warn that you may feel upset.

The whole of Laura Marling's brilliant debut album, 'Alas I Cannot Swim', it's so upsetting I think, her voice is just amazing, every song struck a chord with me I think, it is definitely an album people need to hear!

Laura Marling - My Manic and I
Be sure to buy the album: play.com/amazon.co.uk (I don't normally include such links but it is highly recommended)

Another soloist, Dev Hynes AKA Lightspeed Champion. This is my favourite song of his, even though the 10 minute running time can get a bit boring, the first half of the song definitely stands out, I'd like to have a version of the edit used for the video which contained, IMO, the best part of the song. It's an emotional song to me, though



MP3: Lightspeed Champion - Midnight Surprise

As well as those, a big variety of Joy Division songs can upset me, only one does it really well and that is the anthemic 'Atmosphere', its use at the end of 'Control' was the closest to tears a film has brought me I think.

Joy Division - Atmosphere