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March 4, 2010

Changes in my life…

You may have thought this plucky little blog had seen its last days; the most recent post coming as most people were readying their livers for the onslaught of New Years Eve 2009.
Well — you may be pleased/aghast to hear — this is not the case.
While other journalistic commitments have meant we’ve not been listening [...]

December 23, 2009

The ‘HAFS?’ top 20 albums of 2009!

There’s the debate. Here’s my oar. No prizes for guessing what I’m about to do.
This list is, believe it or not, comprised of my opinions and my opinions alone. It is also merely a collection of albums I have listened to and, considering I’m a fairly poor excuse of a music blogger (often shunning new [...]

December 11, 2009

Capture Cardiff: Saving The Globe Could Cost the Earth

Last Wednesday night at Cardiff’s The Globe nightclub, South Wales heavy-funk band, Monkjack, were on fire.
This may sound like hyperbole, but the ensemble were so in tune with each other — focused on the groove, yet lost somewhere in a mystical land of rhythm — that I wouldn’t have been surprised if their incendiary sound actually [...]

December 10, 2009

CAR!!!!!!

In the beginning there was the typewriter. Old school hacks, it seems, did not even have to be able to write, merely they had to have a guy on the inside, drink whiskey and own a trilby with a ticket shoved in the rim.
These days, the fast-advancing world we live in — not to mention [...]