Do You Remember The First Time(s)?

In the last post I hinted at a second Near-Glasto Experience to be revealed in this blog. It will come but recalling the details is proving to be more distressing than I'd previously imagined* (*translates roughly as "not tonight, can't be arsed"). While I compose my thoughts and gather myself here are a couple of blogs I started in the past which I hadn't seen for ages and found while rummaging around online.

The iPod Challenge

A fairly self-explanatory one where I set myself the challenge of listening to every track on my iPod in the alphabetical order of the album titles. I wrote this in 2007 when I was living in Japan, a time during which I spent a lot of time commuting and invariably had an iPod jammed into my ears. I got as far as 'F' which I suppose wasn't too bad given the amount of music that was on there. Stumbling across this last night lead me back to the wonderful Family is for Sharing by Brothers in Sound, an album I hadn't heard in many a year. If you haven't heard them think of a cross between Boards of Canada and The Beta Band and you're not far off. There isn't much on YouTube apart from the video below and a couple of others, but the whole album is available on Spotify.

Tokyo Music

The longest running and, if I can use such a word in relative terms, most successful blog I wrote. Again started when I lived in Tokyo, it was another self-explanatory one and was my attempt to both discover more Japanese music and hopefully share those discoveries with as many people as cared to read the blog. It was no Pitchfork but I met some amazing people, saw some great gigs and drank far too much godawful beer in some shitty little venues. One of the best bands I heard/saw while writing Tokyo Music was Akai Giwacku. I'm not even going to attempt to describe them as the video below can do so far more eloquently than I ever could.

I've also finally found the original Five-A-Day but I'm planning to recycle some of the posts from there so no links just yet.