Welsh Rich

'fternoon all

Who'd have thought it - 60 today and looking frightfully young Happy Birthday Thin White Duke!

Oooo... cheers for the heads up! EDIT: don't seem to be on sale yet for the March dates... but I'll keep my ear to the ground...

For UK residents, the film The Devil And Daniel Johnston is on More4 on Wednesday evening if you have digital tele...

Not bad at all on first listen... certainly beefed up their sound a bit... let's hope the album ain't a disappointment!

Mornin' all This is rather good...

Definitely, I'm with you there - he's very, very clever. Partridge and the Office weren't really that CLEVER and I'm not really a fan of Ricky Gervas, I think he's a one trick pony... Chris Morris has a bit more about him... Though he's been a bit quiet recently.

Genius...

I bought that before Christmas as an intro to Johnston myself, but it's not arrived yet

I've not seen that DCFC film, is it any good Rich? I thought it was just a live concert? I can second We Jam Econo - great documentary, the No Direction Home film is great too, really sparked a second interest in Dylan for me and the Filth and the Fury. I don't have many others but the Clash one, Westway To The World, is brilliant.

I think someone needs to tell him he's doing it wrong...

Not sure about the album cover, but this ain't bad

Interesting that The Shins are top of the list... but some interesting reading, even if most of the bands don't exactly sound that original...

From the Independent today (http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article2124932.ece)

What do you think of that Bridget? I really like it... For me this morning: Idlewild - Make Another World

Ditto - I'm a bit of a fanboy too... Can't wait to get home to give it a listen, that's for sure

Is that the new Idlewild album?!?! Corrr.... I didn't know it had leaked if it is...

I really like it (The Bees that is!) it still keeps that retro tilt and sounds like it was recorded back in '66 but there's a few more sonic experiments going on in the back ground. Definitely not as overtly pop-tinged as their previous album, it's a little more laid back, but not in a bad way... Great live band as well.

I bought it for my Dad for Christmas and caught some of it, looked intriguing that's for sure. If they played a 1/2 decent venue I think my Dad would expect me to go with him to see them should be good though, as long as Sting can keep his ego in check... Though, Copeland, who's on some reality TV show on the Beeb at the moment as a judge, has gone to look very old...

Very good, thank you! Hope everything went well with you over the break too! I've got today off work as well, so just stretching out the holiday a little further!

Happy New Year guys and gals!