Welsh Rich

I'm liking the solo album too, definitely better than FIoE imo, it sounds like he's got a few more ideas...

Hmmm... not got into the Damien Rice thing, but might give that a listen... For me this dark and cold morning:

Darren Michelangelo Smith: DMS EP http://www.myspace.com/darrenmichelangelosmith

Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey

I'm not sure I want a "zen-like environment" at a gig, but as the prices of gigs seem to be going up and up, the last thing I want is some drunken fucker shouting at the top of his voice. He can waste his money, but he ain't wasting mine...

Disc 1...

Wolk Like Me goes down as one of the singles of the year for me... it's just brilliant

I agree - it is becoming more prevelant at gigs I go to, especially the larger ones. The smaller gigs I go to tend to be attended by people who actually want to see the acts and listen to the music. However, the bigger acts in the bigger venues are being swamped, in my mind, by people who are just there to say "they've seen" X or Y band and just chat through the whole set. What spoils the trailer for Sunken Treasure is the hollering over it, if the actual concert is full of that, I'm going to send the DVD back.

I've made a very poor attempt to create my own cover...

Good result for Cardiff on Sat afternoon - I've got a friend with Sky Sports who's also a Cardiff girl, so sorted... not pretty, but we needed to start with a win. Yesterday afternoon found myself in the pub watching the Leicester v Munster game... although the weather was rough, not a bad game and Leicester are going to destroy Cardiff's scrum next week, they had Munster's all over the shop...

I've not got that EP... I shall investigate I'd really like to catch them live...

I think it's one of the best albums I've heard this year... it's just got everything - rock, funk, mad experimentation, squeaky saxophones, bonkers lyrics... brilliant stuff... "Province", "Playhouses" and "Wolf Like Me" are, quite possibly, the best sequence of music I've listened to all year.

Fantastic post-work / pre-pub adrenaline rush...

No, it was some young kid... AMG is my friend, the Stiltskin vocalist Ray Wilson to record an album called Calling All Stations: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:q9axlffejcqy It was rubbish

That was the final outcome, I gave it 6/10 and said "could do better"

Less said about the album made with the young guy instead of Collins, though, when I was in Kings Lynn to see Morrissey earlier in the year, that guy is touring the Genesis material himself with a band!

Yeah, Home By The Sea is good, so to is Turn It On Again and I've always been a huge fan of Domino off Invisible Touch...

There's some good stuff on Invisible Touch and the s/t album with Home By The Sea on it... but I always thought they let themselves down with a couple of weak tracks on there...