53: I can U can We can They can Can can Neu can

I don't know what that's all about. Anyway... I got a job at HMV so I will get to walk around trying to sell Yo La Tengo CDs to people who came to buy Kings Of Leon. I'm nice like that. I'd try and sell them records but they don't sell them anymore, THE SHAME! I don't start for 2 weeks so I have a lot of time to spend in my room being bored and telling you all about it.

Went to see Isis last night, they were ok but their new albums just arn't any good so it was annoying that they didn't play hardly anything old. Not even Celestial (The Tower).

More prog.

52: Wet socks

Never go to a house party and give away all your beer, no one will return the favour and you be wandering round for hours trying to find more. My fault obviously.

Also, don't go to house parties that plays loads of dodgy dub step and drum n bass or whatever.

New motto. More prog.

51: I'm Sick To Death Of This Chair

I'm sick of sitting in this chair all day, so I have a job interview in 2 hours. Hopefully I will get the job and will be able to get 30% off CDs and stuff. It's only temp til January though. There is a job developing photos too, but I don't think I'll even get an interview for that.

50: Gimme yer' money

Just a warning here, grumpy JT is at large in this post.

The fantastic PAVEMENT curated ATP Festival has now sold out, obviously, because a lot of people were glad to see Pavement back together and appreciate their taste in music enough to shell out hundreds of pounds to go. Well, now that sold out, I guess it is completely fair to add a Pavement gig in London for the week before the festival. So, if you bought tickets just to see Pavement at the festival, you may as well of just waited til the London show was announced. a good £100+ cheaper, too.

Yeah, that was always going to sell out too. Guess what? ANOTHER Pavement gig in London. And another. 3 shows in 3 days, then the big finale of ATP (and then maybe a few more shows later in the year, who knows? ATP probably do). So, if you love Pavement so much, you have plenty of chances to see their reunion here in the UK, just make sure you have enough money in the bank.

I like Pavement, although I definitely don't love them like a lot of people do. I'd rather see The Jesus And Mary Chain do their reunion again, I missed that one. Oh, and anyone planning on going to Primavera in May... Pavement yo play the Estrella Damm stage, yathink? Most probably. That will be nice though.

Just working on my Top 50 albums of the last 10 years. Hopefully that will not take too much longer.

49: Piece Of Crap

Just thought I'd get all my best photos together and get them developed to put in a bit of an album rather than just have then on my computer. The guy who did them is obviously an idiot because he has made almost all of them look terrible. £11 wasted I think. He's re-doing some of them as I type but they won't be any better. Apparently he is printing them in "canon settings" whatever the hell that means. I took the pictures on a Canon camera anyway. He is a fool and you'd do well to avoid him in future. His store is in Milnrow so you'll probably never pass by anyway. You probably don't know where the hell that is either. Near Manchester, I'll say.

Oh yeah, and they all have that tacky white border round them cutting off some of the photo. Black and White is Black and Green now.

48: Fuzzy Wuzzy

So, a lot of bad things are coming to my attention this week. For example; Smashing Pumpkins (or should I just say Billy Corgan) are insisting on releasing more new music. I liked some of the old stuff, but the latest stuff is terrible and the concert in Manchester last tiem round was one of the worst things I've ever been to. Lucky for me I only paid £5 off a desperate scalper when passing the Arena. Also, Wolfmother are back and touring and making people listen to their outrageously shit music once again. I will avoid that like the plague.

Something else bad is that Dean & Britta are playing in London next month. I love Luna, I love Galaxie 500 and I certainly like the Dean & Britta records. What I don't like is not being able to afford to make the trip down there and see their only UK show this year. I've never seen them or Luna so it would've been a real treat. Instead I shall save the very little money I do have so I can make a trip down in December instead. I also want a holiday some day soon.

Good news is that I saw Super Furry Animals in Bangor (Wales) this weekend. It was a great show but it was really weird going to see a band I last saw live in 1997 (12 years ago, I was young then...well... very young). Good times were had but I didn't get to hear much stuff off the first 2 albums. Bands don't seem to like playing stuff off their early albums these days. Got to move forward.

Anyway. With a bit of luck I will get to go see Yo La Tengo in Manchester next month and that will make up for some slight annoyances. I'll hopefully have a job by then too, so you wont have to put up with this shite all the time.

47: Still Floating In Space

Spiritualized @ Royal Festival Hall - 13th October 2009

Back from London and I'm still not back on earth. What a great long weekend. Great show on Sunday (Mudhoney) and the Spiritualized shows were 2 of the most fabulous, emotional shows I've ever seen, The lights, the choir, the strings, the horns and obviously the band. It was always going to be great but meeting everyone from the Spiritualized site was fantastic too, what a brilliant bunch of people to share the experience with. Talking to Doggen and Kevin again was a nice bonus too!

Also at the shows were Brian Ferry, Kate Moss, Nick McCabe, Kevin Shields and Bobby Gillespie. I felt very important obviously.

Here are a some more pictures of my time in London. I'm kind of lost as to what else to say so hopefully these will say more than what I can normally manage. All the photos were taken by me (apart from the group shot at the bottom) so I hope you enjoy and maybe even give some kind of feedback.

46: Packing again...

So, away I go again. Off to London for some shows.

I have a tough choice on Sunday.... Nick Cave or Mudhoney??? Nick Cave is £50 so Mudhoney is very appealing being £35 less expensive. Still, hard to choose............ Seen Nick Cave before so probably Mudhoney... maybe.

Maybe go see the Pixies tomorrow too, although I've seen them before and that is very expensive and sold out.

One certain thing is that I'll see Spiritualized perform the whole of Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space. I have been waiting for this since I got into that album. I remember listening to it years ago and not digging it but I'm talking like 10 years ago so I was pretty young. It's pretty much been my favourite album for the last 2 years along with Long Division by Low and 13 by Blur.

Anyway, I have a horrible headache and have to be up pretty early so I should go. I hope to come back from London hungover and married to someone from France or Norway. Only 1 is likely.

45: Here it comes

Here is an awesome (and previously rare) video of Spiritualized playing These Blues live with Kate Radley on bass. I think it was filmed at their show at the World Trade Centre all those years ago. I'm not sure though. It was opening for the banshees and it's a killer version of one of their best songs. Here you go...



Don't let it bring you down,
JT x

44: Pigs On The Wing

I can't stress how great Pink Floyd are. You already know Pink Floyd are brilliant... if you don't you have no right to be here. Apart from 'Momentary Lapse of Reason' and 'Ummagumma' they did no wrong. Yes, I like 'The Division Bell', it was by no means the best album of 1994 though. Usually Pink Floyd beat every other album released the same year. That year belonged to Blur, obviously. I like Pink Floyd so much that I even love the film version of 'The Wall'. Bob Geldof tried his best to ruin it but even he couldn't make it bad. That scene where the kids have bloaty faces and are walking into a meat mincer is one of cinemas best ever moments. To top off how good it is, you get to listen to The Wall the whole time!

Anyway, I was trying to listen to a record today but I couldn't decide which one. I think for a 21 year old with no job I have too many records. Definitely more records than I could afford to have bought. Where did they all come from? I didn't get given them (well, maybe 2 or 3)... I think I must've just spent all my money on records and holidays for the last 2 years. I by no means have the biggest record collection out of people I know, but they're normally older than me and have jobs to fund the habit.

43: Fuzzy Logic

I decided I had to make another post so that my last one wasn't the first thing people saw when coming on this blog. I'm not always that grumpy but I suppose I had good reasons.

Upcoming shows I will be at...

Mudhoney at Koko
Spiritualized at Royal Fesitval Hall
Super Furry Animals at Bangor University
Yo La Tengo at Manchester Academy 3
Saint Etienne at The Ritz
Grizzly Bear at Manchester Cathederal
Daniel Johnston at Manchester Town Hall
Malcolm Middleton at Bush Hall
SunnO))) at Salford Islington Mill

Currently listening to...
SunnO))) / Pan Logic - Ché

42: Groups of 3

Today I was sacked by Ticketmaster. So now I am unemployed. My clubnight has also died a slow death it seems, and I don't think that will be taken any further after last night. So. I have nothing to do anymore. I spent some of my last money in the world on buying Leonard Cohen's 'Live Songs' on LP.

I have nothing interesting to say to you really,. My lack of job/social life means my posts will most probably just be about the same things for the forseeable future.

My record player is making fucked up sounds, if that breaks I really am screwed. My computer and phone are on their last legs.

I'm really worried that people are totally happy with listening to Kings of Leon, Lady Gaga and The Killers. Even people that like good music seem to do nothing to support that. They mostly don't buy the albums or go places that play the music they heard about on pitchfork.