Archive for March 30th, 2002

Are Brits afraid of Americans? American music, that is… There seems to be some real concern over the embracement of American music over there, that the Brits are sending a message to UK labels that no one is gonna want to buy British music. And Steve Lamacq makes an exellent point “No [...]

Although it’s a day late, this week’s Friday Five speaks to me:

1. If you could eat dinner with and “get to know” one famous person (living or dead), who would you choose?
Oooh. Geez, I don’t know. My idol, Nick Hornby?

2. Has the death of a famous person ever had an effect on you? [...]

Oh man. Read as Ben Byrne of Starsailor puts his foot in his mouth. Damn. But you’ll all be delighted to know I’ve renewed my love of James Walsh:

First record to send a shiver up your spine?
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ by Queen, who I heard when I was about eight years [...]

PREVIEW: My lame-ass pictures of PHANTOM PLANET @ THE VANDERBILT

This morning (afternoon?) I checked my email and saw that I received my Peer-to-Peer review assignment! I’m really excited. I forgot all about P2P, seeing as how I signed up so long ago.
I was reading through the guidelines for reviewing and then I had a moment of reflection. “What if my reviewer [...]

Ok… so Phantom Planet at the Vanderbilt was quite an experience… first of all about 30000 bands played that night. There was some god awfulness. I would stand and talk through the set and fall asleep… some really scary stuff. Some Limp Bizkity, some Creedish, some Mighty Might Bosstones… I’m just [...]