The Modern Age

I just caught The Redwalls on Leno playing their song “The Game of Love.” I couldn’t help but thinking that The Strokes were probably giving them a ring, asking if they could have their song back.
It actually sounds a lot like The Strokes + Albert’s solo stuff + the drumming from The Walkmen + James [...]

Going through all my old posts made me curious to check up on some bands I haven’t heard from in a while. I just went to the Starsailor site, and low and behold, singer James Walsh just posted an update!
Sounds like they are getting ready to record another album!
What an amazing few weeks we [...]

Watch out.. Starsailor on MTV again: “This half hour special highlights all the action surrounding MTV’s Campus Invasion 2K2, hitting college campuses across the country with performances by Nickelback, Default and Injected on the main stage, and Starsailor on the MTV2 stage.” Starting on April 8 @ 6:30PM, airing again on the 9th [...]

$25 to see Starsailor open for the Charlatans is even worse than $18 to see them open for the Doves. Highway robbery, eh?

Damn, I want one.
Whiney Brit-pop interview from Heaven. Staring Matthew Jay and Jamesy Walsh. But don’t worry, there’s plenty of slagging off…. AND THE FACT THAT MATTHEW JAY IS CRAZY [...]

Finally watching the Coldplay “Request” bit on M2. Guy and Jonny mutter nothing. Jonny’s wearing the ugly green hat, and Guy is wearing his brown one. The one I was looking at when I told him to cut his hair. Aaah. Takes me back to… last week! (Was that really [...]

I’m so jealous of people who have seen David Kitt live.
Today was truly the day from finals hell. French at 9:30, Digi at 2:30, Feature do at 12… not to mention my Shakespeare paper was due last night at 5… and I didn’t’ start Feature until 8pm.
Now I can breathe.
Frenchie Julie is coming to [...]

Starsailor tonight at Bowery…
James fucking sang “New York, New York” by Ryan Adams… I was like “Why does this sound familiar…?? OH NO! R. Adams!!!” I held my head in my hands. The limeys “wooHooo”ed.
There were plenty of ex-pats tonight. They were shouting stuff about Chorley… about tea (James had [...]

Oh my god. Alyse is cracking me up… on James Walsh:
he’s so sweet and shy on stage. when people yell stuff at him in the crowds, he listens… like ‘I love you James’. he does this high pitched giggle and grows red and says, ‘Thank you.’ in this tiny voice. or when [...]

The war between my camera, Nikon software, and my operating system rages on… after 6 hours of additional fighting, rebooting, crying, tech support, and batteries pooping out, I’ve come to the conclusion that I will never see Chris Martin’s singing mug on my computer. This also means there is no room on the disk [...]

From The Daily Telegraph (London):

Born to be mild Starsailor are the latest modest, British, nice-bloke band to make it big.
September 27, 2001, Thursday
By Andrew Perry
When the NME introduced Starsailor early this year as the best new band in Britain, little did the staff of the music weekly know that, in a matter of weeks, [...]