16 year old belgian girls sing U2

Presenting Original’s cover version show last night.  This is a fun show to present.  I play some fantastic stuff, like any of the amazing covers done by Johnny Cash and then occassionally some fairly weird stuff like the Kolacny brother’s Scala Girls choir.   Their cover of KT Tunstall’s ‘Black Horse & The Cherry Tree’ is hilarious.  They take an upbeat folk pop song and turn it into the Imperial Death March from Star Wars. 

Last night I played their cover of U2’s ‘With or Without You’.  U2 aren’t my favourite band, and this isn’t my favourite U2 song but the Scala choir were amazing.  Made the whole song really rather beautiful.

Laura Marling – Alas I Cannot Swim

This really is a rather superb little album.  I received my box set today, about two months after the thing was released.  I don’t want to take it out of the cellophane wrapping because I am now convinced she will be huge and that I will be able to sell it on some future version of ebay for a fortune.  Also, for some reason I’ve managed to have three promo copies of the album sitting at home.

In case you’ve never heard of her this is ghosts…

No Excuse

Now that I’ve quit the day job to be a full time freelance whatever I don’t have much excuse to not keep this blog updated.  I’ve always liked the idea of Richard Herring’s Warming Up

This may look like a daily diary, but it isn’t exactly that.

The idea sprung up because of writer’s block. I have been working hard this year and not really had a break and have been finding it hard to apply myself. This annoys me, because I know that if I just wrote solidly for three or four hours a day then I would never have to get into the mad rushes that I always do whenever a dead-line approaches.

It also makes me wonder about the stuff I could have written if I hadn’t been playing Scrabble on my Gameboy

I sort of figured that if I could spend a half an hour at the beginning of each day writing about something that had happened to me on the previous day, then at least I would have done something constructive, and also it might get me in a writing frame of mind and help with the work I actually have to do.

Which is what I shall now try and do.  Every day.