For some reason, I feel it necessary to post a list of my favourite albums of last year, at least a month and a half after the rest of the world had completely lost interest in 2009. To be honest, I think now is a better time to be compiling a list like this than [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Music category.
Snobbery
A month ago, I bought the album Lungs, by Florence and the Machine. This was a bit of a gamble, as I hadn’t heard much of it beforehand (not knowingly at least), and was mostly going by what one or two other people had said about it. And as it turned out, this was a [...]
Loudness War and the future of recorded music
I was recently pointed towards an interesting article on the future of the ‘Loudness War’ that is plaguing recorded music (I’ve posted about this issue before, but if you’re still not sure what it’s about, see
World Painted Blood
So the new Slayer album, World Painted Blood, was produced by Greg Fidelman (with Rick Rubin as executive producer). Fidelman engineered and mixed Metallica’s Death Magnetic album last year and notoriously screwed it up quite severely. Now he’s been let loose on the latest CD by another classic thrash band, so I was intrigued to [...]
Progressive Nation ‘09
This post has nothing at all to do with miniature painting!
Both my brother and I have birthdays in the coming week. Yesterday, in celebration of this, he and I went to London to see Dream Theater and Opeth, who were performing at Wembley Arena as part of DT’s ‘Progressive Nation‘ tour. It was a fine [...]
Cropredy ‘09
So, another year’s Cropredy festival has been and gone, and very nice it was, too. I missed last year’s on account of not having enough money, and I had thought that I would be missing it again this year until my mother offered to pay for my ticket if I came in and gave her [...]
FW Panic Buying
Well, from what I gather, with the future for Forge World’s Epic range uncertain, lots of people have been panic-buying the stuff they still can. To the extent that FW are making a lot of extra money from their Epic lines at the moment. It’s possible that this will mean FW will be more inclined [...]
Painting
So I finally got around to painting something again last week. After getting the Elf Blood Bowl (or rather ‘Gridiron’, Blood Bowl being a ®) team from Shadowforge, I got to painting them at a pretty good rate — painting a model most days — and had got most of them finished when I stopped. [...]