Archive for the ‘Commercial’ Category

Early Music Consort of London

By • Mar 31st, 2008

It’s a sunny Sunday morning and the house is shimmering to the sounds of this magical music. The Early Music Consort of London conducted by David Munrow were very influential and internationally acclaimed in the field of early music until the untimely death of David Munrow at the age of 33 in 1976. Early Music [...]



My Morning Jacket

By • Mar 17th, 2008

Friends and others have commented on occasion that they prefer to listen to “their” music. This usually means music that they grew up with. I don’t have a problem with this, I grew up on a great musical soundtrack too. There was, I hasten to add, quite a lot of not so great music as [...]



Bob Fox – Saturday Samples

By • Mar 8th, 2008

It’s a good time to tell you about Bob Fox because he is currently touring our shores and those of our little sister New Zealand. His farewell gig will be on Friday the 28th of March at the Albert Park Yacht Club. The venue is quite small and intimate – so booking early is recommended. [...]



Janne Da Arc – Saturday Samples

By • Feb 23rd, 2008

Janne Da Arc are are a five piece Japanese rock band who started life doing indie pop and it shows, this is not a bad thing. The band itself is currently on a break while the individual members pursue solo projects. Since the llead singer Yasu has started a new band called Acid Black Cherries, [...]



Carbon Leaf

By • Jan 21st, 2008

I loved you more than I ever let on, and that’s a fault of mine I’m working on. That’s a line from “Love, loss, hope, repeat” one of the tracks on the Carbon Leaf MySpace site and the name of their latest album. They are a band from Virginia in the United States who have [...]



Saturday Samples – Marc Cohn

By • Jan 19th, 2008

Today I discovered that I’ve been listening to a song by Marc Cohn for some time now under the mistaken belief that it was Bruce Hornsby. Since I’m not a big Hornsby fan I thought it was a bit odd. Now I know why. When Thatch first sent me the link to the Marc Cohn [...]



Kate Nash

By • Nov 24th, 2007

Artist: Kate Nash Website: www.myspace.com/katenashmusic Track Name: Foundations Playback: flash Download?: No Kate Nash is getting lots of attention in the UK (and some say she is over exposed – but don’t let that stop you checking out her music) and this could be because she has a wonderful line in stream of consciousness style [...]