Yes, Bill Bailey is going to try and take part in Eurovision 2008 as the UK entry.
Meanwhile, the first Eurovision Dance Contest is coming up and all thanks to the UK. I fear it won’t be featuring morris dancing.
Author Archives: Alex
flood
No, not the classic They Might Be Giants album.
It appears to be a bit wet out there, though I think The Evening Standard is being more alarmist than usual.
Right now many people are working around the clock to try and avoid losing a major national grid switching station to the waters and plunging several hundred thousands into darkness. Unfortunately it would appear that those who were involved in refurbishing it only last year were only too aware that it was built on a flood plain.
‘We will have eight out of 16 circuits transferred by October this year, which puts us bang on target to have the new switching station fully commissioned for the end of 2006. Transferring circuits calls for planned outages. This is timed to ensure that there is no supply disruption to Central Networks customers during the peak winter period. Also the position of the site on the river flood plain presents some challenges for working during winter. The switching station is on raised ground, and the building itself is on stilts, and in one period of heavy rain it became an island surrounded by flood water.’
Perhaps they’ll be raising those stilts before the winter.
Ga^2 for Ga^5
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga by Spoon (nifty streaming thing for the whole album linked)
I’ve been tracking Spoon since I came accross them on both the Stranger Than Fiction and Veronica Mars soundtracks simultaneously. Aggressively nerdy rockers that they may be they are now past (and ever more present) masters of indie rock experimentation and geek rock. I’d strongly recommend you click through, especially for the my two absolute favourite songs You Got Yr Cherry Bomb and The Underdog which both have some lovely horn action. Somehow they’ve successfully melded their own funky indie on to a much more sixties production like ethic and in so doing they’ve made for me the ultimate successor album for all those of us who got addicted to Camera Obscura’s Let’s Get Out Of This Country. And if you don’t like then I can only quote some lyrics at you and scoff.
You got no fear of the underdog.
That’s why you will not survive.
It’s like a Scotland team anthem! It’s certainly my summer one thanks to the light and breezy production.
Also worth singling out for a mention, if rather haunting, is the track The Ghost Of You Lingers which has a very nifty unofficial video which is almost as good as the official one for The Underdog.