...so it's almost quiz time

Sorry I didn't get around to posting yesterday...the uni deadline is upon us so I was working like a trooper (whilst being distracted by the likes of Hollyoaks and the Sex Education Show).


Okay, so the day started off with the usual scouring for festival news and line-ups to put on the website...not much to report on that side of things. However, it has now been confirmed that Reading and Leeds 09 has SOLD OUT. Ouch. Read the NME story HERE.



I was then asked to write this week's NME.COM quiz so remember to test your music knowledge against mine (okay i wasn't timed and could look around the website...) tomorrow, when it goes live HERE.

I then had to research for a forthcoming piece 'The Worst Ever Album Titles', on the back of deputy editor Luke Lewis' blog post titled 'The Most Ludicrously Overblown Album Titles Of All Time', which you can read HERE.

Here's some I found:

  • Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot. Now i'm known to be a fan of squashing words together to be that little bit 'cooler' but this is just ridiculous. Even if the words had spaces between them, it still wouldn't make sense.
  • George Clinton - Hey Man Smell My Finger. That's just wrong.
  • Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It And So Is That And He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That. Prententious much? And no, we still don't know or care who you are.

I shall post a link to it when it's online.

And that was pretty much my day. Oh apart from listening to Buick McKane's 'Quentin Device' non-stop. This song gets me as excited as I was when I first heard Arctic Monkey's 'Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor'.



Sadly the track isn't yet on their Myspace - I got it through a PR company I sometimes do reviews for so will stick the review up as soon as. In the meantime, check out their Myspace and listen to their still good but less impressive 'Systematic Anomaly'.

Over and Out.

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