Unreliably Witnessed

27.11.09

"Fraser sees making music as inseparable from her emotions. She has always struggled to write lyrics, she says, but suddenly something will click and she ‘goes with the sound and the joy’ – that’s why she sings sounds and words that have no meaning, of which she can only make sense later. As she puts it, ‘I can’t act. I can’t lie.’"

Elizabeth Fraser talks about why she finds it too difficult to even think about her old Cocteau Twins bandmates

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26.11.09

[takeaweirdbreak]

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being a catalogue of my relationships with music by age

This is uncannily accurate.

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Sisters of Transistors: The Don - Today’s musical discovery is “the UK’s number one ladies’ organ quartet” (yes, there is apparently competition for this prestigious title). Four girls, four organs (stop it, all of you with filthy minds) and some old bloke with a receding harline on drums. What more could you ask for? In truth, of the songs I’ve heard, this isn’t their best, but it’s the only one with an official video, so …

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25.11.09

[via hydragenic / samsaramotel]

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Daily Mail letter-writer defends the BBC and the licence fee

Today, I will mostly be watching out for low-flying pigs.

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I'm on Noveller - are you?

Forget Twitter and Facebook. Forget Myspace (oh, you already have). Noveller is the new hip social media destination of choice, especially for all insufferable literary types. Or, as they describe it themselves: “Noveller is without a doubt the best way to write and deconstruct text right now”. Quite. You’ll find me there under my username: @muraki-ate-my-hamster.

Read more about Noveller.

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