Hello...

I'll be back blogging again soon.

Current favourite song: Aretha Franklin Lean On Me.

Farewell to The Dude...

Bring back the Walkman and cassettes, modern technology is rubbish!

...and hello Shit Head!

My iPod took it upon itself last night to erase it contents - just over 5000 songs and two films (Juno and the pretty rubbish Australian documentary Bra Boys). It's the second time it's done it and quite frankly I have enough of the thing. This time I didn't slam it on the table but instead threw my glasses which landed unbroken behind the television! I put all of my recent downloads back on it last night and have about 1800 songs again but it's not the same - I'm without the likes of Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and other musical greats. So far today I've had to listen to Solange's (Beyonce's lil' sis) Sol-Angel And The Hadley St. Dreams (which is suprisingly good in places) and MGMT's Oracular Spectacular. At the weekend I'm going to have the brave the worst shopping streets in London - Oxford and Regent - and sort it out.

Do The Right Thing America....Please!

Up Against the Wall Motherf*ckers wants Michelle Obama to be the next First Lady!

I have a new iPod and have named it...

I shelled out 159 clams for a new iPod last week...80GB/20,000 songs. I've named it The Dude but the Little Fella willl forever be my first iPod love. I'm getting around to slowly putting the music on, the Little Fella works but won't let me transfer the music off so I'm having to search and download lots of music again.

Today I've listened to:
Clap You Hands Say Yeah - Clap You Hands Say Yeah
Vincent Gallo - When
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Antony And The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
Coco Rosie - Noah's Ark

R.I.P Little Fella

First things first, massive respect to Jay-Z for playing a blinder at Glastonbury and proving his critics wrong. That'll teach folk to listen to what Noel Gallagher has to say.

The Little Fella is or shall I say was my iPod. The Little Fella's condition is best described as stable, it's on it's last legs and I'm reduced to carrying a bag of CDs around with me all day.

One of my favourites is 24 Years Of Hunger by Eg & Alice, in my opinion it's one of the best British pop albums of the last 20 twenty years. It didn't sell by the truckload but in some circles it's a bit of a cult classic.

I'm also starting to listen to a bit of jazz, my current favourites out of my eight jazz CDs are Alice Coltrane's Journey To Satchidananda and Dorothy Ashby's Afro-Harping. I am not yet able to talk about jazz like some sort of expert but all I know is that I likes what I likes.

Jay-Z to play at Glastonbury

Photograph: www.mattfoto.com

I thought all the fuss about Jay-Z headlining at this years festival would have died down by now. Unfortunately a few player haters (sorry for the hip hop vernacular, but needs must and all that) are still having a moan about one of the most talented wordsmiths of his generation topping the bill at the UK's premier music festival. I could understand all the negative press if it were 50 Cent or someone equally talentless and moronic. But Jay-Z is a worthy choice.

Jay-Z is not the first rapper to perform at Glastonbury and he won't be the last, but as a fan of the genre I would have preferred seeing The Roots headline instead. Nevertheless, he'll still put on the great show and there are rumours of guest appearances from Beyonce and Coldplay's Chris Martin. Noel Gallagher from Oasis was quoted as saying "I'm not having hip hop at Glastonbury", in my opinion he should concern himself with the fact the organisers have asked James Blunt and Shakin' Stevens to perform on the main stage a few hours before Jay-Z...now that's the scandal!

Up Against the Wall Motherf*ckers is bored of Banksy!

Or to be exact people who've suddenly become fans of graffiti...before 2006 you all thought it was vandalism! I've been a fan of it and it's varying style since 1984.

You can't know where you're at without knowing where you've been, so have a read of Martha Cooper & Henry Chalfant's 'Subway Art' (the graffiti bible).