Archive for December, 2005

Christmas has well and truly arrived at chateaux Ben. Being students, we’ll all be going home for Christmas-proper. To make the most of our time together then, the tree has been up for a few weeks, fairy lights surround the living room (all of which is actually quite pretty looking, if you ignore the wire [...]

2006 is just 23 days away, which means that all around the country thousands of people, big and small, are preparing for an onslaught of annual reviews.

Shortlists are being drawn up, and I suspect the new Agenzia office space has settled on roughly 50% Music Yearly drafts, 45% client work and 5% Arctic Monkey [...]

There’s a new group on Last.FM, it’s called The Legion of Ben and it’s for people whose name is also Ben.

It was convieved in a moment of lunatic collaboration with Ben O’Neill, but I still maintain that it’s got a great name.

I got to see Doves again in Manchester this evening, having missed them back in the spring. The show was very good as ever, but particularly great was their solution to the ever-mundane encore problem.

Now, I can perfectly accept that after playing 45 minutes or an hour a band is quite entitled to a [...]