Pixies: Monkey Gone to Heaven

Started the day loud:

Grinderman: Heathen Child

Well. This AMAZING video took my mind off the remaining 28,000 words I plan to write for National Novel Writing Month. Enjoy.

Sugar Mountain …

Wishing I could go back there …

Rockin in the free world

Neil Young and Pearl Jam. Rockin in the Free World in 1993. Always does it for me. Video quality not the best I’ve seen, but still … that energy. Wow.

Nick Cave: Grinderman

This track (IMO) is a fantastic music equivalent to Matt Bell’s How They Were Found.

The excellent Mark E Smith

Sometimes, I just like watching stuff like this.

6 Music lives on!

6Music lives on!

Delighted to hear Lauren Laverne announce the BBC Trust’s decision – NOT to close 6Music. A great start to the week and proves it’s worth making a noise about stuff that’s important. YAY!

Greenwood to score Murakami’s Norwegian Wood

And it’s not a secret – I voted for Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood. In part a sentimental vote – my eldest son’s emulation of Greenwood earned him an A+ in his GCSE Music exam – but he also gets my vote for creativity and that IMO places him way above the other contenders.

AND (literary link coming up), he’s going to be doing the score for an adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s novel Norwegian Wood. WooHoo. Seriously fantastic.

And you can read more about that in the Guardian here.