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This Is My Jam

  • February 13th, 2012
  • Posted in Blog

You can now follow Tom’s Listening To on This Is My Jam. The beta service, which has just gone public, is all about sharing music. But unlike other services, This Is My Jam is all about sharing one song, and one song only. They say: Choose one song. That song that’s been stuck on repeat, [ READ MORE ]

Top 10 of 2011

  • December 31st, 2011
  • Posted in Blog

2011 is now over so I can now let you all know which albums released this year have been my favourite!   The SMiLE Sessions by The Beach Boys No, it’s not an album. But without any doubt it is the best thing to be released this year. Despite ‘not being finished’, the genius of [ READ MORE ]

Gil Scott-Heron: 1949 – 2011

  • May 28th, 2011
  • Posted in Blog

Gil Scott-Heron has died in New York. The poet, musician and author was one of the most talented songwriters of the seventies and last year released the phenomenal album I’m New Here. From his groundbreaking track ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’ to the protest songs of ‘Johannesburg’ and ‘B-Movie’, right through to his latest [ READ MORE ]

Band or Fan

Band or Fan is a new website I am involved in that will be launching very soon. There’s already a Twitter and Facebook page too[ READ MORE ]

The Highlight of Glastonbury 2011 (Preview)

Amazing[ READ MORE ]

Festival Preview – The Great Escape

  • May 10th, 2011
  • Posted in Blog

For the sixth year in a row, The Great Escape Festival will be taking over the streets of Brighton this weekend for three whole days of live music and music industry talks. The festival brings together some of the best new bands from across the globe. Previous years have seen Bat For Lashes, Vampire Weekend, [ READ MORE ]

Video Review: Beatie Boys – Fight For Your Right (Revisited)

Amazing[ READ MORE ]

Who Does The PR For I Am Voyager 1?

  • April 18th, 2011
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On Record Store Day 2011 (Saturday 16th April) I got up very early, headed into Brighton’s town centre and began queuing outside of Resident Records in order to get my hands on some of the limited edition records being released that morning. When the sun eventually rose and the smiling staff of Resident arrived, myself [ READ MORE ]

What Gives Robert Johnson The Blues?

  • April 12th, 2011
  • Posted in Blog

I’ve been listening to a lot of Robert Johnson recently. Apparently Robert was a man who had the blues, caused by… Dead Shrimp Terraplane Milk Cow’s Calfs Preachin’ Walkin’ The Devil Cross Roads Even a Kind Hearted Woman gave Robert Johnson the blues and he has some strong feelings towards Ramblin’ too (but that’s another [ READ MORE ]

The Gully Gallery Update

  • March 12th, 2011
  • Posted in Blog

My good friend Calum (and his previously mentioned Gully Gallery) has been quite busy recently, making music videos and arranging art installations with the art collective Faux Life. Below is Calum’s video for ‘Heim (Four Tet Remix)’ which was released yesterday followed by pictures from a recent Faux Life exhibition[ READ MORE ]

A Message From Hurts

  • March 12th, 2011
  • Posted in Blog

Regular readers will know that I’m quite the fan of a band called Hurts. My cousin Hannah, a promoter and manager, knows this too and yesterday I received this in the post: Followed by this: Thank you Hannah![ READ MORE ]

The Year Ahead

  • January 26th, 2011
  • Posted in Blog

It’s been just over a month since my last post and although there are all manner of reasons for this, the main one is that I started a new job that’s been taking up quite a lot of my time. Another reason for my lack of posts has been my pre-occupation with collecting every piece [ READ MORE ]

Tom’s Top Ten Of 2010!

A new year begins soon and all that’s taken place in 2010 will be over in a flash of cheap champagne and desperate attempts to find someone to kiss at midnight. But before all that, there’s just enough time to celebrate the best music released and of course, remember the worst things that happened too. [ READ MORE ]

What Rebecca Ferguson Should Do Next

  • December 16th, 2010
  • Posted in Blog

If, for some reason, you’ve spent the last few months living under a rock, you may not have heard of Rebecca Ferguson. The X Factor contestant came second in this years competition and has one of the greatest voices to ever push its way through a television set. After losing to Matt Cardle, Rebecca will [ READ MORE ]

X Factor Merchandise

  • November 1st, 2010
  • Posted in Blog

With the X Factor only broadcasting on Saturday and Sunday nights, the rest of the week has become hopelessly boring with no contestants to judge, or judges to insult. Thank goodness then that production has rolled out on all number of X Factor related merchandise to keep us entertained while we wait for each week’s [ READ MORE ]

My X Factor Party

  • October 12th, 2010
  • Posted in Blog

I found myself slap-bang in the middle of an accidental X Factor party on Saturday night, during a family trip to Center Parcs. After a long day spent mostly on the water-rapids at the swimming plaza, all nine of us settled down to watch the first live show. We faced problems from the outset when [ READ MORE ]

Missed Opportunities

  • September 18th, 2010
  • Posted in Blog

The Joe Gibbs Seven Inch Spectacular Box Set is exactly what it sounds like. Four of Joe Gibbs spectacular singles on 7″ vinyl in one beautiful box set, all for only £25. With only 1000 made and all hand numbered, it was something I wanted the moment I saw it in Brighton’s Borderline record store. [ READ MORE ]

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