Collaborative Music Blogging Project
17th July 1995 was a special day in my young life, not only would it be my first ever gig, but it would be to see my favourite band, Blur. The build up was quite unlike any other I’ve experienced, even though they would go on to do much bigger gigs, this felt very special,…
Continue reading KV looks back: Blur at Mile End, 20 years on
A Halloween gig by my pals Without Fidel lead me to my latest audio obsession. Two of the attendees at this fancy dress shindig were dressed as characters from the utterly brilliant festival of the strange that is Welcome To Night Vale. For the uninitiated, Welcome To Night Vale is a darkly-comic podcast from the…
Continue reading KV’s Night Vale Weather Report
Every so often, I mean to write something here about the music scene in Cornwall. Then I forget about it. Then whatever point it was I was going to make seems tired. Music fans could be forgiven for forgetting about the duchy; over the years it has hardly set the international music world alight: ignoring…
Continue reading Have You Ever Been Experienced (South of the Tamar)?
Dear interwebbers, I may not have done a whole lot of scribing of late, but I have been listening and listening some more. Here’s a round-up of sonic nuggets and new discoveries that I’ve been wrapping my ears around recently: Western Affairs – 1999 Washington DC 3-piece Western Affairs deliver perfectly crisp soundscapes. Swooping guitar effects…
Continue reading New sounds: what’s playing on the KV Stere-O-oh!
Following on from the remastered double CDs of classic Kinks albums that have been released recently, Sanctuary Records have put out the first seven albums (Kinks, Kinda Kinks, The Kink Kontroversy, Face to Face, Something Else, The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society, and Arthur, or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)…
Continue reading The Kinks in Mono Boxset
Just another excuse for a high fidelity-style list. Here are five songs that I like that pay homage to other bands and songs. 1) Camera Obscura – Hey Lloyd, I’m ready to be heartbroken Indie disco-floor friendly response to Lloyd Cole’s ‘Are you ready to be heartbroken?’ (which itself mentions Arthur Lee). And lo, the…
Continue reading Five song-within-a-song tributes
Before the door closes on another year, I thought I would kick holiday lethargy into touch by sharing with you, dearest reader a few audio nuggets out in 2011. Downeaster – The Alternative Sauce EP – 01.01.11 Bringing a new year in with three crisp, powerpop tunes; London’s Downeaster describe their sound as ” the…
Continue reading A few musical recommendations for 2011
Hello folks, It’s Christmas Eve eve, and I’m sort of reviving the old fashioned tradition of the festive round robin. Don’t worry though, I’m not going to go into detail about travels to foreign lands or how well my gardening efforts are going (not bad, just in case you were curious). My presence on these…
Continue reading A Christmas greeting from KV
So, it’s nearly the end of the festive season and I’ve been ensconced in films, DVD box sets and radio programmes and now it’s time to fire up my brain box and reflect on the year that was 2009. Here are some of the things in the world of popular culture that I enjoyed over…
Continue reading Kid Vinyl’s Pop Culture highlights of 2009
Looking at some of the choices in both the NME and Gaurdian Music Blog’s retrospective top album lists of the noughties, it struck me that ‘defining’ a decade’s worth of music in one list is no mean feat, especially in an era where new subgenres seem to be created during a single online search. …
Continue reading Is this it? The task of writing a decade defining list
