Runnin On Empty

  If you love music and you're on Twitter then make sure to follow Limey59music  he is a great supporter of Unsigned music and i've discovered some fab stuff via him and was excited by this weeks discovery of  Tidelands & their album "Old Mill Park".  The duo from San Francisco California are made up of Songwriter Gabriel Montana Leis who just happens to play the Flugelhorn among other instruments?  ( Yes, I had to google it too)   & Mie araki on drum & keyboards. As a Simpsons fan, I was first reeled in by the title of track "Dog named Bart"   swiftly followed by  the intro  (It's always a good sign when an intro grabs you by the nether regions)  and then in crept a violin and we haven't even got to the first verse, brilliant.  "Four strings and a wooden box" opens with the most beautiful orchestral arrangement by Minna Choi and performed by  Magik Magik Orchestra,  and there's a pattern developing here, these...

It could be argued that most of us creative types are self-indulgent & I wouldn't disagree,  but once in a very rare blue moon, it's taken to a whole other level of genius. The last time I listened to such an album was Kanye Wests "My beautiful dark twisted fantasy" And then along comes the folk equivalent in kate Dimbleby                                Her Songbirds album recorded and released on the Independent Folkstock label 23rd February & produced by Lauren Deakin Davies is an absolute corker.  The album is acapella, something we haven't had in the mainstream for many years and by layering her vocals Kate creates an exciting backing ambience that dances around & cradles her main vocal, techniques that were inspired by her time in New York learning from  Bobby "Don't Worry Be Happy" Mcferrin". Songbirds by Kate Dimbleby The daughter of broadcaster David Dimbleby and classicall...

Once upon a time when I was  six years old I had this delusion that one day a prince would come galloping down our Council estate on a white charger, scoop me up onto the back of his horse and ride off into the sunset. We'd get married and have four kids, Lazzard, Icarus, Rainbow & Lyric and live happily ever after.....yes okay, I had an extremely vivid imagination for a little girl...... However, at the age of eleven my parents divorced and I was hit with that great big wrecking ball of reality and have remained single ever since. That's not to say I don't believe in Love, I just prefer to have love for everyone and everything rather than the one to one scenario.  Granted there are many difficult people  in the world, and you might not necessarily like all of them, but you can still have love for them because they can teach you how not to be.  Love is a very powerful thing and while I know I run the risk of being carted off by the men in whites coats,...

It's  always good to share a Friday with you and today I'm talking Smart, pants  and quite frankly  stupid.....no difference there then?  When I first stumbled onto a site for vibrating pants my initial response was to panic and hit the back button, but an image of a pair of jeans fueled my curiosity. Turns out French Company Spinalli  Design have recently revealed their collection of Esse ntial Smart Vibrating Jeans that act as a Sat Nav. They have built in sensors on either side so you  connect up to your  Smart phone, turn on the GPS  and the Jeans vibrate to tell you to turn left, right or go straight on. If you go the wrong way both sensors vibrate at the same time.  As someone who gets lost going to the bathroom in my own home I fear my butt would be on constant shake?  I'm baffled at why they are only being marketed for women?  unless of course the designer is a man hacked off at his wifes inability to r...