Friday, April 01, 2005
Music router
This is for you Zaki, after reading your blog.Yes after looking up on the tour dates and realising Tori isn't coming to Oz, I hurriedly sourced out an online forum, signed their 'Tori please come to Auz' petition and resigned myself to waiting in vain. So eager was I to watch her in concert (and partly to send my friends, like you, back home swooning in envy). Little Earthquakes is such a find isn't it?
I thought Portishead had disbanded already? They released two albums and a NYC live recording and disappeared completely, save Beth who probably still guests sings for other acts from time to time. Not that the three albums are weak, rather the stuff they've dished out have found few rivals in the jazz triphop scene. So to hear that they're coming out with new material after nearly a decade, I suddenly feel immensely invigorated.
And on to the Scissor Sisters - I'd rather them not make it big in the US actually. That country of crass commercialism and media exploitation will simply make the band an overexposed/overrated/overhyped entity. I'm sure more discerning Americans, like people from the rest of the world, have and will listen to them.
lux at 11:32 am