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Pretty much. The third book of etudes is apparently still ongoing, but a new one hasn't appeared for a couple of years. He's old, very sick, and apparently quite a recluse these days, so I wouldn't hold your breath for anything new.

However you want. Like all music some of it works better as background music, or better as foreground; you've just got to listen and figure out what works for you. If you want to listen seriously, I guess the best tips would be to listen out for connections between sounds, melodies, chords; get...

Agreed. Ditto Gutter. I'll miss his writing and his enthusiasm, but a large part of me hopes he holds his nerve and doesn't restart Gutterbreakz, or at least not with its former dubstep focus. If oh-so-precious scenesters want to tell him how to conduct his own business, then see how they...

Gonna be good this.

Unfortunately all my ISP experiences have been bad. I started on Virgin (dial-up), who were fine until I wanted to stop using them. They were happy enough to cut off my connection straight away, but it took three months (regular payments each month), several phone calls and eventualy the...

Bush has certainly perfected that 'wallop and hope' look of early Flintoff. I think he's got a bright future. :)

Ugh. What's the point? They've got a fretless 8-string too... http://www.conklinguitars.com/facebass/facebass8/turnerfretless8descript.html

I know some Rachel's, but not much else of this kind of thing, but it's always seemed to me like a further step along the same path as Godspeed or a couple of the tracks on Tortoise's TNT. Would love to hear more examples though.

Didn't know about that documentary, but thanks for the link; like I say, my knowledge is pretty scant, but it did come from a Venezuelan friend of mine who was there at the time. Always.

From the Venezuelans that I know, they hate Chavez, and as early as 2000 were appalled at how chummy the UK press were making him out to be. The marches against him in 2002 were serious, serious protests: Chavez's soldiers were shooting into the crowds and killing people let's not forget. I...

Depressingly, this is exactly my experience of marking second year essays, also at a nameless London college. These were non-assessed pieces of work, so they didn't contribute to the students' final grades, but I'd find pages of stuff lightly reworded from major reference works. When I brought...

All the new Jubilee line is lovely: in the first few weeks after it opened before everyone cottoned on to it and made it horribly crowded it was a genuine pleasure to travel on. I think the subterranean James Bond-villain hideout that is Westminster is my favourite:

I think Connolly's wrong on this - I see plenty of live reviews that mention audiences, even if only briefly. I think live reviewing is slightly different from record reviewing because there's an element of reporting involved. Most of the time what you've reviewed is pretty ephemeral (it...

Saw the last half hour or so of it on Sunday; there were a couple of little kids behind me who got quite scared of this massive elephant bearing down on them, but on the whole it was a very happy place for kids. Thought the music was ace - kinda bagpipe bollywood Kraut. If you can imagine that...

Seconded!

Personally, I reckon Brown would be a nightmare, not just for the country but for the Labour party in general - there's a real chance of him becoming Labour's John Major. He might just squeeze through in 2008, just as his high-borrowing economics catch up on him, and drag us into an economic...

True, but it was the 'statistics' that gave it away:

Yeah, it's a parody: http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/2006/04/europe-liberal-hell.html Not a very good one though; the comments from outraged Linux users/Europeans/Democrats are more amusing. :confused:

Too many great mixes coming out of Dublin at the moment - can hardly keep up!

Liking this a lot at the moment. I've never heard Naphta put a foot wrong.