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2003 eamonn said: "New Evan Dando album"

Sounds very good BBC album of the week

So the marines have raised the stars and stripes on Qasr a few days after Bush said that no UK or US flags would be raised - only Iraqi flags.

Not much else music or film wise - I can tell you all about afforestation, 1000 plants per acre for Lodgepole Pine and so on!

Oh hang on - No Disco is going to be axed. Online petition here. Confused about this, I really loved the program when it started, it was a big thing for me living in 2 channal land, the excitement of the first Palace Bros video, or Halycon or even David Gray (who I still like). Maybe music videos don't do it for me anymore but I have watched less and less of ND over the years. Still it is one of the only Irish tv shows to air Irish music and the recent Planxty special was great. Maybe they should try for a short season (10?) of specials like that about music from the last 30 years or so. For example we don't need another U2 special but what about the Horslips? Or Stars of Heaven who supposedly everyone from REM to.....REM like? Ok the budget and time for such a special is a lot higher but I still want to see and learn about music from tv programs.

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Dammit! I waited too long, and now that's not album of the week anymore. The link is now here and only two of the songs are up. It's a pretty good album from what I heard, but nothing exactly revolutionary. Which is what I'd expect. All My Life is very lovely, very ... nice. Which is not generally a compliment from me, but fuck it, Evan's done me no harm. Not like those fuckers from Counting Crows and their cover of Big Yellow Taxi. Fuckers.

I know, I know, speaking of the dead and so on, but No Disco was never the same for me after Donal Dineen stopped doing it. Leagues always seemed to be doing stuff out of indie sense of duty. Which isn't to say that great stuff wasn't done (the Planxty special again), but with DD, you got the impression that the music really meant a lot to him. Which might just be a bit of projection of different levels of what music means to me at different times. Let's face it, they're both pretty laconic.

Andrew said @ 24/03/2003 07:29 PM GMT