Full Frequency Response Range

[ANDREW DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER. DENTAL ANECDOTE FOLLOWS...].

Well, my mouth is beginning to look a lot more like my old one again thanks to the talented team at Sandymount Clinic :) During the TWO AND A HALF HOURS of reconstruction, I was reminded again of the importance of listening to music that covers a full spectrum of frequencies while strange whirring things disappear from view and eject all sorts of nastiness. Winners in the list of tunes that go well with drilling sounds all seem to end up being early 90s hardcore. There's a particular hoover noise, gratuitous foghorns, and sweet sweet driving 303 acid techno that makes the whole thing almost enjoyable. Well, that and getting some anaesthetic after it turned out that the tooth that had the nerve removed last week wasn't quite ready to forgive that easily...

Band I must see before they die

Primal Scream. dunno how I've not gone to see them over the years, they've never been my favourite band. I only own Screamadelica but I'm listening to Xtrmntr now and it's a good album.

The Guardian had a small piece of them in the wake of their recent greatest hits and their support slot with The Rolling Stones. I hadn't realised that they continued ingesting massive amounts of drugs right thru the 90s and 00s. Good story of how Andrew Innes got ejected from Graceland for being too fucked up and earned further ire by throwing up on the doorstep as he was being dragged away and shouting 'First man to do that since the King'.

I went to see Simple Kid last night - it was not bad stuff. Singer songwriter Conor Feely from Cork accompanied by his big brother Al and drum machine on his country tinged songs. He used be in some band which was briefly famous in Camden in 1999 and that experience informs a lot of his songwriting. He did a cover of WIll Oldham's I See A Darkness so I was hardly not going to like it now was I?

What else - got the new Plastikman album Closer which is all right on first few listens, might not be the slow melodic masterpiece that Consumed was. Picked up Talk Talk's greatest hits for a tenner which is lovely. Them synths are where it's at (or where it was at). And went to see Intolerable Cruelty which is great. Proper on screen chemistry between two leads at last.

I take it all back

It's reverted to Vin Diesel and Pink.

Chemical Brothers, Flaming Lips, Kraftwerk, Kylie, Christina, Edinburgh

I have to confess to wanting to be in Edinbugh right now. I've caught snatches of the MTV Europe Video Music Awards. In the last five minutes, Kylie introduced Kraftwerk just before the Darkness won the 'Best Underground to Overground, "Oh, So You Like Us Now?" Award'. Earlier, the Chemical Brothers and Flaming Lips blasted out to Princes St Gardens. Xtina's doing a good Elvira impersonation. And what might have been Travis had a stage full of naked people with signs that I couldn't make out on my tiny TV in the corner of the screen window.