Back in October, I wrote a brief post on a piece of music that Stephen and myself have been getting into again this week. For this reason I’ve bumped it up again, the original post below (slightly edited) and then some links you can use if you like it as much as we do.
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This is one of the most entertaining performances I’ve seen recently, by Liam Finn, making creative use of a looping effects pedal (reminiscent of K.D. Tunstall’s live performance of Black Horse and the Cherry Tree).

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Saturday was a special day, set apart by the music gods in order that this latent blogger might enjoy the very best in big-name live music: first at 1pm, U2 3D at the Imax theatre at Irvine Spectrum, then at 5pm, Garth Brooks live at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

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It’s been a while since I sat down specifically to listen to some music. Today I had a break from everything for a couple of hours and was able to enjoy some time in front of my home theater setup. The quality of the system is great, so it demands a good audio […]

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Billy Joel is ‘retired’, but - as we learned recently from Garth Brooks - that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s given up music. For the first time since 1993, Joel has written a song which is being released as a single starting with iTunes tomorrow, called Christmas in Fallujah. But Billy won’t be on […]

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For a guy in retirement, Garth Brooks has been phenomenally busy for the past few months, culminating in a sold-out show in Kansas City last night, a concert which was simulcast to digital theatres throughout the world. I went to the Cinemark theatre in Mesa, Arizona to see the show, and wasn’t disappointed.
Brooks is […]

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I had the pleasure of seeing the Blind Boys of Alabama at the Grand Opera House last week, and what a show it was. The only negative point about the night was the rather odd Argentinian guitarist & Irish accordion player duo singing songs mostly in Spanish, prompting my rather bigoted father to remark, “For […]

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