asides Blog

One line thoughts of the day.

People accused Beyoncé of lip-synching when she headlined Glastonbury a couple of years ago. I can only assume many indie kids have never heard a real singer performing live, and expect out-of-tune vocals as proof that it’s “4real”. Auto-tune in pop has an awful lot to answer for.

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Tim Hall | Comments Off

They don’t have to be your favourite band, but if you have no time at all for Led Zeppelin, I do have to question whether or not you really like rock music.

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Tim Hall | 3 Comments

I’m experimenting with different menus for different sections of the site, which means hacking some of the PHP code. The idea is to make the different subjects (Music, Testing, etc) look more like a family of separate blogs rather than one single blog. Let me know what you think.

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Tim Hall | 3 Comments

You can tell you’re a Panic Room fan if whenever one of the band wanders off into the crowd mid-set and keeps playing (As happened with Blue Coupe last night) you describe it as “Doing a Yatim”. First time I’ve seen a drummer do that, though…

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Tim Hall | Comments Off

A blog post by Steven Waddington uses the metaphor of Twitter being a kind of virtual pub where you can meet and chat with interesting people. By comparison, Facebook can be like an awkward family gathering where you have to avoid bringing up certain subjects because they’ll set off Great Uncle Kenneth…

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Tim Hall | Comments Off

When bands end rather messily, as frequently happens, why do they always “implode”?

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Tim Hall | Comments Off

If Twitter is anything to go by, the way to scare prog-rock drummers is to start talking about Furries.

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Tim Hall | Comments Off

Thin Lizzy and UFO are two great bands who still seem to be overlooked by rock historians. Was this because their best years coincided with the heyday of punk, so they don’t fit neatly into the default rock narrative of punk replacing everything that had gone before?

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Tim Hall | 3 Comments

It is difficut to read this piece about Azidoazide Azides without thinking of my old school Chemistry teacher Mr Mullins. Or, for that matter, The Alchemists’ Guild of Ankh-Morpork.

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Tim Hall | Comments Off

When will people realise that higher and higher train fares aren’t “investment in better services” but the entirely avoidable overheads of the cumbersome structure of the privatised railway?

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Tim Hall | Comments Off