It's Not You, It's Me, etc, etc

I've got to be honest, I've been writing another blog on my MySpace page and I'm about to launch another blog on Blogger.com that's a bit more, well, focussed. Is this equal to 'seeing other people' in blogging terms and this makes me a big old blogging ho' or do I just have more to say than the average person, perhaps - who knows for sure.

Back to this blog - well, music wise I suffered a heartbreaking tragedy that I'm still only partially-recovered from, my ipod died about a month ago(RIP) & I'm too damned skint to buy a new one for a while so I've resurrected my old Minidisk player in all it's delicious retro glory. It's okay, I fished out such classics as Now That's What I Call Soops I & II, Dance! Laugh! Dance Some More!!(a compilation of tunes & bits from The Mighty Boosh radio series and, um, more tunes) along with various random combinations of albums. It'll do for now.

Gigwise - well, it's been SonyBMG-tastic this past couple of weeks but polar opposites on several levels. Last Friday, I went with my good friends Carla and Alana(sometimes merged to Carlalana after several vodkas)to The Gossip at Shepherds Bush Empire. Much as I LOVE the Empire(I worked there, did I mention this before - it rocks almightily), we were upstairs with the driest Level One crowd I've witnessed in ages. It was The Gossip - what kind of freak doesn't dance to The Gossip? Beth was working her usual brilliance(her announcement of taking off part of her foot with her shoe was particularly endearing)but nope, these crazy non-dancing types weren't moving a muscle until finally, 'Standing In The Way Of Control' comes on - Beth's invited most of West London to join her for a boogie on stage and this lot get it and actually stand up and dance. Thankfully us 3 were stood at the back so proceeded to shimmy with suitable attitude all the way through the gig. Thankfully.

Kelly Clarkson was quite different. Now you may have gathered I'm not what you could class as an archetypical Kelly Clarkson fan. Or even a fan, come to think of it, but my friend Fox LOVES her so we went. I was amazed I recognised  5 whole songs and the crowd, in contrast to the Level One Gossip-giggers were certainly enthusiastic. I've got to be honest, she's got a great voice, etc, etc but the fromage factor was a little too much for me. I did holler along to 'Since You've Been Gone' like the rest of the audience at the end, though - would have been rude not to, quite frankly...