About Friday the 13th?

No. Because sometimes it is my birthday.

I do, however, throw spilled salt over my left should and have no idea why.

The only reason I don’t walk under ladders is in case they fall on my head.

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5. Chapel Club – Palace

Released 31/1/2011
Ok, so Chapel Club… I didn’t actually buy their album. I think this is on the list because I kept listening to that one song, All The Eastern Girls. It’s a really good song.

4. Patrick Wolf – Lupercalia

Released 20/6/2011
This is the only Patrick Wolf album I own, so I can really put it in context with his back-catalogue but I really like this. It’s the most loved up album that I’ve heard in a long time and it’s so happy and yay and weeee.

3. Dave Hause – Resolutions

Released 1/2/2011
So this album got released back in February, but I didn’t know anything about Dave Hause until I saw him on The Revival Tour back in October. He was epic then and at the Windmill in Brixton a few days later (when I bought the album). This is packed full of songs that are great to sing along to.

2. The Horrible Crowes – Elsie

Released 5/9/2011
I do love the Gaslight Anthem and the Horrible Crowes do sound a bit like them, what with sharing Brian Fallon and all. However, this is a different animal. Elsie is darker and more romantic than any of the Gaslight Anthem’s albums and I like the difference.

1. Frank Turner – England Keep My Bones

Released 6/6/2011
It was tough choosing between this and Elsie, but in the end it had to be done. Hearing Peggy Sang the Blues at Frank’s Brixton gig actually moved me to tears last year, because hearing about his cool grandma reminded me how great my own grandparents were. The whole album is full of songs about Englishness and mortality and belief and right now all of that really resonates with me. Even Hallelujah, the hymn for the modern atheist is great even if I can’t bring myself to sing along to it at gigs (I’ve tried, really, it just doesn’t happen – I put it down to getting a similar buzz from singing along at gigs that I get from really getting into singing worship music at church and…this song essentially being anti-worship and cancelling it out. *shrug* I dunno).

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Keppler 22B.

Oh wait.

While I’m here, does anyone want an invite code for This Is My Jam? I’ve got 3 at the moment, but will probably get more when those are used up.

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If this SOPA thing actually went into effect, does that mean all the free advertising and hype-making from rabid fangirls gets banninated? If so, how is that good for the film industry?

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What I hate most is when I am too sick to carry on with what I am doing and yet not tired or lethargic or whatever enough to be content with doing nothing. It sucks.

On the other hand, at least I don’t get throat infections every year, now that I have grown into my tonsils.

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So – Elephant. Two guys and a girl. One of the guys had a fascinating jumper & Mr T-style gold chain combo going on, which was a tad distracting. The other guy… he kept disappearing. No idea why. The girl had an elephant pendant on a really long chain. Other than that, and that one of the songs had purring in it… I can’t remember their music at all. Sorry guys.

Other Lives on the other hand were amazing. Everyone in the band appeared to be a multi-instrumentalist. Their music is pretty epic (possibly in part to the breadth of variety of instruments available – kind of sweeping and layered and generally rockin’. I’d definitely see them again.

The main event of course was Chapel Club. I’ve already admitted that I only really know the one song (though I do own it on vinyl and took the trouble to record a mp3 of it for ease of listening), so it’s no surprise that I was a bit wary of the musical plan for the evening – there was a first set of entirely new music and a second set of old music. The new stuff was less guitary than the Chapel Club I’m used to, but ok. The old stuff (if music probably at most 2 years old can be called old) was pretty much what I was expecting. Chapel Club have a sort of warm languid sound – something like being tucked up in a warm bed on a cold day. I left after All The Eastern Girls, even though I think there was probably another song left at least…mostly because I was tired and wanted to buy Other Lives’ album.

All in all, it was pretty ok.

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So – Elephant. Two guys and a girl. One of the guys had a fascinating jumper & Mr T-style gold chain combo going on, which was a tad distracting. The other guy… he kept disappearing. No idea why. The girl had an elephant pendant on a really long chain. Other than that, and that one of the songs had purring in it… I can’t remember their music at all. Sorry guys.

Other Lives on the other hand were amazing. Everyone in the band appeared to be a multi-instrumentalist. Their music is pretty epic (possibly in part to the breadth of variety of instruments available – kind of sweeping and layered and generally rockin’. I’d definitely see them again.

The main event of course was Chapel Club. I’ve already admitted that I only really know the one song (though I do own it on vinyl and took the trouble to record a mp3 of it for ease of listening), so it’s no surprise that I was a bit wary of the musical plan for the evening – there was a first set of entirely new music and a second set of old music. The new stuff was less guitary than the Chapel Club I’m used to, but ok. The old stuff (if music probably at most 2 years old can be called old) was pretty much what I was expecting. Chapel Club have a sort of warm languid sound – something like being tucked up in a warm bed on a cold day. I left after All The Eastern Girls, even though I think there was probably another song left at least…mostly because I was tired and wanted to buy Other Lives’ album.

All in all, it was pretty ok.

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Confession time. I only really know the one Chapel Club song – All The Eastern Girls. This will be important later on.

So – Elephant. Two guys and a girl. One of the guys had a fascinating jumper & Mr T-style gold chain combo going on, which was a tad distracting. The other guy… he kept disappearing. No idea why. The girl had an elephant pendant on a really long chain. Other than that, and that one of the songs had purring in it… I can’t remember their music at all. Sorry guys.

Other Lives on the other hand were amazing. Everyone in the band appeared to be a multi-instrumentalist. Their music is pretty epic (possibly in part to the breadth of variety of instruments available – kind of sweeping and layered and generally rockin’. I’d definitely see them again.

The main event of course was Chapel Club. I’ve already admitted that I only really know the one song (though I do own it on vinyl and took the trouble to record a mp3 of it for ease of listening), so it’s no surprise that I was a bit wary of the musical plan for the evening – there was a first set of entirely new music and a second set of old music. The new stuff was less guitary than the Chapel Club I’m used to, but ok. The old stuff (if music probably at most 2 years old can be called old) was pretty much what I was expecting. Chapel Club have a sort of warm languid sound – something like being tucked up in a warm bed on a cold day. I left after All The Eastern Girls, even though I think there was probably another song left at least…mostly because I was tired and wanted to buy Other Lives’ album.

All in all, it was pretty ok.

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Which is titled "Will you tolerate this?". The answer is yes, and for 3 years. 23:24:27, 2011-10-28

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