Big Mama Thornton live...

old is new...

Here's the fashion forecast for the winter months.
It's time to get back to nature people, let your
inner tree hugger dance free and get your hair looking
a wee bit more natural.
monkmenagerie declares that it's time for nature to
fight back! Let your colour stand out with a style
that has solid lines, mix the old with the new and 
just remember no one does colour better than Mother
Nature...

mini homes...

 

Seriously who really needs a monsterous prison sized 
home when there is only one or two of you living under 
the same roof! Cut down on cleaning costs and look to  
the homes of the future... Live mini! 

Tindersticks, The Something Rain...album review

Thank God for the Tindersticks! A band that you can honestly
say conform to no persons ideas but their own, and after reforming
a few years back have finally released an album that lives up
to their almost spiritual first. The Tindersticks have their 
drive back, they still make beautiful music and no one can
deny their musical chops but there is an intensity to 'The 
Something Rain' that hasn't been present in their previous few
outings. Stuart A. Staples is singing with the darkness in 
his soul and i think the new band members have finally 
understood what makes him tick! Few bands achieve the melancholic
dread that appears in this mini masterpiece, it kind of reminds
me of Nick Cave's Let Love In and that's a huge pat on the back.
What more can i say than to compare them to the great man's 
seminal masterpiece... Sit back, turn it up loud, pour yourself
a nice red and be swept away in the joyous darkness that is the
Tindersticks returning to fine form.