The flatmate and I went to see Howling Bells yesterday and it is the only time that I have ever watched a live band and thought that the listening to the CD would probably be exactly the same. Very odd indeed.

The main reason of this post is an upload. I bought NME for the first time in ages the other week because it had a CD of covers of The Cure. For the record, NME is still shit and if anything, has gotten worse. Happily, the CD is pretty decent.

01. The Cure - Introduction
02. Mystery Jets & Esser - In Between Days
03. Lostprophets - Boys Don't Cry
04. Marmaduke Duke - Friday I'm In Love
05. Dinosaur Jr. - Just Like Heaven
06. The Big Pink - Love Song
07. Editors - Lullaby
08. British Sea Power - A Forest
09. The Dandy Warhols - Primary
10. The Get Up Kids - Close To Me
11. The Futureheads - The Lovecats
12. Art Brut - Catch
13. Metronomy - Fascination Street
14. Alkaline Trio - Cut Here
15. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - In Between Days

Download the zip and the cover art =)

EDIT: Happy belated Birthday, skyekissed!

So, violentviolette wanted more music from Idlewild who are made of fucking awesome. Thusly, I have uploaded two of their albums (I have more, but I figured two would get you started, Lee).

The Remote Part
Contains my favourite Idlewild Song, 'The Remote Part/Scottish Fiction' *draws pink sparkly hearts around it*

Warnings/Promises
Contains 'Love Steals Us From Loneliness'.

Also, because I know there are various Damien Rice fans on my flist, I've uploaded the Lisa Hannigan album which I got for Christmas.

Sea Sew

Feel free to download, people =)

I start my work experience tomorrow so, in the way of these things, I can't sleep.

I don't know why I do this. Whenever I have something important to do the next day, an essay to finish and hand in, a job interview, the pressing need to be on a train at 7am in order to catch a flight somewhere, I have a complete inability to sleep. Which is not fun. I like sleep. I'm what you'd call a big fan. Yet, sleep mocks me whenever it gets the chance.

Let's see... my course has been going better this term. Better in that my lectures actually seem to be fairly relevant. A novel experience, believe me! We've been contemplating the big ones - 'What is heritage?' - 'Why do we care about it?' - 'Why should we expect other people to care about it?' More interesting than it sounds, I promise. We've had some great guest lecturers, including one from the Council for British Archaeology who managed to be funny whilst also being very informative. Which isn't that easy to pull off.

Sadly, my fairly good run of lectures came to a crashing halt earlier today (well, yesterday now, technically), when I showed up for 'Research Skills' which was essentially a two hour session in which an American man told us repeatedly never to scan at a resolution any higher than 72dpi, and my course and I decided that the most important tools we'd be using for our dissertations would be a pen and paper, and all the Buildings and Conservation people could take a running jump with their GIS and AutoCad. We have no interest in such frivolities!

I have a meeting with my supervisor next week about my dissertation, as the proposal is due fairly soon. This means that I've actually had to start thinking about my dissertation, which has been quite taxing. My brain knows what it means, but it can't really be arsed to couch the ideas in academic words, because academic words are tedious.

Here is some music to tie in with my single-themed post. It's actually quite decent, and how can you justify living without music by a band called Archaeology? I honestly don't think that you can.

Archaeology - Abricka Bradaptah
Archaeology - Water in the Boat

(On a side-note, do we think that Eddie Izzard realises that there was a Woodhenge? Is it a deliberate aspect of the joke, or has he unintentionally hit archaeology paydirt, comedy-wise?)

I can't stop listening to Damien Rice's 'heavier' songs. Stuff like Woman Like A Man and Beat My Drum. He does angry, dirty, yet rather soulful music so well. Which is why I can't understand his record company's decision to scrap the last album he made. According to him, it was heavier than O, and a bit more akin to B-Sides but the record company thought people would want more stuff like O. I don't even know what the story is now *prods him to release something* I actually have a ridiculous amount of Damien Rice songs (43, excluding the two albums).

I also have a surprising amount of songs by The Cooper Temple Clause since I've bought every single and EP they've ever released ever (except for The Crayon EP because it's extremely hard to get at a decent price). For anyone who's interested they've put a live version of a track from their upcoming album on their site. The album version has been put up for download here. Honestly, I'm not entirely sold. But it took me quite a few listens to get into both of their previous albums, so I'll bide my time. I want the single, but they're only selling it at their concerts *pout* I'll just have to wait for the album and convince some lovely UK person to buy it for me.

God, I can't wait to move back to the UK so I can see real live bands *swoons*

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