/Tuesday Ten /650 /Blame, etc.
These days, it seems impossible to read a story in the news where there isn’t blame placed somewhere else – and it happens when people get caught out online, too.
Category: /Tuesday Ten
Now ten years old and counting, my regular series of Tuesday posts takes in new music and sometimes rather random categories.
/Tuesday Ten /649 /Tracks of the Month /Aug-26
Back to regular programming, then, now that this year’s Infest coverage is done and dusted.
/Tuesday Ten /648 /Memory of a Festival
This weekend, I will attend Infest for the twenty-sixth time (the twenty-fourth time in person, as well as two virtually). I’ve not missed an Infest since I began attending in 2000, and after writing about nineteen of them, the twentieth Infest that I’ll cover on /amodelofcontrol.com will be my last. I’ll still be attending Infest […]
/Tuesday Ten /647 /Party Hard
I got that bit closer to fifty over the weekend, as I turned forty-eight. It was a relatively low-key birthday this year, which rather suited me fine: but in past years, there have been some pretty epic parties to celebrate.
/Tuesday Ten /646 /Tracks of the Month /Jul-26
High summer is always a bit of a weird one for new releases: it’s the silly season while bands are playing festivals and travelling vast distances to do so, so new songs take the back burner a bit. But maybe it’s just me, but it seems the quietest it has been for new music in […]
/Tuesday Ten /645 /Clearest Blue
I conclude this run of posts on three colours with, of course, blue.
/Tuesday Ten /644 /The White Room
Following on from Red last week, we now move onto White.
/Tuesday Ten /643 /Seeing Red
Over the first weekend of July, the United States marked it’s Semiquincentennial – or 250th Anniversary since Independence. The celebrations of such have been rather muted, it seems, and perhaps with good reason with the current Administration, as it doesn’t really feel that the ideals that the USA is supposed to represent are being reflected […]
/Tuesday Ten /642 /Tracks of the Month /Jun-26
Another hot month, another ten tracks – including the 7,000th entry in this series.
/Tuesday Ten /641 /Any Colour As Long As It’s Black
“It’s like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black“. Spın̈al Tap had a good laugh at the alternative and metal proclivity for the use of black, and just recently, the blackest black ever is used at the Hayward Gallery as part of the new Anish Kapoor exhibition.
/Tuesday Ten /640 /Two Different Ways
Sometimes, I suggest a subject and get buried in suggestions, and this week was one of those.
/Tuesday Ten /639 /YES NO
This week is – or is it? – about contradictions in song.
/Tuesday Ten /638 /He Said, She Said
This one kinda picks up where we left off two weeks ago – but with a bit of a different angle.
/Tuesday Ten /637 /Tracks of the Month /May-26
It has been a really busy few weeks of music round here, with no less than seven gigs in two weeks taking up a lot of my time – and some of them were a bit of a struggle in the intense heat in the south of England in the past week or so.
/Tuesday Ten /636 /Somebody Told Me
As we continue the journey to the end of this series in March next year, I seem to be picking up some of the harder subjects now, those that had less suggestions and are more difficult to build a post around.
/Tuesday Ten /635 /Paranoia
Are they out to get you? Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t. This week is a grab-bag of ten songs dripping with paranoia and nervousness, about what may or may not happen, and what is real and what is imagined.
/Tuesday Ten /634 /Glamourama
The Met Gala last week, a troubled Venice Art Biennale began last week, and the Cannes Film Festival starts today: all events where how attendees look and what they wear becomes as important as the art medium being exhibited or shown, or in the case of the Met Gala, the money raised.
/Tuesday Ten /633 /Tracks of the Month /Apr-26
Fresh from a good weekend up north, including seeing an excellent Mesh and Mari Kattman show, it’s back to normal life and regular programming now the Bank Holiday has passed.
/Tuesday Ten /632 /Please Mr. Postman
The world’s first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black, was issued in the United Kingdom on 01-May 1840, 186 years ago this week. The Royal Mail, however, goes back a whole lot further: Henry VIII created the “Master of the Posts” in 1516, while Charles I made the postal service available to the public in […]
/Tuesday Ten /631 /Wibbling Rivalry
Yesterday was my sister’s birthday – not that I’ve had a chance to wish her happy birthday, she long since decided to cut herself off from much of the family. Her choice, I guess. To be fair, we’ve never really got on. We ended up part of a larger family, with two stepbrothers and twin […]