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    “I Will Glam”, first music video ever shown on teletext.

    May 23, 2009by laurajb Leave a comment

    From Creative Social blog: Pedro Marín and Great Works present: The first music video in history for Teletext on Cuatro (Channel 4), Spanish national TV, on page 899 during the [...]

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    film, general brilliantness, tunes

    An old friend pops up…

    April 17, 2009by laurajb Leave a comment

    Found a You Tube posting of my old good friend Ashley Rothschild and his band Caligula (support in Oz for Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Pop Will [...]

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    life outside work, mates, nostalgia

    R.I.P. the human fly. Lux Interior dies at 62

    February 4, 2009by laurajb Leave a comment

    From the earliest memory of seeing a live band (in Newcastle as I was WAY too young to get into the over 18s gig in Sydney) Lux cut an energetic, [...]

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    general brilliantness, life outside work, nostalgia
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    8-Bit Jesus for Christmas

    December 24, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    Some things are just too good not to harp on about, and Dr Octoroc’s crazy album of game-soundtrack-inspired-christmas-carols is one of them. Download it for free – listed to it [...]

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    Augment your ears with RjDj

    October 16, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    This brilliant new iPhone app takes recordings and sensory data from your live environment, and uses them to create a live soundtrack to your day…

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    general brilliantness, mobile + location aware, tunes
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    Up the Resolution!

    September 12, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    Finally got a chance to watch this yesterday, from the Creative Review blog. The new music video for The Cinematic Orchestra (covering not one, but two tracks – Breathe and [...]

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    general brilliantness, tunes
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    Favourite Bestival acts I’d never really been into…

    September 7, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

    Chrome Hoof Ebony Bones Other stuff that was brilliant: The Foals, Human League (bizarrely), My Bloody Valentine, Hot Chip, the sound of grace Jones from my tent, the learn-to-dance tent [...]

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    curiouser, general brilliantness, mates, places i've been, tunes

    The more you ignore me, the closer I get…

    August 19, 2008by laurajb 1 Comment

    I’ve been trying to NOT mention Blip.fm all day, but those of you who follow my twitter will have noticed something rather disturbing – I’M TOTALLY ADDICTED TO IT. Actually, [...]

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    general brilliantness, interweb, life outside work, tunes

    The Bumblebeez Dr Love

    July 1, 2007by laurajb Leave a comment

    A wonderful video for the Aussie band The Bumblebeez. Just shows what you can do with a little bit of imagination, and without the usual 5-figure music video budget…

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    general brilliantness, tunes

    A present for me from my sister this morning…

    June 20, 2007by laurajb Leave a comment

    Antony singing If “It Be Your Will”. Beautiful! Thanks Kip! x

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    life outside work, tunes

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