I swear, this isnt supposed to turn into a blog strictly covering my favourite live acoustic/stripped down performances. But I imagine regardless of whatever it is supposed to be, it was always going to have a bunch of them scattered throughout. The actual song starts just after 2:17. Not particularly new, but an instant classic for me.
Website: cityandcolour.com
Twitter: @cityandcolour
Been awfully negligent of this place. This should more than make up for it. One of my newest finds, absolutely infatuated by the performance. Glad my youtube/wikipedia binge led to it lol. Turns out she was the runner-up contestant to the American music reality tv show The Voice (season 1?).
Honestly she’s bizarrely spot on as one of the characters I’d imagined in a story I’ve been slowly developing and meaning to write (ie. stalling on). Well, minus the accent, nationality, ethnicity, age and general success level. But I’m talking about the personality, actual looks, style and mannerisms I had in my head. Even them both being musicians. Even their first names are similar. Might have to change that because it irks me. Wish this song was available to buy in a studio version. Soon, hopefully.
(I like the amusing conversational lead-in but to jump straight to the meat, skip to around the 2:00 mark)
Twitter: @DiaFramps
Youtube: youtube.com/diaframpton
Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘The Wind Rises’, based on a novel of the same name by a Tatsuo Hori, gets a screening at the Toronto International Film Festival this year in September. It’s a non-fantasy fictionalised story set between the 1920s and ’30s, amidst the Great Depression and the Great Kanto Earthquake. Political commentary should be interesting.
Funny this came along. I’d been meaning to find an excuse to watch Studio Ghibli’s From Up On Poppy Hill (Goro Miyazaki) at the Cornerhouse cinema recently. Thought it’d make a nice choice as my first film viewing there.
Powerful.
Limited pay-what-you-can (/free) downloads at her Bandcamp at the moment.
Bandcamp: holliemcnish.bandcamp.com
Website: holliemcnish.com
Twitter: @HollyMcNish
Hefty title eh? It’s the name of the paperback project my brother and a gang of his university friends have been madly working on over the summer and after a successful Kickstarter campaign, it’s due to be released in exactly a month (publication date: September 9th, 2013). 115 pages long and comes with ISBN numbers and illustrations and everything, hot damn it’s official!
He’s received editor credit (as Abdul Choudhury) on Amazon itself but I’m almost certain some of his own works appear in it too. Click the cover art below to have a gander o’er at Amazon:
It’s £6.99 RRP but currently priced at £6.53 (7% off!) so do please pre-order a copy! The ‘Art and the Mannequin’ group are also putting on some performance shows around the country. You can get tickets to the play ‘Mr Nobody: A Cinderella Boy’ at the Three Minute Theatre inside the Afflecks Arcade, Oldham Street in Manchester here on Skiddle. Check out their twitter page (@artsmannequins) or website (http://artandthemannequins.com/) for more.
Now why is all this my first post? Because I’m putting on my proud big bro hat and you’re damn right it’s an appropriate a start as any other.
Peace and love,
‘Big’ Abdul
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