Information, please...

Who out there can tell me anything about the bands Arcade Fire and/or Mercury Rev?

I've just seen them both on Jools Holland, and they picqued the old curiosity.

Information, please...

Who out there can tell me anything about the bands Arcade Fire and/or Mercury Rev?

I've just seen them both on Jools Holland, and they picqued the old curiosity.

Not quite Live8

Not being a total Philistine, I have been watching the early acts on TV, but now I have retreated to The Tower, and thought it would be fun to listen in on the radio, and by webcast. Both are tuned to Radio 2, and the TV is on BBC 2 - my thought was that I could wander between the rooms without actually missing anything. I was prepared for a mixture of things during the downtime between acts, but...

How naive.

If we allow that the BBC TV broadcast is live, then there is a five second delay on the radio, and ten on the webcast. There is something of a strange cacophony going on now; oh, that's Dido, so it may not all be down to the varying time lags.

This experiment may not take long.

Not quite Live8

Not being a total Philistine, I have been watching the early acts on TV, but now I have retreated to The Tower, and thought it would be fun to listen in on the radio, and by webcast. Both are tuned to Radio 2, and the TV is on BBC 2 - my thought was that I could wander between the rooms without actually missing anything. I was prepared for a mixture of things during the downtime between acts, but...

How naive.

If we allow that the BBC TV broadcast is live, then there is a five second delay on the radio, and ten on the webcast. There is something of a strange cacophony going on now; oh, that's Dido, so it may not all be down to the varying time lags.

This experiment may not take long.

Live L8er

I stopped watching so I could do some shopping and then improve my brane with Time Team's Great Roman Dig on Channel 4 for a few hours.

I reconnect with Live8 just in time to hear Sir Paul telling Jonathan Ross that before today he'd never played Sgt Pepper live. Ah, advancing age has clearly dulled the old boy's mind. I saw his world tour at Wembley in 1990, when they played a 10 minute version including an extended jam session in the middle and ended with the heavy reprise from the album. And since he did around 40 dates on that tour...

Anyway, I shall now go and listen to another live rendition of the same song by Sir Paul and his band, from the Tripping the Live Fantastic album.

Shame. Poor old lad's memory giving out like that.

Live L8er

I stopped watching so I could do some shopping and then improve my brane with Time Team's Great Roman Dig on Channel 4 for a few hours.

I reconnect with Live8 just in time to hear Sir Paul telling Jonathan Ross that before today he'd never played Sgt Pepper live. Ah, advancing age has clearly dulled the old boy's mind. I saw his world tour at Wembley in 1990, when they played a 10 minute version including an extended jam session in the middle and ended with the heavy reprise from the album. And since he did around 40 dates on that tour...

Anyway, I shall now go and listen to another live rendition of the same song by Sir Paul and his band, from the Tripping the Live Fantastic album.

Shame. Poor old lad's memory giving out like that.