Tag: music

I love music. Making music, listening, talking about it and anything else too.

A new album coming from Blancmange!

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And a tour too! How lovely. I’m looking forward to that. Ok, it’s a remake of their very first album, but that’s ok. It’ll be interesting to see what they’ve made of it after all this time.

New old reading

Posted by on in Books and Audiobooks

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I’ve read this before, but I decided to read it again as it’s such an interesting set of essays on music. I might even pen a few notes on the content as I go through it.

Purley Festival, day 1

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Purley Festival
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Whilst I was only there for a couple of hours today it’s lovely to see a local event like this and see so many people enjoying the park and some live music.

Getting Plastic Planet by the Modified Toy Orchestra

Posted by on in Listening, Music

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As a long time fan of The Modified Toy Orchestra I was delighted when their latest album came out and I ordered it a few weeks ago. It seemed to take a while to arrive, then, a couple of days ago, a package turned up.

Not only did it contain the album, a CD in something like a children’s book package, which is an amazing design by the way, but also it contained the following

An extra CD
This note of apology

I was amazed to say the least. I’d have been happy with a note of apology on it’s own, but this was completely unexpected, and, lovely too.

If that wasn’t enough, Plastic Planet is a joy to listen to as well. I’d recommend it.