30 day song challenge.... what a load of shite

I've seen this recently on facebook, basically you have a different song for each day and you have to say what they are and why. It's a nice idea, but i realised i don't actually know that many real mainstream songs (even though I'm a music student) and I really don't see myself having the patience to find the songs or updating it (since there's nothing worse than people doing too many facebook updates). So I've decided to put my weird list of tunes up. Here are the rules........


"day 01 - your favorite song
day 02 - your least favorite song
day 03 - a song that makes you happy 
day 04 - a song that makes you sad
day 05 - a song that reminds you of someone
day 06 - a song that reminds you of somewhere
day 07 - a song that reminds you of a certain event 
day 08 - a song that you know all the words to
day 09 - a song that you can dance to
day 10 - a song that makes you fall asleep 
day 11 - a song from your favorite band 
day 12 - a song from a band you hate 
day 13 - a song that is a guilty pleasure 
day 14 - a song that no one would expect you to love 
day 15 - a song that describes you 
day 16 - a song that you used to love but now hate 
day 17 - a song that you hear often on the radio
day 18 - a song that you wish you heard on the radio
day 19 - a song from your favorite album
day 20 - a song that you listen to when you’re angry 
day 21 - a song that you listen to when you’re happy
day 22 - a song that you listen to when you’re sad
day 23 - a song that you want to play at your wedding
day 24 - a song that you want to play at your funeral
day 25 - a song that makes you laugh
day 26 - a song that you can play on an instrument
day 27 - a song that you wish you could play
day 28 - a song that makes you feel guilty
day 29 - a song from your childhood 
day 30 - your favorite song at this time last year"

Right! Here's my list
Song 1 - Changes daily but at the moment it's "August 5th 2006" by the Claudia Quintet.
Song 2 - Anything by Coldplay
Song 3 - Paul Simon, You can call me Al.
Song 4 - Unexpectedly hearing Coldplay.
Song 5 - Hanging out with Howard Marks, Super Furry Animals.
Song 6 - Demons by Super Furry Animals.
Song 7 - The Battle of Evermore, Led Zeppelin
Song 8 - The tune from Eraser head about heaven.
Song 9 - Nothing that Coldplay wrote.
Song 10 - Anything by Coldplay.
Song 11 - ....... the question's too generic
Song 12 - Anything by Coldplay
Song 13 - ....... the question's also too generic

Song 14 - GZA, living in the world today 

Song 15 - Jazz Snob: Eat Shit by Naked City
Song 16 - Most of weather report's repertoire.
Song 17 - I don't really listen to the radio
Song 18 - Anything from my CD collection
Song 19 - Serpent's Tooth from Arrival of Victor Feldman
Song 20 - The whole of Trevor Dunn's Sister Phantom Owl Fish
Song 21 - The whole of Trevor Dunn's Sister Phantom Owl Fish
Song 22 - The whole of Trevor Dunn's Sister Phantom Owl Fish
Song 23 - Jazz Snob: Eat Shit by Naked City
Song 24 - Anything that's not Coldplay
Song 25 - Anything by Coldplay
Song 26 - ...........
Song 27 - Everything I have on my itunes.
Song 28 - I shot the sherif, Huw Williams ..... Shit! I mean Bob Marley!
Song 29 - Paul Simon, You can call me Al.
Song 30 - John Cage 4'33


I'm sure this blog has shown you a small fraction of my musical taste, that I didn't actually shoot any sherifs and the fact I dislike Coldplay (I mean, really dislike). Hopefully next time I'll have something a little more interesting to say....... cheers.

Current musical happenings

I haven't posted a blog for a while, so I felt like I should put one up and discuss some random shit!

I had a gig last night at Torfaen Jazz club in Sebastopol with Huw Warren and his son Zoot. Crazy place full of wonderful characters, they have a really great programme on there, Tony Kofi's on there next friday, which should be unreal. Ceri Williams, the club's promoter also does live streaming of the gigs on Ustream every friday, we had a guy from France checking it out. If you get a chance catch the gigs they put on and please support this lovely little club, unfortunately it's at that period with jazz where success lies in the survival of the music.
http://www.torfaenjazz.org.uk/joomla/index.php

I've also been really busy recently with Rachel K Collier's band, who I heavily mentioned in the last blog post, (not really mentioned, but posted a load of links). We recorded her second EP last weekend in Cardiff, which was a lot of fun, 4 of her new tracks (which are all brilliant songs). We have a few gigs coming up with the band in the next few weeks;

17/03 Vulcan Lounge (Cardiff)

18/03 North Star (Cardiff)

20/03 Coal Exchange (Cardiff)

27/03 Surface Festival, Great Portland Street (London)

08/04 Spice of Life Soho (London)
We have more booked for the future, but there are some I'm sure I've forgotten to put in my diary (oops). Other than playing funny music, twittering and blogging I've been messing about with Imovie and made a little documentary about Rachel's band...........