Mr Bootle

Category: Music

  • 65daysofstatic

    Village Underground – 20 November 2018 I’d never heard of 65daysofstatic until my mate Mudge had messaged me to say he’d bought me a ticket. They were doing some sort of multimedia performance where the music was generated via algorithms or some such computer generations. This was going to be a night of laptop music.…

  • The pattern once known as you

    Was in my local record shoppe on Sunday, it was Feast day, a local community festival so it meant there was a DJ spinning some tunes rather than the proprietor playing his favourite psych rock album. The guy – Robin The Fog – was playing a great set of down temp ambient, field music and…

  • Music of 2018

    This is an annual list of things I’ve been listening to and bought this year. Not necessarily released in 2018 but certainly discovered or re-acquainted with. I’ll update this over the course of the year and by the end you’ll get a list of my picks for 2018. Sign up if you want to be…

  • Radio Birdman, The Dome, London – 23 June 2015

    This is an edited version of a review I originally wrote on Facebook after the gig. Tonight was the second in a series of Ageing Australian Rockers gigs I was attending, the first being AC/DC, the third, The Angels. I’ll be honest with you, I’ve never really bothered to listen to any of the Radio Birdman albums.…

  • A life without music

    A life without music would be devastating for me. Music has always been and integral part of who I am; giving me an identity through the albums I purchased, t-shirts I wore and the gigs I went to. As a child, music was the brother, sister and father I never had. Music makes me feel…

  • Shellac – The Fleece, Bristol

    Saturday night in Bristol. Rum and cokes under the Seven Stars. Laughter, impatience, rhythm, movement, questions, smiles. Images available for use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial licence. Download from Flickr.

  • Shout out to mum

    Saturday and Sunday mornings BBC 6Music is the station of choice. Last Saturday Liz Kershaw was running a week early shout out to mum’s and their favourite tunes. I emailed and got a mention. Suffice to say I was pleased as punch. The story revolves around my mum (like me) being a big AC/DC fan but…

  • Albums of 2016

    Every year I listen to a lot of music, either purchased via my subscriptions to eMusic and Stones Throw; or via the most excellent BandCamp, Soundcloud or various blogs and magazines such as Pitchfork. This page collects all of the albums, EPs and singles I have listened to in the year 2016. Not every album listed here will have…

  • A child is born with no state of mind

    Having grown up in the pioneering days of early 80’s hip-hop I would hunt down anything about the hip-hop movement. It was an exciting, revolutionary, wild and most of all; a personal artistic expression that struck a chord with my loner persona in suburban Adelaide. The love of hip-hop was limited to a few rebels within various…

  • Declutter

    Clearing out my home and office space and found these historical nuggets from books on web design and flash (remember that?) to the very first version of ReBirth. If you fancy taking these off me and donating some money to Breast Cancer Care that would be wonderful for everybody including my home’s feng shui. Message me…