| +44 | Coldplay | Happy Mondays | |||
| 3 Colours Red | Coral | Hockey | |||
| 40 Seconds | Darkness | Hot Hot Heat | |||
| 52 Teenagers | David Guetta | Ida Maria | |||
| Alkaline Trio | Dead Mau5 | Idlewild | |||
| All American Rejects | Delays | Jessy J | |||
| Angels & Airwaves | Digweed | Jimmy Eat World | |||
| Arctic Monkeys | Dizzee Rascal | Joshua Radin | |||
| Arman Van Heldan | Drums | Joy Formidable | |||
| Armin Van Buuren | Ed Sheeran | Kasabian | |||
| Ash | Editors | Killers | |||
| Athlete | Elbow | Krysko | |||
| Badly Drawn Boy | Electric 6 | KT Tunstall | |||
| Beyonce | Ellie Goulding | Ladyhawke | |||
| Biffy Clyro | Eric Prydz | Liam Frost | |||
| Big Pink | Eskimo Cowboy | Libertines | |||
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | Faithless | Linkin Park | |||
| Blink 182 | Fedde Le Grand | Lost Prophets | |||
| Blur | Feeder | Maccabees | |||
| Bombay Bicycle Club | Flogging Molly | Millencolin | |||
| Bowling For Soup | Foo Fighters | Mumford & Sons | |||
| Caesars | Franz Ferdinand | Mylo | |||
| Calvin Harris | Futureheads | N.E.R.D. | |||
| Capdown | Gaslight Anthem | Naked & Famous | |||
| Cara Dillon | Go! Team | Nero | |||
| Carl Cox | Goo Goo Dolls | New Order | |||
| Cee Lo Green | Good Charlotte | Newton Faulkner | |||
| Chase & Status | Green Day | Noah & The Whale | |||
| Cherry Ghost | Groove Armada | Oasis | |||
| Chicane | Guillemots | Ocean Colour Scene | |||
| OK Go | Sum 41 | ||||
| Paolo Nutini | Supergrass | ||||
| Pendulum | Terrorvision | ||||
| Pete Tong | Thrills | ||||
| Pidgeon Detectives | Tiesto | ||||
| Pixies | Train | ||||
| Placebo | U2 | ||||
| Primal Scream | Vaccines | ||||
| Queens Of The Stone Age | Virgins | ||||
| Rage Against The Machine | Wolf Gang | ||||
| Razorlight | Wombats | ||||
| Red Light Company | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | ||||
| Reel Big Fish | Yuck | ||||
| REM | Zero 7 | ||||
| Rilo Kiley | |||||
| Sasha | |||||
| Sander Kleinenberg | |||||
| Saturdays | |||||
| Scissor Sisters | |||||
| Scouting For Girls | |||||
| Scratch Perverts | |||||
| Script | |||||
| Simian Mobile Disco | |||||
| Simple Plan | |||||
| Sounds | |||||
| Staind | |||||
| Strokes | |||||
| Sub Focus | |||||
| Subways | |||||
| Sugarcult |
Saturday, 22 October 2011
Every note, key, tune, song, riff, drum beat, chord, scream, shout out, encore I've ever listened to.........live.
This blog is usually reserved for all things football but after acquiring tickets for the Stone Roses next year, it got me thinking. How many bands/amazing artists have I ever seen? So I decided to compile a list of every band that I have ever had the privilege of enjoying live at least once. The copious volume even surprised myself. This is correct as at 22nd October 2011 and the count stands at 134. So I invite you to compile a list of your own, I feel it's a fantastic way to reflect on your musical taste. The list is as follows:
Friday, 21 October 2011
Good Evening Sports Fans???
Hey y'all and welcome to over-time in the Pre-meer Cup Sem-eye final. OK enough soccer talk, we've had an extremely eventful couple of weeks on and off the football pitch.
Tevez was 'punished' by Man City by being suspended for 2 weeks. In this time he remained on full pay and was allowed to return to his native Buenos Aries to visit what he cherishes most in his life, Kia Joorabchian (his 'adviser'). After allegedly refusing to come on against Bayern Munich, Tevez is given a holiday. Didn't work out too badly for El Apache did it? He has now returned from 'suspension' but we have yet to see him in either of Man City's latest squads. Bizarrely, before Mancini's press conference, journalists were told they were not allowed to ask about Carlito. Hmm, team news for Aston Villa is what we're all relishing isn't it? What else is there to talk about but the soap opera that is TEVEZ: A true hero's story.
Now this is just a minor observation of what has been an otherwise equally absorbing couple of weeks in the world of Wayne 'Wazza' Rooney. When news broke that Rooney senior had been arrested on suspicion of playing a role in an illegal Scottish betting ring, we all breathed a collective sigh. While the tabloid hacks sharpened their pencils or maybe more appropriately upgraded their 'BS' software on their Ipads but that doesn't quite have the same ring to it. Anyone waking up to find out their dad had been arrested couldn't have enjoyed their cornflakes that morning or in Wayne's case, his daily maraud for flesh. He clearly wasn't in the right mind to play for England that evening against Montenegro. And it showed, it took just 1.26 seconds for him to return to the Wayne Rooney of old and petulantly kick out in frustration at his opponent. OK, it wasn't exatly assault but in the international game these days it is a sending off. And a 3 match ban? Now this is where I disagree with Uefa. In England, if you get sent off for violent conduct, you receive a 3 match domestic ban. That is fair enough but how many games are encompassed in an English league season. 38 plus a possible 12 games in the FA Cup and Worthless Cup if you weren't sure. The ban to total available games ratio is inconsistent and unfair when compared to how many possible games there are in the international calendar. On average, 10 per year. So the equivalent domestic ban would be 15 matches?! Completely ridiculous but Uefa epitomise the kind of idiots running football today. This is before I even mention such profanity as Sepp and Blatter but that is for another blog, we don't have time for that can of worms and the insipid vitriol that comes with it. So Rooney's ban should be 2 games at most, banning him for the entire group stage of Euro 2012 is ludicrous. However, the irony of all this will be when Roo breaks another metatarsal and will miss the tournament anyway.
Now to the most worrying developement of the past couple of weeks and the title story to this blog. The LMA have raised concerns that the Premier League may only need 4 or 5 more 'foreign' owners to push through an agreement to abolish relegation from the Premiership to the Championship. In essence an untouchable break-away bottomless pit of money. A closed league is not unheard of around the world but the idea of this in England doesn't translate. Such fantastic institutions that are ingrained in English football such as the Sheffields, United and Wednesday, Leeds, Nottingham Forest, Matt Le Tissier's Southampton, Blackpool, Hull, Ipswich would be lost. The list doesn't end there either. All the top teams have foreign owners, Man Utd (US, Glazer), LFC (US, FWS), Chelski (RUS, Roman), Man City (ABU, Mansour). These teams have no great worry about relegation so why would they be in favour of it? Relegation is none of their concern. So realisitically the notion is unlikely to come to fruition, although the number of foreign owners is growing to alarming levels. The threat of the '39th game' is very real. Until then we have a Manchester derby to contend with, maybe one day this could be played in Malaysia? One can dream....
Tevez was 'punished' by Man City by being suspended for 2 weeks. In this time he remained on full pay and was allowed to return to his native Buenos Aries to visit what he cherishes most in his life, Kia Joorabchian (his 'adviser'). After allegedly refusing to come on against Bayern Munich, Tevez is given a holiday. Didn't work out too badly for El Apache did it? He has now returned from 'suspension' but we have yet to see him in either of Man City's latest squads. Bizarrely, before Mancini's press conference, journalists were told they were not allowed to ask about Carlito. Hmm, team news for Aston Villa is what we're all relishing isn't it? What else is there to talk about but the soap opera that is TEVEZ: A true hero's story.
Now this is just a minor observation of what has been an otherwise equally absorbing couple of weeks in the world of Wayne 'Wazza' Rooney. When news broke that Rooney senior had been arrested on suspicion of playing a role in an illegal Scottish betting ring, we all breathed a collective sigh. While the tabloid hacks sharpened their pencils or maybe more appropriately upgraded their 'BS' software on their Ipads but that doesn't quite have the same ring to it. Anyone waking up to find out their dad had been arrested couldn't have enjoyed their cornflakes that morning or in Wayne's case, his daily maraud for flesh. He clearly wasn't in the right mind to play for England that evening against Montenegro. And it showed, it took just 1.26 seconds for him to return to the Wayne Rooney of old and petulantly kick out in frustration at his opponent. OK, it wasn't exatly assault but in the international game these days it is a sending off. And a 3 match ban? Now this is where I disagree with Uefa. In England, if you get sent off for violent conduct, you receive a 3 match domestic ban. That is fair enough but how many games are encompassed in an English league season. 38 plus a possible 12 games in the FA Cup and Worthless Cup if you weren't sure. The ban to total available games ratio is inconsistent and unfair when compared to how many possible games there are in the international calendar. On average, 10 per year. So the equivalent domestic ban would be 15 matches?! Completely ridiculous but Uefa epitomise the kind of idiots running football today. This is before I even mention such profanity as Sepp and Blatter but that is for another blog, we don't have time for that can of worms and the insipid vitriol that comes with it. So Rooney's ban should be 2 games at most, banning him for the entire group stage of Euro 2012 is ludicrous. However, the irony of all this will be when Roo breaks another metatarsal and will miss the tournament anyway.
Now to the most worrying developement of the past couple of weeks and the title story to this blog. The LMA have raised concerns that the Premier League may only need 4 or 5 more 'foreign' owners to push through an agreement to abolish relegation from the Premiership to the Championship. In essence an untouchable break-away bottomless pit of money. A closed league is not unheard of around the world but the idea of this in England doesn't translate. Such fantastic institutions that are ingrained in English football such as the Sheffields, United and Wednesday, Leeds, Nottingham Forest, Matt Le Tissier's Southampton, Blackpool, Hull, Ipswich would be lost. The list doesn't end there either. All the top teams have foreign owners, Man Utd (US, Glazer), LFC (US, FWS), Chelski (RUS, Roman), Man City (ABU, Mansour). These teams have no great worry about relegation so why would they be in favour of it? Relegation is none of their concern. So realisitically the notion is unlikely to come to fruition, although the number of foreign owners is growing to alarming levels. The threat of the '39th game' is very real. Until then we have a Manchester derby to contend with, maybe one day this could be played in Malaysia? One can dream....
Saturday, 1 October 2011
The Tevaz saga continues....
The media are having a field day with this but the tabloids can't resist a bit of mischief making. The story featured this morning is that Mancini's own son, Fillipo, also refused to come on as substitute. This must be extremely embarrassing for Mancini senior. However, I can't help but feel sorry for him regarding this insipid piece from the Daily Mrror (mistake is deliberate as not sure if I can be done for libel).
The incident with Fillipo Mancini occurred six weeks ago in a match in Hyde for Man City reserves against Liverpool reserves. 20 year old Fillipo doesn't actually have a contract with Man City and was only involved as part of a pre-season warm up to aid his fitness. He played in the Italian fourth tier last season and the only association with Man City is that his father is the head coach. He was due to be brought on after 80 minutes and he refused. Considering this was a match to improve his fitness and would have zero benefit to Man City it is hardly relevant to the Tevez saga. The only objective is to weaken Mancini's position. Maybe as Richard Keys famously said, "There are some dark forces at work".
This kind of so-called journalism really annoys me as people will only read the headlines and the tabloids prey on this. Their mind is made up and the whole thing becomes a PR disaster for the innocent party. Enough moaning, it's the beginning of a great football weekend. Check back here for my views on what promises to be another very exciting program with the Merseyside and North London derbies the pick of the bunch.
The incident with Fillipo Mancini occurred six weeks ago in a match in Hyde for Man City reserves against Liverpool reserves. 20 year old Fillipo doesn't actually have a contract with Man City and was only involved as part of a pre-season warm up to aid his fitness. He played in the Italian fourth tier last season and the only association with Man City is that his father is the head coach. He was due to be brought on after 80 minutes and he refused. Considering this was a match to improve his fitness and would have zero benefit to Man City it is hardly relevant to the Tevez saga. The only objective is to weaken Mancini's position. Maybe as Richard Keys famously said, "There are some dark forces at work".
This kind of so-called journalism really annoys me as people will only read the headlines and the tabloids prey on this. Their mind is made up and the whole thing becomes a PR disaster for the innocent party. Enough moaning, it's the beginning of a great football weekend. Check back here for my views on what promises to be another very exciting program with the Merseyside and North London derbies the pick of the bunch.
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