Få meg på, for faen (2011)

Garfunkel and Garfunkel Simon and Simon

Swedes have always been my favourite Scandinavians for some inexplicable reason but a bit more of this from the Norweigans and I might have to revise my opinion:

Of course, I've been here before with my declared love for Kings of Convenience, but I would have thought after nearly four years my mancrush on Erlend Øye would have melted away just a wee bit.

Quick, throw me my favourite Abba youtube clip before I write something I might regret.

Winning a battle, losing on the away goals rule

Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain (83)

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the 83rd of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

We now have 1436 friends!

Recent blogs:

Racism is bunk

Human behaviour

The weakness of the anti-war movement

Quote for the week:

"Any society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of relationships [and] conditions that the individual actor is forming." Marx, Grundrisse, 1973.

Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

Robert and Piers

Socialist Party of Great Britain

Brattbakk Backpack*

Astralwerks has a wonderful roster of acts.

You can't go wrong with artists and groups as excellent as Craig Armstrong, the Beta Band, Badly Drawn Boy, Beth Orton and Radio 4 but my reason for namechecking Astralwerks in this post is to bring to the attention of as many people as possible the wonderful song (and accompanying video), 'I'd Rather Dance With You' by the Kings of Convenience.

I know the song is over a year old but I only stumbled across it a couple of days ago, and it has been lodged in my brain ever since. The rest of the album, Riot on An Empty Street, isn't too bad either but it does have a tendency to veer into China Crisis** territory occasionally, but more often than not they drag it back in time before the flourescent fingerless gloves get an airing.

*Don't ask.

** The obligatory eighties pop music reference. I'm already well aware of this blog's limitations.