Sun 11 May – Soisong, CoH

Well, I did promise an actual review, but I'll have to just ramble a bit. No time for a proper review :-)

I liked it a lot.

The CoH solo show was interesting. Started of very mellow, with all sorts of wicked sounds. Ended up as a wall of noise and bass which sounded awesome in that small techno club they were playing at.

Soisong played just over 1 hour. It started up a bit strange, low volume droney things with Sleazy twisting and turning some electronic gizmo. Both Ivan and Peter were clearly…

Tue 26 Jun – Isis, Logh

Now there was a pleasant surprise, what a fantastic live band! I've only listened to them for a few months, but I was blown away last night.

Only ont thing to say, go see them if you can!

N 'I wonder what's the name of the first encore…' HTP

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently

81/100

The 81 related artists for my profile are :wumpscut:, A Perfect Circle, Air (2), Alice in Chains, Antonio Vivaldi, Aphex Twin, Audioslave, Autechre, Ayreon, Beck (3), Bloc…

So, finally the wait is over! Being such a big fan of Coil, I have looked forward to 'The Threshold HouseBoys Choir', the new album made by Peter Christopherson. I ordered from the always excellent shop at www.thresholdhouse.com, and it arrived a few days ago. And as can be seen on my last.fm profile, I have hardly listened to anything else since!

From reading the comments by Peter on the CD, it is clear that he wants to look forward both in sound and thought. The most prominent manifestation of this is the complete absence of human…

Just imagine. So much time spend on the net, and only now do I discover last.fm!