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Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene Live at The Albert Hall

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

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On Sunday Kurt and I went to see Jean Michel Jarre at The Albert Hall. He was for the first time ever playing Oxygene - his first album released in 1976 - live in its entirety. We had top-dollar seats that gave us a very good view of the antiques that he was going to be [...]

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Philip Glass - Music in 12 parts

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

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Hard work. Kurt and I attempted so see the entire piece last night at the Barbican. We managed the first half which was 1.5 hours and whilst being in awe of complexity and the sheer effort being used to manually repeat the same chord for 45 minutes without a break by half time we could face [...]

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iTunes 7 and a slight screw up

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

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Apple launched loads of new stuff today: Something about smallest ipod Somthing about bigger ipods Something about the medium ipods being bigger, but smaller and lasting longer New iTunes, does some new stuff Whilst I was waiting for iTunes 7 to “Determine Gapless Palyback Information” over my 75Gb of music I had a very brief click around their propoganda. For [...]

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Massive Attack - Blue Lines

Thursday, May 25, 2006

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Upon finding out that a colleague at work had not heard it, this album is, to quote my lovely wife Cathie: The Greatest Album Ever Ever Ever Recorded and to think there are people in the world who have never heard it is v. sad She has a point.

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iTunes feedback, or not

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

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I started updating my iPod tonight with newly created playlists based upon the types of music that I actually listen to. When I first got the iPod a lot of the music that I *thought* I’d want to listen to got added to the one single synced playlist. What I rapidly realised is that I [...]

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