What I like about having such eclectic taste in music is the fact that one day I can find myself  justifying the merits of melodic death metal and the next I’m gushing with praise for a tasty drum and bass track. I have to say, I haven’t heard anything as tasty as Fracture’s Astrophonica remix of Lately featuring the sweet soulful voice of Ella Jones in a long time and when I say long I’m thinking 1990′s Roni Size long but as luck would have it you can pick it up from today from Texan label Warm Communications.

Lately is one of those D & B tracks you can just hear blasting out on a warm summer day; sun shining, ice cold beverage of choice in your hand, perhaps even the smell of a barbecue tickling your nostrils, unless of course you are in the UK in which case you may have to make do with the pitter patter of rain!  What I especially like about the track is it’s also something you can stick on when you arrive home, bleary eyed at 6am, perhaps after that summer’s barbecue and just unwind to, some might even say it’s perfect for snuggling up to!? continue reading…

Now, if there is one thing I don’t really understand and there are plenty of things that fall into that category, but for the purpose of this post it’s the musical genres and sub-genres that get bandied about. They pretty much remind me of the ridiculous variations on coffee, but that’s a topic for another post altogether.

Now, I like a bit of metal however it’s no longer enough to refer to it as metal or even heavy metal. Now it is all about things like symphonic metal, black metal, thrash metal, death metal, nu-metal, old skool metal and one that always makes me smile when I see it written down, Melodic Death Metal. I dunno, it just sounds so oxymoronic, or at least it does to me but I have to admit that until recently I hadn’t even bothered seeking anything out to hear what it was like. continue reading…

Well, it’s been all systems go at Omneo Towers since the last update which was way back in January. Why is it that even though we know time is measured in a relatively fixed fashion, some days/weeks seem to last much longer (or shorter) than others?

For those eager to know if I managed to submit my Self Assessment form to HMRC without incurring a fine, the answer is yes! 3 days before the official deadline, which was subsequently extended due to industrial action somewhere or other.

I won’t try and remember everything that has happened between the last update and this one. There’s been a lot of stuff happen but obviously I haven’t thought any of it worthy of blogging. Well, that’s an untruth. I have thought about blogging plenty of times but I just haven’t been all that motivated to sit down at the computer and hammer out a few hundred words. Suffice it to say you will live comfortably not knowing what’s been going on in my world.
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Hello and Happy New Year to you, regardless of when you read this!

As you’ll see there’s been another long gap between the last post and this one. All very hectic round here at Omneo Towers.  The holiday period passed without a hitch i.e. no injuries sustained whilst socialising and plenty of rest was had, which is why no blogging was done, very little tweeting either truth be told! continue reading…

I know what some of you must be thinking. Where’s the update on what’s happening in Manchester? For those new to the blog, I fairly regularly have a post on what is happening music wise in Manchester (and occasionally beyond) mainly down to the diligent work of James over at Example Magazine who keeps me up to date with releases.

The problem is there is so much happening and I’m such a lazy sod most of the time that by the time I’ve sat myself down to update the blog it’s old news.

In an effort to get myself up-to-date I’ll cut back on my waffle and just let you know about what tracks are available either right now or in the very near future. If you like what you hear be sure to follow the them on Twitter and Facebook as you’ll find out whenever they have gigs lined up elsewhere. I guess in ye olden dayes they’d have had all that on their MySpace but is anyone other than Tom still using it? continue reading…