Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Tevez spits the dummy out

Pretty unedifying as it's hard to believe either side in all this tactical manouevering, i definitely don't believe United. Either we can't pay his wages or Fergie thinks after this season he is going to play Welbeck more, maybe even Campbell if he is not sold in the summer and we that can do without Tevez.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/manchester_united/article5454844.ece

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/4127663/Carlos-Tevez-risks-Sir-Alex-Fergusons-wrath-as-Manchester-United-contract-talks-stall.html

Henry Winter on the rumurs Abramovitch wants out at the bridge,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/chelsea/4127713/Is-Roman-Abramovich-tiring-of-Chelsea.html

The atheist bus campaign
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/06/religion-atheism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/06/atheism-religion-bus-dawkins

Music
Bloc Party - Intimacy: Pretty good, it starts off more experimental techno than indie, which is no bad thing the first two tracks are pretty good. And then slips between their sound of old and more of the loud industrial techno sound.
Davy Graham - The guitar player: the late guitarist's debut album and a blinder. The mix of styles never seems to end, folk, blues, jazz, classical, flamenco, it seems never ending. The guitar playing is absolutely brilliant and you can hear some of the guitarists he must have influenced including one of my favourites Jimmy Page.
Dengen - 4: Another cracking album from the Swedish oufit. I have no idea how you categorise this, some tracks feel like Jimi Hendrix revisited others spaced out psychedelia with a jazzy influence.
Femi Kuti - Shoki shoki : Some excellent afro beat from the eldest son of the giant of the genre Feli. there is some great saxophone on the track Look around
Neu - Neu 2: Following from their debut Neu went further out there, from what i have been reading from this album. I can't believe it's as good as it is after finding out that they ran out of money half way through and so just experimented and re-edited the same tracks including playing some of it backwards. If you like krautrock it's a must have.
Ryan Adams and the cardinals - Cardinology: Another reasonable effort from Adams, good though never getting near to very good. There aren't many better at the country rock sound that he goes in for though.
The hold steady - Stay positive: Any song that seems to try to get as many Led Zeppelin song titles as it can in can't be that bad, and bad this aint. Some think that these are the best rock group in the States at the moment, well they are pretty good but i don't think this album makes that point. There some crackers on it though, Stay positive is great and the last couple of songs are brilliant. I have heard them being compared to Springsteen in some articles on them and though i could hear it in a couple of tracks overall i don't really get that comaprison

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