A Zadie Smith lecture recommended in David Hepworth's blog. Prior to that, Plant + Krauss' Raising Sand and Jocelyn Pook's soundtrack to Brick Lane, both on Spotify.
Now do excuse me, I really must get on and do the ironing.

doing the mighty 2's "Running To Stand Still" from the War Child album. Even better than I thought it was going to be.

.....since all that horrible snow has now gone. It leaves a bloody mess, doesn't it.

It's a little Zen I have and I wipe it every time I finish with it, so this morning I put Bob Dylans "Modern Times" and Steve Forberts "Loose Change" on it. I was able to listen to both albums twice in their entirety and the battery died just as I came in for a late lunch.

I'll get another couple of hours in this afternoon before it gets dark and I'll replace Dylan and Forbert with....well, I don't know yet.....

EDIT -

Ok I've made up my mind.....a couple of ladies for the afternoon...Imelda May's "Love Tattoo" and Kathleen Edwards "Asking For Flowers".

the Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu song Wiyathul off the current Word cd. Absolutely mindblowingly beautiful. Suffice to say the cd is on order from Amazon.

Loading itunes with my cd's, but was also nipping through to watch the tennis, but listening to Gladys Knight & her Pips. But agree about GGY off Word CD. Superb.

and I'm hoping that my feet warm up quickly.

Listening to Gay Byrne while doing the invoices

At this moment 'Midnight Jam' by Joe Syrummer. Got itunes on shuffle, as always.

I've recently taken to using Spotify to check out a load of music I wouldn't usually touch with a long, dirty stick.

Currently giving Indelibly Stamped by Supertramp a spin. It's rather good for a lazy Sunday afternoon (don't think I'll be rushing out to buy it though).

For Syrummer, read Strummer, but you knew that.

.....and I've been listening to their valentine and anti-valentine choices. I will be selecting Bettye Swann and The Cake Sale from e-music next month having discovered their worth. Also some Frank and Nat, Sinatra and Cole, "King", respectively.

Preparing tonight's tea to Radio 4's Classic Serial 'Scoop'. Very good version so far.

Then listening to the podcast of Mark Kermode's film reviews.

is bloody marvellous especially the song Luddite. Infectious and makes me want to dance. Other than that The Gretchen Peters and Tom Russell cd and a live Hooters cd that a friend in the USA gave me. Just waiting for M.Ward and Beirut to plop through the letterbox, hopefully tomorrow.

Although those Fleet Foxes are playing again....

I recorded a radio programme "Bruce Springsteen on Songwriting" which I have converted to MP3 and as I type am loading it onto my iPod to listen to on the train in the morning. Later I'm off to do a little pub gig.

"only by the night" on Spotify. "crawl" is my favourite so far.

...but before that I just listened to "Fur And Gold" while pondering getting a ticket to see Bat For Lashes in Birmingham in April.

Having School Of Seven Bells in support might've just tipped that to a "Yes" I think.

(is that the right word?) of Beirut's 'March of the Zapotec' on Amazon and waiting for the actual CDs to hit the letterbox tomorrow.

Pottering between a range of onomatopoeia on Hube's "The Chain" - Boom Boom by John Lee Hooker to Boom Boom Mancini by Warren Zevon, etc, and catching up on some David Axelrod, also via Spotify. And "Raising Sand" which I liked on first listen but somehow never made the time to catch up with again. The old boy sings well, eh ?

A recording of Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte with Georg Solti, Renee Fleming et al, before that the third disc from the splendid John Martyn box set.

Where the God-botherers in question have blatantly ripped off well known tunes and inserted clumsy words of worship. For example :

# "The bells are ring-ing for me and my girl" #

turns into:

# I'm spending time now, just me and my God"

I have heard others where Bowie, Beatles and The Fall* have been hijacked and put through the mincer. I bet they don't pay royalties either.

*OK that's a lie.

...Teddy´s new album, A Little Piece of What You Need, and jolly good it is too.

from yesterday - normally it would be Adam and Joe, but I managed to listen to them live this weekend.

album, Chemicrazy. Been about 15 years since I heard it, and thanks to spotify it's streaming beautifully. Half term- just what spotify was made for.