2007 - a year for promising tunes!!

2006 was a pretty depressing year artistically. no really mindblowing films, no great new works of literature and, sadly, not a good deal of music to get excited about.

2007 looks a good deal more promising, musically at least!!

my signed (!!) copy of Brett Anderson's debut solo single, Love Is Dead, arrived recently. and i am delighted that it has. a different approach from the "pop trash" days of Suede, both musically and vocally. Brett takes on a different tone here - i mean, you know it's him, but he sounds here unlike a conventional Suede track, except maybe The Chemistry Between Us. a great song - no idea how the charts in the UK work these days with all this download business and what not, but i hope it is a success for the lad. i am looking forward to the solo album, entitled Brett Anderson for good measure.

in the mean time, if you see them, why not purchase one or both of the CD singles, or just the tracks online, if you live in a country where iTunes sells tracks? for some reason they won't sell to us here in SA!!



the Manic Street Preachers return to the airwaves in 2007, after the two solo ventures in 2006. James Dean Bradfield & Nicky Wire's respective solo efforts were probably just about the best things on offer last year, but it is nice to see them back as a band.

their new album, Send Away The Tigers, is due in May, if i am not mistaken. it seems that they have reverted to the era of The Holy Bible for image and style, as we have the reverse "R" being used again. i hope this is not an indication of them being lazy with this record!

thus far i have only heard one track of this album, The Underdogs, which if you click on the name of you should be transported to their own interweb net thingie on which you can download it for free. i am undecided on the basis of this track, really. it sounds like a "throwaway" song at the moment, something which would be a 4th track on the 3rd single released. their stuff does tend to grow rather than instantly hit you, mind. i think it was only ever 1985 from them that instantly grabbed me, for somewhat sentimental reasons.

if these two developments were not enough, there is of course the small matter of IAN BROWN due to release new material very soon. the last i heard, right, his album was going to be called THE WORLD IS YOURS or something like that, and he was busy trying to get Paul McCartney to guest on it!

now, if Primal Scream and Derek Bowie could be persuaded to release something this year too, that would be most class indeed!!


be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!