...with every ghost of what I knew

....this is a band I barely-discovered years ago when living in Sheffield....somehow their song, Too Too Fast from The Rhumb Line, has survived the filtration of my music archives and recently made it onto a Modern Romance playlist - and it went down an indie treat. Their latest single, Boy, from new album The Orchard (by new I mean August and my finger is slightly off the pulse) has lost none of the energy first produced by this band...i have no idea why they're still so unheard of over here.....

Boy - Ra Ra Riot

and you tell me, you tell me not to cry...

Sea Talk - Zola Jesus

...taken from the new album, Stridulum II, released in August. Zola Jesus...like a mixing cauldron of Kate Bush, Fever Ray and Florence....just finished the second of two UK tours this year and I'm sad to have missed both.

watch these hands pull apart...

Whirring - The Joy Formidable

i can't sleep until i see you sleeping...

I Hope You Die - Wye Oak

new beginnings...

so i've been away from paper street for a little while....but what have i been doing? well...mainly moving house, and i adore my new home...especially my huge shower which (yet to be confirmed) i believe could hold up to 8 people at any one time...musical statues anyone?

also...Modern Romance has been taking up plenty of my time. Andy and I have been working furiously to fill our stage at The CAMP with sweet sweet music...so far we have booked Strangeways (29 April) and Stairs to Korea (27 May)....more to be confirmed very soon! This is very quickly turning into a full time job and it makes me really happy but boy am I exhausted...

creating chaos and uproar wherever she went..

now the parties have finished i shall act like a normal human being for at least a week...

i took my lucky break...and i broke it in two...

...someone nice played this song for my worried self ... i like it a lot...

Worried Shoes - Karen O & The Kids

when the gusts came around to blow me down...

To Build A Home - The Cinematic Orchestra

you'll end up looking at the sky...

all aboard....the dream house!

...today I found out i'm moving into the house I really like....Tabby and Mike are hard to rival but a summerhouse, reading room, en suite....it's a close call (not really, i love you guys, and you can come run laps of my shower whenever you like)

...times are changing and i like fresh starts...

"..here is a bedroom that you've never been in..

here's your shovel, here's the ground..."

- Frightened Rabbit

expect smudges...

i called to say i'm on the way...

...i love this city! Last night...The Roundhouse in Camden hosted not only Phoenix but already-rated, Two Door Cinema Club. The boys from TDCC put on an amazing show, the sound was flawless and despite having a smaller following than i expected the crowd seemed to love what they heard. I was heckling for Cigarettes In The Theatre which they didn't play, and oddly missing was Undercover Martyn, but I Can Talk more than made up for it...and hey, i get to see them again soon anyway when they'll hopefully be given a bigger set time...

...but Phoenix. Ah, beginning the set with Lisztomania...the first half of the song was played from behind a white curtain which dropped to reveal my future husband (ahem) and the crowd went mad. The Roundhouse is one of the best venues to see a band in London in my opinion, even a short-arse like me can always see the stage and get quite close in...even from the sidelines the sound is amazing. Phoenix basically provided a party for the fans, great stage presence....and non-stage presence..when lead singer, Thomas Mars, jumped into the crowd for the encore and crowd-surfed his way back on stage. Highlight for me was Rome but the band made a good move in finishing the set with 1901 which just had the crowd going mad right until the end...

Rome - Phoenix

you're mean and i'm stupid...

who's the boy you like the most?

tomorrow night....meeeep

they're gonna eat me alive...

i've recently rediscovered Metric and i'd forgotten how much I love Emily Haines' voice. I absolutely love this song and it got a play at Modern Romance on Sunday....can't wait to see these guys in May...

Help! I'm Alive - Metric

these are hard times for dreamers...

"one day you'll be someone's everything instead of everyone's something"

-my best friend

it takes an ocean not to break..

...last week The National performed Terrible Love from their upcoming album High Violet which is released on 11 May 2010...i cannot wait. and will sob into a cocktail in Morocco at missing their London shows...

Terrible Love (Live) - The National

coming up only to hold you under..

graaaaaaaatis tickets for Band Of Horses at Koko on April 12th make me very happy indeed...

The Funeral - Band Of Horses

the girl loves tickets...

..the happiest girl alive. Proud owner of tickets to see Broken Social Scene at HMV Forum in Kentish Town in July. I think my heart might explode.

...music gold...

7/4 (Shoreline) - Broken Social Scene

i did not want to let you go...

..boys in blue Vans make my heart skip...

Submarine - The Drums