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Brogues

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About Me

Cute popsongs make me smile and doing keepie uppie is my simplest pleasure. I have a big (Freddo) frog habit.

My Interests

Watching Association Football and playing 5-a-side

Music:

The Pastels, The Clientele, The Eyes, Vashti Bunyan, Boyracer, Bettye Swann, Northern Soul, Nuggest/Pebbles garagepsych, Afrirampo, Tape, The Legends, Sarah Records, Egg Records, Chuck and Mary Perrin, 60s girl groups, 14 Iced Bears, The Tall Boy, The Telescopes, The Yummy Fur, Broadcast, Zouzou, Laura Cantrell, Swell Maps, The Young Tradition, The Concretes, Lung Leg, Dymaxion, Lali Puna, Fennesz, Flying Saucer Attack, Jesse Garon and the Desperadoes, The Shop Assistants, Colleen, Sandy Posey, Lesley Gore, Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd, Thomas and Richard Frost/Powder, Slumberland Records, Empress, The Relict, Gas, Geographic Records, Love Is All, cause-coMotion, The MAKE-UP, and a million and one other great artistes!

Movies:

Running On Empty, Ghost World, Show Me Love, Together, Lilya-4-ever, Rear Window, Pillow Talk

Television:

Bodies, Early Doors, Cagney and Lacey

Books:

William Trevor "After Rain", James Joyce "The Dubliners"

Heroes:

Victor Vasarely, Bridget Riley, Stephen Pastel, Davie Cooper and R.E.M.

My Blog

Awards season (Burial)

I completed my Indiepoplist Poll submission for 2007 earlier and was feeling pretty chuffed with my selections, secure in the knowledge that they'd successfully reflected my year. ...
Posted by Brogues on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:55:00 PST

The Foxy Boxer Rebellion

It was so nice of Bearsuit to smile as they (foxy) boxed my ears into submission at Glasgow's Stereo last night!  Their ambitious (foolhardy?) bid to play Scotland's 2 bi...
Posted by Brogues on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:36:00 PST

A nice coincidence! (Lois Maffeo)

Mere seconds after mentioning Lois (Maffeo) in my last posting, I receive an indiepoplist digest in which Mike Appelstein does the public spirited thing and shares the following good ne...
Posted by Brogues on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:45:00 PST

Versus versus The Rest

The only upside of crawling along the M8 at approximately 3.15 miles per hour tonight due to a breakdown and multiple shunts was that it gave me plenty of time and space to properly reacquaint myself ...
Posted by Brogues on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:37:00 PST

Joni, Joni!

Such a simple refrain but it's been bouncing around my head all weekend and it's taken all the restraint I can muster to tame my lips and stop myself from bursting into song in quiet offices and...
Posted by Brogues on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:12:00 PST

A new and slightly uncomfortable sensation.

It feels odd to say this, but the new Bruce Springsteen single sounds remarkably listenable and infinitely preferrable to most of the stuff I've heard on the radio of late.  Do I have to sur...
Posted by Brogues on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:51:00 PST

Damaging the hairs on my cochlea in the pursuit of thrills

The Wedding Present @ QMU, Glasgow University   A veritable army of aging, paunchy blokes (and that includes me before you accuse me of any Trinny and Susannah type cattiness!) took a night off f...
Posted by Brogues on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:17:00 PST

My karaoke debut

On my final night in Tokyo J and I escaped the downpour by ducking into one of the myriad karaoke parlours of Shibuya.  Here's what was sung: Bis 'Kandy Pop' The Velvet Underground 'Sunday Morni...
Posted by Brogues on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:12:00 PST

Can’t complain, mustn’t grumble...

...because I've helped myself to some tunes from Apple Crumble!  When I said I was coming to Japan a bunch of people advised me to head for Shibuya and to pay a visit to Apple Crumble Records whi...
Posted by Brogues on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:29:00 PST

Japanese TV & Theatre

Japanese television really is a treat at times.  Just watched a seriously disturbing and demented samurai horror flick from 1960.  People kept transmuting from human form to seriously m...
Posted by Brogues on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:58:00 PST