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Ali K

15 days until Glasto...

About Me

MyGen Profile Generator2007 at a glance - what a year!!

Royal Treatment Plant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUpscbA_p78

THIS VIDEO IS BRILLIANT!!!

My Interests

Music festivals, going to gigs, discovering new music, buying music, reading books about music, writing stuff about good music, watching DVDs featuring good music...yes, slightly obsessive.

I'd like to meet:

Nice people everywhere

Music:

Some of the music I like, in no particular order: Nirvana, Foo Fighters, The Clash, Led Zepplin, Queens Of The Stone Age, Radiohead, Two Gallants, Willy Mason, Sufjan Stevens, Ray LaMontagne, Pearl Jam, U2, The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, Cat Power, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Kings Of Leon, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Rage Against The Machine, The Beach Boys, The Beastie Boys, Ben Harper, Green Day, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Metallica, System Of A Down, Pixies, Jeff Buckley, Bob Dylan, Cake, King Creosote, Interpol, Supergrass, Faithless, Run DMC, My Morning Jacket, The Verve, Talking Heads, Wolfmother, Beck, Doves, Pink Floyd, Nouvelle Vague, Franz Ferdinand, The Futureheads, Tom Vek, Kaiser Chiefs, Nine Inch Nails, Black Crowes, The Flaming Lips, The Beta Band, Soulwax, Blur, Nine Black Alps, The Artic Monkeys, The Spinto Band, Mohair, The Shakes, Kashmir, The The, Jimmy Eat World, Death Cab For Cutie, Jolie Holland, Mark Lanegan, AC/DC, Slayer, Minor Threat, Soul Coughing, Razorlight, The Rifles, Tapes n Tapes, At The Drive In, The Ravonettes, Primal Scream, The Go Team, The Plimsouls, REM, Placebo, Audioslave, The Strokes, The Killers, Fall Out Boy, Telepopmusik, Fat Boy Slim, Badly Drawn Boy, Pete Yorn, Modest Mouse, Us3, Archie Bronson Outfit, Hard Fi, Maximo Park, New Radicals, Secret Machines, Panic At The Disco, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Smashing Pumpkins, Reef, Koop, The Stone Roses, The Coral, The Zutons, Pavement, Depeche Mode, TV On The Radio, The Earlies, Eels, Sahara Hotnights, The Sound Track Of Our Lives, I'm A Robot, Massive Attack, Micah P Hinson, Antony and the Johnsons, Neko Case, Joanna Newsom, Bloc Party, Incubus, The Dandy Warhols, The Rapture, The Black Keys, Goose, Cold War Kids, Royal Treatment Plant, Tap Tap, Pete & The Pirates, SixNationState, The Xcerts, the list goes on and on...

Movies:

Dig!, Some Kind Of Monster, Heathers, Crash, Usual Suspects, Trainspotting, Truly Madly Deeply, Garden State

Television:

You know what...I've really gone off TV recently...

Books:

anything by Douglas Coupland, Slaughter House 5, The Dirt, Shakey, anything by Irvine Welsh, Mr Nice, Espedair Street, The Last Party, Stoned, Enduring Love, Wonderland Avenue, Things The Grandchildren Should Know

Heroes:

Joe Strummer

My Blog

HOW TO SURVIVE GLASTONBURY

I could write a book on this subject, quite frankly, but have a read of the mini-version on VirtualFestivals.com: http://www.virtualfestivals.com/latest/features/4944(sorry, you have to cut and paste...
Posted by Ali K on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:57:00 PST

Glasto piece on the BBC!

The BBC picked up my VirtualFestivals.com Glasto survival guide and is currently running it on their Glasto news feed, titled Making The Most Of Glasto: http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2008/Yay yay!...
Posted by Ali K on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:27:00 PST

Wood Festival 16-18 May 2008 - Review

This is a fantastic new eco-friendly festival from the people who give us the Truck festival every year. Check out the review on noizemakesenemies.co.uk here: http://www.noizemakesenemies.co.uk/2008...
Posted by Ali K on Tue, 20 May 2008 06:43:00 PST

Camden Crawl 2008...again

Here's another Camden Crawl review.  This one has pictures taken by me.  Yay!  Check it out HERE  Axx  ...
Posted by Ali K on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:08:00 PST

Camden Crawl 2008 - Highlights

What a great weekend!  Read the festival highlights on Daily Music Guide HERE...
Posted by Ali K on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:34:00 PST

Zombie Zombie - ’A Land For Renegades’

Dark electro from French duo Zombie Zombie...very cool.  Check out the album review on Daily Music Guide HERE Axx...
Posted by Ali K on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:32:00 PST

Unsigned: The Standards @ Water Rats

Check out this unsigned band called The Standards.  Upbeat indie-pop. Live review on music-news.com’s unsigned page: HERE Axx  ...
Posted by Ali K on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:48:00 PST

The Black Keys @ Wiltons Music Hall

I have long been a fan of The Black Keys and no, I didn’t like the last album either.  Fear not though, they’re back to their best based on what I saw this week.  I was lucky eno...
Posted by Ali K on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:05:00 PST

Rogue Wave ’Like I Needed’ single review

If you like The Shins and Death Cab For Cutie, you’ll love this.  Single review here:  noizemakesenemies.co.uk...
Posted by Ali K on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:51:00 PST

Son Of Dave ’Old Times Were Good Times’ single review

I never thought I’d hear chart-friendly blues.  Not entirely convinced, but I’d rather listen to this instead of 90% of the stuff on the chart these days.  Single review here: mu...
Posted by Ali K on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:48:00 PST