New Album out soon too “In Nothing We Trust” can’t wait to see them again in September in lovely sunny Southsea.
The tracklisting for the album is as follows:
Cities On Fire We’re All Going Home In An Ambulance Suffocation of The Soul Deadly Lethal Ninja Assassin An Act Of Kindness Crushed Under The Weight Of The Enormous Bullshit Good Luck Agony/Agatha Three Hail Marys Blood, Bunny, Larkhall A Short History Of Nearly Everything
Booked tickets to a gig in my home town of Southsea for a friend of mines birthday present, headlining were Biffy Clyro the support act were the main attraction for us YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO and they seriously went for it that evening putting on one of the most kick arse sets I’ve ever seen.
The find of the month though was Frank Turner who opened the night, given he was the 2nd support act to pretty hardcore Biffy Clyro fans he held the well packed venue and gave a bloody good solo acoustic performance.
His d�but solo Album “Sleep is for the Week” is firmly secured in my car stereo and Laptop play list, and has a great folk sound without the weirdy beardy sandles. His dry humour and commentary of life make this a must buy album and one to recommend to those folks who have the misfortune to be stuck in my car with me singing at the top of rather flat voice.
The Lyrics of the first track “Real Damage” particularly appeal to this old drunk.
The Real Damage (excerpt) I woke up on a sofa in an unfamiliar house, Surrounded by sleeping folks that I didn�t know. On failing to find my friends, I decided that it was clearly time to go. So I made my way out of the door as quietly as I could � There was no one there I knew to say goodbye � Squinting in the sadly sobering sunshine of the Sunday morning light.
I started the night with all my friends and I ended up alone, Oh yes I started out so happy now I�m hung-over and down. It was about then that I realized I was half-way through The best years of my life.
Update: Found the Video for “The Real Damage” on YouTube
I’d count the hours between drinks, then in sobriety I started counting the days since my sobriety date. I never thought I’d last 30 days in rehab, then I never thought I’d last the first week out of rehab, but a day at a time and a meeting every day I did. My little Sobriety Calculator now puts me just over the 2750 day mark, a day at a time. I only comment this minor personal milestone as I would never have thought it would have been possible and I’m grateful I got to see the second half of my twenties and am rapidly progressing through the first few years of my 30’s. (Does time get quicker the older you get?) None of it would have been possible without the love I have and continue to be shown in the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Having searched around for a decent free web based media server to stream my music to my laptop I stumbled across Jinzora It has a natty web-front-end to my music collection, manages the collection via id3 tags and will even pull down images of the artists, artist bio’s and even lyrics. The playlists can either be saved as .m3u and played via your local music player (winamp worked for me) and streamed from the server, also a the free XSPF flash player can be used to keep it all in your browser.
Unfortunately the webapps-experimental gentoo overlay is a little out of date so had to cobble together my own ebuild that seems to work ok for my server.
If you’ve got a big old music collection and want to stream it from a website or home server I’d certainly recommend taking a look at the Jinzora demo I tested it on a linux LAMP setup but it should work on windows IIS or Apache too.
Should be mostly transparent to the presentation of the site but makes using wordpress as a CMS rather easier. All the plugins I use are still working too, which is a bonus.
Fabulous job by the WP team who produce this rather excellent free software.
