Race: Out

So, that’s it.  It’s all over.  After three pretty flippin’ difficult weeks, I’m once again able to listen to music of my own accord. What surprises me is that I am actually glad I did this experiment.  I was hoping that by giving up listening to music in the background I’d be more inclined to [...]

It’s only natural

Between this post and my last, I walked from home into university.  And, for the first time in three weeks, that journey was made with earphones in.  And oddly, I didn’t enjoy it as much as I was expecting.  Seeing as I’ve lived for nearly a month without my mp3 player, I’d got used to [...]

Deep impact

The biggest question facing me when I woke up this morning – what to listen to first?  ¡Forward, Russia! ran out winners in a lucky dip between the four new CDs I’d bought this week, so on the stereo they went.  Initially, I’d planned on posting while I was listening, but then decided against it.  [...]

They think it’s all over…

As of about 3 hours ago, I was (officially?) allowed to listen to music again.  How did I celebrate?  Well, like any good student, I went down to my stident union, where there were different DJs in each of the two rooms.  And to be honest, if what they were playing was music, I don’t [...]

The home straight

So, tomorrow spells the end of this experiment and, to be honest, it’s getting more than a bit unbearable.  So, I’ve started to make a list of all the music I want to listen to when all this is over.  As well as the two new releases from ¡Forward, Russia! and Nine Inch Nails I [...]

Out and about while my guitar gently weeps…

I’ve just got home from an open mic night.  Don’t worry, there wasn’t a lot of music being played, and what music there was was barely louder than a whisper, thanks to the combination of quiet musicians, a large room and a crowd of noisy drunk people.   But even though there was very, very little [...]

CDs sell, and everyone’s buying

Saturday night’s Amazon binge is beginning to show results. First through the letterbox this morning – the new ¡Forward, Russia! album, Life Processes. A record I’ve been keeping an eye on for a while, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, because I like what I’ve heard from ¡Forward, Russia! in the past, and secondly, because [...]

A hollow victory

Earlier on today I finished all my radio work for the year.  Hooray!  Time for some celebratory music… I wish.  There are so many songs I could listen to at the moment, and I even feel like I could sit out in the garden, pint in hand, doing nothing but listening to some good ol’ [...]

Broken

So, I gave in.  I can’t say why exactly, and I don’t think there was any one reason, just a build-up of something caused by not listening to music.  The strange thing is, even though I was only listening to one song, it somehow felt wrong, like I was doing something that I should be [...]

Oh dear…

After posting last night, I had a moment of madness.  I don’t know why, but I decided to torture myself by looking at CDs on Amazon.  And then buying some.  And then realising that I won’t be able to listen to them for another week. Bollocks.