http://terriblelovesongs.blogspot.comLast Thursday I received a phone call telling me I had won a competition. The prize was having Jacob Golden perform an acoustic set in our living room!My husband and I decided to make a bit of a party out of it and invited as many friends over as we could muster at short notice. On Friday I re-arranged the living room a couple of times (Is your lounge alwa...
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Yesterday evening (03/06/08) my husband and I paid a visit to The Troubadour Club in Earls Court, London to see Jacob Golden perform his final gig of the UK leg of his tour. After the ridiculously slow service in the restaurant section(¾ hour to get some hummus and pita bread and cheese on toast- surely that’s one of the easiest requests off the menu –Gordon Ramsey?!),we moved downstairs to
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*Jacob Golden* is a mellow breeze in music winding from *LA*. A breeze wrapping us gently all around hand in hand with the biting lyrics- as large as life. A musical vision who rathers natural acoustics of underground car parks and a subterranean concrete art gallery to recording in studios at times. Jacob Golden: “I love the idea of making modern field recordings.”This is a progressive addict
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This is a very underrated singer-songwriter from Sacramento in the States.I picked up this record when I was in New York last March.I had it a couple of years ago but lost it when moving out somewhere along the line.I remember when I first bought it and loved the delicate and uplifting vocals, it came out in the UK around the same time as The Flaming Lips 'Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots'. Unli...
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OK, so I’m terrible at keeping up a blog of any sort, but I’ll give it a shot. This may be my one and only entry if history repeats. Today I stumbled across the best little indie record shop not far from my home, appropriately named Offbeat Music. I’ve been living in this city for almost 9 years, how have I not ever noticed this place before? Have I been living under a rock? More like in the
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...I thought I'd add something to match the beautiful artwork...
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I never said that I had any answers, I never claimed to be the better man, I've got no Integrity to cling to, I don't have myself a backup plan. For twenty some odd years I've made a mess of things, I've lost most of the friendships that I've made, I've burned a lot of bridges and it hurts me still to say- but I never intended it that way. I never meant to make you want to punch me out that nig...
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