diaTribe » indie http://bandannaclub.com/blogwp The diaTribe blog is our occasional take on life, the universe and everything. Observations on current affairs, the environment, politics, humour and music/gig reviews. Travel diary and extreme sports stories, along with the usual rants/raves are also chucked in for good measure. Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:21:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Flip Grater days http://bandannaclub.com/blogwp/2011/05/01/flip_grater_days/ http://bandannaclub.com/blogwp/2011/05/01/flip_grater_days/#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 08:26:10 +0000 Phil http://bandannaclub.com/blogwp/2011/05/flip_grater_days/ Flip Grater

Photo Credit: Justus Nussbaum (Own work) (CC-BY-SA-3.0), via Wikimedia Commons

Last winter, I wrote a review of Flip Graters' latest album of the time, called: While I'm awake I'm at war. It was a fairly dark and stormy night, all electric flashes and distant rumbles. I had a good fire going, a whisky in my hand and my feet up in a comfortable chair, listening to a few of the album tracks, while the rain fell in squalls on the tin roof. It was bliss!

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Photo Credit: Justus Nussbaum (Own work) (CC-BY-SA-3.0), via Wikimedia Commons

Last winter, I wrote a review of Flip Grater’s latest album of the time, called: While I’m awake I’m at war.

It was a fairly dark and stormy night, all electric flashes and distant rumbles. I had a good fire going, a whiskey in my hand and my feet up in a comfortable chair, listening to a few of the album tracks, while the rain fell in squalls on the tin roof. It was bliss!More ... »]]> http://bandannaclub.com/blogwp/2011/05/01/flip_grater_days/feed/ 0 Flip Grater: Poetry in Music http://bandannaclub.com/blogwp/2010/07/22/flip_grater_poetry_in_music/ http://bandannaclub.com/blogwp/2010/07/22/flip_grater_poetry_in_music/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:51:50 +0000 Phil http://bandannaclub.com/blogwp/2010/07/flip_grater_poetry_in_music/ Television in New Zealand can be largely summed up in 4 words: seven channels of shite.

It's full to the brim with loud, brash, unfunny American and Australian crap, interspersed with even louder and brasher ads for half-price sales at Harvey the Rabbit or some such, about every 10 minutes. It's basically a noise factory that in a very short period of time leaves the viewer numbed to the seemingly endless flow of static it spouts.

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Television in New Zealand can be largely summed up in 4 words: seven channels of shite.

It’s full to the brim with loud, brash, unfunny American and Australian crap, interspersed with even louder and brasher ads for half-price sales at Harvey the Rabbit or some such, about every 10 minutes. It’s basically a noise factory that in a very short period of time leaves the viewer numbed to the seemingly endless flow of static it spouts.

More ... »]]> http://bandannaclub.com/blogwp/2010/07/22/flip_grater_poetry_in_music/feed/ 4 Rave: Wire Daisies “Just Another Day” http://bandannaclub.com/blogwp/2006/02/10/rave_wire_daisies_just_another_day/ http://bandannaclub.com/blogwp/2006/02/10/rave_wire_daisies_just_another_day/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2006 05:52:00 +0000 Phil http://bandannaclub.com/blogwp/2006/02/rave_wire_daisies_just_another_day/ ... more »

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Photo Credit: by Brian Marks CC-BY-2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Having fallen out of touch with much of the UK music scene in the mid 90′s, (during the period I shudderingly refer to as “Clubbing and Remix Hell”) I’m enormously pleased to see the return of a growing number of original new bands emerging in a renaissance of the UK music industry.

Chief among my favourites has to be the Cornwall-based Wire Daisies. Their debut album “Just another Day” is a milestone in Indie music and rightly went straight into the iTunes charts in September 2004 when it was launched.

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