Welcome to my new blog

It is all about music.

Hopefully, more good music than bad. To that end, I will be posting reviews of albums and live shows and commenting on the latest music news and industry trends. For the past year I have been writing reviews for the newspaper I work on at university - York Vision - and will be uploading a few of them to the site later.

Just to give an idea of where this blog may be heading musically, some interests to declare: I grew up reading NME, though our paths have diverged of late (that was proven by their inclusion of Lady Gaga and Dizzee Rascal in the 2009 top 50 tracks list). My favourite band of all time is the Strokes. In the noughties, Bloc Party, the Libertines and Arctic Monkey also rank highly, along with Maximo Park, The Coral, Radiohead and Arcade Fire. Prior to that, Oasis and Blur reigned supreme in my young eyes, though I later found out how the Beatles and Stones will never be equalled.

I took pride in my album collection until iTunes came along and will probably end up succumbing (finally) to the evil advertry of Spotify in the new year. Whenever I am not being mocked for owning an iPod shuffle I am listening to music on it and the first band I saw live was The Futureheads. The most recent was Julian Casablancas, last week. The chances are slim, but if you like the sound of all that and are still reading, this blog may be for you. Stay tuned.

PS. In the meantime, listen to this. It goes against everything I have just written. But it's great.