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Thoughts about music and the world in general, which may offer an insight into our creative process, or not. Subscribe to the RSS feed for updates.
Get out of my Facebook
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
I love the idea of Islamic radicals posting bulletins on Facebook. ‘What are you doing now? I am planning a Jihadist terror campaign.’ ‘Hasib Hussain and Mohammad Sidique Khan are now friends.’ ‘You have been poked by Shehzad Tanweer.’ Etc.
In praise of bedroom eccentrics
Sunday, March 23, 2008
A few months ago I became MySpace friends with an electropop trio who make music with Hoovers…
Pop vs art (victor not yet decided)
Friday, February 15, 2008
The Pet Shop Boys once released a best-of compilation called PopArt. The songs were divided into two categories on two separate CDs, called Pop and Art. The division never made a lot of sense to me…
Long song titles, Daniel Day Lewis, the Scottish cringe
Sunday, January 13, 2008
If you like, you can pretend that the following are extracts of longer, individual blogs. Or blog demos, fragments of blogs that could have been smash hits if only they’d been completed and properly produced. Or trailers for imaginary blogs, the way David Holmes used to write soundtracks for imaginary films....
Our bid to conquer MTV
Friday, November 23, 2007
We have made a pop video. I am very excited about this…
‘You’ve got to get your hands dirty’
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
An unedited version of a recent online chat between Swimmer One and the Skinny, a Scottish music magazine…
No, you can’t have our music for free
Friday, October 26, 2007
Listening to people bang on endlessly about the new Radiohead album, I keep thinking of what Neil Tennant once said about U2’s ‘fantastic marketing’…
What the second Swimmer One album will sound like
Saturday, October 20, 2007
As I write this I am lounging by the swimming pool in my Glasgow rock star mansion, eating sushi and listening to a CD of 15 half-finished songs, about ten of which will probably make it on to the second Swimmer One album…
Titanic VS Dawn of the Dead
Monday, September 17, 2007
I realised the other day that I love Dawn of the Dead and Titanic for much the same reason. This is not a joke.
Temporary holiday from real world
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
I’ve been slightly distracted from the album release lately, having been at the Edinburgh festival pretty much solidly for three weeks. The festival does that to you - it is an enormous bubble, sealed off from the outside world. This is partly because it feels like the whole world is in Edinburgh, so that stepping outside it would feel like stepping into space.
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