Having just re-emerged from the most creatively-barren couple of months imaginable, like Blur, I now see fit to return to the fold. Many ideas are currently in bloom, including over the coming days a singles-of-the-year rundown (have sampled many many artists this year, rather than losing myself in long-players, in a trend somewhat symptomatic of our times) and many other things I haven't quite thought of yet. Blogger may only be a temporary home for 'Piss Holes In The Snow', considering it's limited, generic visual possibilities amongst a few other things, but for the time being I'm quite excited about posting a couple of strong features a week, and when a new home is found, transferring the best bits of previous work onto there. Sickeningly, I only managed 3 singles round-ups before succumbing to the afore-mentioned writer's block, but they'll definitely be back very soon (post-Xmas, when people start releasing things).
Of course, I'll be dipping my toes into non-musical waters as and when I deem it appropriate, hopefully with some regularity, and would aim to get my reviews and features to a publishable level in due course.
So, as I mentioned in passing, Blur announced their reformation this week, which surely puts both the irrelevance and inferiority stamps onto the careers of a certain quintet from Leeds. 'Everything Is Average Nowadays'? You're about to made completely surplus. I can't be the first person to describe this as indie's equivalent of the Take That resurgence. I always said the 90's eclipsed this sorry decade.
So to celebrate, I'll leave you with a clip of Blur performing one of my favourite compositions.
'The Universal (Live MTV Europe Awards 1995'
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