Savage Henry

The new Belle and Sebastian single on 6 Music. Sounds awfully like "In the Country" by Cliff Richard, if you ask me.

I'm trying to sort out my computer (can't be arsed, will leave it until the morning) and the tv is on in the room. I am currently listening to Nic Cage doing a truely appalling Italian accent in Captain Corelli's Mandolin. I hated the book, and I'm going to look out my Leaving Las Vegas DVD to remind myself that Nic Cage could actually once act. In other news, Dashboard Confessional suck. But not as much as the Stereophonics.

That is good radio.

I believe they are an Australian band.

I thought the first Oasis album was called Definitely Maybe, and I couldn't tell you about the Libertines (apart from the fact that the singer has serious problems). But as to Neil Young, his best acoustic stuff is either Harvest (most accessible) or After The Goldrush (my personal favourite). Rust Never Sleeps has an accoustic half and a stunning electric second part, I'd also give a mention to Freedom, a mid 80s classic when most of his contemporaries were churning out rubbish, and On The Beach, Zuma and Tonight's The Night (his so-called doom trilogy) but they are pretty heavy going.

Anyone know anything about the following acts, all of who's albums turned up in my 6 Music prize package: Nitin Sawhney The Bellrays Dashboard Confessional I must confess all three have passed me by, and I wish that the Stereophonics had passed me by. That might have to go down the charity shop...

You're right of course, I should have said my personal favourite. But I do think the lyrics are particularly abstract on that track.

Music a go-go round my house. REM, Find the River, the final (and best) track on Automatic for the People.

A review of the new Edward (Nighthawks) Hopper restrospective at the Tate Modern on Radio 3...

I've just won a big bundle of CDs on a competition on 6 music, I'll be well cheesed off if I have won a Coldplay album...

He is a bit of a fud though. On jools Holland he came across really petulent and childish, but at the same time he played There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, so I can't complain. As for Nick Drake being in the top forty, that's one of the best things that's ever happened. I wonder how it'll go down with the kids on the Radio One chart show?

Mogwai on six music. Weird but strangely beautiful. Like a Hayao Miyazaki anime.

Sir, I applaud that.

It's an NL game: St Louis Cardinals versus the Chicago Cubs I think, which will be a good match-up.

Andy Kershaw's show on Radio 3... which should just about take me up to time for baseball.

Just finished watching a Japanese animation called Spirited Away on DVD, now I'm digging REM's Automatic For The People, which is slightly better than I thought.

I think it may be on again tonight... but don't quote me on that. It might be the Nick Drake one.

Just watched a pointless documentary about Nick Drake followed by an excellent one about Jeff Buckley on BBC4. To be followed by Rosanne Cash and Steve Earle at th cambridge Folk Festival.

Okay... very.

Big Iron by Johnny Cash, and I do not have the words to describe how moving it is.

Waiting Around To Die by Townes Van Zandt. Which will be followed by Give My Love to Rose by Johnny Cash. Party on, dudes.

Late junction on radio 3. It is absolutely nuts.

David Byrne's been on my stereo for two days running now and I'm still not tired of it...

David Byrne - Grown Backwards complete with covers of Lambchop and Verdi... just stunning, as per usual from Dumbarton's finest.

I'm watching the mighty (and Scotland's very own) David Byrne on Jools Holland, and he's in concert on bbc4 later...