Cornershop

It's embarrassing that until last night I'd only heard one song by British indie rock band Cornershop. But that's the beauty of Spotify. I was listening to Nikki Bedi's show on BBC London last night and she played a song from their latest album, Cornershop and the Double 'O' Groove Of. I wanted to listen to the whole album. Three hours later I'd listened to their last three albums and they're absolutely brilliant! What a superb fusion of sounds, right up my alley! I wish I'd discovered them earlier but it's never too late. On an unrelated note, check out Thievery Corporation's latest album (Culture of Fear) which released a few days ago. It's really good.

SPOTIFY LINKS:
Cornershop - Cornershop and the Double 'O' Groove Of
Thievery Corporation - Culture of Fear

Istanbul - Changing Demographics

In the 1930s when the population of this most cosmopolitan of cities used to be between 700-800,000 about 300,000 was made up of Greeks. There was also a significant number of Armenians and Jews. But today there are no more than 20,000 Jews; 50,000 Armenians and less than 3,000 Greeks out of a population between 13 and 16 million. By any measure that is a shockingly disappointing transformation. I'd still love to visit it though.

Spotimy

An essential link to bookmark if you use Spotify. Just check it out and you'll understand. I wish I could just spend the rest of my life listening to music...

From The Guardian:

"The runner is no more, killed off by the International Cricket Council's anti-fun police, so there's no chance of a recurrence of one of the game's greatest ever scenes, which starred, as so many do, Gloucestershire's incorrigible spinner Bryan "Bomber" Wells. A poor judge of a run, he once found himself batting with a runner and a partner who also had need of one. Playing a push into the offside, he called for a single, forgot he had a runner and set off himself, as did the two men at the other end. "No" followed "Yes" and all four found themselves at the same end. A fielder dislodged the bails at the other end and the umpire, Alec Skelding, professed himself to be as confused as the four batsmen. "One of you buggers is out," he said. "I don't know which. You decide and inform the bloody scorers!"