So it was pay day yesterday (this new contract is weird - I get paid fortnightly), so I went to the shops on the way to the station last night and got this little beauty...



...at Red Eye for only AU$22.98 (£12.85). Bargain! (and a buck cheaper than JB). Beautifully packaged, except for the horrible stuck-on cardboard tracklist on the back (presumably they made a mistake (again) and had to fix it up at the last minute?).

Then I went to the bookshop, as I have been doing for weeks now and finally it's arrived - James Ellroy's Blood's A Rover:



It was supposed to come out years ago but was delayed and delayed and finally it's here. I immediately stopped re-reading One Hundred Years Of Solitude (last time was 30 years ago) and got into the good stuff.

Meanwhile last Saturday I bought the September edition of The Word magazine:



The first track on the cover-mount Now Hear This CD is The Age of Revolution by an Irish band called The Duckworth Lewis Method from their debut (and apparently one-off) album, The Duckworth Lewis Method:



I loved the track so much that I immediately acquired the album. It's a concept album all about cricket (the "Duckworth-Lewis method" is "a mathematical way to calculate the target score for the team batting second in a one-day cricket or Twenty/20 cricket match interrupted by weather or other circumstance"). It's a fantastic album. Yeah, yeah, I know the idea of a concept album about cricket sounds boring, but the songs are great, tongue-in-cheek glam-pop. Brilliant. Well worth a listen. Adam, you'll love it. Probably.

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I still have to get this album but have heard lots of it on the Radio & Web.
When i heard them first i bookmarked their page and have been following their uploads ever since.
I was only looking at some of their videos over the weekend.
Neil Hannon and the guy from Pugwash are involved,sounds great.

You'll love it. Great stuff. If you torrent, you can acquire it quite easily via The Pirate Bay.

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Talking of Irish bands, Chris, I went looking for more detail on The Duckworth Lewis Method at Wikipedia, which led me to the 2009 in Irish Music page which led me to the horrific discovery that Delorentos split up in February.

Since their album In Love With Detail was my favourite of all those excellent Irish band albums that you turned me on to recently, I was crestfallen.

That was until I discovered that they'd re-formed in April and had a second album, You Can Make Sound, out a couple of weeks ago.



Can't wait to hear it (despite the patchy reviews - what do critics know?).


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Listening just now to Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola (is this the first time on official CD for that track?) reminds me that I also just acquired the 30th Anniversary version of the first Madness album...



...the bonus disc of which contains two excellent non-English tracks:

Un Paso Adelante (the Spanish version of the title track)

and

Un Passo Avanti (the Italian version of the title track).

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... I like the Duckworth-Lewis Method too, Stu.

Beatlesesque.

Speaking of the Fab Four - I've never really been a big fan, but am thoroughly enjoying the re-mastered albums.

Cheers for the info about The Duckworth Lewis Method - I will check it out immediately.

Even Bowie wrote and sang the words:

They made me roll the cricket pitch

Once a day

I´ve never been so happy than at

Silver Treetop School For Boys

Curious that it was written by an Irish band. I guess they are an emerging side in world cricket ... one or two players are quite good indeed (and even been nabbed by The Poms).

I bought the Mrs this

<< I bought the Mrs this >>

Michael Jackson's This Is It CD is just another pointless greatest hits money spinner, far better to buy that whole album issue pack, the 5 main Michael Jackson albums bundled together, for around 17 quid.

The This Is It DVD when it comes out should be worth a punt though

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Curious that it was written by an Irish band.

Oh well when you hear the lyrics of The Age of Revolution, all will become clear.

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96Twatler - Have you never heard of the DIVINE COMEDY? Look em up mate? Then you might feel a little better? TWAT?
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The Duckworth Lewis Method

Great cd one of the singers is the singer of the divine comedy. Also a great band.

Absent friends is my favorite album of them

somewhere on my harddrive I have a picture of Neil and David (bowie)



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I agree this album is great fun. My particular favourite is "Meeting Mr Miandad"

Great cd one of the singers is the singer of the divine comedy. Also a great band.

The Divine Comedy are a great band indeed, Bettina.

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96muppet - hey teacher! It should read 'They are indeed a great band' not the other way round?Tut Tut?? Have you looked up the divine comedy yet?
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It should read 'They are indeed a great band'

Actually, knob-head, it should read - 'It is indeed a great band'.

(edit = got the name of the knob-head wrong. My bad.)

Dogz, I know English isn't your first language, so I'll make this simple for you:

1. Go to Google.
2. Put "they are a great band indeed", with the quotation marks, into the search field.
3. Click the Search button.
4. Read each and every single one of the 36,400 results containing that phrase.
5. Suck shit and die.

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You pretend you know fuckin everything you smart arsed fuckin waster but you really know fuck all????? Priceless.... 'a new irish band'.... WANKER!
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You pretend you know fuckin everything you smart arsed fuckin waster but you really know fuck all????? Priceless.... 'a new irish band'.... WANKER!

Where did I say 'a new irish band'?

MORON

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Don't waste ya money on next month's 'The Word', buy 'Hello' magazine and see what Peter Andre is up to.Has he recorded with anyone irish on his newie???!!
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Don't waste ya money on next month's 'The Word', buy 'Hello' magazine and see what Peter Andre is up to.Has he recorded with anyone irish on his newie???!!

I've no idea. Everyone in Australia breathed a huge sigh of relief when the ugly little dwarf pissed off to England 10+ years ago and he hasn't been heard of here since, thank Christ.

So are you bigoted against the Irish as well, Dogz?

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not been there in ages, happens when you move to the burbs!!

At lunch time today I picked me up these beauties








http://www.scottfullermusic.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/scottfullermusic

So I had the day off yesterday (had to go to the hospital for a quick procedure in the morning and to the doctors for a look at my dodgy knee, and a swine flu shot, in the afternoon - then an unexpected trip to the pathologists for an x-ray on the knee). In-between I did the rounds of the record shops in Newtown (which is near the hospital), didn't buy anything, had lunch and then went to Egg Records - the great second hand shop - where I found this is the New Arrivals:



The Basics are a Melbourne beat combo whose drummer is the brilliant Wally De Backer, a.k.a. Gotye and Keep Your Friends Close is their brand new album (don't you love it when you get a new album for a second-hand price?). I thought AU$19.99 was a bargain, especially since I'd just been looking at it in Fish Records for AU$27.99.

Then I looked in the "sale" section and they had CDs for AU$6, or "5 for $15". I immediately jumped on two that popped out at me - both Supersystem albums, Always Never Again and A Million Microphones:



I've had these two on mp3 for years and love them both so it was a delight to get them for AU$3 each. I could have walked away and paid AU$12 for the two, but I couldn't resist the "5 for $15" offer. That was if I could find three more albums I wanted amongst the load of sale crap. Eventually I came up with these.



I already have the Cornelius album on mp3, but for AU$3, how could I resist?

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