Category: Music
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Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet The Amadeus Centre, London W9 1 July 1992 This is inspired by reading Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, Elvis Costello’s recently published autobiography Exactly a year after the Hammersmith Odeon gigs, where Elvis Costello was overweight, bearded and apparently angry, what a transformation… The Amadeus Centre could scarcely be…
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Spotify continues to get itself into trouble, this time by requesting “data about the speed of your movements, such as whether you are running, walking, or in transit”. They say it’s for a new feature called Spotify Running. Me, I’d be happy if their Windows application would just work. At least now it doesn’t crash…
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In the fine tradition of technology that is “designed” to do random things for no good reason at all. Ladies and Gentlemen, Spotify Connect – playing music on another device. Why would I want my mobile phone to start playing music from my computer? It’s not big, it’s not clever and please stop it.
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It’s very kind of them to make Spotify available in Hong Kong, but their stupid software doesn’t work. I am running Windows 7 (64 bit) and the Spotify application works for anything from 30 seconds to a few minutes before crashing – and it’s impossible to close it and restart it. The Android app works,…
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I’m obviously not paying attention, so I only found out from Spike that Spotify is now available in Hong Kong. There’s the usual pantomime with a default page that is only in Chinese, and no obvious way to change to English. Google Chrome makes it easier by translating it (rather badly), otherwise you would be…
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A perfect pop single (if they still have such things).
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So the Beatles catalogue is finally available from the iTunes music store. Which is all very exciting. Or maybe not… OK, there might be a few people with iPods who haven’t worked out how to place their Beatles CDs into the CD drive of their computer and then import them into ITunes. It’s really not…
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High School Musical 3 opened in Hong Kong on Friday. Sadly, I wasn’t able to get to the cinema myself, but I am told that it’s doing good business. Sunday’s SCMP re-printed a Guardian article (Shake your money maker) about the phenomenon that is Disney Channel. What’s interesting about the channel is that rather than…
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Yesterday’s Post Magazine reprinted an article from The Guardian (Listen now, pay never) about “free” music: From the newspaper on the train to the magazine thrust in your hand as you leave the station, from the targeted ads that accompany your browsing to the ad breaks that punctuate your TV viewing, advertising-supported content is nothing…
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There’s a full page ad for MusicXS in the SCMP today, so I thought I would check it out. It’s a music download service, but you can only listen to the music for as long as you maintain your subscription. For HK$56 per month you can listen on your PC. For HK$96 you can also…
Ordinary Gweilo 