Category: Music

Blondie starred in an American music show Private Sessions last weekend. Some kind Yank recorded some tracks including a couple from the forthcoming new album ‘Panic of Girls’. Cheers!!

Tonight was the première of a new production of Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw. It was as usual the excellent Opera North with Richard Farnes (Musical Director) conducting the small chamber opera for this ghostly tale. The opera is based, virtually identically, after the book by Henry James and was first performed in 1954 with…

As expected the new album ‘Panic of Girls’ is out this autumn – but only in Australia!!! The rest of the world gets it in 2011. They’re touring in Australia later this year, but they’ll have already been to the UK and USA by then so seems very odd it’s not being released this year…

Final one on youtube I think!!

Another youtube from the Blondie concert on Wednesday night – great performance of Atomic!! We must down there near the front on this video . . .

A compilation some sneaky person did of the Blondie concert we went to in Manchester.

This is Blondie singing ‘What I Heard’ from forthcoming album Panic of Girls. This was recorded at the Isle of Wight festival a few days before we saw them in Manchester. Cracking new track!!

www.blondie.net Can’t remember how many times I’ve been to see Blondie now but last night was easily the best. Fantastic venue (Manchester Apollo) created a great atmosphere. Sell-out 3500 people made a heck of a racket and really enjoyed it. Good support, Little Fish, new band from Oxford (www.littlefishmusic.com) The band were great. Original members…