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A riveting write up of The National Double up @cobl04. Those two nights are settling in my mind as just one single incredible moment with The National. A almost half-century of songs! Genuinely felt privileged to have the experience. It was also fantastic and a privilege to meet and reflect on...

Pride remake did impress me. Had enough twists and turns to be worthwhile, even if it may not be all that essential

I’ll check it out and probably buy a version of it, but not super enthusiastic about it based on the track listing. If the 40 songs featured some deeper cuts, or b-sides/album tracks that they were never fully satisfied with, I’d be pretty keen. But these are mostly pretty well established and...

Tomorrow, both the opening sequence and the subject matter, has always struck me as slightly eerie.

I went along on Night 2, and unlike your good self, I came into this as someone who has fallen immensely in love with Angel in Realtime, to the extent that I rate it far, far ahead of Go Farther in Lightness. It’s album of the year, for mine, and is such a tremendous accomplishment. Go Farther...

I reckon the new GoY album blows Go Further in Lightness out of the water. I often lost focus while listening to the previous album, whereas I’m hanging onto almost every minute on Angel in Realtime. And for some reason I’m enjoying Unison and Man Himself a lot more in their album context...

It’s Bono’s vocal on the new song that I struggle with most. It’s not pleasant at all. Perhaps in their worst ten songs. But I suppose, thankfully, it is sort of forgettable as a stand-alone single, so it’s perhaps not something we’ll stumble on too often when we go through a U2 listening...

Van Dieman’s Land since then So yep, a long time!

Black Country, New Road just released a new song. Their most recent album finally clicked with me last week - Sunglasses and Opus are super thrilling, Science Fair is messed up in the best way possible. Hope this crew make it to Oz as soon as it’s possible - would be immense live.

The list actually surprised me that it didn’t have more of a recency bias, but I do feel that it was a lacking a little from the first five years of the period. Urban Hymns does seem like an unfortunate exclusion - the album was mammoth (perhaps less so in North American markets?) but is it a...

Loved the Elbow cover - as poignant as the original.

I’d call it an identity crisis but it’s not really - Coldplay are trying to be two things and they seem content to do so. The ultimate pop stars, pining for adoration from the masses - releasing this new emoji album with that ghastly BTS song, the Chainsmokers collaboration, and playing Sky...

Not going to lie - thoroughly enjoyed the fact that the USA women’s football team didn’t make the final, despite the scheduling of the final tailored for the US prime time market (11am Japan time. Although it got rescheduled after the US missed out due to a “poor pitch”). Was Funny. Hilarious...

It’s so great, that it sums up what most feel and we’ve got nothing more to add?

As a lover of international football (and U2), I love that this happened. And as a doyen of football tournament offical songs, I love that I can add this to my playlist I roll out at major tournaments. Ended up falling in love with the tune. Dig Bono’s vocal, and I miss hearing it before kick...

All of this. Mylo Xyloto was fine. It seemed like a logical place to go for the band. And Paradise holds up well. But it took them down the track of Sky Full of Stars, the general excruciating vibe of A Head Full of Dreams and that Chainsmokers thing. Everyday Life was a very welcome respite...

Higher Power is bang average - can’t help but be underwhelmed. Suspect that Everyday Life was a flash in the pan return to form. Something to appease the older fans - the VLV/Rush of Blood crowd.

Yeah, well overdue for an album. Want more than an EP… but an Elbow cover. Consider me very intrigued!

I remember when Slow Loris was sharing supposed insights from the new album (HTDAAB) and was engaged in deep back and forth with some bloke name Red Ships of Scala Festa.

I went to one of the first COVIDsafe gigs after our lockdown and it was a surreal experience going into a music venue again - especially with all the measurements they had in place. Could only be seated, order drinks via a code, and the band, Black Cab, actually played two shows that night. A...

Must admit bit disappointed Ice Cream Sundae isn’t on the album. Probably my favourite of theirs. Surprised by how much I generally enjoy Inhaler, although I feel their more recent singles lack the same thrills as Honest Face and Won’t Always Be Like This

Saddens me a bit. Another fan site bites the dust. I never went into the oft-maligned forums over there, but the home page of @U2 was my U2 newspaper. Often used to visit to read (even recently) the various updates about the band. Functioned exceptionally well in that manner. Best of all was...

Thoughts on their first album? I wanted to get into S4K/Dempsey more, and started at the start and found it as boring as batshit. A real slog Appreciate they weren’t quite hitting they Echolalia stride yet, but was expecting better.

It is too!

I’m on board with this. A clunky awkward opener. I was quite happy to get Stingray Guitar at the shows I went to, but would have liked live Breathe to make a showing later in the set. Bottom 5 for me: Red Light God Part 2 Love Rescue Me Get Out Of Your Own Way Elevation And with regards to...