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August 25, 2008 9:15 pm

Here is something to make you feel lazy. Rosie Swale-Pope, a 61 year old grandmother, has run over 20,000 miles around the world.  That is quite a few miles to run.  Not only that, but the route included traveling across such places as Siberia and Alaska - not the most friendliest of climates.  She started on the 2nd of October 2003, and has finished as of today, the 25th of August 2008.

The most impressive parts of the run however, are the things that have happened to her while she was actually running.  Rosie was hit by a bus, stranded in a blizzard, she caught pneumonia, suffered a breast cancer scare and also got frostbite.  She was knocked unconscious when crossing a river, and while running through Siberia was chased by a man with an axe.  I would say that I gave not suffered from any of those problems, for which I am very happy, let alone suffered them while running around the world!

Then, when she was less than a hundred miles from home, she suffered two stress fractures in one of her legs, and finished the trek on crutches.  She still made it though, which has to be a very impressive feat of endurance and willpower.

Posted by: James
August 22, 2008 1:18 pm

Does anyone remember the whole Oasis don’t like the Kaiser Chiefs thing?  Well Kaiser Chiefs have responded by saying that they are quite happy to be attacked by Oasis, as it now puts them at the same sort of level as Blur were in the 1990s.  As Nick Hodgson, the Kaiser Chiefs drummer and one of their main song writers, said:

“When I was 17 and Noel was going on about Blur I was watching it and now I’m 30 and he’s 50 and he’s talking about us, it’s brilliant.”

I think that it is getting to the point where it is something to be proud of - if Oasis start slagging your off just before they release an album, then you know that you are definitely someone that Oasis sees as a competitor in the music industry.  Or something like that anyway.  It could just be that Noel Gallagher likes picking fights with whatever musicians and bands he thinks of whenever he is being interviewed.  So that the interview will get more attention than it otherwise would - everyone loves a bit of controversy eh?

I think that both bands should let their music do the talking.  See who sells more of their next album - I think that would be the best way to judge whether the slagging off that Noel Gallagher gave the Kaiser Chiefs was deserved or not.

Posted by: James
August 19, 2008 9:45 pm

In the wake of their first album and festival appearances, it appears that John McClure has decided that the music industry is too cynical and money driven, and that he wants nothing to do with it once Reverend and the Makers release their next album.  even going as far as to say that he is going to get a job as a pedal taxi driver once the album, The French Kiss in the Chaos, is completed.

I think the best quote from McClure about his loathing of the music industry has to be this one:

I feel like a sore thumb in a piranha pool in this industry. I don’t like the way it’s all run by rich men in their 50s who went to private school. It’s not something I want to be part of.

Brilliant.  I guess that if all musicians felt like this the industry would fall apart, and be replaced by something better.  Though due to the amount of money involved, I doubt that will happen in the next few years.

McClure is also in another band, Mongrel, which also contain an ex member of the Arctic Monkeys and a current member of Babyshambles, and it appears that he is going to abandon them as well, making a complete break from the industry.

Now all we have to do is see if he sticks to his word!

Posted by: Adam