Hurricane to Heat Wave

One minute the wind and the rain are blowing a hurricane down the street, and you’ve resigned to the fact that summer, with its energy and warmth, is lost for yet another year, but suddenly… BOOM! From nowhere, the sun blasts out through the lifeless dull grey clouds clearing the skies and putting your sadness on hold for a while!

Hurricane to Heatwave:

Vashti Bunyan - Come Wind Come Rain
Au Revoir Simone - Hurricanes
Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern - Higginz vs Reardon
Veronica Falls - Misery
Half Man Half Biscuit - Little in the way of Sunshine
Voxtrot - Wrecking Force
Marissa Nadler - The Sun Always Reminds Me of You
Carter USM - Sunshine
Howling Bells - Setting Sun
The Primitives - (We've) Found a way to the Sun
Ladytron - Ninety Degrees
Plains - Heat

Free Comic Book Day

It's free comic book day so go get some free comics! I got 'The Amazing Spiderman', 'Green Lantern', 'The Tick', 'The Mighty Thor', plus a few more all for free!

So to celebrate getting stuff for free here's a superhero themed mix i just made.

Spoiler Alert! - Booster Gold
Hefner - Trouble Kid
Tullycraft - Superboy and Supergirl
Ladytron - Black Cat
Art Brut - DC Comic and Chocolate Milkshake
The B52's - Hero Worship
Beach Boys - Heroes and Villains
The Kinks - Superman
Yea Big + Kid Static - We've Built A Time Machine That Runs On Beats. We Shall Only Use It For Good

Deep Blue, in '97 I voted for you...

"Deep Blue, In ’97 I voted for you, As Sports Personality of the Year I thought at least, You’d get the Overseas ‘cos when all’s said and done you’re not like some of these Bad losers on Yahoo Chess"

Half Man Half Biscuit have just announced a long overdue return to Cardiff in the coming summer, scheduled for the 25th of August at the Cardiff Millennium Music Hall. The news sent me scampering back to the last release: 'CSI: Ambleside' with joy in my heart. I found out about the gig somewhat fortuitously, having stumbled upon this the other day (nice list but Bob Wilson Anchor Man has to be top of the league?) I decided to check the website and what do you know it’s been updated! With 6 fixtures announced a new album must surely be imminent?

Song For Today #4 - Beach! - Summertime

It's just great when you wake up and there's not a single cloud in the sky! The sun fills me with a great excited energy, I want to burst down every fork in every path that lays ahead at the same time, I want to go to the beach and look out at the sea, I want to climb mountains and look at the great views, go on bike rides with friends to anywhere, talk to lost eccentrics who no one takes notice of anymore because he doesn't have anything to say about the soaps on tv, but has forgotten more great stories than all of them together could ever live, and catch trains to far off mythical kingdoms!

http://thisisbeach.tumblr.com/