Father's Day this year brings the new Klaxons album ("Myths of the Near Future"), a box of chocs and a mouse mat - I was well chuffed.
The Klaxons album is great - I'm not so clear on the "New Rave" tag (it doesn't sound like the early Rave music I'm familiar with, but that's no great shakes, there was a lot of variation - the covers of Rave songs are an obvious starting point and the connections to clubbing and DJing are fair enough) - the music is "sick" (to quote Joey, 7) and I think the literary references are ace too.Name checking the works of at least three of my favourite writers (Thomas Pynchon, William S. Burroughs II and J. G. Ballard) always helps, with an 'album' name derived from a book of collected short stories by Ballard (which itself was also a quotation in the "Futurist Manifesto") all works for me - it's not exactly subtle, but at least it's accessible.
They're due to play the Carling Academy (the old "Hummingbird" club) in Birmingham on Tuesday the Fourth of December, 2007 (you can find more tour dates over here). The last band Donna and I saw there was Wolfmother (last November), and prior to that the Beat (about six months earlier).
Karate grading this week - looking forward to seeing how Donna, the lads and I did this grading - results next Sunday.
Spent the rest of the day at Sutton Park, trying to tire out the dog - no such luck !
