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Mos Def’s New Album Released As A T-Shirt.

Steve — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:33:05 +0000

Found via @mattstevensloop on twitter – “New Mos Def album to be embedded in a T-Shirt“ (link to NME news pages).

“Each shirt has a hang-tag printed with a URL and a unique code allowing the purchaser to download the music from the album.“

So c’mon, other possible ways of releasing an album? Let’s brainstorm!

“Oh No! I’m Beached As!”

Steve — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:24:48 +0000

Favourite current silly thing on youtube:

(worth watching, or you won’t understand when I reference it copiously at all future gigs – thanks to @dubber for the link)

Favourite Coincidences

Steve — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:52:55 +0000

There’s a video to go with this that I’ll add in later when I’ve uploaded it, but here’s the story:

On Thursday, heading up to Unconvention in Manchester, I had a bit of a nightmare journey. I got to Euston OK, only to find that all trains out of there heading north were cancelled thanks to a derailed train.

We were all told to go to St Pancras for northbound trains, and change at Nottingham for Manchester.

I got there, got on the nearly-full train, and said to a bloke sat next to an empty seat ‘can I sit there?’

‘you’re a bass player, aren’t you?‘ he said, followed by, ‘I was on your website yesterday, I was going to email you about getting some lessons’.

What are, as the expression goes, the chances of that? He now has some lessons booked in, not surprisingly, and we had a most enjoyable hour chatting on the train.

So go on, what are your favourite serendipitous coincidences? (I’ll add the video of this encounter later – as soon as it happened, I grabbed my camera and filmed it )