Month: September 2006

We popped along to the Badger Music night at the Western Front again on Tuesday and had another fun evening. As we arrived Prince Rodger were just setting up, a 2 piece featuring a cello. The cello and the double bass are two of my favourite instruments, probably because one of the guys I shared a house with at Uni owned both, and the cello lived in our house and some Sunday mornings I’d wake up to the sound of a cello drifting up the stairs. Anyways, the second band were And His Voice Became, a great 2 piece act from London, featuring a drum kit, a guitar and a loop station used to excellent effect, and very good they were too. The final act were The Bobby McGee’s who were, quite simply, mad. But wonderful too, with a drum kit, a double bass and 2 singers armed with ukulele, banjo and a melodica. An excellent band to see live.

Some nice new goodies from Apple were announced on Tuesday, movies via iTunes 7, new look iPod nano, new look iPod shuffle (so small….) and the iTV unit (yet to be given a proper name). I didn’t watch all of the event broadcast (partially due to the poor audio quality of the presentation, which when combined with the poor speakers in the macbook made it almost impossible to hear over the rain hammering on the roof outside).

I downloaded the new iTunes yesterday and quite a few of the user interface features look nice, although as with all things will take some getting used to. I connected my, sadly out of date now, shuffle and looked at the settings tab and found the following at the bottom of the page.

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Cute!