Tim Booth

[iainjclark]

I always knew George W Bush was only joking about being President...

Well, it amused me anyway. (I found it on author Peter David's weblog.)

In other news, I ordered the new solo album by Tim Booth, former James frontman, today. James somehow passed me by in their heyday, but I've got really into them recently - mainly the classic albums Laid and Seven, which have some outstandingly good tracks on them. Hope his solo stuff is, well, any good.

I'm very bad at buying new albums, and especially at buying artists I haven't tried before. For some reason I have a near pathological fear that I won't like them, and will therefore end up with a crap CD in my collection. No idea why this should be an issue - half my collection is crap already. :-)

Comments

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

a little after their commercial peak, at V2000.

Dude! I was there!

*head spins*

[immortalradical.livejournal.com]

I suspect you were at the silly southern version, though. I'm right, aren't I? AREN'T I?

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I was at Weston Park, because I had a friend who leaved just outside Telford and that was the easiest for him to get to. I never found out where the other one is, so I don't know if Weston counts as northern or southern.

[immortalradical.livejournal.com]

... I was there, too.

My head joins yours in the spinning.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I'd just got into James through Richard, who made me buy Millionaires. They played a great set, I thought.

This is fantastically cool. And I'm sure there's an alternate history story in it somewhere...

[immortalradical.livejournal.com]

WHAT IF ... Dan and Niall had met through music instead?

Set of that weekend for me was the Flaming Lips mind-blowing show in the tent.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

My god. I might be a filthy muso.

Flaming Lips were excellent. Beth Orton was also good, as I recall.

Actually, we wouldn't have met because I also went to Coldplay and Richard Ashcroft... ;)

[immortalradical.livejournal.com]

I saw both of them, as well. :) Coldplay while they were still joyfully humble were good. Richard Ashcroft thought he was Jesus and needed shooting.

This is very strange. :P

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I love 'Spies'. I'm not ever going to apologise for that. I will apologise for enjoying Richard Ashcroft. In my defence, I never saw the Verve and I really wished I had.

It's all very very strange indeed. I'm this close to scaring up a map of the campsite and working out where we were both based...

[immortalradical.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, you see ... since one of our group lived not far away, we were in a nice, comfortable house. Muhaha.