The Big Freeze

In Grand Central Station there was The Big Freeze

Tomorrow, the same thing's happening in Edinburgh.

More info at the Facebook event here.

I'm feeling tempted...

Fuck me, that was a good year for music

Like many people, I feel that the years I was at university were great ones for music.

I was therefore amused to find that someone else agreed with me about 1992. The year in which these albums either first appeared or went massive:
Beastie Boys -- Check Your Head
Pearl Jam -- Ten
Cypress Hill -- Cypress Hill
Soundgarden -- Badmotorfinger
Red Hot Chili Peppers -- Blood Sugar Sex Magick
Nirvana -- Nevermind
Faith No More -- Angel Dust
Rage Against the Machine -- Rage Against the Machine
The Lemonheads -- It's a Shame About Ray
White Zombie -- La Sexorcisto
Ice Cube -- The Predator
Ministry -- Psalm 69
Living Colour -- Time's Up
Tool -- Opiate
Alice in Chains -- Sap, Dirt
Pantera -- A Vulgar Display of Power
Dr. Dre -- The Chronic
A Tribe Called Quest -- The Low End Theory
U2 -- Achtung Baby
My Bloody Valentine -- Loveless
Death -- Human
REM -- Automatic for the People
Mudhoney -- Piece of Cake
Jesus Jones -- Doubt
Pixies -- Trompe le Monde
House of Pain -- House of Pain (Fine Malt Lyrics)
Nine Inch Nails -- Broken
Seal -- Seal
Ice T -- O.G. (Original Gangster)
Fugazi -- Steady Diet of Nothing
Smashing Pumpkins -- Gish
Stone Temple Pilots -- Core
Sepultura -- Arise
Toad the Wet Sprocket -- Fear
Matthew Sweet -- Girlfriend
Del tha Funkee Homosapien -- I Wish my Brother George was Here
Hole -- Pretty on the Inside
Guns N' Roses -- Use Your Illusion I & II
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy -- Television (The Drug of the Nation)

Which really is a lot of good albums (even if I don't know all of them - that period of time really feels like my musical taste, if you know what I mean)

There are still, of course, the odd album I love coming out.

But nothing quite like that.