en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 60 http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices http://www.last.fm/user/kiiabby/journal The Last.fm journal for kiiabby. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. http://www.last.fm/user/kiiabby/journal/2010/06/14/3piu1i_an_ode_to_prog. Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:55:33 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/kiiabby/journal/2010/06/14/3piu1i_an_ode_to_prog. Well, what can I say, really? Over the past two years I've found my musical tastes slipping away from those of my RL friends into the deep dark corner where Prog resides. It started off with my father's Pink Floyd collection, all those years ago. There were several years and several band obsessions until, years later, bitter and jaded and fed up with working as a music journalist I discovered a recently released album I'd been given by a press office but neglected to listen to. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet. It was the night before I went on holiday and I was enthralled. I copied it onto my MP3 player and listened to it once a day religiously throughout the holiday, savouring it and devouring it, enjoying the feeling of my love of music starting to be rekindled once more.

Since then, I've gathered the rest of their back catalogue, found albums and songs and feelings I know I shall never be without now. I've seen them live five times, travelled 145 miles to watch them play, felt tears sting my eyes hearing Stars Die live, felt the sting of a tattoo gun as that song became part of who I am forever. A wild and passionate love affair, but I began to feel as though I was ready to cheat on Porcupine Tree...

So, I began to look elsewhere to get my prog fix. Riverside, The Pineapple Thief, Pure Reason Revolution....Gazpacho. Ah, Gazpacho... words can't express...

This modern progressive rock is taking over my computer and my CD racks and I do not care. I don't care any more that my friends don't have a clue who I am talking about when I enthuse over my latest progressive find, I don't care that I sometimes feel like the youngest person at a gig, that most of the women there seem to have just been dragged along by their partners. Nothing matters when the lights come up and I lose myself in the music.

I've finally found my place in music and I have discovered happiness in its most pure form: lying in bed at night, a fantastic album on loud, deafening all thoughts, beauty flowing over my prone form like holy water, cleansing and purifying and washing over my soul in waves of complexities.

This truly is happiness.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/kiiabby/journal/2010/05/19/3nea9i_running_playlist_190510 Wed, 19 May 2010 22:42:36 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/kiiabby/journal/2010/05/19/3nea9i_running_playlist_190510 Bit of a random one today - Changed a lot of the songs on my running playlist around tonight so it's quite random. I wish I could listen to prog whilst I'm running but the time signatures are all random so it doesn't really work. I like listening to The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 1 to cool down though.

Warm Up:

Great Expectations
Kneel and Disconnect
Drawing the Line

Run:

Miss Murder
The Undertaker (Renholder mix)
Chrome
Skinny Little Bitch
Put Your Hands Up For Detroit
Leave You Far Behind
Wait And Bleed
Call Me When You're Sober
Turn
For the Sake of Revenge
So Close
Main Offender
Skinny Little Bitch (I ran out of songs and this is my favourite running song at the moment so I listened to it again!)]]> http://www.last.fm/user/kiiabby/journal/2009/08/03/2wx4b6_nine_inch_nails,_sonisphere_festival_02.08.09 Mon, 3 Aug 2009 20:24:03 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/kiiabby/journal/2009/08/03/2wx4b6_nine_inch_nails,_sonisphere_festival_02.08.09 Wow, what a curious set for the last Nine Inch Nails show in Europe! Trent Reznor looked rather unhappy and emotional throughout the set and played a rather bizarre mixture of songs. There was definitely something wrong with him although I'm not sure what the problem was. It was a good set - please don't get me wrong.. some of these are amongst my favourite songs and I adore the Still album but it was very bizarre and far from the chaotic noisy sendoff I was expecting from their last European tour date.

Overall it was a very tense emotional set and at times Trent did actually look like he was crying - particularly during Hurt. It truly was a fans setlist but I can't express how stunned and unnerved I felt by this selection of songs. Both Cliff and I have felt very shocked afterwards. It was surreal to see such a intimate set at a metal festival of all places. I must admit I wasn't particularly in the mood for Metallica afterwards.

My only suggestion is that something has happened in Trent's personal life and he saw it as an opportunity to play some of the darker tracks from Nine Inch Nails' expansive back catalogue and also put a massive middle finger up at the metal crowd. It was certainly a set that divided the crowd - including the Nine Inch Nails fans - and left many people feeling bewildered. I very much enjoyed this performance and feel honoured to have seen it.

Setlist:

The Way Out Is Through
Something I Can Never Have (Still version)
I Do Not Want This
Gone, Still
The Frail
The Wretched
Non-Entity
Lights In The Sky
The Downward Spiral
Hurt]]>