It’s a confluence.

This year, there are new albums being released by the undernoted.

Elbow

Radiohead

REM (same day as Elbow)

Snow Patrol

Foo Fighters

Skunk Anansie (wee wild card there )

I have already downloaded the Rads and am tuning into it on the way to work, and home.  How can it be that most of my favourite bands have colluded to provide so  much musical happiness?   Plus, Paul has just brought me home this month’s Q magazine with Guy Garvey* on the front cover, clutching a falcon**.

Birdy rock and roll, I love it .

*Lead singer of Elbow.

**When Elbow won the Mercury prize, Guy spent his share of the money on a hi spec pair of binoculars, since he is an avid bird watcher.  Big smile.