I've been incommunicado lately mainly because I'm having problems getting back into everyday life after the whole Christmas/New Year's thing, but also because I've just been ill again (and not in a cool Beastie type way, either). So I've been sleeping a lot, watching way too much television, and been eating almost nothing, so my energy level has been extremely low. But I think this is my final day of fever and headaches, so hopefully I'll get back into rotation again soon.

Turns out I'm the only person in the world, who doesn't like The 22-20s. I mentioned them in a review of a Supergrass concert and since then everyone and his brother has let me know that I'm nuts and The 22-20s are the hottest thing since lava. So given this massive show of support I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and pretend like they didn't suck when I saw them and try to keep an open mind once they release an album.

This actually reminds be a bit of the book I'm reading right now. It's written by Kevin Sampson and is called Powder. It's about the rise and fall of a Liverpool band called The Grams and it's a very interesting insight into the British music business. Sampson used to manage the band The Farm, so I'm assuming a lot of what he's writing about is based on his experience as a manager. It seems pretty authentic anyway. It's all about hype and press and how sometimes the music gets left in the background, when you're trying to make it big. I found an excerpt from the beginning of the book at Denver Post if you want to see what I'm talking about.