Last week I got dragged out to the bank, something I was not impressed with since at the moment my life revolves round i) sitting in front of my computer writing my dissertation and attempting to find distractions on the internet, ii) watching Scrubs iii) listening to Radio 1. This distruptance to my 'schedule' was not good, so as if in protest, I made my dad buy me NME. Hey, if I got dragged out of the house, I might as well have something to show for it, right? Plus it had a free cd and the magazine itself was a SXSW special.

So consequently I got home, put the cd in my computer and sat and read because if someone hands me a distraction on a plate, I'm going to take it. Best New Bands Showcase 2006 including a song by Dirty Pretty Things and I had it blasting out of my computer. Despite not having heard of most of the bands, I quite liked the cd - some songs I loved and some I wasn't too keen on and I think it was at that point that it hit me how much I love music, I mean there is so much exciting new music emerging at the moment, ok there's a lot of crap too - just listen to the Chart Show* but at that point I realised I wanted to know more about the music that blasts out of my radio every day and broaden my musical knowledge and immerse myself in it all. I signed up to NME and I used my 'distraction time' to download songs by any random artist they'd just played on Radio 1 that I liked the sound of, from Belle and Sebastian to The Raconteurs, and to discover more about the bands themselves.

Today I listened to the new Zutons album, all the way through. Because once I read an article that Colin Murray wrote for The Guardian ranting that people with iPods click through songs and therefore don't appreciate the album as a whole. And he's right. And I appreciated the Zutons album as a whole, and it was really good. Just the fact that I managed to tear myself away from From Under the Cork Tree, Fall Out Boy's album and Inside In Inside Out, The Kooks's album, is a miracle in itself since they've been played on repeat for about three weeks now.

"What's that you're jumping on? Oh that's right, it's a bandwagon!"

One of the songs on the NME cd is by Wolfmother. It's called White Unicorn and it's an alright song, it didn't jump out at me or anything but Radio 1 have now jumped on the Wolfmother bandwagon, so to speak, and apparently after about a year of Executive Producer Rhys telling Zane Lowe to play Dimension, he is. And Joel's made it his Record of the Week. I quite like it, I might jump on the bandwagon too, because bandwagons are good - they stop you having to find the good music but you have to jump on right at the start before everyone else does! Therefore at the moment, I am firmly on the Lily Allen bandwagon and trying to work out if I can get to her gig in May. That's what else I love, live music. I need to go to more gigs, there's just a small matter of a dissertation and some fairly important exams that get in the way.

Today I read this and it amused me because it was about a subject I'd been meaning to blog about and because it is soo true. I don't remember a time when I didn't have a song stuck in my head with the lyrics temporarily etched onto my mind until a new song came along and pushed the old one out. I find myself zoning out whilst attempting to write the dreaded D** listening to lyrics and attempting to get my head around them.

"In new music we trust"

Because even if it's not new in the sense that I discovered it, it's new in the sense that it's exciting new music that should be blasting out of my radio whilst the sun shines and I jump up and down on my bed and try not to hit my hand on my light. Again.

And before you ask, yes I love the Infernal song and no I don't lasso dance***.


*Actually just listen to the Chart Show for JK and Joel, that's it.
**I have mentioned it more times in one blog entry than I have the whole time writing it so let's stop there.
*** "Let's all have a gay disco!"