The neighbours on the other side seemed a bit less annoying than hipster-bearded, Maroon 5-loving, summer house boy. Their daughter, a young trainee nurse, even liked to bake cakes and share them with her neighbours. Ah, the dream.
Then, inexplicably, she bought a boy racer car with two huge exhaust pipes that you could hear coming all the way from Heckmondwyke. And because she was a nurse, and worked shifts, she would often arrive home at 1, 2am and park up on their drive with the engine running while she… actually, I have no idea what she was doing, but she had to keep the engine rumbling for it.
Just getting it all off my chest…
Three old favourites released new music this year. All fine records in their own right, but hardly up there with their best.
Jarvis Cocker continued his descent into weirdness with Beyond The Pale, moving further than ever from a Pulp reunion… with some amusing offerings, but nothing quite essential.
Sparks released another strong late-stage Sparks album. A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, that captivated me for a couple of weeks, but soon slipped out of rotation. iPhone is still one of my songs of the year though.
And Eddie Argos furthered the Art Brut comeback by teaming up with We Are Scientists for The WASABI EP. They recorded each others’ songs, covered The Travelling Wilburys, and stuck a couple of enjoyable new Art Brut tracks on the end. Record Store Day remains a favourite.
Heckmondwyke sounded an interesting sounding place until I read that they elected one but two BNP councillors in the early OO's
ReplyDeleteIt's even less glamorous than it sounds.
DeleteAargh, I feel your pain!
ReplyDeleteOur immediate neighbour recently bought some old souped-up low-slung sporty job and he is so in love with it that sometimes he just sits in it with the engine running, perhaps caressing it and whispering sweet nothings, who knows. He hardly ever drives it. Just tinkers. With the engine running, often for half an hour at a time. And we get the noise and the fumes coming in through our letterbox.... grrrrr.
I simply don't understand it!
I really hope your new neighbours are saints! When we moved to our current house our across the road neighbour had a son with a similar car. Drove us mad as toddler DD’s bedroom was at the front. Apparently these sort of engines need to idle for a while before you can turn them off. Luckily he got his own place soon after and is now a 40-year old father of two who probably gets annoyed at boy racer cars himself. Ah, the circle of life.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the continued rundown of the year. Not sure how you have time to keep up with new releases but means I don’t have to, good luck with a speedy WiFi connection.
I really hope your new neighbours are saints! When we moved to our current house our across the road neighbour had a son with a similar car. Drove us mad as toddler DD’s bedroom was at the front. Apparently these sort of engines need to idle for a while before you can turn them off. Luckily he got his own place soon after and is now a 40-year old father of two who probably gets annoyed at boy racer cars himself. Ah, the circle of life.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the continued rundown of the year. Not sure how you have time to keep up with new releases but means I don’t have to, good luck with a speedy WiFi connection.