0021 - A Weather

I don't know much about A Weather, other than that they're from Portland, Oregon.  Portland is cool - not that I've ever been there, but their football team is called the Timbers, it's where Clark Gable, Stephen Malkmus and Chuck Palahniuk are from, Linus Torvalds lives there and the city flag is awesome.  That's cool enough for me.

Portland's excellent flag.

0019 - A Smile And A Ribbon

Swedish popstrels A Smile And A Ribbon are the first band on the blog I've actually had some personal dealings with - I offered to loan them a tent in the summer of 2007 when they were playing the first Indie Tracks festival at the Midland Railway Center in Derbyshire, a scenario that could perhaps have led to amusing tales of rock & roll camping excess had they not declined the offer.

0013 - The 6ths

Another band of whom I have only the one song [actually, I have two - see update below].  The song is As You Turn To Go and it's not, as I thought before today, by the Magnetic Fields, but by the 6ths.

Action Painting!

While I suppose it's possible that someone reading this blog might think I have a pulsating, gigantic brain stuffed to bursting with pop and rock Facts, most of you probably realise that I do a wee bit of research for each post - not simply to supplement what I already know about each band, but also to check that what I think I know is actually true.  Although given that my research usually starts (and sometimes ends) at Wikipedia, I may be stretching the definitions of the words 'facts' and 'true'.

Action Painting! are the first challenge to my casual approach to research, as they're the first band in my collection not to have a Wikipedia entry.  How will I manage?

Acid House Kings

So there's been a bit of a hiatus on the blog on account of me moving house and not having internet access, or even access to all my music, for a while.  And I still haven't got anywhere near listening to all of the AC/DC albums I have, so rather than waiting weeks to post again, I may as well get on with a few other bands.  It goes entirely against my male alphabetic OCD, but what the hell, here we go with Swedish day-of-the-week enthusiasts, Acid House Kings.

Aberfeldy

So I had this plan - one post per day, or more, if I had time and I was writing about artists I had little music by.  After all, I have a lot to get through.  But the real world has intervened and I'm falling way behind on my plan.  At this rate, I'll be lucky to get through A by the new year.

Aberfeldy then.  One song - result!