A little background information

Well hello!

There are several reasons why I've started this blog.

First, I used to have a radio show called, you've guessed it, 'With Guitar Strings Attached'. It was every week, an hour long, on Oxide (Oxford University's student radio station). It probably wasn't very good; I imagine I could count my total audience of the 16 shows I presented on my two hands. I blame the faulty microphones entirely; I was utterly flawless. Now that I've graduated (slight misuse of the past tense there, I'm actually to graduate in a couple of days - and don't worry, I didn't go to Oxford University; I went to the university 'up the hill', Oxford Brookes), my dear radio show is no longer. Consequently, I'm in need of a way of expressing my love for, for example, this rad new band I've found that absolutely everyone just has to know about, a way that isn't posting the video for their latest single on Facebook for all my 'friends' to see. Granted posting videos on Facebook could well be the answer to all my problems, but one cannot help but feel doing so would be the answer to my problems and my problems alone. Let's just say the feeling of undesirability would be mutual between the audience I would reach on Facebook and I. For example, on a recent holiday I was voted as 'The Person With The Worst Music Taste'; granted it was never looking good for me with such a vote taking place in as cultured of a holiday destination as Magaluf (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7GoFKzDC0Y), but you get the picture. Hence this blog!

Second, I simply can't live with keeping a really good band that I feel millions ought to know about - but don't - to myself. I'm like a Good (Music) Samaritan - I get such joy from reaping the rewards of finding a cool new artist or band, and merely want to spread that very same joy to others. I guess that basically makes me a modern-day Jesus? Well, there's certainly something I wasn't expecting to write when I started this blog entry. This is going to be fun.

And third, of course, I <3 MUSIC! Simples.

My blog's going to be comprised of a real mix of things, but essentially it's going to centre around what my now deceased radio show centred around - damn good (well, in my humble opinion anyway) indie music. So without further ado, my first proper blog post...!