Want to start by saying thanks to all those who read the blog last week, and especially you lovely re-tweeters, the page got to almost 100 views which is quality.
Breakthrough of the week is that I now have an iPhone. A bit of context, while the last five years have seen mobile phones develop at an unwaveringly fast rate of knots, I've hung on to one of those incredibly shitty but Incredibly reliable temp phones that the Carphone Warehouse give you when you're waiting for your actually good phone to be fixed. This jump has been a bit too much for me and I keep staring at the (remarkably sleek) iPhone's display thinking that it's just a figment of my imagination. I also have no fucking idea how to put it on silent which is a bit plaguing.
To get my number transferred across I had to wait a couple of days to use it so was briefly phone-less and this got me thinking about the old 'we rely too much on technology' crap which must run through everyone's head once or twice a year. Not having a phone for two days was like being an extreme claustrophobia-sufferer trapped in a really really small closet (not in the homosexual sense). Suddenly, more than anything, I needed to get hold of people and a fb or twitter message just wouldn't do it. When I think back to it, the first 10 or 11 years of my life were spent with 5 TV channels and phones which resembled under-sized bricks. Unbelievable how things change, I'm about to sit down to watch full coverage of an Arsenal 3 oclock kick off, a distant dream a few year ago. Anyway that's my two cents on the matter, bloody hope we win.
On to the matter at hand, Submotion Orchestra formed in Leeds a few years ago and are made up of 7 experienced masters of their trade. They are simply class. Seen them a couple of times now at Sheffield's TTC and they've blown me away. They're minimalism personified, and are made up of literally hundreds of genres, describing themselves on fb as, jazz, grime, dubstep, classical etc etc you get the point. Definitely worth a live viewing if you get the chance (will only cost 6 or 7 quid), especially as lead singer Ruby is simply a delight and the guy on trumpet is unbelievable, one of the best musicians I've ever seen live.
I've put what's probably their most commercial song at the bottom, along with 'Hymn for Him' which I love and a quality remix by Maribou State that popped up on their Soundcloud. Also they've just released an album, 'Fragments', which has made it onto hard copy, great to see they're getting a bit of commercial success.
Cheers again for reading,
Max
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