Is there a safe way to say that you love a bit of Arab Strap?
UK band, this from their management:
The Blinders are the band to restore your faith in rock. They boast firebrand political righteousness, noir melodicism and a fierce cultural intelligence that finds them referencing everything from Wilde to Shakespeare, from 1984 to 2001.
Cue 2018’s debut ‘Columbia’, a torrent of dark rock wildfire, named after the utopia which Charles Manson promised his Family but describing a modern day 1984 dystopia of oppression and rebellion, with Johnny Dream their Winston Smith.
“It allowed us to tell the story from a character’s point of view like a novella,” says Tom. “It was looking at the abuses of power, at power constructs and why society is organised the way it is.” The concept caught on – Radio 1, 6Music, Clash and Classic Rock became champions of the Blinders cause and the summer of 2019 saw them invade the European festival circuit.
Meanwhile, in their new rehearsal space in a renovated Manchester mill, they set about moulding a more sophisticated second album. “We were looking at ourselves as opposed to the outside world,” Tom says. “When you get to that age, 19, 20, 21, you start to know that you know nothing. The album “looks everything in the eyes of what we deal with. It’s drug use, it’s lack of faith in humanity, its fears and anxiety and dealing with depression. It’s everything we wanted to talk about.”
Despite its bleak outlook, though, the record brims with pure rock rejuvenation, launching the new decade of rock with a righteous roar, knowing its time has come. “In the last decade we’ve gone from being children to teenagers to adults,” says Charlie. “What’s gonna happen in this decade?”
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I found out about The Blinders through a community radio broadcaster here in Melbourne who’s presenting a feature on the band on thursday night (oz time) Redirecting...
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I’ve been suffering severe back pain since Friday. So I’m working from home as getting in and out of the car and driving longer stretches is quite painful.
Only good thing is that I can play background music while working from home.
I do have get up and walk around for a bit every 20 minutes or so. Maybe I should get a TT and start a vinyl collection 
? Who knows, as it would be fore medical reasons, maybe my health insurance will cover it? 
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How did that go down? 
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I used that excuse to the wife. Need to get up and move around in retirement. My wife knew I was literally stretching as I walk between 12 and 15 k steps most days, but it worked 
Hopefully the back gets better quickly for you
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outage of the day
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Well she hasn’t bought that perfume yet, but she is off to Barcelona on Sunday (I get the break from her and she gets to go away so a win win).
I am concerned that my vinyl finds will be dipped into 
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Time to blow the cobwebs off your speakers then!!
Ha ha none of my speakers are left quiet long enough for any cobwebs to form.
Since retiring I am averaging around 10 and a half hours a day listening to music and 2 dog walks a day.
When I am offered work, it is becoming an intrusion
Now the volume level might be rising for several days, that I cannot deny 
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I’ve got Cheap Trick live at Budokan on ‘kamekaze’ yellow.
Bought this decades ago in a small record shop in Scarborough after I won vouchers on the arcade bingo!!
Sounds very good.
I’ve got a few coloured vinyl and sold a few more for a lot of money.
The hawkwind levitation in blue is particularly good. Very cosmic. Very Hawkwind
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