Radiohead, being the canny cool cats that they are, are having fun releasing stems of tracks from their In Rainbows album, and encouraging people to remix them, and vote on their favourite remixes, the latest being the track ‘Reckoner’.

This track happens to be one of my least favourite, but the chance to mess around with it proved too strong a lure, so here’s my offering. If you like it, vote for it … it’s called ‘Wrecking Fuzzball’

Last week I went to see Radiohead play at Victoria Park, London, and travelled by train up from Cornwall. It’s been three years since I used this train, and the carriages have been renewed in the intervening period, replaced by what seem to be more comfortable, better thought out spaces.

Three and a half hours is a long time to be sat in one place, allowing you to take in details that you might otherwise miss, although you’d have to be asleep to miss the large, pink plastic ears attached to each seat. These struck me immediately as a brilliant idea. I don’t recall a handle of any description being in place on the old seats, which meant that as you took hold of the top of one when trying to stabilise yourself when walking down the aisle you were likely to grab hold of someone’s hair, or knock the back of their head, or some equally embarrassing situation. Read the rest of this entry »