The Hitman & Her

Brixton's Brixton Academy

Paid a visit to London's Best Gig Venue on Friday night to watch the pulse-racing, tear-jerking, mosh inducing... Doves.
Naturally the gig was stupendous. As you'd expect from the band who've delivered The Album Of the Year. So far. But in between support band Malakai and the afore-mentioned headliners I was left pondering from the sloping floor (what a blindingly simple and genius idea), what on Earth is all the decor about?
If you haven't been, and why not?, the interior of the hallowed haunt is a architectural anomaly. A one-off based on a small Mediterranean village.
I came to the conclusion that the Brixton Academy was formerly a playhouse. Its last production was some kind of Italian based classic, possibly Romeo & Juliet. As the venue metamorphasised into a gig haven, it froze, TARDIS-like to forever remain in that state.
I imagine Wonkypedia would tell me otherwise, perhaps even the truth. But I prefer to stick with my romantic theory.

Share My Playlist

ShareMyPlaylists.com is a genius little dimple on the Internet where you can, er, share your playlists. Harnessing the might that is the ever-growing Spotify, users simply compile a list of tracks to a theme and post the url, along with a picture on the site.

I've taken to compiling a kind of 'the best of the month'. In my humble opinion. Then I post my choices as 'The Soundtrack to...' . The Soundtrack to March was the first. It got some great responses. A decent rating and was soon placed in the 'Featured Playlists.' With results like that there was little I could do to stop myself from compiling The Soundtrack to April. Which immediately jumped into the Featured Playlists. On to May then.