A blog about popular song by Mark Higgins.
YES I KNOW I SHOULD HAVE PUT THIS UP IN 2011 but I had some very important Christmas dinner to be eating/wine to be drinking/merry making to be making merrily. And it’s here now so don’t go getting shirty with me – there are more rad jams in here than any one person can really [...]
Announcing them in a couple of weeks, in fact:
The Barclaycard Mercury Prize ‘2011 Albums of the Year’ will be revealed at 11.30am on Tuesday 19 July 2011. The announcement will be made by presenter and broadcaster Lauren Laverne and will be hosted by The Hospital Club in Covent Garden.
I’ve been to the Hospital Club. It’s [...]
In: Music Video
3 Apr 2009I downloaded Friendly Fires’ eponymous debut album on the strength of Paris, which was doing the usual indie blog rounds. It’s a nice song, and certainly gets your attention, but it’s nothing like Skeleton Boy. There’s the standard bleeps and bloops, which are my favourite musical device in any scenario. On top of that you’ve [...]
Welcome to Bitter Fingers - a blog about popular song. Written by the hand of Mark Higgins, it serves up the very finest in new music, radio shows, spurious comment and #1 jams.