2009 was a big year for us here at The Blue Walrus, as we took on more staff writers that lets us cover more new music more often whether that be indie, folk, electro, blues or anything else we think is awesome. But with that in mind, we have moved away from the simple musings of one man on music upon which the site was designed. Thus as we move forward into 2010 we have taken the plunge into a new design that will help us highlight some of the …

So its the end of the year and the end of the decade and that means that you can’t move but for the lists of the best and worst of times. Saam from Faded Glamour had done the honourable thing and managed to convince a bunch of British bloggers (myself included) to share their favourite British albums of the last ten year, and then condensed our ramblings into a couple of lists.
First of all we’ve got the top 10 albums of the decade with all our thoughts compiled together
Then we’ve …

I’m a little behind schedule with this one, but Anthony over at the fantastic Tastes Like Caramel asked me to introduce one of my current musical obsessions as part of his “Your New Obsession” series. So if you want to know who I picked (and maybe pick up a song of theirs that I didn’t post) pop on over to my guest obsession at TLC.

This week, I’ve been to three gigs that are worthy of mention, and rather than bombard you with three separate posts (how would you have coped?!), I thought I’d give you a run down of the amazing music I’ve been flitting between this week…

Monday was The Xcerts in support of Idlewild at Norwich’s Waterfront. Picture more than decent Scottish rock with a blast of meaning behind it; that’s a summary of Xcerts.  They were absolutely marvellous lads; punchy and rock-filled tunes with lots of character and angst involved. The boys …

Danielle, who runs the wonderful Music is art, has been running a series of posts where she approaches a few fellow music bloggers for a project with the brief
“tell me about a moment, a song and what it meant to you”
A couple of weeks ago she got in contact with yours truly and today the fruits of this has come to light. You can see my thoughts and memories along with those from the fine folk at Sheena Beaston, Lost at Sea, Rachel and the City, and Blendeta over here. …

Phew…right…well that was a very long six weeks for me doing law exams. Luckily Lauren was on hand to take up the slack at Walrus Towers, so a massive thank you is due there.
We’ve also added a new member to the team in the form of Tom who has started off with a couple of fantastic interviews with Digitalism and Metric.
I’m now back on hand listening/reading/reviewing as I should be, and have a boatload of new music to post over the next week or two. Think mixtapes galore coming your …