Dirty Dancing Wedding

Read about this in The Metro newspaper (the free one you get on the train). Being a closet Dirty Dancing fan myself (and I don't believe that means I should be coming out of a closet despite what some might say), I thought it was good.

Basically, for the first dance of their wedding, a couple spent 6 months learning how to dance in order to do the dance that features at the end of the movie. They did a cracking job to. Fair play for doing 'the lift' as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG6RQyhXaxs

Don't expect me and Becky to put this much effort into our first dance - or even appear for it for that matter.. I think I might try and find a spoken word track for ours so no dancing is required.

Playing Catchup with Peel

I've just visited the following site which is a collection of legal mp3s. The overall theme is they are either Peel Sessions or were played by John Peel on his show.

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/gsteel/radioplus/

I use to visit this site all the time 'back in the day' and as I've just finished his biography (which was a superb read btw) I thought I'd check it out again.

What I find most shocking about this site is there are quite a few bands on there who at the time I'd never heard of, but I'm now getting into. That fact along with many others really makes me miss his show. I feel it could have been of more use and more enjoyable now than it ever was for me. Some bands who passed me by back then but I'm currently playing include:

The Shins
Camera Obscura
Stephen Malkmus
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Interpol
Death Cab for a Cutie