Grammys, old timers and real life
- February 10th, 2009
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It was really good to see Coldplay pick up three awards for their music at the Grammy wards on Sunday night, not least because their album Viva La Vida is undoubtedly my favourite ‘rock/pop’ album of 2008. Of course the controversy over plagiarism rumbles on – did they rip the tune off from Joe Satriani or not? Well, whatever the answer to that unknowable the music they have produced over the last year has, to this listener, been exceptional and so I applaud their wining the award. I have no doubt that many fans of the hard rock genre will consider the award as unfairly won or not deserved, but I guess it rather makes up for having to listen to bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest for too many years in my younger days!
And talking about my younger days, it was a real turn up to find Robert Plant winning so many awards with Alison Krauss. As a life long fan of Led Zeppelin I’m not too sure what to make of this, but I guess I have mellowed – well, perhaps a little – as I’ve grown older and more ‘mature’
Having spent the last year or so criss-crossing the south of England moving house before finally settling down again, it was a rare treat to be able to look forward to a trip to London, and especially the prospect of seeing the first gig from Tindersticks in this country since they performed at the Barbican in 2006.
