One of my favourite new bands of recent years, Demians, have a new album coming out, entitled Mute. Their debut Building an Empire was terrific. One track of the new album is on their myspace page. Not entirely sure about it, but the last album worked best as a whole rather than individual tracks.

On Friday I went to see Transatlantic at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire with Jon. Very long show of over three hours – first half was the whole of the (wonderful) new album The Whirlwind; then most of the initial two albums in the second half and the encores. Transatlantic are the kind of band you’d either love or hate…