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🎵Now Playing: Tame Impala - Deadbeat (2025)
I should start doing a Now Playing post every Friday, as it’s always new album release day. Well let’s start now shall we? Today is the new one from Tame Impala. This is definitely continues the path taken at Currents through The Slow Rush into making him a sure-fire Festival Headliner (Glasto 2027 anyone?) with beats that are definitely not dead. I do miss the guitar riffs though.
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🎵Now Playing: Boy Azooga - 1, 2, Kung Fu! (2018)
Welcome to another edition of “I totally forgot this band existed!” Really fun alt-indie. I used to play Face Behind Her Cigarette a lot at the bar where I DJed. Sigh.
I just Googled them and I never knew they were Welsh! I always thought they were American. Sadly they seem to be inactive now, but I hope they return one day.
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Instagram is now unbearable. I think I’ll start weaning off and have it fully deleted by the end of the year.
3rd PB in 5 parkruns and I got under my goal of 30mins!
I thought it would take me a bit longer to reach that goal so I guess I’m going to have to try and get my average to under 30 instead.
🎵Now Playing: Geese - Getting Killed (2025)
I loved Cameron Winter’s solo album and now I think Geese might be on their way to being the best band on the planet.
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This is one of a series of posts about my trip to Canada. Most posts about this trip can be found here. This was it then, the end of the holiday. But what a place to end it. I didn’t have a huge amount planned for Toronto. A friend of a friend whom I’d met a couple of times in Manchester lived there, and I thought she might have some recommendations—but she ended up being a wonderful guide.
I’ll be posting the final blogs from my Canada trip soon. I hope they’ve been at least vaguely interesting to read. I’ll probably revisit the posts over time to edit and add photos, but I’m glad I made the effort to record the experience. I’ll get better with practice.
This one of a series of posts about my trip to Canada. Most posts about this trip can be found here. After the Pulp gig I had a coach to catch the next day, which took three and a half hours. Clearly, five days looking out of a window on a train wasn’t enough. I was headed to Kingston, one of the oldest cities in (modern) Canada and its first capital.
This one of a series of posts about my trip to Canada. Most posts about this trip can be found here. Lakes. So many lakes. You think you’ve seen lakes? I’ve seen lakes. There are 250,000 lakes in the state of Ontario which is 1/5 of all the freshwater on the planet. A stat I couldn’t quite believe until I’d seen all the lakes. By the final day I was extremely ready to not be on a train, especially at night where I was managing a half decent sleep but my back and bones were aching and my skin was crying out for a proper shower.
🎵Now Playing: Fishmans - Kuuchuu Camp (1996)
I don’t know how or why Fishmans ended up on my “Albums to listen to” playlist but I’m very glad I did. Some 90s Japanese dream/trip/psych pop was what I needed this afternoon (I have forgotten how to do my job).
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Finished reading 2025: The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage Collector’s Edition (Book of Dust, Volume 1) by Philip Pullman📚
I loved getting back into the world of His Dark Materials, it was the perfect accompaniment on the 5 day train across Canada. Can’t wait to read the rest of this prequel trilogy.
Landed back from Canada last night. I have a few more posts to write to catch you up (not that anyone reads them) but safe to say, it was a brilliant time. What a country.
This one of a series of posts about my trip to Canada. Most posts about this trip can be found here. The mountains lost their angles and the gradient started to even off and all that was left was flat. Now, in the UK you might think you know what a flat landscape is. But now. This is Flat. This is flatter than Flat Eric, and flat pack furniture. The horizon stretches out way way out and the vast horizon line totally circles you.
This one of a series of posts about my trip to Canada. Most posts about this trip can be found here. The train station had a queue already when I arrived. I had pre checked my bag and stood in line with the rest of my economy travellers. Looking around it was clear I was on the young side of those boarding. I would begin to loathe some of these people.
This one of a series of posts about my trip to Canada. Most posts about this trip can be found here. I can’t think of another city as surrounded by beauty as Vancouver. The Pacific, the parks, the mountains, it’s all here. All massive and stunning. Nature feels inescapable. It wraps around anything man-made and treats it like Lego left behind by a child. On my first day I explored Stanley Park.
This one of a series of posts about my trip to Canada. Most posts about this trip can be found here. I’m writing this on the plane on the wayo Vancouver after spending a wonderful 4 days in Edmonton spending time with family, some of whom I haven’t seen in 10 years. The flight from Manchester was long. 18 hours travelling and back through various time zones does take it out of you so I pretty much went straight to bed when I arrived at my aunts.
There’s so many unnecessary things in an airport. Why are you trying to do me a deal on 3 bottles of gin. Why is there a space for gamblers. Why is a Kit Kat £2.50.
Out of office on. Bags packed. Holiday is within touching distance. One sleep and the airport awaits. 🇨🇦
🎵Now Playing: Villagers - Becoming a Jackal (2010)
I’m stressing at work trying to cram everything in before the big trip. And Villagers can whisk me away into an indie-folk ethereal world while I deal with data. A stunning, lyrical album full of emotion and pictures.
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This the first in a series of posts about my trip to Canada. Most posts about this trip can be found here. I’m going on holiday this week, to Canada 🇨🇦. I’m hoping that I will make use of this digital space to record my trip properly, and actually blog something other than sharing what I’m listening to or my inane thoughts. To begin, let’s chat about why I’m going, how I’m travelling, and what my overall plan is.
Daniel Savage