Gig of My Life: Tom Waits, Grand Rex Paris, 29th May 2000
Tom LennonSomewhere between the dawn of this century and the tail-end of the last I went to see Tom Waits in Paris. It's still the best gig I've ever been to.
Cookiewaits
Tom LennonSesame Street’s Cookie Monster + Tom Waits = Cookiewaits. It’s obvious, really, and I love this much more than any man should love love some […]
Tom Waits: Hell Broke Luce
Tom LennonI’m a massive Tom Waits fan. A video for Hell Broke Luce (a rather excellent track from his rather excellent latest album, Bad as […]
Music Haiku: My Favourite Albums of the Decade
Tom LennonHere’s some more self-penned haiku, this time covering my favourite records of the last ten years:
20. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (2005)
Sufjan’s Prairie State
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Tom Waits, Kool Keith: Spacious Thoughts
Tom LennonTaken from hip-hop duo NASA’s Spirit of Apollo CD – which features a multitude of mouth-wateringly eclectic musical collaborations – here’s the video for Tom […]
My Top 5 Gigs of 2009
Tom LennonWhy Top 5? Why not a Top 10? As a lapsed Discordian I was going to knock out a rather elaborate, mind-bending […]
Rowlf the Raindog
Tom LennonI was watching The Muppet Show with Clare and Lily this evening. I’d bought Lily the season 2 DVD boxset for Christmas and […]
Tom Waits, Le Grand Rex Paris, 24th July 2008: Gig Reconstruction
Tom LennonI’ll eventually get around to writing a proper review of what will almost inevitably end up as My Favourite Gig of […]
The Gilded Palace of Cinema
Tom LennonI’ve never been a design nut, architecture addict or buildingophile, but when I first saw Le Grand Rex in Paris […]
The Holiday is Over
Tom LennonWell, I’m back.
Over the last week and a half I’ve driven from Birmingham to Kent, from Kent to Sussex and then back to […]
The Littlest Raindog
Tom LennonI’ve made no secret of the fact that next week’s Tom Waits gig in Paris has put me in a state of perpetual chomping-at-the-bit excitement. […]
‘Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends’
Tom LennonThat, in case you don’t know, is a Waiticism – a quote by the legendarily quotable singer-songwriter Tom Waits. Like many […]