Friday 1 May 2015

What we're listening to this week. Doobies 'Southbound'.





Now we know, like you, we said we'd never buy another Doobie Brothers Album again....and then this comes along. 

Everything recently seemed like a new compilation of a previous compilation.

'Southbound' was only released last November and we've been playing it....stunning. 

It's more of a country version duet of all the Doobie classics supported by country music greats like Sara Evans, Vince Gill (on guitar only for some reason), Blake Shelton, Brad Paisley...in a new country way. 

Donna Summer's daughter, Amanda Sudano is here too on 'You belong to me' and pretty effectively at that.

Tom Johnston, Patrick Simmons and Michael McDonald (who still sings like an angel by the way) together for the first time since 1976's 'Taking it to the Streets'. Yep, that's 40 years.

'Long train running', 'South City midnight Lady', 'What a fool believes', 'Takin it to the streets' and them all, are here.

Sara Evans does a great job on 'What a fool believes' which is really tricky to sing anyway.

But Michael McDonald.....ah, tremendous.
(By the way, he originally sung on Steely Dan's 'Peg' in case you didn't know!).

But it's all in a really fresh, new, beautiful way. 

Production values? Superb.
Cool listening? Perfect.

Get it.




And the original...


Wednesday 29 April 2015

Bad Day for Tweeting.





Twitter shares closed yesterday down -18% and they're down today.
Getting a hammering. Their previous worst day trading was a drop of 24%.

It comes on foot of leaked disappointing Quarterly results. 

The leak was a series of tweets by another company clarifying numbers by mistake from the investor relations website. It has rocked the market.

Revenue of 470-485 million is well below the expected 538 million and possibly some margins are down. Average monthly users are 302 million and advertising revenue has jumped +72% year-on-year.

But this isn't a good day for the company or for Dick Costolo. You can get him on Twitter....