love this song.

I'm such a dumbass. See, i have mocks next week, and I just got phoned up and asked, hey, the bbc's doing some recoding-slash-concert thing next friday and they forgot to book a children's choir and we need people, oh, and i'm sorry about not telling you about the britten war requiem last year, so, wanna do it? and i agreed. Now i have much little revision time, and vague amounts of kudos. music better be good.

you know what annoys me? Bands with names that begin "the". listen, it was fine for a while, but it's just getting silly now. The strokes, the faint, the hives, the music, the coral... stop! last time we had a splurge on bands with single-word names - ride, slowdive - we got the manic street preachers, goddamnit! it's not a safe way to go, even if you /are/ adding that placatory "the".