Day 3338

Aka Friday 12th January 2024

…I finally got Liam Gallagher’s live album ‘Knebworth ‘22’:

…I was a big Oasis fan, especially those full-on rock ‘n’ roll early years, and even through the later albums weren’t great albums, they still had some gems on them, amongst the more Oasis-by-numbers songs. But I’ve been a tad disappointed by Liam and Noel’s solo albums as they just don’t have that “spark”, some good individual songs, but most of the songs don’t stick in my mind. So, I left this album on the shelf, with the idea to pick it up when it was on sale, which is what I did…and it’s not a bad live album, but it’s not a great live album. The songs are good and the performance from Liam and his band is good, but it doesn’t touch the heights that Oasis got to and it kinda acts as a reminder of what was. As a side note I’ve been listening to Andy Bell’s side project GLOK/Andy Bell’s Space Station, and they have been great ambienty, E2-E4-ish guitar and effects albums/EPs/songs…and I got these New Comic Book Day gems:

…of which I’ve only read ‘Outsiders’ #3, which continues the trend of covering what Warren Ellis and John Cassidy did with ‘Planetary’, but from within the DCU. And it’s a weird read, the meta is truly dialed up, and it kinda feels like characters from outside the DCU have crashed landed in the DCU and are trying to find their feet, figure out how the DCU works. Be interesting to see what this is all building to…and I did today’s G2 Crossword:

…and we’re back on track with Friday’s crossword, we solved 91.67% of the clues (a la 22 out of 24)…or the clues were easier! Except they weren’t, this was another super chewy grid, but the little grey cells put their heads down and ploughed through the clues. Only getting stuck on not getting ‘ordinal’ from ‘Minister’s book’ and ‘tourist’ from ‘grockle’ (which google says is a derogatory term for a holidaymaker, especially one visiting a resort in Devon or Cornwall), which is nice to know…and today's Metro Cryptic Crossword: