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Wednesday Apr 23, 2008

What's in your ears?

I’ve found a video of what we get up to in TheSite.org office:

(Ok, it’s not quite like that, but boy I’d love it to be.  I totally love the fact these people made that video).

But we do have something sort of similar.  On Friday afternoons, we tend to gather for a short presentation on a particular subject before having a little relaxation time where people can chat socially and reflect on what they achieved over the week.  It’s a good opportunity to get to see your colleagues in different light to the usual name that appears in your inbox demanding something be done by yesterday.

One of the highlights of this downtime is that we get to play music in the office.  Generally our office is quite quiet: although the techie people appear to like opera which occasionally they have playing in the background, so it does tend to make the place feel a bit like a hotel lobby. But on Friday afternoon we get to play music.  And that means we need someone to choose the music.

This week, big Jim V asked if I’d like to do the honours.  What then should I inflict my colleagues with?  A quick look at my Last.fm account suggests that most of what I listen to is, erm, of the chilled variety: Jack Johnson, Tom McRae, Air etc (which is what I tended to listen to when I was working at my previous job). All very nice but not exactly the sort of music you want to kickstart your weekend.

(Oh and the Sugababes is my guilty pleasure and I’m not going to apologise for that).

At the moment I’m particularly loving the new Guillemots album (their gig @ Somerset House was my favourite of last year).  I also really liked the new Portishead single when they played it on Jools Holland. And a couple of weeks back I saw this guy play and thought he was brilliant. All of them great, but again not the riveting anthems you want before we head to the pub or wherever.

So, anyone got any great ideas for music we should play in TheSite.org office this Friday?  Current favourites, old classics or undiscovered treasures of MySpace? 

Otherwise I’ll be inflicting my nineties indie favs: stand up Sleeper, Wannadies and classic Charlatans.

Olly

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