Out of the roof came forth sweetness...

Have lived below a colony of wild bees for the last five years who have kindly created all this honeycomb (4.5 cubic feet) ready for some seriously local honey to be extracted. East Mersea's bee man Peter Inson both supervised opening up the roof and safe removal of the bees which will now be under his care. He estimates this haul should produce around 80lbs of honey with a shelf life of ~4,000 years!

Many are cold...

Just a tad on the cold side last night! Am left wondering if it was even lower in the dead of night?

OK Go nail it yet again!

Breathtaking!

Offical blurb:

The new music video from OK Go, made in partnership with Chevrolet. OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles. A Chevy Sonic was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of Needing/Getting, singing as they played the instrument array with the car. The video took 4 months of preparation and 4 days of shooting and recording. There are no ringers or stand-ins; Damian took stunt driving lessons. Each piano had the lowest octaves tuned to the same note so that they'd play the right note no matter where they were struck. For more information and behind-the-scenes footage, see http://www.LetsDoThis.com and http://www.okgo.net. Many thanks to Chevy for believing in and supporting such an insane and ambitious project, and to Gretsch for providing the guitars.

Director: Brian L. Perkins & Damian Kulash, Jr.
Director of Photography: Yon Thomas
Editor: Doug Walker
Producer: Luke Ricci

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Just when you thought it was safe...

You know what it is with some bands that get back together and come out with an album? Sometimes it is marginally less than terrible, even for blindly loyal fans, then other times they deliver something special. The latter sums up the new collection of material from rock veterans Van Halen - A Different Kind Of Truth - released tomorrow Monday 7th Feb, a cracking selection of quirky songs which take advantage of more sophisticated production techniques since their inception in the 70s... 4.5 stars!

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Head Full Of Doubt / Road Full Of Promise

Lots to love about this video which interprets the song in both an abstract and complimentary way without resorting to literal imagery whilst still using a mainly 'traditional' approach... Also see how the video was put together here by artist Jason Mitcham who discusses the project with one of the The Avett Brothers founder members Scott Avett.

If the video above is unavailable in your country, try this link.

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What's your Blues name?

Thanks to the Huffington Post and some Facebook friends!

Think I'll stick to being Peter Memory Banks ;-)