Both Sides

Last weekend, languishing on a lazy Sunday at Vijay's place with songs from OK Computer playing on the stereo, I was telling him and Neeti that one of my biggest regrets was to not have caught Radiohead and Ben Harper play live when I lived in Europe. This feeling came back with a vengeance yesterday: I laid my hands on Ben Harper's latest piece of brilliance: Both Sides of the Gun.

Words prove inadequate when I come across such music so I won't try.This feeling also reinforces one of those " must do-crazy things" we all want to do at some point in our lives. I can't set a time frame to it but I know I will fly from whereever I am to Werchter or a similar place to experience Ben Harper and others live. I think the time Greenday and Radiohead are both playing within close proximity, the chances of me doing something this crazy are very high. For now, best advice I can give you is: get your hands on this 2 CD album. A combination of old Harper grunge with some brilliant, experimental rock music.