First up is the nice UK/US Biffy Clyro releases of “Modern Magic Formula”and “Black Chandelier” on clear splattered vinyl

Then it’s time for two of the RCA Victor branded signed releases for Kodaline and Dry The River (I am missing the Everything Everything release – boo)

Then on to some 12″ singles from Dutch Uncles, The Joy Formidable, the Grouplove/ Frightened Rabbit split that features the Manchester Orchestra and then the two Jamie xx edits of The xx’s Sunset and Reconsider (presented in a normal die cut xx white sleeve but with a metallic looking wrap around inner sleeve)

Then, it’s the turn of the Recover EP from CHVRCHES on orange translucent vinyl – it’s so nice I took a photo of it being spun

Now for the last item of this update – and the newest in the entire haul – only being picked up on Monday night – the Soundgarden King Animal Demos EP – unfortunately not on pink vinyl like the US fans, but instead on boring black

I find myself standing on a very strange corner. The one where nowhere and fast intersect. Things are moving quickly, and while they all seem to be one giant step forward, someone, something pulls me two steps back. Let this serve as a record, not only of my journey, but of the journey of me and my friends as we try to hack out some sort of life for ourselves – the kind of life that’s harder than others, the kind that wants desperately to pursue a dream against all odds.

I’m a musician. I play in a band with four of my friends. Someday we’ll find our way through this chaotic landscape, tense and thick as molasses, suffocating if you’re not careful. Are there any musicians like us? That play what we play? I already know there are plenty that want what we want, maybe even just as bad as we want it.

Surrounded by the 80s resurgence, I wait for the 90s anger and isolation, resentment, unemployment, sense of abandonment. For a conscious rebellion against the injustice of our parents’ generation, the greed of their richer counterparts and the gulf between the rich and the poor growing more desperate thanks to their negligent policies.

Any grunge fans out there? Only time will tell. I’d like to see what the local music scene looks like underneath the blanket of the popular cliches. I’m sure you’re out there, I just can’t see you yet.

For now, I stand on the corner of nowhere fast, playing music, still dreaming.

I first saw Soundgarden back in the early 90s at the Baltimore Arena when Superunknown was popular. Then I saw Chris Cornell solo at Rams Head in 2008. In 2010 at Lollapalooza, I saw Soundgarden in their first big show together over a decade. I went it as soon as the gates opened and got a spot on the front rail, but all the way to the left. I stood there in the hot Chicago sun all day watching a few other bands until Soundgarden finally took the stage. They played all their hits including my favorites ‘Fell On Black Days,’ ‘Black Hole Sun,’ and ‘Spoon Man.’  Chris Cornell was beautiful as ever. He walked through the crowd pleasing many fans!

A year later while in Philadelphia for the U2 360 Tour, I saw Soundgarden at Festival Pier (it was the day before the U2 show). I bought a fanclub GA, so we were let into the venue before the regular GA. We got to the front rail on the left, but closer than I was at Lollapalooza the year before because this was a smaller venue. Soundgarden took the stage at 8:45. They played my favorites Spoonman, My Wave, Fell on Black Days, Rusty Cage, and Black Hole Sun.  They were great and seemed really excited that the Philly audience was so enthusiastic. Chris even said something like, ‘Finally a real crowd.’

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This blog post is part of my A to Z April Challenge about ‘My Music’ – music I love from A to Z. Thanks for stopping by. I am also blogging the A to Z Challenge on my other blog On the Road with U2 about ‘My U2′ – what I love about U2 from A to Z.

3 Tame Impala – “Elephant”

4 ∆ Alt-J – “Breezeblocks”

5 P.O.D. – “Beautiful” (X-Effect Debut)

6 The 1975 – “Chocolate”

7 Jake Bugg – “Lightening Bolt”  

8 Queens of the Stone Age (feat Dave Grohl on drums) – “My God is the Sun”

9 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Sacrilege” (X-Effect Debut)

10 The National – “Don’t Swallow the Cap”

11 Authority Zero – “Today We Heard The News”   

12 The Unlikely Candidates – “Follow My Feet”  

13 Biffy Clyro – “Black Chandelier”

14 Atlas Genius – “If So”

HOUR 2

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LOCAL – The Pax Trend – “Japanese Lights”

LOCAL – Tonight We Fight – “Table For Two”

LOCAL – Hyperion’s Horizon – “Pay Attention” (Hard Rock Rising 2013 Las Vegas Winners & Last Week’s Local Effect Winners!)

1 The Neighborhood – “Sweater Weather” (Live in Studio X thanks to Dollar Loan Center)

2 Wavves – “Demon to Lean On”

3 The Postal Service – “A Tattered Line of String” 

4 Kitten – “G#”

5 Alex Clare – “Relax My Beloved,”  6 “Three Hearts” &  7 “Too Close” (Live in Studio X thanks to Dollar Loan Center)

8 Robert DeLong – “Global Concepts”

9 Depeche Mode – “Soothe My Soul”

10 Dear Hunter – “Whisper” (X-Effect Debut)

11 Jimmy Eat World – “I Will Steal You Back”

12 Dan Croll – “From Nowhere”

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A vibrant blaze of multi-flavoured melodic flames, the new EP from Italian rock band Hell’s Island is an impressive introduction to the Brescia quartet for these welcoming ears. Black Painted Circle is a stirring encounter which pulls varied styles of rock into a metal forged storm of impressive enterprise, such its impact it inspires a sense of failure for not discovering the band and their previous sounds before now.

Hell’s Island was formed in 2002 and across its decade of existence the band has evolved and honed its music into the startling and invigorating proposition rife upon the new EP. Now consisting of Roberto Negrini (vocals, guitar), Michele Grizzi (guitar), Tania Vetere (bass), and Michel Tonoli (drums), the band has built on the acclaim gleamed from their debut EP of 2005 and especially its successor the album II four years later. Merging grunge and progressive rock with the sinews and barbed power of metal, the band in Black Painted Circle has now lit a fire in the passions and attention which surely like for us, will ignite a similar reaction in many others and spawn a deserved elevated recognition for the band.

Opening song G.O.D. (Guilty of Dying) immediately sends forth a notice of something appetizing in the air with its opening sprawl of guitar flames and firm rhythms. Settling into a slow stroll the bass prowls with a wonderfully deep voice whilst the guitars accelerate their searing touch with enterprise and greedy energy, both aspects with the still commanding drums brought to focus by the excellent vocals of Negrini, his clean expressive tones holding enough snarl to bridge the rapacious textures and melodic invention within the song. The track never settles in its imagination continually switching and involving further aspects and riveting ideas as well as being littered with varied directions, the unpredictable and fluid transitions wrapped in the persistent intensity and heart of the song for a deeply satisfying confrontation. The throaty growl of the bass is an extra treat in the song and carries right through the whole release though Vetere too varies its stance and gait to never allow assumptions a place in the scheme of things.

The following title track is a smouldering melodic temptation which offers the skies warmth and radiant sounds musically and vocally, though still shadows keep everything in context and emotively shrouded. Loud whispers of Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots are reaped across the magnetic stretch of the song to be bloomed into a muscular wrap of fascinating masterful songwriting with its realisation just as impressive. As comfortable and potent in its gentler moments as it is in the seamless flows into dynamic powerful crescendos, the song leaves the passions lit and enamoured.

Both Opaque Solo and Down Again bring further irresistible craft and scintillating presences from their individual fires, the first an emotive yet hungry tempest of infectious creativity which offers a wrap of energetic and contagious imagination to the lyrical core of isolation and loneliness, the guitars and rhythms sizzling with industry and invention and that bass again growling to move the passions. The closing Down Again also leaves thoughts and the aftermath of an ended relationship soaked in emotional strength and lively venture, its melodic weaves and keen sinew gifted gait a final thrilling entrapment of the passions.

Black Painted Circle is an outstanding torrent of rich and finely defined invention veined with melodic fire and immersive imagination. The EP and Hell’s Island itself may not be shaping brand new directions for rock music but rarely do releases have the immediacy and total persuasion upon the passions as brought by this release…a must for all melodic rock fans.

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Cornell continued by saying, “Let us now praise sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson.” before mentioning the rest of the original band. “Together these people made magic.”

“It never occured to us that Ann and Nancy Wilson were women existing in a world dominated by men,” Cornell said. “They blasted any sexist barriers in front of them.” He pointed out that Heart put the Pacific Northwest on the map “in a major way.”

“Before that, no one thought that rock stars could come from Seattle,” he said. “Heart was important to us, not just as musicians, but as proof that Seattle could produce something beautiful and rocking.”

He continued: “When you first heard the great albums that these men and women made, you had the sense that here was a band that knew exactly what they were doing and where they were going.  They naturally rocked hard, and their folkier songs seemed to show a genuine understanding of folk music.  Heart felt in touch with their musical heroes in a way that is authentic to me.”

“Ann Wilson is a unique vocal force of nature. I’ve sat in the living room with Ann and Nancy Wilson, it’s some of the best live singing I’ve ever heard,” Cornell said. “As a vocalist, she is one of the few vocal role models that I look to. And Nancy is an amazing guitar goddess. When these sisters sing together, its unlike anything I’ve ever heard before.”

A visibly moved Nancy Wilson said, “It is tremendously beaufiul to be in this eagles nest of tremendous music.  Our music is about the enduring power of love.  We came from an era where women normally did not rock and we weren’t supposed to be leaders. These days women are ferorcious leaders from the boardrooms to the bedrooms!”

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Cornell continued by saying, “Let us now praise sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson.” before mentioning the rest of the original band. “Together these people made magic.”

“It never occured to us that Ann and Nancy Wilson were women existing in a world dominated by men,” Cornell said. “They blasted any sexist barriers in front of them.” He pointed out that Heart put the Pacific Northwest on the map “in a major way.”

“Before that, no one thought that rock stars could come from Seattle,” he said. “Heart was important to us, not just as musicians, but as proof that Seattle could produce something beautiful and rocking.”

He continued: “When you first heard the great albums that these men and women made, you had the sense that here was a band that knew exactly what they were doing and where they were going.  They naturally rocked hard, and their folkier songs seemed to show a genuine understanding of folk music.  Heart felt in touch with their musical heroes in a way that is authentic to me.”

“Ann Wilson is a unique vocal force of nature. I’ve sat in the living room with Ann and Nancy Wilson, it’s some of the best live singing I’ve ever heard,” Cornell said. “As a vocalist, she is one of the few vocal role models that I look to. And Nancy is an amazing guitar goddess. When these sisters sing together, its unlike anything I’ve ever heard before.”

See more photos from the night here.

A visibly moved Nancy Wilson said, “It is tremendously beaufiul to be in this eagles nest of tremendous music. Our music is about the enduring power of love. We came from an era where women normally did not rock and we weren’t supposed to be leaders. These days women are ferorcious leaders from the boardrooms to the bedrooms!”

Nancy also thanked their children (hers and Ann’s) who have forgiven them for being on the road so much. She closed by saying, “We’re not finished rocking yet. we’re looking straight into the future, and we say, ‘Turn it up!’”

Ann then spoke, “We came from Seattle from a time when it wasn’t the center of the rock universe, which is hard to believe  when you see the talent on stage with us later.”

She also thanked the other original band members, all onstage with the sisters, although they aren’t in the band anymore.

Ann continued, “I have the wrong gender, the wrong DNA, the wrong hometown to have a successful career in music, but some of the best things are the wrong things.”  She closed by expressing gratitude for the band’s career and stressed, “I never, ever, take it for granted.”

The original lineup then performed “Crazy On You,” followed by “Dreamboat Annie,” featuring Ann playing a flute solo.  Nancy then traded her acoustic guitar for an electric, and although a player of her caliber needs no support, for “Barracuda” she was joined by a guitar army of Seattle royalty – Cornell, Mike McCready of Pearl Jam and Jerry Cantrell of Alice In Chains.

Although it’s taken a few more years than it should have, the wait was worth it to see members of  the original band, along with members of three of the most vital bands of the ’90s (all of whom still tour and play huge venues) rocking out to one of the most iconic hard rock songs of all time.

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“My name is Chris Cornell, and I’m here to induct my hometown heroes, Heart.” That’s how the Sound Garden frontman started his Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame induction speech.

Cornell continued by saying, “Let us now praise sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson.” before mentioning the rest of the original band. “Together these people made magic.”

“It never occured to us that Ann and Nancy Wilson were women existing in a world dominated by men,” Cornell said. “They blasted any sexist barriers in front of them.” He pointed out that Heart put the Pacific Northwest on the map “in a major way.”

“Before that, no one thought that rock stars could come from Seattle,” he said. “Heart was important to us, not just as musicians, but as proof that Seattle could produce something beautiful and rocking.”

He continued: “When you first heard the great albums that these men and women made, you had the sense that here was a band that knew exactly what they were doing and where they were going.  They naturally rocked hard, and their folkier songs seemed to show a genuine understanding of folk music.  Heart felt in touch with their musical heroes in a way that is authentic to me.”

“Ann Wilson is a unique vocal force of nature. I’ve sat in the living room with Ann and Nancy Wilson, it’s some of the best live singing I’ve ever heard,” Cornell said. “As a vocalist, she is one of the few vocal role models that I look to. And Nancy is an amazing guitar goddess. When these sisters sing together, its unlike anything I’ve ever heard before.”

A visibly moved Nancy Wilson said, “It is tremendously beaufiul to be in this eagles nest of tremendous music.  Our music is about the enduring power of love.  We came from an era where women normally did not rock and we weren’t supposed to be leaders. These days women are ferorcious leaders from the boardrooms to the bedrooms!”

Read more on Radio.com

Cornell continued by saying, “Let us now praise sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson.” before mentioning the rest of the original band. “Together these people made magic.”

“It never occured to us that Ann and Nancy Wilson were women existing in a world dominated by men,” Cornell said. “They blasted any sexist barriers in front of them.” He pointed out that Heart put the Pacific Northwest on the map “in a major way.”

“Before that, no one thought that rock stars could come from Seattle,” he said. “Heart was important to us, not just as musicians, but as proof that Seattle could produce something beautiful and rocking.”

He continued: “When you first heard the great albums that these men and women made, you had the sense that here was a band that knew exactly what they were doing and where they were going.  They naturally rocked hard, and their folkier songs seemed to show a genuine understanding of folk music.  Heart felt in touch with their musical heroes in a way that is authentic to me.”

“Ann Wilson is a unique vocal force of nature. I’ve sat in the living room with Ann and Nancy Wilson, it’s some of the best live singing I’ve ever heard,” Cornell said. “As a vocalist, she is one of the few vocal role models that I look to. And Nancy is an amazing guitar goddess. When these sisters sing together, its unlike anything I’ve ever heard before.”

A visibly moved Nancy Wilson said, “It is tremendously beaufiul to be in this eagles nest of tremendous music.  Our music is about the enduring power of love.  We came from an era where women normally did not rock and we weren’t supposed to be leaders. These days women are ferorcious leaders from the boardrooms to the bedrooms!”

Read more on Radio.com

Tomorrow is the 4th Annual Record Store Day! Even if you don’t collect vinyl, please be sure to support music by going to a show, buying a CD, buying merch, buying something off of iTunes/Amazon/Bandcamp, order something online…just support if you can spare it. It’s a day for music lovers to support artists and show their support for the physical side of music, which still has a very relevant place in the artists true vision. It is unfortunately a declining commodity for those that truly understand and appreciate it’s meaning.

I’ve compiled a list of some of the amazing exclusive, alternative genre titles that will be released tomorrow. Let me know what you intend to pick up in the replies!

• All That Remains – “Fall Of Ideals” (12″)
• At The Drive-In – “Relationship Of Command” (Exclusive Reissue) (12″)
• Avenged Sevenfold – “Live In The LBC & Diamonds In The Rough” (12″)
• Avenged Sevenfold” – “Carry On” (12″ picture disc)
• Bayside – “Live at the Bayside Social Club” (12″)
• Between The Buried And Me – “Parallax 1 & 2” vinyl boxset (12″)
• Between The Buried And Me – “The Anatomy Of” (12″)
• Biffy Clyro – “Black Chandelier” (7″)
• Bonobo – “The North Borders” (12″)
• Botch – “American Nervoso” (deluxe 2xLP) (12″)
• Braid – “Frames and Canvas” (12″)
• Cave In – “Until Your Heart Stops” (12″)
• Coheed And Cambria – “The Afterman: Descension (Big Beige Demos)” (12″)
• Deep Purple/Type O Negative – “Side By Side: Highway Star” (7″)
• Deftones – “Live: Volume 1 – Selections From Adrenaline” (12″)
• Dio – “Magica” (12″ picture disc)
• Dio/Killswitch Engage – “Side By Side: Holy Diver” (7″)
• Earth Crisis – “Firestorm” (12″)
• Elliot Smith – “Either/Or (Outakes)” (7″)
• Face to Face – “The Other Half” (10″)
• Foals – “Holy Fire” (7″)
• Frank Turner – “Recovery” (7″)
• The Gaslight Anthem – “Handwritten (Deluxe) (12″)
• The Hold Steady – “Criminal Fingers” (7″)
• Husker Du – “Amusement” (7″)
• Jimmy Eat World – “Damage” (7″)
• Katatonia – “Buildings” (7″)
• Lamb Of God – “New American Gospel” (grey marble edition) (12″)
• Linkin Park – “Hybrid Theory” (12″)
• Mad Season – “Above” (expanded edition vinyl)
• Misfits/The Lemonheads – “Side By Side: Skulls” (7″)
• New Found Glory – “Mania 7″ (12″)
• Portugal. The Man – “Church Mouth” (12″)
• The Prize Fighter Inferno – “Half Measures” (12″)
• Puscifer – “V Is For Vagina” (12″)
• Rob Zombie – “Dead City Radio And The New Gods Of Supertown“/”Teenage Nosferatu Pussy” (10″)
• Rocket From the Crypt – “Group Sounds” (12″)
• Samiam – “Clumsy” (12″)
• Silverstein/August Burns Red – “Four Minutes Being Cool” (7″)
• Snapcase – “Steps” (7″)
• Soundgarden – “King Animal Demos” (10″)
• Straylight Run – “Prepare to be Wrong” (12″)
• Testament – “Dark Roots Covers” (picture disc) (7″)
• Touche Amore / Title Fight – “Split” (7″)

We’re in Cumbria 1207 and a monk is banging on a monastery door declaring that the bells of St. John are ringing. The abbot decides to call on “him”. Calling on the mad monk, you say? Not really a monk, eh?  Has to be the Doctor and it is. The young monk and the abbot stare at his painting of the late Clara Oswin Oswald and the abbot declares that if the monk is mad it is she that is his madness. I would say obsession, but pohtayto, pohtahto, abbot dear. Cut to modern day, where a version of The Woman Twice Dead is on the phone and yelling after a girl named Angie. Clara, who is again looking after children,  is surprisingly having trouble with her internet access. Clara takes a look at a book from the brother, Artie, entitled Summer Falls by one Amelia Williams. Oh god, Moffat, is that comforting or just plain mean? She tells the boy that Chapter Eleven is the best and that he will cry his eyes out. Hee. Then I hear a Dreamlord-like chirping subtly in the background, much like I did in that scene between Vastra and Clara in The Snowmen. I don’t know what to make of that. Moffat, what are you up to you clever boy?  You better run. Oh no, am I Clara, too?

Clara still can’t get the WiFi to connect. Cut back to 1207, where the Doctor answers the phone on the front of the TARDIS. It’s Clara in 2013 asking for help with the internet because she claims its missing. No Clara, Jen has it. Moss and Roy gave it to her. Clara asks if she is “in a different time zone”. The Doctor amusedly answers that she kind of is. Clara wants to know if this will show up on the bill and the Doctor verbally shudders over the financial implications. He asks her where she got the number and she says the woman in the shop said it was the best helpline in the universe.The Doctor wants to know who the shopgirl is as do we (Sally? River? Rose?), but Clara doesn’t know. This version of Clara oddly doesn’t know a lot. The Doctor increasingly frustrated by this inane conversation even though inane conversations are usually his thing, asks if she has clicked on the WiFi. Clara asks Angie for the password and then she says the clever boy catchphrase which she uses as a mnemonic device. The Doctor is awake now. Clara decides to click on the evil code as her doorbell rings. She answers the door to the Doctor, who is still dressed like a monk and sporting some serious emo band hair. He calls her Clara Oswin Oswald and she tells him there is no Oswin to it. More on that later. He asks if she remembers him, the Doctor, and then she asks Doctor Who?. He then asks her to repeat the question, twice. I don’t know if I am going to like Season 7B Eleven as he is already a bit insufferable. Clara must be thinking the same thing because she shuts the door on him.

Cut to the office where the monitors of death are located and a woman talking to one of her underlings about whether Clara is clever enough to upload permanently. The man tells her he will need a Spoonhead. I have Soundgarden in my head now singing “save me, come together with a plan”. That will be apropos soon, I think. Miss Kizlet walks away from him and to a spectacled underling, saying she is fond of Alexei, but that they should kill him. Ouch. Another reason to not work for this firm. They walk into her office and discuss being exposed for uploading people too quickly. She responds that they are preserving human minds on the data cloud (there was a nano cloud in TAoD, and the Doctor on a cloud in The Snowmen and did she just say “minds”, not “souls”?), while she uses her tablet to access Specs’ compliance so she can manipulate him into doing her bidding with the swipe of a scroll bar.

Back to Clara who talks to the Doctor on the security camera.  He tells her she phoned him looking for the internet and that he just happened to be in the neighborhood on his mobile phone, as he sweeps his monk-robed arm toward the TARDIS parked behind him. She asks why he keeps pointing to that box when he says mobile phone and he tells her it is a surprisingly accurate description. And I thought mobiles were chunky in the mid Nineties. Next we hear a door slam and ominous creaking as it becomes apparent that someone is in the house (even though everyone has gone). Turns out it is the girl from the cover of Clara’s book. Clara steps back when she figures this out, as the girl’s head starts to turn. Where the back of her head should be is a spoon-shaped indention that is buzzing and bleeping. Even though they were convex and not concave this Spoonhead kind of reminds me of The Library’s robots with human faces.

The Doctor, changing clothes in the TARDIS decides on his Aubergine tailcoat and bow tie ensemble from his time in Victorian England. Yay! Back to Clara’s door, where it quickly becomes apparent that something is up because she starts repeating “I don’t know where I am”. The rhythm of the repetition reminds me of when Oswin was turned into a Dalek and also of the “ghosting” of people in Moffat’s Season 4 two-parter. *Shivers* The Doctor uses the sonic to get in, and finds her passed out , with her image and voice on and coming out of the Spoonhead. He zaps it and we see Alexei informing Kizlet that they have a problem. The Doctor then zaps the Spoonhead and shows us its true form. He grabs Clara’s laptop and begins working furiously to hack her back. Kizlet asks Specs if it is possible for someone to get her back and since Clara has not been fully integrated, he says it is. Cuts back and forth between the two locations, with much speedy typing and bleeping. The Doctor checks Clara’s pulse and the Spoonhead laser beams her soul or mind (Which is it?) back into her body. The Doctor kisses her on the head.

Cut to angry, pacing Kizlet who eventually talks to “the client” but we don’t see him. Cut back to the Doctor setting up a glass of water, flowers, and Jammie Dodgers for the sleeping Clara He really loves him some Jammie Dodgers as he takes a bite out of one and savors it with relish and a sweeping arm movement before putting the cookie/biscuit on the plate along with the others. Bad form, Doc, she isn’t a child waking up to see if Santa has come. The look on Eleven’s face while he is doing all of this is so sweet you forgive him. He then reaches for a vintage book on her shelf, 101 Places to Go, and finds a Maple leaf tucked between the pages and a column where Clara’s name is written along with every age except 16 and 23. Does that mean she didn’t own the book those years? Does that mean she lost those years? Are those the years she was Oswin and Clara O. O.?  Moffat!!!  And now the Doctor is licking Clara’s leaf with a weird flick of his head. Loves a good lick, the Doctor. The whole time some new sweet-sounding incidental music has been playing and continues into the next scene.

Clara pops her head out her window and talks to the Doctor who is sitting on the curb by his TARDIS dismantling the Spoonhead. The Doctor then gives her a cute rundown of things she missed including his accidental invention of the Quadracycle. Hee. Even though there were hints of romance between the Doctor and the previous Clara, his approach to this one is quite fatherly. Bless. Cut to the Trinity of Evil who are watching; Kizlet tells them to do something creative. Somehow I don’t think she wants Alexei and Specs to take up decoupage or knitting. Clara sits with the Doctor in the driveway and they talk about something being in the WiFi soup trapping people forever in a desperate situation. Clara compares this to Twitter because it’s a convenient way to let us know she now has knowledge of the internet (seriously, how can this be taking place in the present and Clara is a twenty-something and knows nothing about the internet?) and it’s a convenient way for Moffat to get in another jab at Twitter. Clara realizes she knows all about computers and the Doctor states that he doubts she will be allowed to keep that knowledge. He spots another Spoonhead across the street and orders Clara to get in the box. Clara not having seen it, is reluctant to do so, thinking it’s a come on and calling the TARDIS a snog box. Hee, I like her. They then notice lights going on all along the street. The Doctor claims the WiFi is switching on the people. Creeeeepy. The Doctor realizes these Spoonheads could be everywhere as they notice other lights in the City going off. Kizlet then decides to crash a plane. As you do. The Doctor pulls Clara into the TARDIS and as he flies them to a new location, Clara gives the Doctor his favorite pay-off as she swirls around the console declaring that it is bigger on the inside. But the Doctor is too busy to enjoy it and opens the doors onto the crashing airplane. He and Clara stumble down the aisle, and all the while Clara, good English girl that she is, is still balancing her cup of tea. He keeps the plane from crashing, blocks the WiFi and everyone wakes up.

They exit the TARDIS onto the South Bank where The Doctor holds out his fez and collects money for breakfast like a street act. Clara and The Doctor then speed through London on a motorbike with zippy music bopping them along. He claims he doesn’t take the TARDIS into battle even though we have seen him do just that in the past. I think he just fancied a ride. Ooh, I love Clara’s studded red leather gloves. Cut to Kizlet exclaiming that she loves London because there are so many cameras. Their scope is larger than we thought.

The Doctor and Clara on a balcony. He says he can hack their lower level systems but can’t figure out where they are located. The Doctor asks her how long she has been helping out with those kids. About a year. Every one of these Oswald’s has been doing something for about a year. Weird. Assuring the Doc that she has the skills to find the villains in five minutes, Clara sends him off after a small exchange about the Victorianess of nannies and Clara declaring “Os for the Win, Oswin”, thus giving herself a hacker handle. While she hacks into the employee’s social network files, the Doctor is in the cafe dealing with Kizlet speaking to him through the cafe patrons. Again, their scope is vast. It is both creepy and funny watching these people imitate Celia Imrie’s accent and speech patterns. Meanwhile, Clara is taking photos of the employees at the Headquarters of Evil through their webcams and cross-referencing them with social media. Cut back to Kizlet and the Doctor talking and she is telling him that her client likes to feed on free-range minds. Clara discovers the baddies are at the Shard which is conveniently visible from her vantage point.  Also convenient that all of the employees at the Shard are idiots who posted their location on Facebook. You would think a secret evil organization that has control of the WiFi (and people) to the extent that they do would crack down on their employee’s social media activities at work. Just sayin’ .

The Doctor comes out of the cafe but turns out he’s a Spoonhead and Clara gets uploaded again. Real Doctor catches up, but Clara is fully integrated this time. Alexei declares that The Doctor is coming as we then see him speeding to the Shard on his motorbike with his jaw and helmet making him look like the Dread Baron.  He stops at a light and Kizlet uses a fat man to talk to the Doctor about the building’s security. He informs her that getting in won’t be a problem. Amusing cuts back and forth between Kizlet and the Fat Man as her astonishment overtakes them because the Doctor is riding up the side of the Shard. He crashes through the windows  and demands she put Clara’s mind back into her body. She refuses because she would have to download the entire data cloud and we find out that Dick Dastardly Doctor is actually a Spoonhead who then motivates/uploads Kizlet into the data cloud. Kizlet demands that Specs download the cloud to get her back and he refuses, but the Spoonhead Doc, under the real Doctor’s control, motivates Specs with his control bar on Kizlet’s tablet.  Kizlet is really freaking out and I am loving it. They release everyone and Clara returns to her body.

Kizlet informs her client, which is revealed to be the Great Intelligence in Simeon form on a monitor, that UNIT have arrived.  He instructs her to reduce. She does so with a tap of her tablet and all of the Shard employees revert to their previous clueless identities. Kizlet is found in her office, curled up on the floor asking for her Mummy and Daddy. Oh, the conflicting feels, Moffat! Now we are at Clara’s house  and we find out Clara is with this family because she was going to travel, but came to visit them and their Mum died.The Doctor invites her to travel with him but she asks him to come back tomorrow. He asks her about her leaf and she enigmatically declares it isn’t a leaf, but page one. Well thanks for that Clara. Now I have to go online to try to decipher the meaning of it. She exits. The Doctor declares it’s time to find out who she is and somehow I think it won’t be. Next time, they visit a planet where a girl is in serious peril. Episode rating, B+.

Cornell continued by saying, “Let us now praise sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson.” before mentioning the rest of the original band. “Together these people made magic.”

“It never occured to us that Ann and Nancy Wilson were women existing in a world dominated by men,” Cornell said. “They blasted any sexist barriers in front of them.” He pointed out that Heart put the Pacific Northwest on the map “in a major way.”

“Before that, no one thought that rock stars could come from Seattle,” he said. “Heart was important to us, not just as musicians, but as proof that Seattle could produce something beautiful and rocking.”

He continued: “When you first heard the great albums that these men and women made, you had the sense that here was a band that knew exactly what they were doing and where they were going.  They naturally rocked hard, and their folkier songs seemed to show a genuine understanding of folk music.  Heart felt in touch with their musical heroes in a way that is authentic to me.”

“Ann Wilson is a unique vocal force of nature. I’ve sat in the living room with Ann and Nancy Wilson, it’s some of the best live singing I’ve ever heard,” Cornell said. “As a vocalist, she is one of the few vocal role models that I look to. And Nancy is an amazing guitar goddess. When these sisters sing together, its unlike anything I’ve ever heard before.”

A visibly moved Nancy Wilson said, “It is tremendously beaufiul to be in this eagles nest of tremendous music.  Our music is about the enduring power of love.  We came from an era where women normally did not rock and we weren’t supposed to be leaders. These days women are ferorcious leaders from the boardrooms to the bedrooms!”

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Cornell continued by saying, “Let us now praise sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson.” before mentioning the rest of the original band. “Together these people made magic.”

“It never occured to us that Ann and Nancy Wilson were women existing in a world dominated by men,” Cornell said. “They blasted any sexist barriers in front of them.” He pointed out that Heart put the Pacific Northwest on the map “in a major way.”

“Before that, no one thought that rock stars could come from Seattle,” he said. “Heart was important to us, not just as musicians, but as proof that Seattle could produce something beautiful and rocking.”

He continued: “When you first heard the great albums that these men and women made, you had the sense that here was a band that knew exactly what they were doing and where they were going.  They naturally rocked hard, and their folkier songs seemed to show a genuine understanding of folk music.  Heart felt in touch with their musical heroes in a way that is authentic to me.”

“Ann Wilson is a unique vocal force of nature. I’ve sat in the living room with Ann and Nancy Wilson, it’s some of the best live singing I’ve ever heard,” Cornell said. “As a vocalist, she is one of the few vocal role models that I look to. And Nancy is an amazing guitar goddess. When these sisters sing together, its unlike anything I’ve ever heard before.”

A visibly moved Nancy Wilson said, “It is tremendously beaufiul to be in this eagles nest of tremendous music.  Our music is about the enduring power of love.  We came from an era where women normally did not rock and we weren’t supposed to be leaders. These days women are ferorcious leaders from the boardrooms to the bedrooms!”

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Cornell continued by saying, “Let us now praise sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson.” before mentioning the rest of the original band. “Together these people made magic.”

“It never occured to us that Ann and Nancy Wilson were women existing in a world dominated by men,” Cornell said. “They blasted any sexist barriers in front of them.” He pointed out that Heart put the Pacific Northwest on the map “in a major way.”

“Before that, no one thought that rock stars could come from Seattle,” he said. “Heart was important to us, not just as musicians, but as proof that Seattle could produce something beautiful and rocking.”

He continued: “When you first heard the great albums that these men and women made, you had the sense that here was a band that knew exactly what they were doing and where they were going.  They naturally rocked hard, and their folkier songs seemed to show a genuine understanding of folk music.  Heart felt in touch with their musical heroes in a way that is authentic to me.”

“Ann Wilson is a unique vocal force of nature. I’ve sat in the living room with Ann and Nancy Wilson, it’s some of the best live singing I’ve ever heard,” Cornell said. “As a vocalist, she is one of the few vocal role models that I look to. And Nancy is an amazing guitar goddess. When these sisters sing together, its unlike anything I’ve ever heard before.”

A visibly moved Nancy Wilson said, “It is tremendously beaufiul to be in this eagles nest of tremendous music.  Our music is about the enduring power of love.  We came from an era where women normally did not rock and we weren’t supposed to be leaders. These days women are ferorcious leaders from the boardrooms to the bedrooms!”

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Cornell continued by saying, “Let us now praise sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson.” before mentioning the rest of the original band. “Together these people made magic.”

“It never occured to us that Ann and Nancy Wilson were women existing in a world dominated by men,” Cornell said. “They blasted any sexist barriers in front of them.” He pointed out that Heart put the Pacific Northwest on the map “in a major way.”

“Before that, no one thought that rock stars could come from Seattle,” he said. “Heart was important to us, not just as musicians, but as proof that Seattle could produce something beautiful and rocking.”

He continued: “When you first heard the great albums that these men and women made, you had the sense that here was a band that knew exactly what they were doing and where they were going.  They naturally rocked hard, and their folkier songs seemed to show a genuine understanding of folk music.  Heart felt in touch with their musical heroes in a way that is authentic to me.”

“Ann Wilson is a unique vocal force of nature. I’ve sat in the living room with Ann and Nancy Wilson, it’s some of the best live singing I’ve ever heard,” Cornell said. “As a vocalist, she is one of the few vocal role models that I look to. And Nancy is an amazing guitar goddess. When these sisters sing together, its unlike anything I’ve ever heard before.”

A visibly moved Nancy Wilson said, “It is tremendously beaufiul to be in this eagles nest of tremendous music.  Our music is about the enduring power of love.  We came from an era where women normally did not rock and we weren’t supposed to be leaders. These days women are ferorcious leaders from the boardrooms to the bedrooms!”

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Cornell continued by saying, “Let us now praise sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson.” before mentioning the rest of the original band. “Together these people made magic.”

“It never occured to us that Ann and Nancy Wilson were women existing in a world dominated by men,” Cornell said. “They blasted any sexist barriers in front of them.” He pointed out that Heart put the Pacific Northwest on the map “in a major way.”

“Before that, no one thought that rock stars could come from Seattle,” he said. “Heart was important to us, not just as musicians, but as proof that Seattle could produce something beautiful and rocking.”

He continued: “When you first heard the great albums that these men and women made, you had the sense that here was a band that knew exactly what they were doing and where they were going.  They naturally rocked hard, and their folkier songs seemed to show a genuine understanding of folk music.  Heart felt in touch with their musical heroes in a way that is authentic to me.”

“Ann Wilson is a unique vocal force of nature. I’ve sat in the living room with Ann and Nancy Wilson, it’s some of the best live singing I’ve ever heard,” Cornell said. “As a vocalist, she is one of the few vocal role models that I look to. And Nancy is an amazing guitar goddess. When these sisters sing together, its unlike anything I’ve ever heard before.”

A visibly moved Nancy Wilson said, “It is tremendously beaufiul to be in this eagles nest of tremendous music.  Our music is about the enduring power of love.  We came from an era where women normally did not rock and we weren’t supposed to be leaders. These days women are ferorcious leaders from the boardrooms to the bedrooms!”

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Cornell continued by saying, “Let us now praise sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson.” before mentioning the rest of the original band. “Together these people made magic.”

“It never occured to us that Ann and Nancy Wilson were women existing in a world dominated by men,” Cornell said. “They blasted any sexist barriers in front of them.” He pointed out that Heart put the Pacific Northwest on the map “in a major way.”

“Before that, no one thought that rock stars could come from Seattle,” he said. “Heart was important to us, not just as musicians, but as proof that Seattle could produce something beautiful and rocking.”

He continued: “When you first heard the great albums that these men and women made, you had the sense that here was a band that knew exactly what they were doing and where they were going.  They naturally rocked hard, and their folkier songs seemed to show a genuine understanding of folk music.  Heart felt in touch with their musical heroes in a way that is authentic to me.”

“Ann Wilson is a unique vocal force of nature. I’ve sat in the living room with Ann and Nancy Wilson, it’s some of the best live singing I’ve ever heard,” Cornell said. “As a vocalist, she is one of the few vocal role models that I look to. And Nancy is an amazing guitar goddess. When these sisters sing together, its unlike anything I’ve ever heard before.”

A visibly moved Nancy Wilson said, “It is tremendously beaufiul to be in this eagles nest of tremendous music.  Our music is about the enduring power of love.  We came from an era where women normally did not rock and we weren’t supposed to be leaders. These days women are ferorcious leaders from the boardrooms to the bedrooms!”

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Cornell continued by saying, “Let us now praise sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson.” before mentioning the rest of the original band. “Together these people made magic.”

“It never occured to us that Ann and Nancy Wilson were women existing in a world dominated by men,” Cornell said. “They blasted any sexist barriers in front of them.” He pointed out that Heart put the Pacific Northwest on the map “in a major way.”

“Before that, no one thought that rock stars could come from Seattle,” he said. “Heart was important to us, not just as musicians, but as proof that Seattle could produce something beautiful and rocking.”

He continued: “When you first heard the great albums that these men and women made, you had the sense that here was a band that knew exactly what they were doing and where they were going.  They naturally rocked hard, and their folkier songs seemed to show a genuine understanding of folk music.  Heart felt in touch with their musical heroes in a way that is authentic to me.”

“Ann Wilson is a unique vocal force of nature. I’ve sat in the living room with Ann and Nancy Wilson, it’s some of the best live singing I’ve ever heard,” Cornell said. “As a vocalist, she is one of the few vocal role models that I look to. And Nancy is an amazing guitar goddess. When these sisters sing together, its unlike anything I’ve ever heard before.”

A visibly moved Nancy Wilson said, “It is tremendously beaufiul to be in this eagles nest of tremendous music.  Our music is about the enduring power of love.  We came from an era where women normally did not rock and we weren’t supposed to be leaders. These days women are ferorcious leaders from the boardrooms to the bedrooms!”

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Cornell continued by saying, “Let us now praise sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson.” before mentioning the rest of the original band. “Together these people made magic.”

“It never occured to us that Ann and Nancy Wilson were women existing in a world dominated by men,” Cornell said. “They blasted any sexist barriers in front of them.” He pointed out that Heart put the Pacific Northwest on the map “in a major way.”

“Before that, no one thought that rock stars could come from Seattle,” he said. “Heart was important to us, not just as musicians, but as proof that Seattle could produce something beautiful and rocking.”

He continued: “When you first heard the great albums that these men and women made, you had the sense that here was a band that knew exactly what they were doing and where they were going.  They naturally rocked hard, and their folkier songs seemed to show a genuine understanding of folk music.  Heart felt in touch with their musical heroes in a way that is authentic to me.”

“Ann Wilson is a unique vocal force of nature. I’ve sat in the living room with Ann and Nancy Wilson, it’s some of the best live singing I’ve ever heard,” Cornell said. “As a vocalist, she is one of the few vocal role models that I look to. And Nancy is an amazing guitar goddess. When these sisters sing together, its unlike anything I’ve ever heard before.”

A visibly moved Nancy Wilson said, “It is tremendously beaufiul to be in this eagles nest of tremendous music.  Our music is about the enduring power of love.  We came from an era where women normally did not rock and we weren’t supposed to be leaders. These days women are ferorcious leaders from the boardrooms to the bedrooms!”

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