Lots of writings on blogs are pretty much timeless, but they are only read at the time of writing by the people who follow the blog, and after that only by those who happen to find them through search engines. Blogs have archives, but who reads them? I know I sometimes do when I find a new blog, but I think I’m in a minority here.

Blogs that are updated as hobbies tend to go from busier periods to slower. First there’s the inspiration to write, then it wears off with time. Then it’s found again some time later, if not forgotten. It’s surprisingly hard to keep updating a blog frequently over time. This blog has been pretty quiet lately as I’ve been busy with other projects. I just took a look at what I have written to inspire myself to get going again. Here’s of a short summary of the stuff that I like myself the most.

Of of the first things I did was introducing concert tapings from the Live Music Archive on weekly bases. And I think I started with the coolest show that I know from there, and at a time when only few people knew about the blog. So here it is again, Jason Mraz’ house concert in Ootmarsum, Netherlands from summer 2007. I managed to write about ten shows before it got too overwhelming to do it every week. Some that I’ve been listening to a lot myself have been the Matt Nathanson show and O.A.R. at Madison Square Garden. I plan to do a couple more sometime soon.

Most of the bands I’ve been covering are very well known. However, it makes more sense t0 my regular readers to write about less popular ones, so that there’s actually something new for them here. But it’s also harder to do because you usually don’t know so much about them and there’s less material on the Internet to use. So far I have reviewed Fiction 20 Down’s sophomore album Welcome to the grassroots and wrote about a Finnish guitarist called Petteri Sariola. But there’s a lot more of the more unknown to come during the summer.

I was excited to find Dave Matthews Band coming to Europe this summer and wrote about it. The coolest thing this year has been traveling in France and seeing Jason Mraz twice. And maybe the best thing I’ve written here is about a weekend when I got to see a great deal of great music.

Funny, I think people usually make posts like this at the end of the year to sum up the year, but I wanted to do it right now to get back into blogging for real again. This is something I haven’t talked about yet, Paolo Nutini performing his song Rewind.