Ha! Any excuse to shoe-horn a bit of vintage REM into the equation! Although I've probably desecrated five millennia of Chinese mythology by misappropriating it like that. Sorry! So... Mr. and Mrs. Toad have invaded China to spread the good word of the amphibian god, Toad-Ra, and left Toad Enterprises Inc. ™ to its own devices, which leaves me in charge of copying-and-pasting stuff up onto the blog. If you'd like to see your name up in lights on here over the next couple of weeks, like Martin did yesterday with his excellent gig [...]
The mighty 'Drum were the first band I ever saw were the drummer was the lead singer, although eventually they added a body to their ranks and moved singer/ sticksman Adam Lee form the of the stage. Probably most famous for their cover of Kate Bush's ' Wuthering Heights' they were a punk rock band who released three albums ' Goosefair ', 'Self Made Maniac' and ' Diskin ' (under the name the Drum). If you are looking for a starting point I'd go with debut album ' Goosefair ', every song on there are absolute corkers. [...]
So here's round two of what might be a never ending stream of pop punk coming out of my speakers. I wasn't going to include the China Drum song this early in the series, but a message from my guy Jeff (of the great Rocket Fuel podcast) the other day about the band prompted me to include it here. I've also included a song from The Caddies that I'm guessing approximately 5 or 6 other people have ever heard. Enjoy. MP3 | Bad Religion - American Jesus [...]
It seems most of the world has its eyes firmly focused on an event centred around Beijing. I love my sport - I'm totally addicted to watching all sorts of drama unfold before my eyes, particularly in football (world version and American versions alike), golf, cricket, baseball, basketball, ice hockey - hell I'll even watch darts for a laugh. But the whole Olympics thing leaves me utterly
China Drum were a britrock/powerpop/punkish band that hailed from Northumberland (Ovingham-upon-Tyne to be more accurate!) and released a trio of albums at the end of the 90s, never quite reaching the mainstream despite the novelty success of their tremendous superspeedy cover of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights . They formed in 1989, but it would take a number of years of touring and releasing singles (the first being the self pressed Simple in 1993) on their own, as well as the support of DJs like Steve Lamacq and John Peel, before they were signed by the American branch [...]
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