
Montt Mardie: Prom Night.mp3 It's fun when dudes go for it, emo-wise, like in this older song by the former Montt Mardie. There's even some falsetto in there, so you know he's injured emotionally (and possibly physically). Montt Mardie, who now goes by the name Monty ... (new vid below) says he's dancing by himself on prom night , but doesn't say whether he'll close the place down by himself.

This will be our last post this year with some kind of Christmas approach. And we must end it in style, with the most loved (and hated) Christmas theme ever, "Last Christmas" from 1984 by Wham! We've collected some versions of this cracker where actually all of them are really good versions. Really like the Holmes Price edit, the new version to play forthcoming Christmases. Wham! - Last Christmas (Holmes Price Edit) Wham! - Last Christmas (Irregular Disco Workers Edit) Wham! - [...]

In 1984, Wham! released "Last Christmas" as the flipside of the single "Everything She Wants" (which is, by the way, a pretty good song). I didn't pay much attention, having found "Young Guns (Go for It!)" to be silly, "Bad Boys" to be negligible and "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" to be one of life's greatest tortures. As the years passed, covers of "Last Christmas" kept showing up in my collection and the song finally grew on me. I still don't care for the original version by Wham! In fact, I would argue that the [...]

It's List Addicts Friday time - and today's topic is high school crushes and unrequited love. Why? Just because I'm in the mood for it and these two always go together. High school has always been a memorable time for me - not because of the nice memories I've shared with my high school friends, but because of all the heartache, heartbreak and the tramautic experiences I've had dealing with members of the opposite sex. Despite the good intentions of the strict nuns at my high school, and my loving, yet overprotective father, I wasn't prepared to deal [...]

Frank Yang People traditionally go to great lengths to avoid getting a lump of coal for Christmas but there's something to be said for getting a big pile of rock for the holidays. And it was rock - and lots of it - on offer Saturday night at the Horseshoe for Jingle Bell Rock, an evening presented by promotions company Audio Blood Media and media partners aux.tv and Exclaim . The lineup featured four bands from the Audio Blood roster - Oh No Forest Fires , [...]
MP3: Monty - En Till Himmel (featuring Lorentz) This is the new Monty (nee Montt Mardié på Svensk for those who don't know) single. David Pagmar's songcraft has improved immensely over the past few years, and this is another step forward, but more in the direction of straight-forward pop. I cannot wait to hear this album, which is out in February via the mighty Hybris .

Wikipedia No two ways about it, 2009 sucked. Hard. It started badly with the demise of a relationship and despite my determination to pull myself up by the proverbial bootstraps, only went downhill from there. The past twelve months have been marked by people moving on, moving away and passing away - not just my loved ones but those of people close to me. If there's any silver lining to the huge, black cumulonimbus thunderhead that was this year, it's that it's over and I can only hope it's not tempting fate [...]

Ni vet David Pagmar? Nehe, okej men ni vet Montt Mardié? Just det. Han har nu bytt namn till Monty och det finns en nu ny låt från hans nya album 2010 som släpps i mars. Vacker pop som vanligt och allt det där Monty - En till himmel
Då var det dags! Vi har tidigare kunnat berätta att Montt Mardié bestämt sig för att släppa ett album på svenska och nu är första smakprovet från det här - singeln En till himmel med Lorentz från Lorentz & M.Sakarias. Ända fram tills att Lorentz gör sitt inhopp låter det riktigt bra. Men detta är bara en låt utav tio som är mixade av Ollie Olson. Vi har alltså allihop något att se fram emot. Medan ni väntar kan ni alltid passa på att lyssna på den svenska cover EP:n Direkt [...]

Montt Mardie - Paraply (Umbrella) [Rihanna]
Schon von 2005, aber heute erst bei mir aufgetaucht... Montt Mardié - Highscool Drama ( Montt Mardié-Homepage )

The last few months have been quite busy for me and the whole of August was a hectic one indeed. Since my last post, I've been to a music festival, a wedding, the French coast and the Edinburgh festival. Over the next while I hope to blog about my splendid time in France and about some of the many wonderful shows that I attended in the Scottish capital. As if all that wasn't enough, I also reached a significant milestone in terms of years on the planet during the middle of August. See if you can guess what it was [...]

De som tidigare har hört Montt Mardiés covers vet att han gör dem på ett ypperligt sätt (Beyoncés Gloria o.s.v.) och hans cover på Smooth Criminal är inget undantag. Vackert är det. Inte på svenska denna gång, även om det hade varit roligt. Låten är "inspelad för typ ett år sedan", enligt Hybris! Med tanke på Michael Jackson. Ikväll visas programmet Så minns vi Michael Jackson i SVT1 klockan 22:15. Missa inte! Ladda ner här!

Ο φίλος Αντώνης Τριφύλλης σημειώνει στο blog του ότι μια και κάνω συλλογή από Kitsch θα έπρεπε να ασχοληθώ και με τον πακτωλό που προσφέρει η προεκλογική περίοδος στην Ελλάδα. Η απάντησή μου είναι λίγο διαφορετική δεδομένου ότι έχω μια πιο εκλεκτική άποψη περί Kitsch. Δεν ασχολούμαι με καρακιτσαριό . Προτείνω ωστόσο να δούμε πώς επιχειρηματολογ ούν οι σουηδοί ιδρυτές του Pirate Bay. Είτε συμφωνείς είτε όχι με τις θέσεις τους περί πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων στη σύγχρονη εποχή, πρέπει να αναγνωρίσεις τη σοβαρότητα με την οποία αντιμετωπίζουν την υποψηφιότητά τους στις Ευρωεκλογές. Δεν κατηγορούν [...]
Swedish singer-songwriter Montt Mardié goes the other way. He embraces The Pirate Bay , the worlds largest file-sharing site, writing a song called We're All The Pirate Bay and offering it as a free download. It was made really fast and in a very light-hearted spirit" but has nevertheless galvanised the heavy weight power of the file sharing world into reaction, making this their 'Pirate Bay anthem' and clocking up over 140,000 YouTube hits and over 50 remixes in only four days. He welcomes remixes and wants [...]

Un hymne. Un hymne pour The Pirate Bay . Vous savez, les affreux méchants suédois qui ont osé mettre en place le plus gros serveur de torrents d'internet. Ceux-là même qui ont été condamnés à un an de prison ferme et à pratiquement 3 millions d'euros d'amende - par un juge qui s'avère être membre d'organisations de protection des droits d'auteur -. Peut-on être à la fois juge et partie ? Ben oui, la preuve ! Bon, les vilains ont fait appel, nous verrons ce qui va se passer ensuite. Mais pendant ce [...]

If you Havn't heard yet - file sharing, more so bittorrent, has take a little hit recently with the conviction of the the two operators of the bittorrent site The Pirate Bay . A Swedish judge ruled that the defendants were in direct violation of copyright laws according to the IFPI. ( International equivalent to RIAA in the states) They were fined a crap load of money and sentenced to 1 year in jail. By doing this, the IFPI & RIAA now have precedent for future sites/cases which will be harmful in how we "share our music" [...]