Coventry's shiny jangly pop merchants The Sequins have called it a day. Over the years they produced one album, one EP and a clutch of tip top singles. We'll remember them best for their highly enjoyable live sets and their glorious debut, Nobody Dreams About Me. As a consolation they've made their unreleased material available here For one last time, the Sequins:
"Cheers" songstress Rihanna backs that thang up in purple sequins for the upcoming September cover of ladies' mag Glamour . There are a bunch of words and stuff surrounding her, but let's be real — all eyes are probably not focused on reading with this pic. Way to provide a perfect distraction during back(side)-to-school season, RiRi! [Via ONTD ]
I'm not usually an Independence Day person. I like to grill and drink, but I don't approach it the same way I do, say, Christmas Eve (see: any of the past four years of drunken exploits) or my birthday. But I have to admit, this July 4th weekend was one of the best I've ever [...]
When Radio Slave decides to do something a little bit different - his usual stuff is still great, don't get me wrong - the results are often pretty, pretty good. Read more... Yam Who? - Go Bang (Radio Slave's Vinyl Only Instrumental) / BUY snap by tom chudley *Have I got this wrong? Let me know.
Another quietish week on the post-front, sorry. Hoping for more time this week. Here's this week's Monday Music: Bikini - ACheerlaeder ( mp3 ) That's not a spelling mistake and you'll soon see why. This is a song for lo-fi electro freaks, for rooms illuminated by blue lightbulbs, for men in masks, for empty train carriages, for house parties when you realise all your friends left hours ago. [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Hot [...]
Mauro Perucchetti's sculptures are just so neat. Not only does Perucchetti's young anatomically ambiguous child sculpture give the finger, but if you strung it up, it also could double as a human(-ish) disco ball. These mannequins used by Perucchetti are fascinating subjects for art because they not only illustrate the body/commodity dynamic of the mannequin and what's on it but also projecting other major social comments through the art. The skulls with sequined army head gear aren't just supposed to be flashy but significant of the larger issue of [...]
Photo Credit Sharon Watts "The Sequins are Coventry indie band who count Talking Heads, Roy Orbison, Queen and the Ramones among their influences. They originally formed at Warwick University in 2003, when singer Hywel Roberts and guitar player Justin Hui got together to perform "Psycho Killer" on ukele at open mic nights". We`ve almost certainly posted the best track of this double A-side release. `On The Streets Of Japan` is a homicidal killer of a track with triumphant Day-Glo intentions - Think Pulp meets Roxy [...]
Elton John is without a doubt a living legend and one of the most fortunate things about living in Los Angeles, epecially Hollywood, is having the opportunity to see amazing 'once in a lifetime' type performances like this one. Elton John and Leon Russel was a concert I will never forget. This show was a one of a few rare performance to promote the recent collaboration between Elton John and Leon Russel. Honestly, before this show I was completely unaware of who Leon Russel was, but it says a lot that he was a [...]
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I used to be a huge anglophile. It's where my love for Arctic Monkeys came from. So maybe deep down I still have a sweet spot for craft bands from the UK. My latest find is The Sequins. The Sequins are a band from Coventry, England. Their most recent release was this year's The Risky Woods EP . My first taste of their music was "Offside Beautiful", a enchanting song of the EP. With clean crisp instrumentation and vocals that come off as mysteriously haunting. These guys have a unique sound that has left [...]
It's been a very, very long time since we had a nice simple podcast of me just chattering about music without extraneous distractions of various drunken people babbling to one another over the top of it. Last week was Ruth, Michael and Dylan, the week before that was Vic and Peej, then me and Mrs. Toad and then there was the one from Homegame, which was nuts, so this one is just calm and sensible and plain vanilla and basically just me playing some songs, wondering how to pronounce names like Borcherdt, and talking pish like usual. [...]
I've been a fan of the Sequins since, rather annoyingly, about a week after their last Edinburgh gig three years ago. Since then I've bought a couple of excellent singles and their frantic, fantastic debut album The Death of Style, released on Tough Love Records a couple of years ago. A couple of lineup changes have ensued, and the band are no longer working with Tough Love, and almost inevitably the sound has changed a little as well. This EP is more harmony and guitar-based than The Death of Style, which was something of an explosion of frenetic [...]
One drink, home early, not staying out, want to take it easy tonight... it's just never going to bloody happen, is it. Pure fantasy. Last night's escapades mean that I had far too little sleep last night, and something of a hangover this morning. This puts me in no fucking mood to piss about with my cunting colleagues, who seem to have decided that answering the fucking phone is beneath them. Our receptionist is off today, which means that we all have to take turns answering the phone, but apparently 'taking turns' needs to be explained in really [...]
We'd already recorded the FOUND Toad Session earlier this same day, and Honeytrap had just recorded their session with Off the Beaten Tracks . So basically, the sun was baking and we were all absolutely shit-faced. Consequently, to describe the interview as any sort of conversation as opposed to some kind of deranged, cataclysmic cluster-fuck would be to massively flatter it. In all honesty, this is a complete and completely splendid mess - enjoy! Again, all the videos can be seen on the Song, by Toad Vimeo or YouTube pages, and the photo [...]
Oh dear god almighty I have a hangover. Fucking bastard music people. Last night there was gigging and drinking and wandering the streets of a most balmy and pleasant Edinburgh with an assortment of miscreants and other ne'er-do-wells. We saw Honeytrap and Meursault play at Sneaky Pete's - I was recording this podcast, hence late for X-Lion Tamer, sorry to both Ed and Tony - and it was fucking amazing. And after that there was drinking. Fuck me there was lots of drinking. And then I came home and went into the local all night shop and purchased [...]
People fall in love for lots of reasons, some good and some bad. I don't know why I fell in love with my midget companion, but I did and now I'm stuck with her. What is the reason for this post then? I'm not entirely sure, but it's late and I am pished [...]
As I previously wrote The Sequins are releasing their début album The Death of Style on Monday 19th November via Tough Love Records . Out of the 12 tracks it contains only The French Way of Life has been previously released so I guess you had better head to the labels shop to buy the few remaining copies of their two singles to date. The record will be available in the stores. However due to it's lavish packaging, which could well be Tough Love's Blue Monday moment, the label [...]
This really is a superb, spiky, joyful record. Phew! Honestly, I've been looking forward to this album as much as any all year, so it was with a little trepidation that I first sat down to listen to it. I was even more twitchy when it didn't quite grab as instantly as [...]
What is it with Coventry? They've been a big black hole on the music map for years and now suddenly there are two brilliant bands on the verge of greatness both hailing from, well, somewhere near Birmingham isn't it? It's like being a great band from Oldham, or Dunfermline - it just doesn't sound glamorous. The Sequins are on Tough Love Records , the same label as Honeytrap , who I've been rather embarrassingly fawning over for the last little while. They [...]
Having mentioned The Men They Couldn't Hang in my previous Thunderegg post I was immediately struck by memories of one of their most thunderous and angry songs. Going Back to Coventry is a raging guitar-folk-punk number from one of their earlier albums - How Green is the Valley. The Men They Couldn't Hang - Going Back to Coventry The Coventry reference reminded me of two things. Firstly, The Specials - fucking brilliant, aren't they? And, secondly, when was the last time a good band came out of Coventry? Coventry, for [...]
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