Hey there! I hoped you enjoyed the thoughts of the last post giving you insight on music that you should be paying attention to whether you are heading to the Camden Crawl this year or not. If you are heading to CC2011 this year then you are more than likely overwhelmed by the amount of choice available over that weekend following the Royal Wedding, with 250 acts playing over two days, and will be quite concerned about avoiding the gash stuff. Once again I have sorted some wheat from some chaff and to give you a [...]
The Camden Crawl is a brilliant idea for a festival. Take a load of new bands, groups and musicians, add a sprinkling of old faves and throw them in to the sprawling semiopolis that is Camden Town. I have been once before in 2007, Amy Winehouse was there on the cusp of going super loco, I finally got to see The Charlatans and I lost my Oakleys whilst crowd surfing to Jack Penate(I'm still gutted but what a way for them to go!). I recently had a look at 2007 and was genuinely impressed at [...]
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Yo! Its time for the second in this years albums to listen to care of JP and Kobestarr. Have a gander play and listen to the tunes! The Strokes: Angles The Strokes will always be special to me. I fell in live with them at the same time I fell in love with my wife. I can even remember approaching her at the Student's Union Bar fuelled with red bull and vodka with Is This It pumping in my head and in my heart. [...]
01_Golden_Arrows.mp3 Illegal downloading and the recent financial crisis has hit the music industry. Hard. More and more bands are finding it harder to support the traditional 4 or 5 piece configuration that we all grew up and find that they have to downsize to stay afloat. The bassist is always the first to go, kicked out when the rest of the band realise that they could make more cash money with less [...]
Boy and Bear Mexican Mavis.mp3 If you had told me two years ago that the guitar music of choice in 2010 and 2011 would be of the Folk variety I would have found it hard to believe. I still do, but the recent successes of Mumford and Sons and Laura Marling are impossible to ignore and it's testament to people's willingness to explore all music genres. How else can you explain Dubstep and [...]
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Sooooo I gave you all a fair amount of time to absorb the phattest tunes of last year! So much so that I am late in delivering the Feb playlist to y'all. So what I'm gonna do is hand over the Feb and March list together! Hows that for compromise? Once again click any of the links or pictures to gets to the playlist on Spotify. We kick off with what will be the first release from American piss takers The Lonely Island's upcoming new album entitled "I Just Had Sex". If you are [...]
OK ok ok ok! It's time for the second part of the show! The part you have waiting for...the second part of kobestarrs films of the year! WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I think its only fair to start with the most gash film of last year... The Worst Film of the Year: The Expendables The Expendables should have been sweet! I even wrote about it earlier in the year recommending it as one to watch. But it wasn't. Maybe I'm over evaluating it but to surmise, its gash. With a capital "G". [...]
Ghostpoet - Cash and Carry Me Home.mp3 I just can't stop listening to this song. DAYUM! A different cut, slice or chop hooks me in further and further with every listen and when the end comes. I hit replay. I have to. Understated beats and a deep but gentle vocal delivery describe your man Ghostpoet and his music. In an era where [...]
Yasmin - On My Own.mp3 Now I'm here dancing about in the Viking heartland that is Norway one lady keeps on hitting the airwaves more and more. Robyn. That Swedish dudette is killing it out here. I and almost i'm sorry to say but I love it! I kept on thinking that there w as a huge gap in the UK dance pop market to rival Robyn, surely? Then [...]
This year should be an ace year for music with lots of big albums. "But which ones will be awesome and which ones will be gash?" you ask. Have no fear JP and I have done the work so you dont have to. This is the first of a few album previews. The GO! Team: Rolling Blackouts - 31 st January In 2004 The GO! Team released their much celebrated and aptly named debut album, Thunder, Lightning, Strike. A funky fusion of hip hop, thrashing guitars, trumpets [...]
City_Dreams.mp3 Sweet new music from a band that happen to be from Australia! Which is only a surprise as when I heard the song "City Dreams" I thought that they were clearly from the South-East of England. As City Dreams kicks in you can see why, with the high tempo sampled drumming, staccato chord riffs and learing vocals I thought that they had come out of the the Jack Penate school of [...]
Its the time of the year that you clear out all of the crap that you collect and in doing so I came across a load of the tickets to films that I went to last year. Que a lil reminisce and debrief. Here follows a two part countdown of the best films of 2010 according to Kobestarr! 12 - Hot Tub Time Machine This is just childish and it's set in the 80's. That's why I like it. Four guys get drunk because their lives are a bit [...]
So TwentyTen is dead and gone and now is the time that millions of people around the world are going to the gym for the first time in a year as part of their "New Year's Resolution" to get fitter, slimmer and more pert. Have fun with that! There's no better way to inspire you to head for few more gym sessions or runs than listening to the marvellous brand spanking new Kobestarr Playlist of 2010. Woop and holla peoples! I really loved last year's musical offering and it was crazy [...]
Lippy Kids (Live Blueprint Studios).mp3 Halla Balla!! The "Chrimbo Limbo" and the turn of the New Year always encourages the most random, poignant and reflective of conversations. Maybe it's the mince pie hangover or going cold turkey following a poultry overdose or the sudden realisation that the resolutions that you set for yourself are all but up in flames. My favourite chrimbo limbo conversations were [...]
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HEY!!! So once again I must apologise for being late with the postings here. Norway has me busy as a motherhubbard plus I still don't really know how to use my new comp (I converted to a Mac as part of my turning 30 life crisis). Anyways here is the playlist for this month and the last of this year. Remember – click on any of the links and be taken str8 there.. So its December now so I gots to rock out with [...]
GUYS!!! It's been soooo long, i'm sorry! How have you been?? My posting on here has been a mighty bit erratic over the past couple of months mainly due to the fact that I left my job of the past five and a bit years and relocated to Norway! Mental Crazy! I'm in Norways second City of Bergen and man! This place is beautiful! It may come as no surprise to that the main focus of this months playlist is music from Norwegian and Scandinavian [...]
Coins.mp3 So..... I was planning to finish the ladies season of tunes this week, BUT...in the last week I have been introduced to a brand new act and been reminded of a cool cool lady that I heard a couple of years ago. Long-story-short, ill be throwing a couple more your way in the next couple of weeks. I'm gonna go with the brand spanking new act that I heard on [...]
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