Blog: My Chemical Toilet

Wednesday's Levi's Ones To Watch show was, for me, an evening of counfounded expectations. I didn't like what what I thought I might, and I really liked what I expected not to. More of that later though. I had no expectations whatsoever regarding the first band of the night, Apples , because I didn't know they existed. Now I can report that they are a jaunty little outfit full of '09-issue plaid shirts, shaggy side partings and post-Vampire Weekend rhythms. Fewer African influences here though - if anything, you'd [...]

French footballer Franck Ribery takes a break from working desperately to construct a move from Bayern Munich to Manchester United Chelsea Real Madrid, to appear in the music video to a song called "Meme Pas Fatigue" for someone calld DJ Kore. The video is not a whole lot of kop, but if it happens to be thudding out of a bar across the road the track might provide an effective soundtrack as you vomit cheap shots of schnapps into the lavatory of a Costa del Sol hotel :( [...]

Clearly my head has been residing up my arse, because I had no idea the Fame movie was being remade. But it has been, and it hits cinemas "this Fall". Watching the trailer you kind of get the impression that the new Fame is going to be to High School Musical what 90210 is to Gossip Girl ; that is, an opportunistic but kind of understandable attempt by a bygone "brand" to jump on the back of a successful product which owes a considerbale debt to the original incarnation [...]

It wasn't supposed to, but this video for Chicane's cover of Sigur Ros's "Poppiholla" made me do a LOL of considerable volume. First there's the fact that Chicane have bothered covering this song at all. If you don't recognise the title, it's also known as "That One From David Attenborough's Planet Earth Which Makes You Feel All Poignant And Misty-Eyed About The Fate Of The Polar Bear For A Couple Of Minutes On A Sunday Night Before You Turn Over To Big Brother." Chicane have managed to strip out all of the [...]

If you've ever been to a festival, chances are you've come back with some pretty "interesting" photos. Which you have then "shared" on Facebook and "tagged" with the names of your pals. (I'm using quotation marks here because we all know, deep inside, that photographing your friend tripping his nuts off up a tree, and then publicising the incident on a huge online social network, is essentially a very, very wrong thing to do.) Well this summer Kickers are giving you the chance to use your embarrassing photos for good, kind of - they're asking you [...]

The MJ tributes are going to continue to come, from all manner of weird and wonderful sources. I'd like to say this is the first and last time I'll feature any of them, but the truth is I can make no such promise. With that disclaimer out of the way, here is the Band Of The Coldstream Guards doing "Thriller": [via Digg ]

What it says up there, really. Cicada are having a rather good 2009, and David Guetta can be relied upon to bring the bang - as well as Kelly Rowland for their big old smasheroonie collabo "When Love Takes Over". Mark Knight will be there as well, but I don't know who that is. I've got a pair of tickets to give away to the gig, takes place on Wednesday 8th July at the Roundhouse in Camden, London. For a chance to win, you'll need to know the answer to this insultingly easy question: [...]

As with MCT's recent Download Festival review, modern (15 year-old) technology was vital in capturing the essence of Glastonbury Festival 2009.

He might be dead, but Michael Jackson will outlive us all.

From the content of this guest post from Nik Johns, it's probably fair to say he's not a fan of Chris Moyles or Scott Mills.

Skepta's "Disguise" from his album "Microphone Champion" nicks the "Transformers" theme, replacing the film's title with "Transvestites".

Passion Pit will have plenty of chances to show whether they're worthy of the hype this summer, and one of them will occur at London's Vibe Bar.

This video of music critic Christopher R. Weingarten from the 140 Characters Conference is priceless. It is precisely the opposite of what you expect from anything with the word "conference" in it.

DJ Spinbad's 90s Megamix: amazing, basically.

• DJ Spinbad - 90's Megamix

Can you imagine how great it would be if Ladyhawke hooked up Girl Aloud producers Xenomania? It would be "Psycho Thrills" great, I reckon.

Sara Carlson is an American lady who was a star in Italy in the 1980s thanks to her surreal dancing on shows such as Al Paradise. The comment above gives you an idea of the effect it will have on you.

Download Festival 2009 featured Faith No More, The Prodigy and Def Leppard, and MCT spared no expense in getting a friend to text details through as they happened.

Listened to now "I'm Coming Out" is obviously as gay as a window, but Nile Rodgers somehow managed to convince Diana Ross that he was oblivious to such connotations. Here's an entertaining video of him telling how he got away with it.

A few lil' Toiletries have been sprunkled around the websosphere lately, so for your informations here is where I've been.

Could Oasis's second night at Heaton Park overcome the disappointment of the first show?