(source: Calum Macnab ) There Will Be Fireworks - In Excelsis Deo Well i can't wait for Christmas Been buckle-knee'd and listless. And you say That you've been wishing weeks away We hung the lights out in the street Twisted round the bows of trees The choir sung it's holiest refrains Like gloria Hosanna in the highest Heaven knows This years been black and blue But we're alright And this Christmas could be [...]
You might remember this. I'm gonna blog serious... but before now I couldn't get the old serious blogneess going. Anyway, love you and once I sober up me and mike skinner will be blogging the old gish. Buzz Buzz Buzz. Chat to you in a minute; I miss you Lisa if you have craic, and I love you Karen if you have craic..xx
I don't get Twitter . Some people post too much, some people post too little, and who should I really be following? Any good suggestions? If so, drop me a line at the contact email on the sidebar. But I recommend following Mike Skinner . He subtly dropped three new tracks, and very few people mentioned it ( NME did, but...) Maybe it's because one ( He's Behind You, He's Got Swine Flu ) is primarily a joke, like Lesbian Vampire Killers was. But another ( Infamy ) is a fairly good [...]
I don't know really what to say... I've been gone a long, long time. Hopefully, I'm back. Because it's summer. And although my last exam still hovers over my like a storm cloud, it feels like I should be productive in my misery, in my sadness, in my anticipation. So first... would you like £2000 to look after your moat? But, enough. Enough. Have you heard Ellie Goulding yet? Her music is magical. It's soft, it's soothing... it's little bleeps, it's gentle stop-starts on an empty country road. She's [...]
Still Flyin' - The Hottchord is Struck Hand-claps. It starts with the jingle-jangle of Simon & Garfunkel, falsetto vocals, some sax (is it sax?). And then it segues suddenly into a cheerleader chant, alphabet spelling, playgrounds and ballparks, ice cream cones. At times it feels like the instruments are tumbling over the drums, just about staying on their feet. But it's meant to be ramshackle, it's meant to be bursting with life. It's an all-inclusive Thompson Holiday package with the family - it's a little bit cheap, it's a little bit tacky, [...]
I'll blog soon 'cause Kleerup's album is amazing, the new My Latest Novel single is very different, and sad and beautiful, The Lowly Knights are apparently like Arcade Fire meets The Polyphonic Spree (they're not), but what they are is joyful, triumphant, and full of LOVE. Furthermore, old Manchester Orchestra sounds like Jimmy Eat World, Juno by Tokyo Police club is full of beautiful misery, Frankmusik + Ellie Goulding = FANTASTIC, Santogold is like Jamaican pop heaven, The Joy Formidable is cheesy shouty pop angst gold, Marina and the Diamonds = a weirdo, brilliant, Kate Bush for the modern age, [...]
Hi, I'm alive, and I shall blog soon. Just wanted to say, there's an interesting, amazing, brilliant, exciting gig coming up. It's all these people: My Latest Novel ( www.myspace.com/mylatestnovel ) Zoey Van Goey ( www.myspace.com/zoeyvangoey ) Ben Butler and Mousepad ( www.myspace.com/benbutlerandmo usepad ) Dolby-Anol ( www.myspace.com/dolbyanol ) Holy Mountain ( www.myspace.com/mountainholy ) And they'll all be soundtracking a piece of film in a room in The Arches , and turning it into a 1920's film theatre. So, I'll be there, sitting on a nice comfortable [...]
Chairlift - Bruises A flickering neon sign in a dilapidated fairground town. Close to the waves, lapping against the beach. Bare feet touching soft sand. A gust of Atlantic air flittering through the dunes and rustling the grass. Beautiful sadness encapsulated in song. [ Buy ] P.S. Yea, this is the song that was in the Apple ad. They have good taste: First Feist, then this!
Johnny Foreigner - Eyes Wide Terrified How I have not talked about this band before? Amazing. If you check out my Last.fm profile you'll see I listen to them far too much. The perfect blend of humour and intelligence to the lyrics, a beautifully youthful blend of fast-slow, nice harmonies and chaotic guitar playing. You can't really ask for much more. And this, is just beautiful: talk about confidence I'd give it a month if i'm lucky and i'm not that lucky and these t-shirts don't fold themselves [...]
Throw Me The Statue - About To Walk ( Daytrotter Session ) Throw Me The Statue - Groundswell All the best melodies on this album feel stolen - like he got out his old vinyl collection of Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, maybe even Genesis and then a week later recorded the melodies as he remembered them. So in a way it's all his own - it's how he recalls it. But in a way it's not even nearly his own - he's singing someone else's songs. And it's this [...]
(image source) Seabear - I Sing, I Swim [ Buy ] I don't want to play this song on repeat endlessly in an attempt to discover a hidden melody, a message, a sentiment, a feeling, a truth. I don't want to ruin this song for the sake of precise prose. This song is more about feeling anyway, and although feelings within or about songs can be described in words; it's hard to pinpoint their exact nature. They were meant to be heard, not read about. [...]
Hi. Radiohead have an album out tomorrow. Tomorrow is, technically, only five minutes away now. As soon as the second goes past midnight everyone who's bought the album will be waiting for their activation codes. Exciting, huh? Join the club: order it . Quickly. Be a part of the digital revolution or whatever this is. Personally, I just want to hear "Nude" recorded, properly, for the first time. I'm excited. Why? Because, live it's enough to bring tears to your eyes.
These are more appropriate for drunken Friday night revelry, than rainy Monday evenings, but I'm sorry - it's all I've got for you. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Patrick Alavi Rerox Edit) [ Info ] The typical student anthem remade so that it's still relevant at a time when it's become cool for indie-kids to branch out and listen to electro. A time when it's ok to go to an indie-disco where it's like, you know, an actual disco. Arty girls looking beautiful but going crazy on the dancefloor; the [...]
Fuck me, Fopp 's gone. Where will I get my cheap books from now?! And DVD's?! I guess I still have Avalanche for CD's - but Fopp was well cheaper... Gutted.
I Was A Cub Scout - Pink Squares (Lull Mix Radio Edit) [Info*] I expected something akin to their Bloc Party remix . When those dissonant and slightly nauseating keys came in (0:33), I thought my worst fears were confirmed. Happily, however, those notes fade out around the one-minute mark. After that, the song changes. A subtle build-up (1:19) followed by a short-lived drop-off in tension (1:53), that develops, relentlessly, into an exciting, continuous, intense, stress-inducing build-up. This reaches its peak at the four-minute mark with the entrance of the vocal line, "my [...]
Jamie T - Fox News Your favourite sea-side holiday get-away was purchased yesterday by a company where even the lowliest press-officer is never seen wearing anything less than an Armani suit, fresh from the dry-cleaner. City life wears you out and though you love it (and in truth, it's all you've ever been truly used to) you've always craved the odd weekend away. And now that escape is gone. To think of it another way, just think about an adorable Cavalier King Charles named Oscar. His [...]
Necessary Note Before We Begin: If you download only one song: make it Jon Solo's cover of Blue Light . Alternate Versions: I have remixes and covers of songs I've never even heard. That is to say: the original is a foreign island. I (most of the time) have heard of it, so I know it exists, but I've never been there. Never tasted the air there, or the food, never felt the warmth or the humidity, never looked up at the skyline and felt content, never taken a dip in the water [...]
Bloc Party - I Still Remember (SebastiAn Remix) [ Info ] Bloc Party - I Still Remember (Lull's Music Box & Tears Mix) Bloc Party - I Still Remember (OrtzRoka Dub Remix) [ Info ] Unlike SebastiAn's remix - which in the beginning has hues of Queen and Mika (and thus is on the brink of being almost too silly to be enjoyable*), - or Lull's 'Music Box & Tears' mix - which is so simplistically happy that its cheesiness [...]
( image credit ) Kissy Sell Out - Get Ready For The K Hole! You'll recognise the music instantly. Maybe you don't know how or why but you won't (read: shouldn't) care. And you might (but shouldn't) be put off - because it seems a bit, well, louty, doesn't it? But what's social class and every-day facades got to do with the enjoyment of music*? Nothing, really. Or they shouldn't, in any case. Music should transcend all social boundaries (real or self-imposed). So I offer [...]
We'll keep this brief since I still have more stuff to pack. Reed KD - Seventeen This is the song I think of when I think about the fact that everything I own has to be moved: "I was packed away in boxes". But I don't want to get lost - oh no, I'm coming home. But the line, "we'll never be seventeen", is so simple and so heartbreaking. Time doesn't stand still for anyone - everyone has to grow up at some stage. Thankfully, my time is not now. [...]
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