Wednesday, 24 December 2008
we should go down to the mall, look at people, judge them all. judge them before they judge us and leave there feeling bad.
oooh, mercy. i've got one of those rather nice hangovers where everything is a little bit wonky, and i have nothing i really need to do so i'm quite enjoying it :) plus i had some proper coffee wot made me go a bit strange :S
my brother showed me the following on youtube, and i laughed so very hard i thought i might have needed some Tena Lady.
merry crimbles everyone, i'm having a gay old time swanning about my hometown being merry and drinking lovely cider.
i drank too much last night and now my teeth feel soft. whoops!
i'm getting in the festive mood this morning by listening to music really loud and singing (badly) - at this very moment in time my sister is listening to the mighty Take That, which is grand but that's not what i wanted to share with everyone.
what has been creeping into my psyche and becoming part of my brain is something quite different; a band called The Organ.
imagine if The Cure and The Smiths were one superband...and they were all girls. Haunting, tender, uplifting, sad, gorgeous, penetrating, ace ace ace. That's the only way i can describe The Organ.
the band are an all female fourpiece from Vancouver who, sadly, don't exist anymore. They released Grab That Gun in 2004 and broke up in 2006...(although they released an EP earlier on in the year, as a kind of goodbye)...
although there is a lack of back cat to get excited about and collect, and no new material to look forward to, this means that they will never get old, change/dilute their sound or go a bit crap. they are immortalised in this album.
i'll let you decide for yourself, but this band are my best. i bless Ben Parry for letting me know about this band. he said to me "you can live inside this album"...and i do.
arrrgh i can't choose which track to upload! they're all great - hmmm...
>...>>....>>...>>>..>>>>..>>>>>.>>>...>.......>>>..... - some people who follow The L Word might recognise "Brother"
The Organ - Brother
The Organ - Basement Band Song
i'm going to post a link to the whole album, as the record in it's entirety is magic...and the guys at Let's Share Music are doing a great thing by letting people download it.
The Organ - Grab That Gun LP (from the letssharemusic blog)
Tuesday, 23 December 2008
Heroes
Personally I think it has reached cross-roads where it can either choose to kill-off characters and expand the plot or carry on along the road of characters seemingly dying but always returning. I am a big fan of the show (so much so that I don’t download it in chunks as I like to enjoy it every Wednesday night as ‘event’ television) but I do fear that it may just become a parody of itself and go down the same road of utter nonsense as Lost, a show which must surely be the most garbled, directionless tosh ever screened. With the ending of Volume 3 seeing Nathan Petrelli going ‘overground’ to the President of the US (who bears an uncanny resemblance to Barack Obama – did they shoot the scene with a John McCain lookalike too?) it is an opportunity to expand the horizons of the show. Since it started the characters and plotlines have always been very introspective, concentrating on the ‘heroes’ relationships with each other and the battles with the ‘villains’. This has served them well for the most part as it is their battle to save themselves and stop the manipulation of their powers that is the core of the programme – they ARE the story so it is right to concentrate on them. However I think now is the time to ramp it up to the next level – bring them into the open, kill off characters that have run their course and most of all be brave with the writing. I avoid spoilers as much as possible so I don’t know, maybe this is what is going to happen...I sure hope so.
One thing I do really believe should be done is to wave goodbye to Sylar. It remains a constant source of annoyance to me that a show that can attract actors of the calibre of Malcolm McDowall and Christopher Eccleston has Zachory Quinto as it’s main villain. During season 3 the writers have worked to add layers to the character of Syler and create an awkward empathy with a man who has been manipulated and shaped by the actions of others. This is an act for which they should be commended, the problem is that Quinto does not have the acting ability that is needed to make Sylar a truly legendry screen villain. With him seemingly dead it would be an ideal time for the writers to move on to new storylines and characters, casting better actors as they do it. Unfortunately it is unthinkable that he will not return for Volume 4, especially with Angela Petrelli yet to reveal the true identity of his parents. But this is my point, Heroes can forever regurgitate it’s characters and I get the idea that this is what it will do – play it safe by never killing anyone off. Am I really the only one who doesn’t mind a culling of key characters every now and then?
That said Heroes has been one of the television highlights of the year for me and I can’t wait for the start of Volume 4...may it be all that I hope for.
I’ll try and get the track-listing for the Winter Warmer up before Christmas Day but if I don’t, here’s to lots of merry-making and festive fun!
Wednesday, 17 December 2008
Recovery is almost complete and the haze is lifting off the weekend where Mike Patton and The Melvins thrust their favourite bands and musicians through my face and jammed them noisily in my cerebral cortex. I have mulled over the best way to report my musings on the festival for some time now and it's a near impossible task. There is danger everywhere in trying to translate the happenings of such a weekend into a readable bloggy chunk. This problem is probably why I don't write professionally. Anywho, here is an attempt to put some structure to the bubbles popping out of my brain by writing down some facts I have learned.
Mmmm, Minehead
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
ladytrump
I went to see Ladytron on Monday.
Having always liked their music, I've never really rated them as a live band, although this was the third time I've seen them, as they supported the almighty Nine Inch Nails on their last UK tour... I always felt a bit cheated.
Their wicked electropop is bangin' enough to create a really energetic atmoshpere live, yet it never quite does...there seems to be a Kraftwerk-style seriousness to them. Maybe that's what happens when bands use lots of vintage [expensive] synths that just can't be knocked or kicked or prodded with too much gusto...
As a result of their lack of energy on stage, the audience never really gets going either.
Now, maybe this is just me - but if i pay £13 to see an act for ONE hour, I want the chance to really get some exercise and dance about and generally Git Daooown...
The played for just under an hour, which included the three-song encore. They didn't play ANYTHING from 604 [my fave album] ...How rubbish is that?
I did dance, and I did enjoy myself, I'm impressed by their new stuff and will get their new album, and the sound quality was really good...
it just wasn't as good as The Faint gig last Wednesday.
If you're going to financially support this band, I'd spend your money on their music [like, buy it rather than download for free] instead of going to their gigs...unless you want to gaze at their beauty [sponsored my MAC] in the flesh, which I admit is actually quite good fun. :)
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
look! they don't really move - and this was their Big Tune!
Saturday, 22 November 2008
Eddie Izzard & Finders Keepers
Well, where to start? I suppose the only place to begin, seeing as I have spent probably 75% of my 'music kitty' on their products is Finders Keepers Records. In the past 12 months I've become hooked to their glorious re-issues of psych, funk, prog, folk, avant-garde and whacked-out movie soundtracks. Like Trunk Records, you not only get the music but also an exhaustive biog of the band / artist and the record in question...always a treat and something that oher labels of similar ilk overlook. They are singularly responsible for opening my ears up to a whole new world of music and I plan to share some of the gems I have found along the way in future mixes.
Take a trip to their online shop where you will discover 'Japanese choreography records, space-age Turkish protest songs, Czechoslovakian vampire soundtracks, Welsh rare-beats, bubblegum folk, drugsploitation operatics, banned British crime thrillers and celebrity Gallic Martini adverts'...amongst other things. If that doesn't at least intrigue you enough to pop in and cock an ear than I give up!
As you may have realised by now Miss Kaboom and I come from two different spheres as far our musical tastes are concerned. One (of many) things we do share a love of though is Mr Eddie Izzard. Despite his Stripped residency at London's Lyric Theatre selling-out months in advance I was lucky enough to obtain tickets for one of a handful of warm-up shows he performed last week. Now, I was a little sceptical as to whether the 2008 model would stand-up favourably next to his cross-dressing vintage. However, I can honestly say that his wild flights of fancy and vivid imagination are still as fantastically entertaining as they always were. Less a comedy show and more of an abstract and fanciful lecture, how you wish all your teachers at school had presented the wonders of the world to you.
Whilst some may regard him as narcissistic and self-aggrandising, this is part of what makes him special. Admittedly, speaking latin, french, german etc at various points during the show can seem a little like showing-off. But beneath it is a gift for personalising his chosen subjects with great affection...and it is hard to play out his gag about the latin language (one of the highlights of the show) without actually speaking it!
In a world in which the brain-dead, negative stereotyping of Little Britain exists I for one will always forgive Izzard a little vanity for the enchanting positivity of his stand-up routines. All-in-all, I think that Stripped is a fantastic show and am delighted the (not so) big man has still got it.
Friday, 21 November 2008
jam faint gun of bass
My fave tune at present>>>> [zshare]
mazulla - traaaance bitch
female - cally 1
zomba - strange fruit
hemingway - machine
teutonic kaboom - sito
n-ter - runner
sol_dat - speed demon (mazulla rmx)
? - work
smashback - push me harder (ardisson rmx) [tk edit]
babylon soundsystem & noah d - examination of time
dst - csillag
debasser - fat girls (teutonic kaboom rmx)
oliver $ & gantman - zds edit
go hiyama - geometric
luke's anger - war
clarke - new year storm
goth trad - electrical
trode - keep going
mark hawkins - 13 years of raving
Thursday, 13 November 2008
Does Disco Dubstep Exist?
I've been trying to find Disco Dubstep...trying to make it too. I reckon that in this ever-evolving dubstepmania there MUST be room to marry two of my favourite genres.
Hemingway - Machine
When I played this to Dave, he said "That bit of slap bass 47 seconds in sounds weeeellll like a bit of this song..."
"In the year 2525, If man is still alive, If woman can survive, They may find..."
Great future-paranoid disco.
The Twins -
In The Year 2525
So yeah...the quest goes on. Anyone got any discodubstep?
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