Radiohead – Lotus Flower – New Video
I’m sure you have heard, but if you haven’t Radiohead have just released their surprise new album The King Of Limbs. Here’s a sneak peak of whats on offer with their new video for Lotus Flower. Thom Yorke dances in it. A lot.
Stay – New Video from Hurts
Here is the just released new video from Hurts for their next single Stay. Their recently released anthem packed debut album Happiness has brought me much joy, I never thought so many ballads would make me smile so much.
Gaggle
Choirs conjure up a tirade of stereotypes, usually involving grey hair and cups of 50p tea served in polystyrene. As a member of London Philharmonic Choir my liver can certainly prove we drink more Stella than PG Tips. Gaggle, the female alternative choir from London, are legions apart from crusty old veneer of group singing. They’ve...
Dallas Frasca Will Probably Like You Better than Me
Australia is one of the most American countries I’ve ever been to. Ozzies don’t seem shy to admit it though unlike their fellow commonwealth partners in crime Canada. Maybe distance can make the heart grow fonder. So with it’s big gridded cities and vast open spaces comes big gritty rock and vast vicious voices like...
Hurts Cover Kylie Minogue’s Confide in Me
I still get goosebumps every time I listen to anything Hurts make. Right now I love this cover of Kylie Minogue‘s Confide in Me – she appears on their debut album Happiness too which is out on 6 September. You can pre-order Happiness from Amazon. In the meantime check out the Cajón on this:
Everything Everything Keep the Sound Man Alive
Sound men at music venues have to listen to so much shit that alongside my sympathy for them I always wonder how aural torture affects their tastes. I’d say they either: Detune their standards until Jedward sound like Marvin Gaye reincarnate. Can pick a cherry from a turdy fog but are so useless at admin...
Sugar – New Dead Confederate Album out 24 August
One of my best friends called me whilst I was on a date to tell me Dead Confederate were playing a gig, that night in London. He knew I couldn’t go. He knew how much I love them. He also knew how pissed I would get for missing them on my doorstep. He laughed mockingly when...
Give Up the Ghost – New Radiohead Song Live Video
Thom Yorke performed Give up the Ghost at the Big Chill Festival during his 12 song solo set. Although he has been performing it since around February – it was only after singing this last weekend that he revealed it was in fact a new Radiohead song. Despite murmurs from the Oxford group that after...
IAMAMIWHOAMI. Who?
Music videos rarely move my juices. What I do know is that Lady Gaga‘s Telephone is not nearly as annoying as Alejandro. The videos and the music. I also know that the new IAMAMIWHOAMI music video has put anything that poker faced bandwagon has churned out to shame. What’s better? I’d say the: music cinematography...
Jonsi music video for Animal Arithmetic
I love Iceland. They may have ruined the UK’s local councils by going bankrupt and sent Europe into chaos with it’s ash cloud – but they have Bjork, Jonsi and a lesbian PM who managed to change the law so she can be fully married. Anyway Jonsi of Sigur Rós has just released a new...
Everybody Hurts
Synths and glam may have been part of my diet as an 80s child but I never totally fell in love with 80s music. It’s only now – and after the main revival of 80s chic has passed that am I coming to appreciate what the decade of decadence produced. Recently I went to Lovebox...
The Lights Aren’t Out
Cold and dark is all London is during winter, but the lights will never go out at holeytonal. Especially when an arty fan of James and the Jewellery Store from Copenhagen makes a music video of Lights Go Dim. Only Danes, as the inventors of Dogma 95, can get away with camcorder films – Festen is one...
