East London-based band The Gadsdens are set to release their first single The Sailor Song, which was also recently used as the soundbed for Greenpeace, WaterAid and Oxfam’s joint charity awareness video on The Pyramid Stage at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, which was shown between each of the headlining bands. The band has been described by Radio 6’s Tom Robinson as ‘Tracy...
Lee finally brought home the new Mika album. We were enjoying it while we were preparing food. I already knew like three of the songs. This album is good. It's a little girlier than his last album, but the songs are almost as infectious as those songs. Almost. Hey, it's Mika. I can't complain. He makes me happy. Lee loves Kylie more than Mika, I think. It doesn't get much girlier than Kylie. Thank...
From Downhereforfree Custom Ringtones for your IPhone - Hits 80 | 44 m4r | 128 Kbps | 20.3 MB 1. Gary Numan - Cars 2. David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes 3. Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger 4. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart 5. Visage - Fade To Grey 6. Various Artists feat. Lou Reed - Perfect Day 7. Boys Town Gang - Can't Take My Eyes Off You part 1 8. Boys Town Gang - Can't Take My Eyes Off You part...
I have put Bronski Beat on Spotify. I love it. I want to dance but a) the others wouldn’t stand for it and b) I have lots of pdfs to make. James is throwing me a ‘what on earth have you put this on for’ look. He can put Al Jolson on when I’ve gone. In my head [...]
The new Groove Armada LP "Black Light," is one of the best new electronic albums to hit the scene in the next few weeks. It's good to have Andy and Tom back, and making sweet music together. I have been...
This (very) occasional series may be called Guilty Pleasures, but we’re beginning to wonder if it should actually be called ‘Classic Pop We Love.’ Whilst our previous two choices ( t.A.T.u and Kylie ) could quite possibly fit into the former category, there is a school of thought that says that Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat is not a song to feel guilty about at all. So, let’s...
I was born in the sixties, which meant I was a teenager becoming a man in the eighties. If I believed in God, I would rage against Him for this. The eighties were horrible for so many reasons, I'm thinking a new series is called for - starting with music. I like music. I listen to music. I play musical instruments. I have plebian tastes and this pleb fucking hated eighties music. The Flying Rodent...
#576, 13th September 1986, video As a straight man it’s easy for me to be complacent about this, but the Orwellian “THE COMMUNARDS ARE BANNED” business at the start of this video looks completely ridiculous to me now, and the fact that it does suggests genuine and positive social change. Around this time I remember [...]
YouTube via DX5 "Happy new year to everyone. BB "Tell me Why?" Cover. Backtrack Done in two hours and video shot at first take. Then, some mistakes can be found. keyboards: Upper: Roland JX-8P (layered with Yamaha DX7 II FD) Mid: Emu EMAX II HD Lower: Kurzweil PC1x"
As in years past, Phillyist will be counting down to 2010 every workday of December, presenting you with our highlights from the past year and our predictions for the next. If you have a list you'd like to submit, let us know ! (Photo by Flickr User sylvar ) Everyone should be well aware by now that the lovely and talented Miss Bee can be pretty darned inspirational—even when she's not trying....
Long time since we heard something new from Belizean Bombshell and Kween G of the KillaQueenz, but today's the day people as them Australian queenz are laying down some serious vocal law on this halftime crunk groove. Stellar artwork as always when it comes from The Sweat It Out-camp, but they also issue a WARNING with this release: If you are fighting with your girl, hide this track! The original...
Jimmy Sommerville began his falsetto-driven musical career with Bronski Beat in the early eighties. Bronski Beat enjoyed short-lived success with its hit, 'Smalltown Boy.' 'Smalltown Boy' was memorable because its video showcased the harrowing tale of the mal treatment of gay youth in Britain during the eighties. In 1985, Sommerville left Bronski Beat and formed The Communards . The very next year,...
Dear siblings, When I first heard that Antony Hegarty sang a duet with Boy George for a song titled, "You Are My Sister," I thought, well that's the gayest thing I've ever heard . It sounded utterly overindulgent, like the epically gay Marc Almond and Jimmy Somerville of Bronski Beat singing a duet of Donna Summer's (and Giorgio Moroder's) "I Feel Love." That used to be the gayest...
Without a doubt, simply on title and one song alone, the new Montag covers EP would have gotten some love on herohill. I mean, we've already covered the talented Montreal resident on herohill and certainly want to hear his new record due out in 2010, but that's not what got our motor running so to speak. Montag - aka Antoine Bedard - decided to cover songs he loved at some point in life and release...
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