Toronto – I don’t really listen to enough Canadian music. This I know to be true. This is possibly because I don’t listen to much CBC Radio 3. Anyways, Friday night was a big night for Canadian music. Over at Lee’s Palace, there was the Rural Alberta Advantage, Bahamas and Fox Jaws show (you [...] Related posts: Concert Review: The Sounds, Phoenix, September 14 Toronto –...
I've never been a fan of Dame Shirley Bassey. She always seemed like a relic from a different time. I was vaguely aware of songs like Diamonds Are Forever, Hey Big Spender, and the lady from Tiger Bay in her sequinned gowns. But she was never competing for attention on my ipod.Until yesterday.A couple of weeks ago, I heard Dame Shirley on Dermot O'Leary's radio show. She's done a Tom Jones with
Concert attended and reviewed by Karen I ‘ve never been to a Billy Bragg concert before. In fact I couldn’t name you one song that he sings. My best friend Louise however has been a huge Billy fan for a very long time and has seen him six times so I went along with her to [...] Related posts: Concert Review: Manic Street Preachers, The Phoenix, Oct 4, 2009 Toronto – What a show. What...
It was The YOI's most successful night at 93 Feet East last week and I got lucky and happened to be behind the decks for some of it. I'd chosen to go down the indie/rock route and it seemed to go down well, suiting the kind of club that 93 Feet East is. Here's what I played, in a slightly random order (and it was a two and a half hour set so it's quite a big list)... Passion Pit - Sleepyhead The Virgins...
Last season, I wrote a piece that attributed a song to each Premier League team that reflected their current status or something that was going on at the club at the time. At the risk of going over old ground, I thought I would update the songs for the teams in this years Premiership with my current musings. Just to give you a flavour of some of my songs from last year we had Blowin’ in the Wind...
A Pachelbel’s Canon-esque synth line. A relentless electro drum loop. The blurred lines in the minefield of male chauvinism and chivalry, feminism, morality, family values, sexual politics, and the need for education. No, it’s not the Manic Street Preachers: it’s ex-Fugee Wyclef Jean’s sensational bombast of strip-club etiquette and stripper love, Perfect Gentleman. Wyclef loves...
Was There A Rejected Shirley Bassey Theme For Quantum Of Solace ? The Performance , the eagerly awaited new album from the great Shirley Bassey, came out in England this week. (There's no word yet on when we Americans can expect it. Let's hope we don't have to wait as long as we did for her last collection, Get the Party Started .) The Performance has been especially eagerly awaited by James Bond fans,...
So, at last I'm aurally satiated (and not just thanks to McAlmont and Nyman). There's more - and here's a thing - David McAlmont has a hand in it as well. He has also been writing for Shirley Bassey. The Performance is an album of songs written for the Dame from Tiger Bay by Richard Hawley, KT Tunstall, Rufus Wainwright, Gary Barlow, Tenant and Lowe, Barry and Black and Barry and Arnold. The Manic...
Music review: With this album full of swish contemporary material, tailor-made for that rich, sassy voice, Dame Shirley Bassey proves she's in a stratosphere all her own.
Here are some things we didn't play last Friday night, although it would have been quite nice if we had: And her are some things we did actually play: Stuart The Bluetones – Keep The Home Fires Burning (US Version) The Beloved – Hello Saint Etienne – Filthy Manic Street Preachers – La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh) (The Chemical Brothers Remix) The Clash – London's...
The former Spice Girl, who lives in Monmouth and is starring in West End show Blood Brothers, praised the X Factor judge for reaching number one with her album Three Words.
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