Here goes with the memorable musical moments meme : (see Monday) Think of eight memorable musical moments, not necessarily all time favourites, but those when, for example, you felt compelled to wait in the car when listening to this amazing song on the radio because you just had to know who it was by. Or the piece you heard on the tv in a drama that drove you straight onto iTunes to download... (remember...
We all have guilty pleasures in life, though it is whether we admit to them. So in the words of Edith Piaf ‘non, je ne regrette rien’… and last Friday I settled down to watch ‘Classic Albums: Duran Duran - Rio’ on BBC4. And what was shockingly embarrassing was that I still remembered the words from the album after [...]
this weeks newbies are i always wanted a pony , with a band name like that it's hard not to like them. and when you couple that with the faint whiff of new romanticism spliced with swedish electro pop, ding ding ding !!!!! ..... winner. the swedish duo of, felix and tobias could easily be the noughties answer to the human league or duran duran , with synthy pop tracks such as 'the weekend' that wouldn't...
This is weird. What started off as a retrospective 'weren't the 80's actually rather good' spiel turns into 'aren't I lucky to have lived through music's most golden ages' piece. It started a few weeks back during the enforced absence when I was wading through weeks of recorded programmes catching up on all the 'must see' stuff I'd recorded in a delusionally desperate attempt to prove the value of...
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...
Seeing as how I'm having upload/internet/photo agency/email/ichat/geek nonsense problems I'm going to jump forward to headliners The Human League who played a brilliant closing set on day 1 of Dubai Sound City.
Lynn (who I forgot to thank for her nice comment) recently posted about pop songs that are creepy in retrospect. I actually don’t know the songs she discusses (well, I heard “Baby It’s Cold Outside” once a long time ago), but I certainly have noticed some songs emanating innocuously from the radio that, on closer [...]
I'm currently writing a show about Christmas Music* I've been posting daily fight-offs between various Christmas No 1's on Facebook. Can you guess the winners in these pairings? Mistletoe and Wine by Sir Cliff or Merry Christmas Everybody by Shakin' Stevens? Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This or Earth Song - Michael Jackson? Mr Blobby by Mr Blobby or Mull of Kyntyre by Wings? Ernie, The Fastest Milkman...
Who The U.K. synth-pop sensation — it’s scored two Top Five hits in England — consists of striking androgynous singer Elly Jackson and behind-the-scenes beatmaker Ben Langmaid (he refuses to be interviewed or photographed and doesn’t perform live). But Jackson is used to being the center of attention, for her hair — a red, Woody [...]
With the success of Arctic Monkeys, The Cribs et al, a history of Yorkshire pop music is an appealing enough proposition - but this is too cursory and superficial.
Absolute have announced plans to launch an 80s station on the internet and DAB in London. Absolute 80s aims to be a "nostalgia trip" for 30- to 54-year-olds, playing 80s pop from the likes of the Human League, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Duran Duran, Prince, ABC, Depeche Mode, Blondie and Bon Jovi. The new station will operate as a jukebox format, without DJs, while the evening playlist will...
Some bands try their hand at a late ’70s/early ’80s synth pop homage with tongue planted firmly in cheek, others revel in the experience of updating the sound of their influences with modern day trappings. Then there are the rare few acts, like the Philadelphia by way of New York quartet Cold Cave, that capture [...]
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