ONE WORD TRIGGERS
Music with expressionLily Allen: New Album Release
The follow-up to Lily Allen’s critically acclaimed 2007 debut album, “Alright, Still” is to be released on February 9th 2009 and is called “It’s Not Me, It’s You”.
The tracklisting is as follows:-
- 1. Everyone’s At It
- 2. The Fear
- 3. It’s Not Fair
- 4. 22
- 5. I Could Say
- 6. Go Back To the Start
- 7. Never Gonna Happen
- 8. F*** You
- 9. Who’d’ve Known
- 10. Chinese
- 11. Him
- 12. He Wasn’t There
I’ve previously posted the lead-off track for you to try [here]
Visit her Myspace [here]
Visit her Website [here]
Jon Regen: Free download
In celebration of over 2,000 copies of LET IT GO being sold, Jon Regen is giving away the title track as a limited-time FREE DOWNLOAD.You can steal your MP3 copy [here]
Whilst the album ‘Let It Go’ continues to garner critical acclaim and increased airplay, Jon is headed overseas for a series of concerts across Italy, Slovakia and the UK. If you want to catch one of his concerts, you can check out the full venue listing [here]
One to watch: Doll & The Kicks
Who?: Doll & The Kicks – a four piece indie pop/rock band featuring Doll (vocals), Matt (Guitar), Olivier (Bass) and Chris (Drums)
Where?: Brighton, UK
What?: Indie Pop/Rock – Upbeat; Jangly; Driven; Gwen Steffani(ish)
Formed?: 2005 (while attending University in Brighton)
Resume:
“…The band were singled out from the Brighton music scene when they were invited by BBC Southern Counties to perform at the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury 2007. Since Glastonbury, Doll and The Kicks have been busy playing live and recording tracks in the studio with producers Oscar the Punk, (who are known for their remixes for Gwen Stefani, Robyn, Moby and Roisin Murphy) and Grammy Award winning mixer and producer Simon Gogerly (Madonna, U2).
2008 has seen their live shows emerge with performances that include, The Great Escape, London Calling, Beachdown Festival and Brighton Live, as well as dates throughout the UK and Europe. Media enthusiasm has grown with coverage from Sub TV, Channel M, BBC Southern Counties, Kerrang Radio, The Brighton Guide, London Lite, Total Guitar, Artrocker, Ponytail Magazine and You Got Papped.
Autumn 2008 has the band busy solidifying their ‘ones to watch’ status, by appearing on the Diet Coke music portal, recording their debut album and building on their existing fanbase with selected live dates. “
Single released 30 November 2008…‘Roll Up The Red Carpet’
Watch a live performance of ‘Roll Up The Red Carpet’
Visit their Myspace [here]
Lily Allen: New single
I’m sure that you’ll have already picked up on this…
Lily Allen’s forthcoming single off her new album (scheduled for early 2009) is called ‘Everyone’s At It’.
I’m a fairly staunch LA fan so, naturally, I think it’s good.
Have a listen and see for yourself.
- Lily Allen – Everyone’s At It
Visit her Myspace [here]
Concert Reviews: mel.opho.be
I’ve recently been contacted by a great site called mel.opho.be who provide concert reviews, photographs, etc.
They’re based out of Boston, USA and have a small but dedicated team who provide the core information on the site. However, if you are attending a concert in the near future and you fancy writing a brief review and sharing any pictures you take, you’re invited to contact them and they are quite likely to publish your work.
The site’s been running for about a year now and has some good content.
Well worth a visit here: mel.opho.be
They have also been added to this site’s Blogroll so you can click on over to them any time you like.
David Ford: Go To Hell
Live, one camera, one take video.
First single from David Ford’s full length ‘Songs For The Road’.
Brilliant!
Enjoy…
One to watch: Francis and the Lights
This band has received a smattering of coverage in the blog-o-sphere but don’t seem to have taken off, which I find strange.I was tipped off about these guys by Drew at the Linesthroughlines blog and they are, in my opinion, just great!
To date they have produced two records, “A Modern Promise” and their latest EP “Striking”. But get this….they are happy for you to download both records for free!!! That’s a total of 10 tracks for free…nada….gratis.
The lead track, ‘Striking’ is a brilliant number….very Prince…very….STRIKING, and ‘Night Watchman’ is catchy as hell.
Visit their website and watch the video for the track ‘Top’….energetic, or what?
These fellas deserve a sight more than the 8 and a half thousand plays they’ve had on their Myspace.
Show them some love.
The Script: Third Single
Following the success of ‘We Cry’ and ‘The Man Who Can’t Be Moved’, The Script have announced that the 3rd single to be taken from their self-titled debut album will be….‘Breakeven’ and it’s due for release on 10th November.
The video gets an exclusive airing on Radio 1’s website this week and you can view/listen [here].
The band are currently on the road with One Republic at the moment touring round Europe.
TRIGGER: Eyes
And after a short interval we resume….
My eyes are getting worse. It’s been about three years since my last eye test and I know I’m going to need new glasses.
I find myself taking my glasses off to read more and more when it should be the other way around.
Amazing things, eyes….
And so the trigger is….
eye[ahy] Plural (eyes)
-noun
1. the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
2. the aggregate of structures situated within or near the orbit that assist, support, or protect the eye.
3. this organ with respect to the color of the iris: blue eyes.
4. the region surrounding the eye: a black eye; puffy eyes.
5. sight; vision: a sharp eye.
6. the power of seeing; appreciative or discriminating visual perception: the eye of an artist.
7. a look, glance, or gaze: to cast one’s eye at a beautiful necklace.
8. an attentive look, close observation, or watch: to be under the eye of a guard.
9. regard, view, aim, or intention: to have an eye to one’s own advantage.
10. a manner or way of looking at a thing; estimation; opinion: in the eyes of the law.
11. a center of light, intelligence, influence, etc.
12. the hole in a needle.
13. a hole made in a thing for the insertion of some object, as the handle of a tool: the eye of an axe.
14. a metal or other ring through which something, as a rope or rod, is passed.
15. the loop into which a hook is inserted.
TRACKS:
- Reel Big Fish - Brown Eyed Girl
- Questionnaires – Ghosts In Your Eyes (album: Arctic Circles) [2003]
- Cabin – Cover Your Eyes (album: I Was Here) [2007]
- Guillemots – Blue Eyes (album: Trains to Brazil) [2005]
- Dave Matthews – Grey Blue Eyes (album: Some Devil) [2003]
- Wilco – Red-Eyed And Blue (album: Being There) [1996]
- The Boy Least Likely To – I See Spiders When I Close My Eyes (album: The Best Party Ever) [2005]
- David Gilmour – Then I Close My Eyes (album: On An Island) [2006]
- Múm – Dancing Behind My Eyelids (album: Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy) [2007]
- Lunik – Through Your Eyes (album: Life Is on Our Side) [2005]
)Jon Regen: Tour Dates
I had a very nice email from Jon Regen the other day, thanking me for including his track ‘Finding My Way Back To Me’ in the recent post ‘TRIGGER: Back’.You might recall I kind of took a shine to Jon’s album “Let It Go” when I first discovered it after a couple of tracks were posted on Ick Music back in April. Here’s what I wrote in the Highlight of The Week post back then…
“Ick Music just got a big fat 10 on my scorecard! Two tracks from an artist called Jon Regen are posted as a review of his 2007 album “Let It Go”. Their description of this album reads: “…Let it Go is one of those records. There is something to it that just feels like home.” Home??? Hell, I’ve got my pipe and slippers out here!!! This is just what the doctor ordered for a nice relaxing evening after a long hard day. Just added this one to my shopping cart at CD Baby!…”
For those unfamiliar with his work, take a listen to the track I recently posted or head on over to his Webiste [here] or his Myspace [here].
If you like what you hear you can catch him in conert here:-
September 13, 2008
ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL New York, NY
September 25-27, 2008
PIZZA EXPRESS JAZZ CLUB London, UK
March 14, 2009
LEFRAK CONCERT HALL AT QUEENS COLLEGE Flushing, NY
The Script: On Tour
Having hit the top spot in the album chart, the band are now heading out on tour.
Tickets went on sale today and the tour dates are as follows:-
November
Saturday 22nd: Glasgow Barrowlands
Sunday 23rd: Leeds Academy
Monday 24th: Newcastle Academy
Wednesday 26th: Manchester Academy 1
Thursday 27th: Norwich UEA
Friday 28th: Bristol Academy
Sunday 30th: Birmingham Academy
December
Monday 1st: Oxford Academy
Tuesday 2nd: London Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Visit their Website [here]
Visit their Myspace [here]
Visit their Bebo [here]
TRIGGER: Child
Where did the last 17 (or so) years go?
I’ve been sorting out the photo’s I took on my recent holiday…adding descriptions, cropping here and there and the odd spot of light enhancement….
And as always I got sidetracked and found myself looking back on some old shots of the kids at various stages through their lives so far.
I suddenly realised that the ‘kids’ are not the little dependant beings they were…they’re young adults with strong views and opinions of their own. Able to do pretty much anything an adult can (and probably a lot better than I can).
But to me they will always be the little girl and boy who came into my life and brought a whole new meaning to it….and emptied my bank account (repeatedly) - but that’s another story.
So the trigger is….
Child [chahyld]
-noun
1. a person between birth and full growth; a boy or girl
2. a son or daughter
3. a baby or infant.
4. a human fetus.
5. a childish person
6. a descendant
TRACKS:
- Rufus Wainwright – Beautiful Child (album: Want One) [2003]
- Delta Spirit – Children (album: Ode to Sunshine) [2008]
- T. Rex- Children of the Revolution (album: Children of the Revolution: An Introduction to Marc Bolan) [2005]
- Lou Rawls – God Bless The Child (album: Stormy Monday) [1990]
- Patty Griffin – Heavenly Day (album: Children Running Through) [2007]
- Santana- Let The Children Play (album: Moonflower) [1997]
- Eels- Manchild (album: Beautiful Freak) [1996]
- Eric Clapton – Motherless Child (album: Complete Clapton) [2007]
- Golden Smog – Red Headed Stepchild (album: Down by the Old Mainstream) [1996]
- Joss Stone – Sleep Like A Child (album: Mind, Body & Soul) [2004]
- White Lion – When The Children Cry (album: Pride) [2006]
)TRIGGER: Back
I’m back from vacation, and fully rested….
Or I was until I started back to work.
I had hoped for a slow and gentle easing back into the flow this week. What I got was a full on deluge of work.
Holiday?…..what holiday?
Still, this weekend is a Bank Holiday here in the UK so I get an extra day to rest up this weekend then it’s the big push towards Christmas.
September to December are traditionally my busiest periods. Long hours. Hard, heavy work and (hopefully) a corresponding income.
So….putting all thoughts of vacation behind me….the trigger is…
Back
TRACKS
- The Beautiful South – Old Red Eyes Is Back (album: Carry On Up The Charts: The Best Of The Beautiful South) [1995]
- Maroon 5 – Back At Your Door (album: It Won’t Be Soon Before Long) [2007]
- Albert Hammond Jr. – Back to the 101 (album: Yours to Keep) [2006]
- Pleasure - Back To You (album: Pleasure 2)
- Spoon – Back To The Life (album: Kill the Moonlight) [2002]
- John Mayer – Back To You (album Room for Squares) [2000]
- Syd - Back Home (album: Fault Lines) [2004]
- Azwel - On The Way Back Home (album: B-Sides)
- Bryan Adams – Right Back Where I Started From (album: Room Service) [2004]
- Fort Minor – Back Home (album: The Rising Tied) [2005]
- Jon Regen – Finding My Way Back To Me (album: Let It Go) [2008]
- Eric Hutchinson – Back to Where I Was (album: Sounds Like This) [2008]
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TRIGGER: Surf
Week 2 of our summer vacation…and relaxation is the order of the day….every day!
We all have our own ways of relaxing and our own interpretation of just what relaxation is. I guess I’m one of those people who can’t turn off completely. Never have been been able to just lie on a beach or around the pool and do absolutely nothing. Even if it’s just reading a book, I have to be doing something.
As a family we all have a tremendous love of reading and books so you can guess what we’ve done a lot of this holiday so far.
My true relaxation is painting…and there’s no shortage of subject matter here.
We’ve spent a lot of time at the beach and in the surf. Or rather my Son has spent a lot of time in the surf….so has our dog!!! Cornwall boasts some of the best surfing beaches in the UK and both are in their element here.
So this week’s trigger is….
Surf
-noun
1. the swell of the sea that breaks upon a shore or upon shoals.
2. the mass or line of foamy water caused by the breaking of the sea upon a shore, esp. a shallow or sloping shore.
-verb
3. to ride a surfboard.
4. to float on the crest of a wave toward shore.
5. to swim, play, or bathe in the surf.
6. to search haphazardly, as for information on a computer network or an interesting program on television.
-Synonyms
breaker, wave, white-caps
TRACKS:
- The Blue Hawaiians - Quiet Surf (album: Sway) [1998]
- Jimmy Luttrell – Egyptian Surf Queen (album: USA Guitar Surf King) [2001]
- Don Grusin – Surfer Girl (Prelude) (album: A Jazz Portrait of Brain Wilson) [2005]
- Clark Burroughs Group – Surfs Up (album: A Jazz Portrait of Brain Wilson) [2005]
- The Chantays – Pipeline (album: Big Waves – Five Decades of Surf Rock) [2007]
- The Lively Ones – Surf Rider (album: Big Waves – Five Decades of Surf Rock) [2007]
- Pollo del Mar – A Flash of Green (album: Big Waves – Five Decades of Surf Rock) [2007] (Removed at Artists request)
- Dick Dale & the del-Tones- Surf Beat (album: Dick Dale & His Deltones – Greatest Hits 1961-1976) [1992]
- The Surfaris – Wipe Out (album: Hot Summer 101 – Sunset Party) [2007]
- Blue Stingrays- Goldfinger (album: Surf-N-Burn) [1997]
- The Beach Boys – Surfin’ U.S.A. (album: Endless Summer)
- McFly – Surfer Babe (album: Room On the 3rd Floor) [2004]
)TRIGGER: Beach
We’re off for our Summer Vacation…and not a moment too soon!
I really feel like I need a rest…this is the first break I’ve had since last year’s vacation…2 weeks off in a year. (Note to self: need to sort that!)
Still, as my Wife reminds me….she works 52 weeks a year, 365 days, 24/7….Now I know why I didn’t put in for that job!!!
This will probably be the last holiday we take as a family. The kids are growing up and my daughter is about ready to start doing her own ‘holiday thing’, so I hope this is one for us all to remember.
Come Saturday morning we head for the unspoilt coast of Cornwall for two weeks of rest, relaxation, sightseeing and reading. And in my case….painting too. Lots of lovely coastal scenes to capture on canvas.
Let’s hope that the weather smiles on us and we’re able to get onto the beach for a while each day….can’t wait to see the kids faces when they see my new Borat-style swim suit!
I’ve set up a couple of posts for while I’m away, so hopefully there will be service as usual here.
In the meanwhile, the trigger is…
Beach [beech]
-noun
1. an expanse of sand or pebbles along a shore.
2. the part of the shore of an ocean, sea, large river, lake, etc., washed by the tide or waves.
3. the area adjacent to a seashore: We’re vacationing at the beach.
-verb
4. Nautical. to haul or run onto a beach: We beached the ship to save it.
5. to make inoperative or unemployed.
-Synonyms
coast, seashore, strand, littoral, sands
TRACKS:
- Hot Chip – Beach Party (album: Coming on Strong) [2004]
- Pas/Cal – The Bronze Beached Boys (Come On Let’s Go) (album: Handbag Memoirs0 [2002]
- Ekolu- Shores Of Waiehu [2001]
- All Saints – Pure Shores (The Beach) (album: Best Movie Hits) [2007]
- The Clientele – From Brighton Beach to Santa Monica (album: God Save the Clientele) [2007]
- Chris Rea – On the Beach (album: Heartbeats: Greatest Hits) [2005]
- Gomez - Hamoa Beach (album: How We Operate) [2006]
- Gabriella Cilmi – Echo Beach (album: Lessons to Be Learned) [2008]
- Santana – Written in Sand (album: Love Songs) [2003]
- Leona Lewis – Footprints In The Sand (album: Spirit) [2008]
- Little Bastard – Pam’s Beach Balls
- Martha and the Muffins – Echo Beach (album: Oh What a Feeling) [1980]
- Flowers Forever – Beach Bum [2008]
- Counting Crows- Einstein On The Beach (For An Eggman) (album: Films About Ghosts) [2003]
- Bryan Savage- Zuma Beach (album: Jazz FM – Dreamin) [2003]
- Dido – Sand in my shoes (album: Life For Rent) [2003]
- The Rippingtons – South Beach Mambo (album: Pure Smooth Jazz) [2002]
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Naturally 7: Ready II Fly
As you’ve probably guessed from my earlier posts on this band, I’m a fan.So just who are they?
Naturally 7 are seven guys from New York City (although two members Roger and Warren Thomas were born in Manchester, England) who, at first glance, would have you thinking they are a heavy hip-hop outfit. Yet here they are on tour for the second time as special guests to Michael Bublé.
What do they do that makes them stand out?
Despite a repertoire that ranges from their own self-penned, composed and arranged tracks full of Jazz-tinged, gospel, hip-hop, funk and pop to complete surprises like the Phil Collins’ classic ‘Feel It (In the Air Tonight)’, a Simon & Garfunkel medley and Mr. Mister’s ‘Broken Wings’, what is truly stunning about Naturally 7 is that they do what they do with absolutely no instruments.
Say what???
That’s right…no instruments. Dubbed VocalPlay by Naturally 7 themselves, they have created a precise art form of using their vocals as instruments. Their entire sound; the rhythms & beats, the bass, the keyboard and up-beat soul vocals are all produced by nothing more than their very versatile voices. Apparently, their only problem is complaints to turn the stereo down when they have impromptu rehearsals in hotels.
What’s the new album like?
Divine. Simply divine.
There’s something here for everyone. From soft, sensuous tracks like ‘How Can It Be’, to heart-string tuggers like ‘Forever For You’ (a MUST LISTEN track). Then there’s some god old hip-hop like ‘Fly Baby’ and of course their own interpretation of ‘Feel It (In The Air Tonight)’ and ‘What I’m Looking For (Ain’t No Mountain High Enough)’. Mix in some simply beautiful R&B tracks and a touch of Gospel and there you have it…18 tracks of absolutely brilliant listening.
My favourite track?
Hard to say as there is nothing bad about this album. However, one that’s found itself on repeat a lot is a track called ‘Cool’. Hard to classify which genre to put this in. It’s R&B, Hip-Hop, Rap and FUN.
What’s left to say?
If you don’t add this album to your collection….your collection won’t be worth Jack. And with 18 tracks we’re talking value for money here.
Visit their website [here]
Visit their Myspace [here]
Naturally 7: Hitting the big time
At the beginning of July I posted about a great new group called Naturally 7. Read the post [here]
Since then, I have received a copy of their new album “Ready II Fly” for evaluation, and I have to tell you…it’s Fantastic.
To recap, these guys use no instruments, they make make all the music just with their voices…all of it!
I previously posted a link to a YouTube of their version of “Feel It (In The Air Tonight)”, but take a look at this version which shows them performing the song on the Paris Metro, to a car full of French commuters…outstanding!
It seems I’m not the only one to like these guys as Johnnie Walker, the Radio 2DJ also saw this clip and invited them to perform live on the Morning Show on Tuesday this week. Despite being booked on a flight back to the USA on Monday they agreed to stay over an extra day and do the show. In my opinion that shows that these fellas are keen and willing to work at making it.
And it certainly seems to have paid off for them. Not only did they do the radio show, they picked up an extra gig at O2, and…best of all…the producers of the Royal Variety Performance heard the radio interview and caught the show. They are now booked to perform on the Royal Variety Performance on 11th December 2008 at the London Palladium in the presence of Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall.
Nice one guys!
If you want to know more about these chaps and their music, read my next post on their album.
TRIGGER: Weekend
AT LAST!!!
The end of a hot, sunny and sticky week.
I’ve been looking forward to the weekend for days now. Don’t you just hate it when you can’t wait for the weekend to arrive?….it just seems to make the week drag even more slowly!!
Still, 2 days off now to sit and relax and do nothing……I WISH!!!
I have a list of jobs as long as my arm to do around the house and garden. Then there’s my Wife’s Father’s garden to sort out tomorrow morning.
Oh yeah…and a few errands to run to get things ready for our vacation. We’re off next Saturday…..that’s another weekend I can’t wait to get here.
Obviously, the trigger is…
Weekend [wee-kend]
-noun
1. the end of a week, esp. the period of time between Friday evening and Monday morning: We spent the weekend at the beach.
2. this period as extended by one or more holidays, days off, or the like, that immediately precede or follow: We’re getting a three-day weekend at Christmas.
3. any two-day period taken or given regularly as a weekly rest period from one’s work: I have to work at the hospital on Saturdays and Sundays, so I take my weekends on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
-adjective
4. of, for, or on a weekend: a weekend pass; a weekend excursion.
-verb
5. to pass the weekend, as at a place: They weekended at their country place.
TRACKS:
- Michael Gray – The Weekend [2005]
- bFree – Saturdays Whore [2003]
- Lily Allen – Sunday Morning (album: Alright, Still) [2006]
- Simply Red – Lost Weekend (album: Home) [2003]
- Cut Copy – Saturdays (album: Bright Like Neon Love) [2004]
- Maroon 5 – Sunday Morning (album: Songs About Jane) [2002]
- The Divine Comedy – Something For The Weekend [2003]
- Kaiser Chiefs – Saturday Night (album: Employment) [2005]
- The Monkees – Pleasant Valley Sunday
- The Long Blondes – Weekend Without Makeup (album: Someone to Drive You Home) [2006]
- Rachael Cantu – Saturday (album: Run All Night) [2006]
- The Clientele – Tracy Had a Hard Day Sunday [2007]
- Math and Physics Club – Weekends Away (album: Weekends Away) [2005]
- McFly – Saturday Night (album: Room on the 3rd Floor) [2004]
- Eels – Saturday Morning (album: Shootenanny!) [2003]
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One to watch: The Splendour
Someone suggested I give these guys a listen to….and I like what I hear.The Splendour are a British group from Brighton who have a raunchy Indie Rock feel, yet you can’t help feeling that buried in there is a great deal of tongue-in-cheek humour, very much akin to Madness.
Their debut album, “The Best Way To Make Money” is set for release in August.
Well worth a listen at their Myspace page.
Their second single ‘Money’ is released on 28th July. Watch the video here:
Watch the video for their first single ‘Audio’ here
Visit their Website [here]
Visit their Myspace [here]
TRIGGER: DIY Disaster
I’m a little late posting a Trigger this week, and that’s because I’ve been busy.
I thought I’d have a concerted effort to finish off the decorating in the downstairs loo.
Not a great task I hear you say…after all it’s known as the “smallest room in the house”. Think again…
I’d already done most of it…constructing the vanity unit to house the washbasin, re-laying the wood floor edging, painting the ceiling. My wife had even painted all the woodwork.
All I had to do this weekend was design, construct and install a corner shelving unit, and fit new trimmings such as a new loo roll holder and towel rings.
Enter “Mr. DIY” with trusty electric drill, who measures up the wall, marks out where to drill for the new fitments, and duly proceeds to drill straight through an electric cable buried in the wall.
We now have no power to the Garage. or any outside power point, security lights, etc.
I think the Electrician’s bill to replace the damaged cable (hidden in the wall) is going to be more expensive than getting someone in to do all the work in the first place.
So the trigger is….
DIY Disaster (a.k.a. Electricity / Fused / Sparks)
Definition:
Letting an amateur do a professionals job
Seeing the lighter side (momentarily….while the sparks are brightest)
Getting a new hairstyle called ‘Shock Waves’
Trying to be ‘flash’…and succeeding
or…in truth……plain stupid!
TRACKS:
- The Apparitions -Electricity and Drums (album: As This Is Futuristic) (2006)
- Coldplay - Sparks (album: Parachutes) (2000)
- Delta Goodrem – Electric Storm (album: Mistaken Identity) (2004)
- Eddy Grant- Electric Avenue [Ringbang Remix] (2001)
- Electric Six - Gay Bar (album: Fire) (2003)
- Kanye West – Flashing Lights (album: Graduation) (2007)
- The New Pornographers – Electric Version (album: Electric Version) (2003)
- Pollo del Mar – A Flash of Green (album: Big Waves – Five Decades of Surf Rock) (2007)
- Queen - Flash (album: Queen – The Platinum Collection: Greatest Hits I, II & III) (2002)
- Royksopp- Sparks (album: Live EP-Royksopp’s Night Out) (2006)
- Sparks – Let the Monkey Drive (album: Exotic Creatures of the Deep) (2008)
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Missing Pictures
It would seem that the picture server which WordPress uses is playing up at the moment which means that some or all of the pictures on this site may not be visible.
Do not despair….the good folks at WordPress assure me they are working on correcting the problem and normal service (which I have to say is usually excellent) will be resumed ASAP
Lily Allen: The one and only…
For those who haven’t picked these up elsewhere, here are two tracks from the lovely & talented Lily Allen.
The first is a track called ‘Guess Who Batman – Fuck You Very Much’ which has been percolating in the blog-a-shere for some while now.
‘Who’d Have Known’ is a track that she released on here Myspace page but will not be included on her impending new album. Apparently she lifted some of the tune from Take That and says that the paperwork to get things sorted out is just too much hassle. (Life’s a bitch, huh?).
Anyway, Take That’s loss is our gain because it’s a brilliant little track.
Oh yeah…..she’s changed hair colour again….she went from blonde to pink and has now moved back to black (no Winehouse pun intended).
- Lily Allen – Guess Who Batman – Fuck You Very Much
- Lily Allen – Who’d Have Known
Natty: July
Hot on the heels of his first release, Natty bounces back with single number 2 called ‘July’
It’s a nice (as the name suggests) summery number and the video is worth a watch:
Alphabeat: Boyfriend
The latest release from Alphabeat off their album “This Is Alphabeat” is a retro-style track called ‘Boyfriend’
The video for the track is below and is well worth a look if Alphabeat are your kinda thing:
TRIGGER: Book
Been having one of those periods we all get when things just seem a bit too much to be bothered with.
Lethargy, apathy, disillusionment, call it whatever you will, but that’s partly the reason for my lack of posts recently.
It will pass, I’m sure.
However, in this ‘altered state’ I’ve also been a little sorry to see so few posts, blogs, articles, etc. on the “inter-web” that have sparked the usual level of interest for me. Hence the lack of the ‘Highlights of the week’ posts on here.
Maybe all the bloggers are feeling a little down? Or maybe it’s just me? Or maybe I just need a holiday?
As I say….It will pass!
In the meanwhile my love of reading has not diminished and I’ve been steadily working my way through more and more books.
That’s one thing I hope will never leave me. My love of the written word. Not only for the information and learning that one can gain….but for pure escapism.
What can be better than to become so immersed in a novel that you can shut off the outside world and become part of what’s going on with the characters in a good book. Just like when you watch a captivating movie or TV show and you become so engrossed that you loose all consciousness of the edge of the screen or the TV casing.
I know….I know….I’m weird. But what the hell….I like me.
Anyhow…the trigger is….
BOOK:
-noun
1. a written or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
2. a number of sheets of blank or ruled paper bound together for writing, recording business transactions, etc.
3. a division of a literary work, esp. one of the larger divisions.
4. the Book, the Bible.
5. anything that serves for the recording of facts or events
6. a magazine: used esp. in magazine publishing.
-verb
7. to enter in a book or list; record; register.
8. to register one’s name.
-adjective
9. of or pertaining to a book or books: the book department; a book salesman.
10. derived or learned from or based on books: a book knowledge of sailing.
-idioms
11. by the book, according to the correct or established form; in the usual manner: an unimaginative individual who does everything by the book.
12. like a book, completely; thoroughly: She knew the area like a book.
13. one for the book or books, a noteworthy incident; something extraordinary: The daring rescue was one for the book.
14. write the book, to be the prototype, originator, leader, etc., of: So far as investment banking is concerned, they wrote the book.
-synonyms
Script, Volume, Tome,
TRACKS:
- Camera Obscura – Books Written for Girls (album: Underachievers Please Try Harder) [2004]
- The Clientele – Bookshop Casanova (album: God Save the Clientele) [2007]
- The Real Tuesday Weld – Last Words (album: The London Book of the Dead) [2007]
- The Beautiful South – My Book (album: Carry On Up The Charts: The Best Of The Beautiful South) [1995]
- Cake – Open Book (album: Fashion Nugget) [1996]
- We Are Scientists – Textbook (album: With Love and Squalor) [2006]
- Spoon - The Book I Write (album: Stranger Than Fiction) [2006]
- Sting – The Book Of My Life (album: Sacred Love) [2003]
- Daniel Bedingfield- I Can’t Read You (album: Gotta Get Thru This) [2002]
- Chris De Burgh – Read My Name (album: Road to Freedom) [2004]
- Bread - Diary (album: The Best Of Bread) [1980]
- Maximo Park – Books From Boxes (album: Our Earthly Pleasures) [2007]
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