Dj Set @The Prince Albert excitement!

I Djed at The Albert on Wednesday before and after the bands played (The Mekano Set, Bird Eats Baby, etc) This is the first gig I've seen where a band says on stage; "you can find us on.. if you Google our name!" So not 'you can find us on Myspace' like everyone used to say! This is the death of the Myspace shout out. Sites are better to use and so easy and Blogs are even easier and way more personel. Myspace is your bands trainer wheels and if you dont split up after 6 months then get a Blog and your own site!

This is the track listing of everything I played. I was pretty happy with this even though I dont think anyone noticed the sounds of heavy rain and thunder I faded in and out of any track fade outs!

Big Stick - "A Threat"

Red Violet Red - "Candy Cane"

Late Of The Pier - "Blueberry"

Gang Of Four - "I Love A Man In Uniform"

Barbi and The Kens - "Not Your Steppin Stone"

Gogoll Bordello - "Sally"

The Higsons - "Put The Punk Back Into Funk"

Freeze - "Boston Not L.A"

Limbo Race - "There Goes Kafka"

The Horrors - "Primary Colours"

This Mono Galaxy - "Every Day Loks Like The Last"

Gatekeeper - "Tides"

Club De Rome - "Gringhita"

Prince - "Dirty Mind"

Health - "Die Slow"

These New Puritans - "We Want War"

Twisted Wires - "One Night At The Raw Deal"

David Bowie - "Kooks"

2.3 - " Where To Now"

Gang Of Four - "Cheeseburger (live)"

Ipso Facto - "Greta"

Alec Empire - "If You Live Or Die"

Liars - "Scissor"

This Mono Galaxy - "Team Building"

Dirty Projectors - "Ascending Melody"

Bosco Delray, new gigs and pics.

This is kind of weird writing about a scene and club night I've never been to but anyway.. Midnight Till Death is a club night at Don Pedros (90 Manhattan Avenue between Boerum & McKibbon) in Brooklyn.

<-- Google Earth street view of the entrance!

This is a well cool (I hesitate but think I'm 100% correct in saying) scuzy, undergound gig venue! Midnight Till Death has been going for about 2 years and is on once a month. Visualise loads of bands you wont ever have heard of but will do, shared equitment, hand drawn posters, scene kids, $6 entry, projectors, distortion and, at the one last friday, Mad Decents Bosco Delray! A Fokkawolfe favourite Bosco Delray should be way bigger than he is, we have to wait for the album out this year to see what happens. At the moment he's playing gigs all over NYC. Here's some pics of his set from the night!




























At next months Midnight Till Death a great punk band called Cerebral Ballzy will be playing, who if the videos of their live shows are anything to go by (which of course they are!) totally blow shit away! "Bad Brains on crystal meth." - NY Press

Magic Wands, Kiss Me Dead. New Video!

Fresh out the oven its the new video for Kiss Me Dead by Magic Wands! Bringing the beats tropical
glitter space magic style to all this new shoegaze echoeverb sound that was 2009!

Kinema, Circles Ep launch!

:Kinema: are celebrating the launch of their Circles EP by throwing a party of epic proportions on Saturday 23rd January at Jam on Middle street. Featuring the Kitsune signed Grovesnor and Alexis Taylor from Hot Chip!









(photo by Emily Barnett emilymarybernett@yahoo.co.uk )

The night will be split in two (one ticket, £8, gets you into the whole thing) - firstly a gig showcasing some of :Kinema:s new material + it will be a first chance for Brighton to hear live material from Grovesnor's amazing forthcoming (Hot Chip-produced) album!!

Then secondly there'll be two of London's top Dj's coming down to take the party into the small hours. Hot Chips frontman Alexis Taylor and Bugs Raplin. "Just one hour of Bugs on the decks is worth the entrance fee alone. We do not joke!"

:Kinema: have said on Facebook that.. "If this isn't the best party you ever go to we will personally refund your money."

Cant find better than that!

Smooooth baby, yeah!

There's a glut of polished synth pop bands insisting for attention at the moment. They're not coming from the nu-rave indie dance angle but from a smooth, R&B, production centered, house inspired enclave that we all thought was gone but due to the new pop revival has reared its head again!

Now some like :Kinema: are great and thats the point its all about how these bands carry it off, if its as housey and creepily smooth as :Kinema:s Circles EP I like it. The EP is like George Michael pinning Hot Chip up against the wall at R. Kellys coming out party, brilliant! (and that isnt just reviewing hyperbole its quite literal!)







But then you get bands like Fenech Soler, which me and Meatbreak championed a few years ago at Not For Resale when they sounded like Justice but who now sound like they think Duran Duran are a bit to edgy. Please dont let them be big in 2010. Please!








Neon Highwire are also an example of this type of band going wrong though they seem to have listen to Test Icicles a little too much (like what year is this?) Read their Myspace press release and it makes you want to cut your ears off it's so damn safe.









This is just a taster, there are a whole bunch more, alot from LA (often a three piece, not sure why?) I would have used Magistrates as a really good example but they've just split up!

The Countryside Alliance Crew!

The Countryside Alliance Crew come together for a rural rendition of We Are Rural supporting farmers across the world. Download this track free, and give what you can to Farm Africa, supporting farmers in the third world:

www.farmafrica.org.uk/

Download the track for free here:







There comes a time
When we head a certain call
When the herd must come together as one
There are cows dying
And it's time to lend a hand to livestock
The greatest gift of all We can't go on
just growing crops and making hay

thinking someone, somewhere will soon make a change
We are all a part of
a rural community
And the truth, you know is farming's all we need

[Chorus]
We are rural
We are the farmers
We are the ones who make the best hay
So let's start sowing
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our livestock
It's true we'll make better hay
Just you and me

Send them your hay
So they'll know that someone cares
And their livestock will be stronger and free
You can leave your cows in the fields, and grow corn instead
And we all can be farming hands

[Chorus]
We are rural
We are the farmers
We are the ones who make the best hay
So let's start sowing
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our livestock
It's true we'll make better hay
Just you and me

When you're down the pub
There seems no hope at all
But if you just believe
There's no way our crops can fail
Well, well, well, well, let us fertilize
Cos a change will only come
When we farm, farm together as one

[Chorus]
We are rural
We are the farmers
We are the ones who make the best hay
So let's start sowing
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our livestock
It's true we'll make better hay
Just you and me

We are rural
We are the farmers
We are the ones who make the best hay
So let's start farming
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our livestock
It's true we'll make better hay
Just you and me

We are rural
We are the farmers
We are the ones who make the best hay
So let's start farming
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our livestock
It's true we'll make better hay
Just you and me

We are rural
We are the farmers
We are the ones who make the best hay
So let's start farming
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our livestock
It's true we'll make better hay
Just you and me

Yeasayer new single, video & album! Well psyched!!

The new Yeasayer single Ambling Alp is pretty sweet!
Get the free download here.
The video though is just brilliant!

Yeasayer "Ambling Alp" from Team G on Vimeo.

Now I've got to definately see them when they play Brighton next! (Oh yeah the 2nd album is coming out and is called "Odd Blood"! More about it on this blog here! Cool yeah!)