Nobody Beats The Drum - Grindin'

Don't Get Paranoid With Me

Today I attended a potatoe fair ( purchased Yukon Gold and Picasso, if you were wondering) and went hunting for fossils on Wenlock Edge. Some bright spark had used the best fossil yeilding rocks to build a wall, so of course now there isn't much wall left. Found some good amonites, if you were wondering.

Also listened to a tape...

This was on it.

That was my day...

That's Poppers O'Clock Then

The build in this is properly monster

Wonderful

We Are Actually At A Rave...

If you're young you won't remember The Hitman and Her (and if you ever went out on a Saturday night, you won't have seen it), Michaela Strachan and Pete Waterman filming late night shows from actual clubs. The show ran from 1988 to 1992, which is amazing really when you consider it just featured groups of pissed people dancing badly in clubs. Take That appeared on one show, also Kylie and Guru 'Bloody' Josh. Until 1992 they usually filmed in cheesy clubs in Bradford or Blackpool, where the people got hammered on Bacardi and Coke and danced around their bags. Clubs and clubbing were changing around them though. Rave was really taking off in the clubs, as were pills (twenty five quid a pop, but they'd last for hours), suddenly this whole Pete and Michaela in da club stuff didn't seem such a good idea. Suddenly it looked naive, aswell as naff.

I really wish they'd revisit this idea now. On ITV. After Extreme Cops With Guns and Dogs on The Streets At War

Two Door Cinema Club - Undercover Martyn

We're loving TDCC and we're massively excited about their album, due out on the 1st March. Everything we've heard has been class, uplifting pop and that's what we like from our geetar based indy stuff.

A lot of video posts at the moment, I realise. Been caught up with some February gardening madness and though I maybe looking toned and healthy from it, it doesn't leave me much time for blogging. Back with something mammoth soon

The Maccabees Feat Roots Manuva

Youtube Music Is...

News!

It's The Music That You Choose

We used to have a bi-annual trip to Shell Island, where we'd camp for a few days, drink loads and 'experiment' with various narcotics. Shell Island itself is a magical place, especially deep at night, when it has a light all of its own and plunging dunes which fuck with your depth perception, leaving you flailing down a sheer 20ft drop, which had looked like a nice little step down seconds before. You can build a fire, then sit for hours, staring into the jumping flames, listening to tunes, until the batteries on the ghetto blaster died. Good times indeed.

I tried a bit of Plan B (first album, when he was a little bit more angry...), around the fire one evening and to say it killed the mood would be understating it somewhat. Which goes to prove that it's not only the music that you choose, but when you choose it aswell.

This one's for the Shell Island Massive - may we get there again sometime

Plan B - 'Stay Too Long (Pendulum Remix)'

Dada Life

Favourite mix of the year so far, opening with my favourite tune of the year so far. Mighty

Dada Life - 'January 2010 Mix'

The Subs – Mitsubitchi
Yolanda Be Cool – Afro Nuts (Douster Remix)
Honorebel feat Pitbull & Jump Smokers – Now You See It (Benny Benassi Dub Remix)
Nouveau Yorican – Boriqua
Cajmere – The Percolator (Dada Life Guerilla Fart #TBA)
Dada Life – Love Vibrations (D.I.M. ReLove Mix)
Crookers – Remedy
Fake Blood – I Think I Like It
Dan Black Feat. Kid Cudi – Symphonies (Dada Life Remix)
True Pseudo – Freaking Me Out (Designer Drugs Remix)
MVSEVM – French Jeans (Dada Life Remix)
Far Too Loud – Bass Association

The Subs - Mistubitchi

An Average Day At My House...

This is how we roll

Fear of Tigers - I Can Make The Pain Disappear (video by Dream Boat) from Dream Boat on Vimeo.

Hurts - Blood Tears and Gold

Ok so this lot are going to do exactly what it says on the tin. We're not going to get colour video for a start (maybe stretch to sepia for the next one?) We're not going to get any funky disco, or a hammering electro number. There's a moment in the vid where the lead singer sneer/snarls the lyric and I find that fascinating. It marks the whole thing apart. Hurts are not Right Said Fred. Better learn to live with it...I think they're ace. And how cool do they look, eh?

Acid Girls - Lightworks

Acid Girls - Lightworks OFFICIAL VIDEO dir. Steven Ilous from Steven Ilous on Vimeo.

Also a sweet Acid Girls remix of Ting Tings at Rcrdlbl

This Is How You Start A New Year...

With new Soulwax!

Dogs

Dogs have been around for a few years now and they're still one of the best live acts I've seen. Their gigs are electric, incendiary affairs, enough even for Dave 'Don't Mention The Sex Pistols' over at shitboyfriend to imagine 'this what it must have been like watching the Pistols' when we saw them in a sweaty, fucking hot Bar Academy in Brum, just after the release of their debut album. 'Turn Against This Land' was released in 2005 and was a cracking gem of a release, full of punk indie tracks that were stripped of any bollox and just rocked out. Their second album 'Tall Stories From Under The Table calmed it all down a bit and featured Mr Paul Weller, no less. It featured some great tunes, 'Little Pretenders' is ace, but it didn't have the PUNCH of the debut.

They disapeared off the radar after that, for me anyway, but they're back now and they need our support, godammit. They're going to release an EP in 2010 and they're looking for pledges to make it happen. You can go here, make a pledge, be it a signed CD for 15 quid, a chance to drink the bands rider for 55, right up to them performing a gig at your house for a grand! Whatever it is you pledge, pledge something because we need to keep bands like Dogs around.

Pony Pony Run Run - Walking On A Line

PONY PONY RUN RUN - WALKING ON A LINE [OFFICIAL VIDEOCLIP]
by 3emebureau

Just A Bit Of Christmas

It would be remiss of me to ignore Christmas altogether, much as I'd like to. Not my favourite time of year, if I'm honest. Too much forced bohomie and pressure on the bank account to make it the 'season to be jolly' at SS. Get the fucker out of the way and get ready for New Year, that's my plan.

One of the things that pisses me off about this time of year is the Christmas WMD that is the Christmas song. There's been a few good ones I can think of, Kirsty Maccoll and Shane McGowan's 'Fairytale Of New York' of course, a few of the classics, 'White Christmas','Jingle Bell Rock' etc, but generally they're a big bag of shit. My worst nightmare is being stuck at work when the local radio station decides to dedicate the whole day to Christmas songs, 'to get everyone in the mood!!' For what? Shooting strangers?

Horrible.

Mew 'She Comes Home For Christmas' on the other hand is quite ace. It's not really got much to do with Christmas, as far as I can tell, apart from it was released around Christmas time in 2002, the title mentions Christmas and one of the final lines is 'she came home for Christmas'. Actually that's quite a lot of Christmas. It's enough for it to qualify as Squeaky Sneakers only, officially endorsed Christmas song. Here it is...

And that's enough Christmas...

This May Not Be Uptown Jamaica...

Off to see Madness on the 17th. The first album I owned on vinyl was One Step Beyond, so the Nutty Boys and me go way back. They've been touring much of this year, with appearances at Glastonbury and Pinkpop. They performed twice at Rock En Seine festival when the Bonehead Gallagher brothers had a scrap and they stepped in to fill their slot. I'm looking forward to seeing them alot

Strip Steve - Breakin'

Strip Steve - 'Breakin' from Boysnoize Records on Vimeo.