Wednesday 30 September 2009

OI YOU!-CARNIVAL SPECIAL

A big, belated thank you to the Oi You! boys for making the best weekend of the year even better with their first carnival bash, at the Duke of Wellington on Portobello Road.
Smiling faces, big tunes and copious amounts of Red Stripe made this a bank holiday weekend to remember and a perfect end to summer 2009.
Follow the links below to keep up to date with what they're doing next.  Whatever extravaganza they've got planned, you can be sure it's going to be massive!

www.twitter.com/oiyoulondon

www.youtube.com/oiyoulondon






Monday 28 September 2009

MY NEW FAVOURITE BAND!!! - DEPORTEES


I've recently been introduced to this band, a four piece from umea, Sweden and have completely fallen in love with them! Check out their new album 'Under the pavement-the beach', out now on Dolores Recordings. I'm not sure whether you can get it in British record shops but I managed to get a copy through i-Tunes.
It's a record full of the sort of pop sensibilities that run through a lot of Swedish guitar music, but without the tweeness and I really love the simple clean, production and Peder Stenberg's soulful falsetto.

Stand-out tracks: 'Will you talk, (if I listen)', 'When they come'

Check them out at www.myspace.com/deporteesmusic

THE WORST POP BAND IN THE WORLD - THE SATURDAYS


(Saturdays manager) - "Hey Mr producer guy, i've got this girl band who are incredibly bland, have got no discernable personalities and are all as thick as tree stumps. Any chance you can give them a decent song so they're not all working back at top shop by the end of the year?"

(Record producer) - "Not a chance you miserable little turd! You can have whatever crap I decide to evacuate from from my gold plated arsehole and be done with it. Just put them on T4 every week and get Steve Jones to touch them up. No-one will notice."

(Saturdays manager) - "ok"