01/03/2009: Roisin Murphy
01/03/2009: Blind Pilot – Go On, Say It
02/03/2009: Howling Bells – Nightingale
03/03/2009: Pull In Emergency
04/03/2009: The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition
05/03/2009: Turin Brakes
06/03/2009: UNKLE – Glow
07/03/2009: Radiohead – Talk Show Host
08/03/2009: Silversun Pickups
09/03/2009: Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
09/03/2009: The Kooks – Always Where I Need To Be
09/03/2009: Keane – Spiralling
10/03/2009: Malone – Perfect Thing
11/03/2009: Pete Murray – Smile
12/03/2009: Mike Dignam – Anything
13/03/2009: La Roux – In For The Kill
14/03/2009: Jose Gonzalez – Hand On Your Heart
15/03/2009: Dishwalla
15/03/2009: Bits & Bobs I
16/03/2009: Band of Horses – The Funeral
16/03/2009: City and Colour – Love Don’t Live Here Anymore
18/03/2009: Scott Matthews – Eyes Wider Than Before
18/03/2009: Anathallo
19/03/2009: Hipslinky – Natural
20/03/2009: Cruel Intentions – Soundtrack
20/03/2009: Vast – Don’t Take Your Love Away
22/03/2009: John Mayer – Love Soon
23/03/2009: The Postal Service – Such Great Heights
23/03/2009: The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love 1
24/03/2009: Muse – Showbiz
25/03/2009: Lamb – Gorecki
26/03/2009: the Lodge
28/03/2009: Audioslave – Cochise
30/03/2009: Skunk Anansie
31/03/2009: Flashguns
Recap – March 2009
March 31, 2009
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Flashguns
March 31, 2009Aiming to try and catch this London&someBrighton-based quartet as part of Camden Crawl 24 April in a ‘before they got huge’ stroke of luck.
Steve Lamacq’s unfortunately spotted them as well and they’ve got >187k profile views on their MySpace so I’m thinking the odds of £5 gig tickets for much longer are slim to none…
Earnest, edgy, emotive vocals, my favourite tracks are ‘Ro Shambo’ and ‘Good Witch/Bad Witch‘.
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Skunk Anansie
March 30, 2009In honour of their Monto gigs this week (sold out super-fast, didn’t get a ticket 
) I thought I’d post links to a few of my favourites from the powerhouse brit-rockers that are Skunk Anansie …
I didn’t know Skin’s real name was Deborah until I looked at their MySpace just now. There’s that gig-envy rearing its ugly head again…
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Audioslave – Cochise
March 28, 2009Turn the stereo up loud and dust off your air guitar for the most kick-a*** intro ever written:
I think this was used on a trailer for ‘Iron Man’ but haven’t been able to find it – one of Chris Cornell’s finest post-Soundgarden flashes of genius.
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the Lodge
March 26, 2009Am experiencing some serious gig-envy for anyone who has seen this band perform live. I came across them in the line of duty (well – as a precursor to it becoming my duty) and was instantly smitten.
Here’s their myface and last.fm – some of my favourite tracks are:
Piece of Cake
Noose (youtube link)
My TV (youtube link)
Whatyamakermadeya (on the myspace)
…but actually pretty much all of them. Anyone who reads this…bombard them with messages asking for a take that-style comeback gig.
a “…rather sleazy slice of fuzzy garage rock” – Lonely Wolf Records
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Lamb – Gorecki
March 25, 2009Part of my induction into the world of trip-hop in the late nineties along with Massive Attack and the Sneakerpimps…the first time I heard this track was on the ‘I Still know What You Did Last Summer’ movie soundtrack but it was also recently used to advertise Tomb Raider Underworld.
The rest of the soundtrack’s pretty good too…here are a couple of my favourites:
- CJ Bolland – Sugar is Sweeter
- Imogen Heap – Getting Scared(unfortunately not a full-length version)
All a bit eerie and/or frantic, as one would expect from a teenage slasher flick, But they’re pretty cool.
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Muse – Showbiz
March 24, 2009Xfm’s Richard Skinner reminded me of this track this morning when he played ‘Muscle Museum’ (my favourite Muse track) on his show this morning.
‘Muscle Museum’ was released around the same time as Lit’s ‘Miserable’ and Creed’s ‘Higher’, which all became my anthems of that year (1999), even though the melancholy, fairly dark tones of the first two contrast completely with the happy, hopeful vibe of the latter.
This one’s even darker and featured in the closing scenes of episode two of BBC3 series ‘Being Human’ – no longer on iPlayer but it is available on DVD from April 20 if you’re interested in the blackly comedic ‘lives’ of a werewolf, vampire and ghost living in a flat in Bristol….
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