more.

basically i adore the new Kate Nash track. it's incredibly shallow (you can't really listen to Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea for 6 months just because you're going out with someone in a rawwwk band, rip it off completely and get away with it that easily love) BUT who cares. it's not like i had to pay for it what with this wonderful internet culture we inhabit.

Kate Nash - I Just Love You More

argh

STOP!
DOING!
COVERS!
KATE NASH!
STOP IT.

some people can. some people can't. you are one of the people who clearly CANNOT.

Kate Nash - Men's Needs

ugh. listen at your peril.

ps. how daft does she look in this video compared to the ultimate geniusness and hilarity of Keith & Chris W.A.S:

friday feeling

so, whilst i sit here plotting a million ways to kidnap Russell Howard and force him to marry me, Channel 4's The Album Chart Show show is on in the background.

some of the artists featured on it tonight are Calvin Harris, some god awful ginger (i get to say ginger with contempt because i suffer from the same affliction, haha) white guy with dreadlocks and (ugh) The View.

'headlining' the terribly annoying show is Kate Nash. Nash's album was released on Monday and is obviously going to slam dunk it's way into one of the top 2 slots in the charts come Sunday.

i've listened to the album a couple of times and although i enjoy some of Kate's music, the album is such a massive disappointment. it's clearly rushed. not only in terms of song writing and production but also with regard to exposure and press.

everywhere i go all i hear is people going "your mates are much FITTAH" and i'm praying that they stop before i actually hurt them. everyone's pegged and posted Nash upon the merit of her shoddy album which is a shame. if only she hadn't gone so far down the comercialised, mark-one shopper friendly, tracksuit wearing people appealing route! not that i have anything against anyone who wears a tracksuit.. my brother wears one when he plays squash and everything.

overall, a huge letdown that has been forced on us too quickly. i hope Kate fades out and then takes a few years to mature and refine her sound into something with all the substance that 'Made Of Bricks' lacks.

Kate Nash - Dickhead
Kate Nash - Nicest Thing

also!! TONY WILSON! :( not good news. a legend has passed away. if it hadn't been for him, well. music would not be where it is today. R.I.P Tony.

Joy Division - Isolation

first post!

so after being sucked into reading millions of other blogs I thought I'd make my own. why not, eh? and when I finally get round to having some money I might even get a microphone and do some podcasts. shocking.

I have been endlessly inspired by Keep Hope Inside and also Good Weather For Airstrikes. both are wonderfully coherent and have introduced me to some new artists well worth hearing. other blogs have also provided very useful but I'm too lazy to list all the ones I read.

today I'm going to talk about Modernaire (myspace). they're from Manchester, they're a two piece, and they're absolutely brilliant. possibly the best band in Manchester right now. I've previously described them as sounding like "Kate Nash, a keyboard and a strange French man have had some kind of serious car accident and happened to have merged into one giant singing, dancing, French speaking, electro-funk mutant". which is a bit of a mouthful when all I really want to say is something along the lines of "if you don't listen to them you're a prick".

what happened was they sent me a demo for my fanzine. usually, most of the demos we get are pretty rubbish (unless Art Goes Pop are sending them, they send well good promos out). so you can imagine my suprise and delight when I put the CD on and it was top quality.

here's two of my favourite tracks by them.

Taste
Faites Tes Jeux
if you like what you hear you can find out more by going to their myspace. add them and say hello. you can buy several of their songs from here.