Cancer Bats (who?) with a fairly pointless note-for-note cover of The Beastie Boys incoherently noisy and shoutily awesome song Sabotage. Plus a goofy video. So why do I like it so much? Waaaaaaaaargh!
music
Woodcat
A quietly amazing video for a dreamy-sweet song. A fine way to end a fine week.
And we all had a lovely time.
(Tunng’s new album, …And Then We Saw Land, is the shiznit – that and Gorillaz Plastic Beach is all I’ve been listening to this week – but their latest video isn’t as good as this one. Too many beards, man.)
Mark Linkous RIP
Aloha ‘Ino.
Once, Twice, Again
I made a couple of pop videos a while ago, with Mr Marcus Diamond, for the Teesside band Dartz! Sadly, the band have now split, but I’m sure you can still get their album This Is My Ship, on Xtra Mile Recordings, and you should because it’s really good. Math rock, they called it, but I call it a toe-tappin’ party starter! This video got shown on MTV2 and I also saw it on the telly in Top Man one time.
And here’s the first one we did. It’s pretty bonkersmental and it made me and Marcus’ head spin a bit cos we made it in a night:
Captain Kirk is Climbing The Mountain
Why does he climb the mountain? The answer may surprise you.
In My Mind
Don’t really know what to say about fIREHOSE, cos I don’t know that much about them, except that I like their noise. They’re punky and jazzy, and guitarist/singer Ed Crawford has a winning way with a vocal tune. In my bass-playing days, Mike Watt (bassist with Minutemen and fIREHOSE) was an absolute hero, and I got to tell him that one time via myspace and he totally replied and everything. I was very chuffed.
Anyway. This is the sound of summer love.
The Big Ol’ Bug
…Is The New Baby Now.
Let Wayne Coyne tell y’all a story. Goodnight children, everywhere.
Alice in Wonderland
As if the original wasn’t mesmerisingly trippy enough. Saw this at an art do in Durham tonight; you had to peek at it through a spyhole drilled in a little door. Perfect. I could have watched it all night. Well, better that than seven black and white photos of various branches of Greggs, or a bunch of charcoal-rendered vaginas.
We’re all mad here, said the Hatter.
ps on an art gallery tip, I might have some quite exciting exhibition-related news to share soon. Well, it’s exciting to me anyway. Oooh, mysterioso.
Happy 13
I absolutely adore Flotation Toy Warning. I don’t know who they are, or where they’re from, and I can’t remember how I heard about them, and consequently their album, Bluffer’s Guide to the Flight Deck, sounds like the mysterious crackly transmissions from a distant planet. Or a bit like Grandaddy, Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev. You know, that lot. Playful and dramatic chamber pop. If you like that sort of thing, you’ll like this. Probably.
Bullets
Have I posted any Tunng before? I don’t know. I saw them live at the Green Man festival a couple of years ago and fell under their woozy summer afternoon spell. Is it folktronica? I hope not. It’s just music, innit. Anyway, they’ve got a new album, …And Then We Saw Land, coming out soon, so here’s a song from their last one, Good Arrows, that I like, and which has a great video that manages to complement the song while simultaneously having very little to do with it.
Ramshackle Charm 