SOURCE TV: Blood Red Shoes

We just stumbled across this video for one of our fave songs of last year on ITunes. It's ace - although on YouTube the visuals lag a little to the music so it's not quite as impressive. Great song, great band, great video.


Blood Red Shoes 'You Bring Me Down'

PS We saw Laura-Mary cosying up with Felix Maccabees the other day. Brighton's new indie power couple?

Kendall

Jens Lekman And The Jing Jang Jong

In our Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong interview (out on the streets around about now) Joe talks about being so inspired by seeing Jens Lekman that he knew he wanted to form his own band (he was the Pipettes drummer at the time). Since writing about him we’ve seen Jens’ name pop up a few places, and we can see why everyone holds him in such high regards. Falling somewhere between Richard Hawley’s soft-edged crooning nostalgia and Morrissey’s bittersweet early solo work, it’s lovely stuff. A fascinating article in The Guardian highlights how good his lyrics are. You Are The Light offers this gem: "I got busted, so I used my one phone call to dedicate a song to you on the radio." Ahhh!

Great stuff, maybe we’ll start a band too. Joe Lean and his boys have done quite well out of it – industry rumour has their advance as approaching a million quid.

Website - what's going on?

basically, we're just in the process of udating the website. at the moment the listings work, and this blog, the link for myspace, and hopefully by the time you read this, the bands section and the FAQ. when you see how much better it is hopefully you won't mind the inconveniance. in the meantime, here's a snippet of the forthcoming Bestival review:


Bestival: We Were There – In Body At Least
“Much better than their hip hop set was the Beastie Boys band set. Flagged up as an instrumental performance, the reality was much more interesting. After a meandering groove start the final half battered home with hardcore classics from Ill Communication and Check Your Head. Heart Attack Man and Sabotage never sounded better, despite the grey hair of these punks. Beardyman coped with following one of the best sets of the weekend by providing the funniest and funkiest beatboxing set that charmed the massive crowd in seconds. It was just one of many of the Brighton performances that made us proud…

Bet For Lashes

So Bat For Lashes didn’t win the Mercury Prize then? That’s a shame, but of all the artists she’s probably the one that’s gained most from the affair. She went from “Bat for who?” to “I can’t believe she didn’t win” in two months. That she became favourite by the end of the betting shows how much these new listeners loved the amazing Fur & Gold. Still having a flutter on the winner of the Mercury is like put money on the Grand National – the whole affair is totally random. We still believe that our gigs writer Ben won his £250 on the Klaxons by luck alone. But Bat For Lashes was the real winner. The skeleton gloves are yours if you want them Natasha.

Rwanda Hilton

“Socialite Paris Hilton is living up to her promise to be more charitable - she's planning a trip to Rwanda,” says the news on IMDb. Sorry, but when has going on a bad holiday been ‘doing charity work'. Organisations fly stars round the world and show them how fucked up it is and for what. Oh, Paris knows: “There's so much need in that area, and I feel like if I go, it will bring more attention to what people can do to help.”

Really, is that it? Maybe you could go and, say, spend a week of hard graft looking after the many orphans, or try and help educate the farmers away from subsistence farming. Maybe you could just stay at home and send some money, save the patronising visit. Haven’t they suffered enough already.

“I know there's a lot of good I can do just by getting involved and bringing attention to these issues,” she says. We doubt anything will sink in from her visit, nor will there be any lasting effect on Rwanda. Still, at least it’s good PR for Ms Hilton. “I want to visit more countries where poverty and children's issues are a big concern,” the vapid, self-interested waste of natural resources says. Oh, she’s amazing, isn’t she!

James Kendall

Not For Resale September Mix

Hello,

Yes, the free Not For Resale September mix is up now for you to download here:

www.sendspace.com/file/qxar38

77 minutes of the intense demo mayhem, dancefloor carnage, thrills and spills that we've been playing at Not For Resale and NFR LIVE! this month.

Featuring the likes of:

Future Of The Left
Iron Pirate
Thunderheist
Modeselektor
Monsters Build Mean Robots
I.R. Tiger
Wolves In The Throne Room
Heavy Winged...........

...........and more more MORE!!!


Start's off quite hairy so turn it up and hold on to your butts!



MxBx

Another Reformation. Post TLC.

Just read this on the Organ blog.

"BLUR REFORM - After loads of speculation and suggestions one way and the other, Blur have announced that they are all set to record their new album, their first since 2002's 'Think Tank'. And when we say all we mean Graham Coxon as well as Dave Rowntree, Alex James and Damon Albarn. No time scales have been offered on when the four will return to the studio, nor when they hope to have something to release."


Interesting news indeed. What can we expect? Chart punk songs with fretless bass and marimba accompaniment with fancy animations about organic cheese production?

It's a strong possibility.