The number of opportunities for new bands to gain some brand-sponsored exposure these days is pretty breathtaking.
Pretty much every major festival has had a go at “engaging” young ‘uns using these tactics, and Virgin Media’s Road To V competition has been going a fair few years now.
This year Road To V is back, offering a frankly gruelling-sounding path to V Festival for two hopefully very fit unsigned bands. The Road to V involves being mentored by a couple of (soon to be announced) established bands, playing Brighton’s Great Escape Festival, exposure to pretty much every Virgin Media “portal” out there and trial by public vote.
These ladies are called The Mentalists. Their mentalism manifests itself through their willingness to spend Lord knows how many hours learning how to play an MGMT song together on their iThings.
I can’t believe they got through this without at least one device’s battery failing, or someone receiving a text.
That, readers, is a little horsey trotting across a lady’s buttock. It appears in Francoperv Sebastien Tellier’s new video “Roche”, which you can see after the jump. It’s very good.
A punk band playing alongside a hacked 80s Nintendo Entertainment System doesn’t, on paper, sound like the most rewarding listening experience for anyone other than Nintendo fanboy nerdlingers.
However, Anamanaguchi’s Dawn Metropolis may prove that instrumental punk/video game mash-ups can be worth listening to even once the novelty has worn off.
From what I’ve listened to, Anamanaguchi sound a bit like a speeded-up, Guitar Hero version of NYC guitar synthstrumentalists Ratatat. But you probably won’t know if it’s really your kind of thing until you’ve actually listened to a bit of it - which you can do over the page.
To whit, here are three decent Gloria Estefan moments you probably forgot existed.
1. “Get On Your Feet”
If we overlook the rather bossy title, this infectious little number sounds like it might have soundtracked a wacky montage in Three Men And A Baby. I’m not sure if it actually did, but it is undeniably “fun” and would sound just delightful over shots of nappies falling off little arses and men getting piss in their moustaches. Video after the jump.
I think this is the best thing I’ve heard from Frankmusik. It is very “now”, in a non-naff electro-pop kind of way.
I am rather fascinated with young fellamelad’s dancing, too. He looks like he’s trying to climb out of his skin, doesn’t he?
Have you ever climbed out of your skin? How did it feel? Did you throw the skin away, or retain it as a skin suit? When you tried to climb back in to your skin, did you manage to cram in all your intestines and muscles and stuff? Have you ever tried to climb into someone else’s skin? Have you ever sliced off someone’s face and(Come this way please sir - The po-po)
