COMPETITION NOW CLOSED, MOVE ON PLEASE, NOTHING TO SEE HERE, DO YOUR TALKING WHILE YOU’RE WALKING, YOU DON’T HAVE TO GO HOME BUT YOU CAN’T STAY HERE

Have you heard about Three’s Now Playing gigs? Don’t answer just yet. Wait until you have read this post, and then answer “yes I have, and I wish to enter your competition to win tickets to one of them, if you don’t mind too much.”

Three are hosting their Now Playing shows to celebremate their partnership with Spotify, the result of which is that you can now stream Spotify on Three mobile phones. Heck, they’re even giving some phones away for free.

The first Now Playing London (#threenowplaying) gig is this very Thursday, the 28th October, at Shoreditch Town Hall, and My Chemical Toilet has one pair to give away.

The winner will get to see popular doomsters White Lies, jerky falsetto glitchpoppers Everything Everything and lovelorn nouveau soft-rockers, I Am Arrows. The DJ for the evening will be remix maniac Eddy Temple Morris.

Not a bad line-up for a freeb, huh?

To enter, email stuart (at) mychemicaltoilet.com with the name of one band Andy Burrows of I Am Arrows used to be in. Use the subject line RAZORLIGHT. Please include a phone number “just in case”.

I’ll pick a winner at random at 5pm on Wednesday 27th October, so you’ll get 24 hours’ notice if you’re the lucky swine. Please see after the jump for terms and conditions.

For more information on Now Playing and to find out more about Three’s exclusive Spotify Premium bundle, visit nowplayinguk.com. You’ll also be able to listen to playlists compiled speshly by the Now Listening artists.

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Monday October 25th, 2010 at 7:33 pm

I’m not going to lie - I bloody love Usher’s “DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love”. I can’t help it. Obviously it would be fortwenteen times better if it contained no Pitbull, but few records manage to escape his “input” these days.

I was disappointed with the video, though. It was your standard club-based yawnathon - some nice choreography, but it didn’t really capture the R&B/eurocheese crossover vitality of the song.

So thank Kong for Keenan Cahill who, under the YouTube moniker BeenerKeeKee19952, has provided the enthusiastic treatment the tune deserves. It’s a shame (but not remotely surprising) that, as one YT commenter understates in reference to the feedback Keenan has received from the community, “most of these comments r rude”.

Posted by Stuart Waterman on Monday October 11th, 2010 at 7:00 am

If you shuffle off this mortal coil having left something this good behind, you know you did life right.

Posted by Stuart Waterman on Sunday October 10th, 2010 at 2:37 pm

We’ve all jacked a few mans for their chains in our time, haven’t we? ‘Course. One thing I personally have never done is steal someone’s gaudily-oversized superhero pendant and gone on YouTube to gloat about it. But north London MC Rowdy-T makes this look like a rather wizard idea, if only for publicity’s sake.

It seems Mr T encountered an American rapper named Yung Berg, and took a bit of a shine to Mr Berg’s Batman neckla- sorry, chain. So he yoinked it. Then, rather than laying low and polishing his twinkly Caped Crusader beneath his duvet, he decided to start uploading a series of videos so that nobody would be in any doubt that he was in possession of the stolen trinket.

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Wednesday October 6th, 2010 at 7:00 am

Feels a bit weird, writing a post about The Rolling Stones. You tend to assume everyone knows everything there is to know about them, don’t you? But even hardcore Stones bores have been awaiting the release of Ladies And Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones on DVD, as it’s been unobtainable by legal means for decades.

It was filmed over a few shows in 1972 as the band toured their masterpiece Exile On Main Street, but has only been available to fans once, in the 80s, on something called “VHS”, in a country called “Australia”, before being deleted. On October 11th it finally comes out on DVD and Blu-ray.

And however many times you’ve heard Stones songs and seen Mick peacock it up, it would be a studiously aloof, soulless berk who could watch Ladies & Gentlemen without being seduced by the ramalanga rock n’ roll spirit contained therein. “Bitch”, “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”, “Brown Sugar”… if you feel no urge to at least tap your foot when these songs are played, especially in their live incarnations with their riffs n’ their horns n’ their sheer Stonesyness, chop it off. You deserve no foot. No foot for you.

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Tuesday October 5th, 2010 at 7:30 am