Jamie George was apparently in a group called 3rd Edge, but I must have been in the queue at the Post Office or something while they were having their two Top 20 hits.
Now Jamie George is aiming for success as a solo artist, which is always a tricky proposition for a member of a boy band, let alone a boy band I’d wager many people haven’t heard of.
HOWEVER, such relative anonymity can also be positive for someone like Jamie. I imagine he has built up quite a good list of “contacts” from his time in the industry, while the likes of me are not going to listen to his new stuff and be like “oh, it’s not as good as song X”, or “hahahahaaaaaaaa what a muppet, he was in that group who did song Y”.
I mentioned this song last year, after hearing it on Steve Lamacq’s 6Music show. Now Two Door Cinema Club’s smile-inducing “Something Good Can Work” is due to get an official single release (whatever that’s worth these days) through Abeano, an imprint of XL Records. It comes out 2nd March.
BUT none of that really matters, because I have the track right here for you to download, legally and for free.
If you’re having a bad day/week/month, this jangly, chiming little two and a half minutes might just turn your mood around in time for the weekend. And if there is any justice left in this here world, by the end of the year it will be soundtracking every Freshers Week indie disco from now until Armageddon.
Download link after the jump.
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Posted by
Stuart Waterman on
Friday January 30th, 2009 at
9:40 am
This is a short post to let you know that the people at “real music” perpetuators Absolute Radio (Virgin Radio as was) are in a bit of
a tizz today, because Coldplay’s Chris Martin is popping in to do a live session.
If that sounds like something you’d like to experience as you eat your sandwich at your desk, be sure to point your internet to this page at 1pm today.
My Chemical Toilet was offered the chance to email over some questions to be put to Saint Chris, but to be honest the ones I submitted were a bit silly due to me extending that invitation to the site’s Twitter followers.
Come back here on Monday to see if any answers were forthcoming…
Posted by
Stuart Waterman on
Friday January 30th, 2009 at
9:00 am
So this week we’ve mentioned Schwartzman and Phoenix encroaching on our land of music, and now here’s another Hollywood type having a go.
This time we have Ryan Gosling, him from girly slush-epic The Notebook and splendid drugzrbad high-school drama Half-Nelson.
As part of Dead Man’s Bones pretty Ryan plays piano and sings in a rather foreboding timbre, with “In The Room Where You Sleep” featuring a simply darling children’s choir who prove you don’t have to be a singing child and scare the whoopsy out of people.
Watch the video after the jump - if you’re a fan of Nick Cave-style drama-rock you will probably find your ass smitten.
By now I’m sure you’ve seen Joaquin Phoenix’s first tramptastic public performance as a rapper, complete with pratfall, after supposedly quitting acting. (And if not, why not? See it over the page.)
Unsurprisingly, many people are finding the notion that this Hollywood star would pack it all in to work with Diddy, even if it is as part of a video project with his brother-in-law Casey Affleck, rather hard to believe. And overnight, the RSS update you see to your left popped up in my reader.
“Hmm,” I thought. “Hmm.” Then I stopped “hmm-ing” and clicked the thing, only to be taken to a page that no longer exists. Was the hoax outed? And then inned? Are NME in on the whole thing? Has this “friend” been bumped off?
I still get excited at the prospect of new material from The Prodigy, and I loved the title track from forthcoming album Invaders Must Die.
However, “Omen”, to me, sounds like Liam Howlett on autopilot. Even worse, if I didn’t know it was The Prodge I would have sworn it was Pendulum. The Prodigy as a pale imitation of another act? That ain’t right, surely?
Posted by
Stuart Waterman on
Wednesday January 28th, 2009 at
11:40 am
The esteemed editor of Shiny Shiny, Susi Weaser, writes:
Posting duties for this song have been passed on to me by the infinitely lazy Stuart, presumably because the phrases ‘violin and rustic percussion’ and ‘woozy folk flourishes’ appear in the press release. Just reading those terms has brought him out in armpit hives, while they’ve done something altogether more pleasant to me.
“White As Diamonds” is by someone called Alela Diane. I suggest you say that name aloud right now. Personally speaking, it’s probably the most pleasing thing to have come out of my mouth since I half-swallowed a wasp and then coughed it up. But of course that was pleasant because it was so unpleasant having it in there - I have not been hiding Alela Diane (say it!) in my mouth all this time. (Er, good to know - Ed)
Anyone remember Radish? “Little Pink Stars”? Sigh. Well Ben Kweller was the lead singer of the flash-in-the-pan teen rockers way back when, and, despite not getting much exposure as a solo artist this side of the pond, he’s been steadily releasing rather pleasing material for quite a few years.
I loved “Run” from his self-titled 2006 album, but it looks like his newer stuff is much more country-rock oriented. He performed “Fight” from his new album Changing Horses on Letterman the other night, and here that is. Looks like he’s taking fashion tips from Earl these days, huh?
This came via the Twitter feed of comedian Robert Popper. It is a high school band attempting to play “Greensleeves”, and, coupled with the laughter of the people filming it, is quite high-larioos.
Jamie George was apparently in a group called 3rd Edge, but I must have been in the queue at the Post Office or something while they were having their two Top 20 hits.
