Oasis’s next live performance - following their controversial V cancellation - is due this weekend at Paris’s Rock en Seine festival. Will they show?
Well, thanks to the people behind Little Break, Big Difference, I’ll be there to see with my own jaded eyes. Turns out there’s this thing called Eurostar which means you can get to the continent quite quickly? Huh!
The shonkiness of my laptop means my live updates will be restricted to Twitter, but I am quite sure they will be very informative, utterly sober and correctly-spelled. Keep an eye out for them, and a full review after the event.
Oh vwah!
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Stuart Waterman on
Thursday August 27th, 2009 at
11:02 pm
Basshunter (real name: Ian Basshunter) has produced a very odd piece of work here. Let’s overlook the fact that he commits a common lyrical crime in switching between “she” and “you” with abandon, and instead focus on a couple of things about the video.
Thing 1: He rolls with a crew who are so much bloody fun that he literally never gets five minutes alone with his missus to propose to her. There he is on a yacht, or a piece of reclining beach furniture, fumbling about in the pocket of his cargo shorts for the ring, when his “boys” come and grab him and drag him off for some laddish larks. You’d think Mr Basshunter might have enough cash these days to take his beloved off for a holiday sans his spitroast buddies, but apparently not.
Thing 2: I don’t want to ruin it for you, but you should really watch until the end. To say the video’s conclusion jars with the tone of the preceding footage - and indeed the euphoric eurospaff of the song in general - is an understatement. There is a “message” there, but it’s pretty unsubtly done unlike the rest of Mr Basshunter’s oeuvre.
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Wednesday August 26th, 2009 at
8:00 am
This trailer is not quite as funny as the cast and subject matter led me to hope for. I don’t suppose Ang Lee’s especially well known for his comedies though, is he…
Taking Woodstock trailer verdict: meh"/>
Taking Woodstock is released in the UK on November 13th
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Stuart Waterman on
Tuesday August 25th, 2009 at
8:00 am
When I was a child I used to sing along to records of Disney movie soundtracks. I remember when George Michael’s “I Want Your Sex” was deemed too risqu
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Stuart Waterman on
Monday August 24th, 2009 at
8:00 am
What a moment. What a MOMENT! This post is about Ronika, who I had never heard of until about twenty-five minutes ago when I remembered I have a SoundCloud Dropbox (that orange thing in the sidebar labelled “SoundCloud DropBox”) and decided to have a rummage.
Ronika, you are the first artist to feature on this site as a result of my DropBox.
I think. My memory’s not all that. And it did take me about a month to get round to listening to it. Continue reading »
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Wednesday August 19th, 2009 at
8:00 am
While lesser other music blogs file a festival review as soon as the weekend on which it occurred has ended, My Chemical Toilet does things differently. There will always be people who claim that this review has only now been published because of an unshakeable laziness that plagues the site’s editor, but I think we know that those people are just HATERZ.
So, after cunningly bypassing the glut of Latitude reviews that stank up the internet like a dog fart a few weeks back, here is the definitive review of the event. It was texted through in installments by the diligent and dedicated Duncan Geere, who also writes about sprong configurations and downloadable bumware for top tech site Pocket-lint.
From the outset, Duncan was keen to show that no old duffer he. Check this pensioner-baiting update which he spat out before he’d even reached the festival:
Average age of people in coach station - 68. Average age of people carrying rucksacks: 23.
In other words - “I might be travelling on the same vehicle as you, Grandma, but I’m going to rock out while you’re complaining about your ankles. FUCK. YOU.” Continue reading »
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Stuart Waterman on
Tuesday August 18th, 2009 at
8:00 am
Here’s Manchester United’s Rio Ferdinand disclosing what he plays in the dressing room, what with him being the chief selecta and all:
I’ve got some old school tunes to fire me up, some old school [UK] garage. Plus there’s other stuff. The mix has got a bit of Kanye West on there, Lil Wayne and stuff like that, so that everyone in the changing room is happy.
I wonder which of those is Gary Neville’s favourite.
This site’s esteemed illustrator, Mr Phil Martin, has been touting Mayer Hawthorne for many months now. While I thought “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out”, the first track to emerge from his forthcoming album A Strange Arrangement, had pleasingly meaty, vintage soul-inspired production, the track didn’t do a whole lot for me.
I think the video adds a certain something though, partly due to the shock that the guy producing the sounds - and apparently he’s a one-man operation - is a geeky white guy. A geeky white guy you’re going to be hearing a lot about in the next month or so.
Mewonders whether a certain Mr West pilfered that heart-badge motif, too…
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Tuesday August 11th, 2009 at
10:00 am
Paul Lamkin went and saw intense indie noiseniks The Twilight Sad last week at The Lexington in London’s trendy North London. Here he describes the experience through the medium of type:
Why aren’t The Twilight Sad famous? Why do other Scottish bands such as Glasvegas get to bask in the festival season limelight while their far superior countrymen struggle for recognition and resort to playing tiny venues such as The Lexington, as they did last night?
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Monday August 10th, 2009 at
12:00 pm
Oasis’s next live performance - following their controversial V cancellation - is due this weekend at Paris’s Rock en Seine festival. Will they show?
