NEWSNIGHT 19 June 1998 Kirsty WARK pres prog w item on the pop charts and rock n roll... LIVE STUDIO DISCUSSION:Kirsty WARK intvs Nick PHILLIPS (Chairman,Universal Music), Edwyn COLLINS(Musician and Producer), Caitlin MORAN(Music Columnist, The Times) re downloading records onto your software from the Internet and cutting out the fat cat record companies - is that the future? (DUR:09m20s) LIVE STU DIO:Kirsty WARK re whatever the analysis of why the record industry is stuck, they are all doomed if people don't come up with good music. A straw poll of music journalists has revealed that the band of Summer 1998 will be Delakota, who's (sic) singe (sic), "The Rock" is released at the end of the month. To make up your own mind Delakota perform live in the studio their new song "The Rock" (DUR:02m15s)
Delakota played live on Newsnight? Today's just full of surprises, innit.
The band of summer 1998? Didn't happen. But what a great record this was. There's very little on the web about the band, but I know that they did feature Cass and Morgan from the Senseless Things, who are another great band but don't sound much alike at all.
For every action there is an equal and opposite, yadda yadda. So I have managed to find the worst chart in a long time, namely the top selling ringtones of 2005:
1. Shayne Ward - That's My Goal 2. Nizlopi - JCB Song 3. Eminem - When I'm Gone 4. Pussycat Dolls - Stickwitu 5. Black Eyed Peas - My Humps 6. Madonna - Hung Up 7. Sugababes - Ugly 8. Crazy Frog - Jingle Bells 9. Kelly Clarkson - Because Of You 10. Westlife ft Diana Ross - When You Tell Me That You Love Me 11. DHT ft Edmee - Listen To Your Heart 12. Westlife - You Raise Me Up 13. Robbie Williams - Advertising Space 14. Faithless - Insomnia 15. Pussycat Dolls ft Busta Rhymes - Don't Cha 16. Gorillaz - Dirty Harry 17. Simon Webbe - No Worries 18. Sugababes - Push The Button 19. James Blunt - You're Beautiful 20. James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover
Okay, I'm not going to make any particular comment on that, although I did notice that the ringtone I've had for the last 6 months, Thirteen by ¡Forward, Russia!, is mysteriously absent.
So how can you find something a bit better? Head on down to www.backstreetmerch.com/nme to find the current best selling T-Shirts, well through the NME at least ...
1. Ned's Atomic Dustbin 2. The Strokes 3. Black Label Society 4. Babyshambles 5. Red Hot Chili Peppers 6. Arctic Monkeys 7. Bullet For My Valentine 8. Editors 9. Joy Division 10. Pearl Jam 11. Lynyrd Skynyrd 12. B Movies 13. Tool 14. Whatever It Takes 15. Green Day 16. Underoath 17. Test Icicles 18. The Who 19. Gorillaz 20. Painc! At The Disco
Is it 1991 again? NED'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN outselling everyone else, what the H is going on there? Okay, no 14 isn't actually a T Shirt, it's a wristband, which apparently are now the same thing, and no 17 are badges, and no 15 is a bag, but it's still an awesome achievement.
Yeah, I didn't believe it either
There's more NAD news as well - they're releasing their first single in 11 years on 5 June, and possibly in the style of John Otway or Marillion, internetland might actually stick them back in the real charts - it would be great to see them on Top of the Pops again. I recommend you get over to their website right now and part with your pennies accordingly.
I don't think their sound is very dated at all and that a lot of their stuff has stood up well over the years. Download this and see if you agree. Oh and dig the TWO bass players.
Good news for parody hard rock lovers, and people who put money on Finland :-) :-) :-), everywhere.
Seems to be a reasonable result, championed here in London by XFM and Lauren Laverne all week. Watching last night with the subtitles on, one of the lyrics, "Now choose to join us or go straight to Hell", rather intrigued Mrs RP, who thought that "Buy me Bonestorm or go to Hell" would have been better in the context.
The final result was:
1 Finland 292 2 Russia 248 3 Bosnia-Herzegovina 229 4 Romania 172 5 Sweden 170 6 Lithuania 162 7 Ukraine 145 8 Armenia 129 9 Greece 128 10 Ireland 93 11 Turkey 91 12 FYR Macedonia 56 12 Croatia 56 14 Norway 36 15 Germany 36 16 Latvia 30 17 Switzerland 30 18 Denmark 30 19 United Kingdom 25 20 Moldova 22 21 Spain 18 22 France 5 23 Israel 4 24 Malta 1
A fitting finish for Daz Sampson, who I have actually SEEN SINGING LIVE ONCE, although the list didn't appear on my world-famous and un-updated list of gigs; he was singing at the half-time interval between Southend and Yeovil just before the end of the 2004-05 League Two season. Yeovil won the game were promoted; Southend scraped through in the playoffs. Although they did much better this year, perhaps due to the lack of Daz at half time.
The Lithuanian entry was class though. You had to see it to believe it.
And I am sure this is definitely Graham from Pop Will Eat Itself.
Wow, 2 posts in one day! I've now got an internet connection in front of the TV, which might increase my productivity, as TV is quite frankly rubbish these days.
I love Eurovision though, but apparently I swear more watching this than on any other night of the year. My comments directed to Terry Wogan's thinly-concealed patronising and slightly racist commentary are as predictable as his bollocks about "the old pals act voting for each other", etc.
Checking the form this morning I realised that Finland should be nailed on to win tonight - it's had a lot of coverage in the press Europe-wide and is going to pick up a lot of votes from the 14-16 age bracket, who are surely the only people who vote by text with these things. I've put my money where my mouth is - and stuck £20 at 10/1 on them.
Edit: I know a lot of you are busy and won't have time to see Lordi, because it's Saturday night and you're out getting drunk. So I have brought them to you instead.
Actually managed to remember to watch Jonathan Ross and Jools Holland on BBC1 last night. Some half decent songs too, which I managed to rip some audio from, and now you can have them too if you like.
I'm not sure the screen capture really does it justice but you should be able to make out Franz Ferdinand's SEVEN drummers there.
And the YYY's one singer. I quite like the YYYs, but they are not as good as the YY28s.
Having read just a couple of weeks ago that they'd split up I was quite pleased to hear that they hadn't, and more pleased to receive a demo copy of a couple of new songs they're working on. Both tracks are in my opinion a bit less ostentatious than some of the songs on 2004's This Is For Real, and I think it's all the better for it. I think I prefer Carlights to Alien but they're both good fun tracks.
I was a big big A House fan in the 90s. Well not big big, maybe big. I saw A House twice (not bad, I had no money), in 1992 at the Marquee in Charing Cross Road with Strangelove in support - the Strangelove guitarist, Alex something I think, had a fight with a stagediver and won as I remember - and in 1994 at the Garage. 1991's I Am The Greatest remains one of my favourite albums of all time.
The likelihood of seeing any more A House shenanigans were pretty much zero, I would have thought ... until Dave Couse returned from musical exile, formed a new band and produced a fantastic album, The World Should Know, suddenly got himself nominated for two Meteor awards (they're the Irish Brits, or if you're American, the Irish Grammies), and came over to London to play live - and whacked in a few of his old classics to boot. It was the best gig I've been to all year, and I've been to a few!
There will be time for me to wax lyrical over some of the songs (you know how prolific I am at updating this blog) but for now, here's a short film.
It's a bit of a slowie this one, and a bit unlike a lot of the angry list songs which he excels at writing and performing. I've put it up because it brings back a lot of good memories and I really, really never thought I'd hear it again.
Since my first podcast, well, you can guess the rest.
Here's some of the songs I've gone done and played in the meantime:
Flaming Lips - Yeah Yeah Yeah Song Sohodolls - Stripper Aeroplanes - This Is My Love Boy Kill Boy - Suzie Graham Coxon - You And I Dan Sartain - Walk Among The Cobras Pt 1 ¡Forward, Russia! - Eighteen MJ Hibbett - The Lesson Of The Smiths Needles - Dianne Controller Controller - PF Battant - Jump Up Gomez - Girlshapedlovedrug Keane - Is It Any Wonder Upper Room - Black and White Viva Voce - Lesson No 1 Flipron - Hanging Round The Lean-to With Grandad Pure Reason Revolution - Bright Ambassadors Of Morning Towers of London - Kill The Popscene Charlatans - Blackened Blue Eyes Shut Your Eyes And You'll Burst Into Flames - Signal Noise Hybrasil - Soundtrack To A Late Night White Rose Movement - Alsatian Mew - The Zookeeper's Boy I'm From Barcelona - We're From Barcelona Sultans of Ping - Michiko Fahrenheit 451 - Science Is Everything Tom Vek - Nothing But Green Lights Betes Noires - New Golden Rules Starts - I Can't Afford To Live In The South East Whirlwind Heat - Up-tight Others - Southern Glow Suffrajets - Going Nowhere Nightmare Of You - I Want To Be Buried In Your Back Yard Electric Eel Shock - Scream For Me Fighting Cocks - Don't Care (live studio version) Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster - Celebrate Your Mother Mama Shamone - Feel Fighting Cocks - Marvin and Tamara (live studio version) White Zombie - Thunderkiss '65 Towers of London - Air Guitar Fighting Cocks - Dontcha Know (live at Sheffield) Pop Will Eat Itself - Def Con One Fighting Cocks - Look Away (live studio version) Do Me Bad Things - Time For Deliverance Silverfish - Big Bad Baby Pig Squeal Fighting Cocks - The Sunny Side Of The Street (live studio version) Lo-Fidelity All Stars - Blisters On My Brain Fighting Cocks - Coyote Ugly (live studio version) Fighting Cocks - Smoke 'Em If Ya Got 'Em (live at Brighton)
If you really want to hear it you can go here and do just that!
