The wonderful Florence Welch (of And The Machine) is set to release her excellent version of Candi Staton's, You've Got The Love on November 13th. A crowd favourite when performed live, Flo's version gives this soul classic a wonderfully modern twist. The video for this is shot with Florence perched on a glittery, silver quarter moon dressed in feathers and sequinns, whipping her red mane into shape with the music. It's pretty girly so I am not gonna complain.
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Monday, 12 October 2009
Monday, 7 September 2009
Electric Picnic 2009- Photo's
After lots of mud wading, here are some of the shots I took at this years Electric Picnic Festival. Cheers to LHP and POD for the photo pass.
Florence And The Machine Live on The Electric Arena Stage
Micachu And The Shapes live @ The Electric Picnic 2009
Simon Klaxon live @ The Electric Picnic 2009
Florence And The Machine Live on The Electric Arena Stage
Florence And The Machine Live on The Electric Arena Stage
Florence And The Machine Live on The Electric Arena Stage
Fleet Foxes live @ The Electric Picnic 2009
Fleet Foxes live2009 @ The Electric Picnic
Fleet Foxes Live @ The Electric Picnic 2009
Micachu And The Shapes live @ The Electric Picnic 2009
Micachu And The Shapes live @ The Electric Picnic 2009
Micachu And The Shapes live @ The Electric Picnic 2009
Simon Klaxon live @ The Electric Picnic 2009
James & Jamie Klaxon live @ The Electric Picnic 2009
Jazzanova live @ The Electric Picnic 2008
Marina And The Diamonds live @ The Electric Picnic 2009
Marina And The Diamonds live @ The Electric Picnic 2009
2 Many DJ's live @ The Electric Picnic 2009
2 Many DJ's live @ The Electric Picnic 2009
Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Florence and The Machine-Drumming Song Video
So here is Florence Welch aka Florence And The Machine getting her groove on with some funky choreography in the video to her new single Drumming Song. With mystical costumes at the ready Florence and co swoon about a church elegantly to the anthemic chorus of the track. This shall probably help inject more sales from her Mercury nominated album Lungs as day time radio will swarm over this like hysterical wasps.
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Mercury Music Prize shortlist 2009
So here it is, the 2009 Mercury Music Prize shortlist:
Florence and the Machine-Lungs
Kasabian-West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Bat for Lashes-Two Suns
La Roux-La Roux
Glasvegas-Glasvegas
Speech Debelle-Speech Therapy
Friendly Fires-Friendly Fires
The Horrors-Primary Colours
Lisa Hannigan-Sea Sew
The Invisible-The Invisible
Led Bib-Sensible Shoes
Sweet Billy Pilgrim-Twice Born Men
I would like to see Friendly Fires, The Horrors or Bat For Lashes to scoop the prize, three very fantastic and addictive albums.
Florence and the Machine-Lungs
Kasabian-West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Bat for Lashes-Two Suns
La Roux-La Roux
Glasvegas-Glasvegas
Speech Debelle-Speech Therapy
Friendly Fires-Friendly Fires
The Horrors-Primary Colours
Lisa Hannigan-Sea Sew
The Invisible-The Invisible
Led Bib-Sensible Shoes
Sweet Billy Pilgrim-Twice Born Men
I would like to see Friendly Fires, The Horrors or Bat For Lashes to scoop the prize, three very fantastic and addictive albums.
Monday, 13 July 2009
Oxegen 2009 round up...
So even though it was last minute I headed down to Oxegen at the weekend, slinging about in the mud filled Punchestown racecourse. I missed the Friday celebrations due to other commitments but made an effort to wade about on Saturday and Sunday.
Highlights included first band of Saturday for me, Messiah J And The Expert, who brought the noise and packed out the Red Bull Academy tent. It baffles me as to why this band are not bigger than they are, as the stage show it clean cut, animated and fun. With Messiah J's stellar showmanship and The Expert's ingenious use of samples and brilliant beats bringing the tent to boiling point, The Boys Have Had Enough, Keep The Noise Down and Abandon Ship all had the crowd in an ecstatic frenzy as Turn The Magic On and forthcoming single Geography encouraged a joyous sing-a-long.
Another highlight for me was the Friendly Fires in The Green Spheres tent late on the Sunday afternoon. Having caught them two months previously in Waterford I was expecting good things and I was far from disappointed. Their audience was a mish mash of people of all ages who just wanted to dance and sing to their favourite FF songs. While the tent erupted momentarily for Jump In The Pool and Skeleton Boy, it was Jack Bevan from Foals' drumming presence on album favourite On Board that added to the party vibe of the set alongside front man Ed MacFarlanes consistent pleas for everyone to dance. Hope they get back over here soon.
Next up was Foals in the same tent as FF. It was my 5th time catching them live and they didn't disappoint. Yannis Philippakas may have inspired a new generation of haircuts and check shirt wearers but I doubt his stage theatrics and guitar playing are easily mimicked. Foals as a band are tight and deliver each track precisely. Olympic Airways, Electric Bloom and Balloons all dazzled with heavy riffs and erratic chunky drums while the popular Cassius and Two Steps, Twice inspired some much warranted moshpit action up the front.
This years hype-o-meter was all about Florence and The Machine. Her debut album Lungs bolted into the Irish Charts at number 3 on Friday and the UK Charts at number 2 yesterday, yet whoever thought it was a great idea to put her on the relatively small Red Bull Academy stage need to have a bit of a re-think. Stuffed to the gills is the only way to describe the scene before Florence Welch took to the stage with, undoubtedly the most rapturous reception of the weekend. It seems every person in the place knew every word to every song and deafening roars of approval, human pyramids and crowd surfing came with Dog Days Are Over, Cosmic Love, Kiss With A Fist and Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up). A true talent with a powerful voice, Florence is only just beginning.
Other honourable mentions from the weekend: Nialler9's warm up DJ set for the weird and mellow Fever Ray. Some excellent tracks including Your Love My Girls (Animal Collective/Frankie Knuckles mash up), the Duke Dumont remix of BFL Daniel and Simian Mobile Disco's Audacity Of Huge were witnessed and danced to by the White Lies boys.
The Yeah Yeah Yeah's trying their level best to to fight off the pouring rain and poor sound on the main stage on Saturday as did Bloc Party. And So I Watch You From Afar tearing the Imro New Sounds stage to pieces with their thrilling set and lastly Digitalism playing Zdarlight to a load of 'mad out of it's' on the Saturday evening.
Goodbye mud it's been special to say the very least.
Highlights included first band of Saturday for me, Messiah J And The Expert, who brought the noise and packed out the Red Bull Academy tent. It baffles me as to why this band are not bigger than they are, as the stage show it clean cut, animated and fun. With Messiah J's stellar showmanship and The Expert's ingenious use of samples and brilliant beats bringing the tent to boiling point, The Boys Have Had Enough, Keep The Noise Down and Abandon Ship all had the crowd in an ecstatic frenzy as Turn The Magic On and forthcoming single Geography encouraged a joyous sing-a-long.
Another highlight for me was the Friendly Fires in The Green Spheres tent late on the Sunday afternoon. Having caught them two months previously in Waterford I was expecting good things and I was far from disappointed. Their audience was a mish mash of people of all ages who just wanted to dance and sing to their favourite FF songs. While the tent erupted momentarily for Jump In The Pool and Skeleton Boy, it was Jack Bevan from Foals' drumming presence on album favourite On Board that added to the party vibe of the set alongside front man Ed MacFarlanes consistent pleas for everyone to dance. Hope they get back over here soon.
Next up was Foals in the same tent as FF. It was my 5th time catching them live and they didn't disappoint. Yannis Philippakas may have inspired a new generation of haircuts and check shirt wearers but I doubt his stage theatrics and guitar playing are easily mimicked. Foals as a band are tight and deliver each track precisely. Olympic Airways, Electric Bloom and Balloons all dazzled with heavy riffs and erratic chunky drums while the popular Cassius and Two Steps, Twice inspired some much warranted moshpit action up the front.
This years hype-o-meter was all about Florence and The Machine. Her debut album Lungs bolted into the Irish Charts at number 3 on Friday and the UK Charts at number 2 yesterday, yet whoever thought it was a great idea to put her on the relatively small Red Bull Academy stage need to have a bit of a re-think. Stuffed to the gills is the only way to describe the scene before Florence Welch took to the stage with, undoubtedly the most rapturous reception of the weekend. It seems every person in the place knew every word to every song and deafening roars of approval, human pyramids and crowd surfing came with Dog Days Are Over, Cosmic Love, Kiss With A Fist and Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up). A true talent with a powerful voice, Florence is only just beginning.
Other honourable mentions from the weekend: Nialler9's warm up DJ set for the weird and mellow Fever Ray. Some excellent tracks including Your Love My Girls (Animal Collective/Frankie Knuckles mash up), the Duke Dumont remix of BFL Daniel and Simian Mobile Disco's Audacity Of Huge were witnessed and danced to by the White Lies boys.
The Yeah Yeah Yeah's trying their level best to to fight off the pouring rain and poor sound on the main stage on Saturday as did Bloc Party. And So I Watch You From Afar tearing the Imro New Sounds stage to pieces with their thrilling set and lastly Digitalism playing Zdarlight to a load of 'mad out of it's' on the Saturday evening.
Goodbye mud it's been special to say the very least.
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Simian Mobile Disco-Audacity Of Huge: Video
Simian Mobile Disco are about to drop their second studio album this summer called Temporary Pressure. Out on August 14th it expected to be pretty darn good with special guest galore lending their vocal talents on various tracks.
Guests include Jamie Lidell, Beth Dito, Gruff Rhys and Alexis Taylor from Hot Chip. Also featured is Chris Keating from the marvellous Yeasayer, who manages to inject a fun vocal into the superb first single from the album, Audacity Of Huge.
Following the release of Attack Delay Sustain, James Ford has been a busy man, producing albums for The Arctic Monkeys, Florence And The Machine and Peaches, it's a wonder how he managed to fit in the time to make an album of his own with SMD partner Jas Shaw.
Let's hope the results are as fruitful as his productions.
Guests include Jamie Lidell, Beth Dito, Gruff Rhys and Alexis Taylor from Hot Chip. Also featured is Chris Keating from the marvellous Yeasayer, who manages to inject a fun vocal into the superb first single from the album, Audacity Of Huge.
Following the release of Attack Delay Sustain, James Ford has been a busy man, producing albums for The Arctic Monkeys, Florence And The Machine and Peaches, it's a wonder how he managed to fit in the time to make an album of his own with SMD partner Jas Shaw.
Let's hope the results are as fruitful as his productions.
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Jamie T-Sticks n' Stones: Video
Former Mercury Music Prize nominee Jamie T dropped his debut Panic Prevention to the masses in January 2007 to much critical acclaim. It entered the UK chart at number four and this was bolstered by four top 20 singles including the very honest If You Got The Money. Preferring to sing in his natural and cheeky cockney accent, Jamie became quite recognisable instantly and now he back in August with his second LP, King And Queens which features vocals from Florence Welch (of Florence and The Machine fame) on an unnamed track. Running Ahead of this is the Sticks N' Stones EP, released on June 26th with the lead track being the obvious, Sticks N' Stones.
The video makes me want to throw a few stones...
The video makes me want to throw a few stones...
Friday, 15 May 2009
Florence And The Machine-Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up): Video
Florence And The Machine have announced that the next new single to be taken from their forthcoming debut album Lungs is Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up). It's strong predecessors include Dog Days and my personal favourite Kiss With A Fist which bodes well for a debut album.
The song itself sits similarly alongside the same edginess brought to us by Bat For Lashes, while the video was shot on a lovely sunny day in the English countryside and is quite celestial with a wistful twist. You can get your hands on a copy from June 19th while Lungs shall be available from Friday July 3rd.
The song itself sits similarly alongside the same edginess brought to us by Bat For Lashes, while the video was shot on a lovely sunny day in the English countryside and is quite celestial with a wistful twist. You can get your hands on a copy from June 19th while Lungs shall be available from Friday July 3rd.
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