MP3 Of The Day No.15 – His Clancyness ‘Mistify The Ocean’
Clicking around this afternoon I found an incredible new song by His Clancyness. Having played shows with the great Banjo Or Freakout in London last year, this song see’s Mr Clancyness doing some interesting things.
Swirling reverbed guitars with harmonious lyrical content creates something of beauty for a blue skied, grass frosted day.
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Super Bowl Halftime No Show
So some child abuse protesters in the States want The Who off of the Super Bowl 44 Halftime show on the 4th February. Well it’s not so much the whole band… just their big nosed guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend. I for one will be pretty fucked off if they don’t play, it’s one of the reasons (not the main, please Green Bay get to the Superbowl) Andy and I will be staying up past out bedtimes to watch the show.
Now, one of the best parts about Super Bowl Sunday is the artists/bands who preform. We’ve had Janet Jackson’s’ tit come out to play with Justin Timberlake, Mick and Keith swaggering around trying not to put their hips out, Macca doing what he does best, Tom Petty miming, Springsteen being boring like always and the best one of the best decade… Prince.
Taken from the gaurdian website:
“The Who [are] a great band. Pete Townshend is the only issue here,” wrote Child Abuse Watch founder Evin Daly in an open letter to the National Football League commissioner. Townshend was charged by British police in 2003, four years after he used his credit card to access a Texas-based child pornography website. He pleaded guilty, claiming he had been revisiting childhood memories of sexual assault as research for his autobiography. Townshend received a police caution, but was cleared on charges of possession of indecent pictures, as no images had been kept on his computer. Townshend’s nameremained on the UK sex offenders’ register for five years.
“Inviting Townsend to play is a blatant disregard to the values of American families and a slap in the face to victims of child sexual abuse,” wrote Daly. The same sentiment was expressed in a letter by another US group, Protect Our Children, which wrote to the US department of immigration and Florida’s attorney general, asking them to reject Townshend’s visa. “We acknowledge he was not convicted, but he was on [the UK] sex offenders’ list,” wrote Protect Our Children president Kevin Gillick. “In the United States, you’re on a sex offenders’ list for life.”
Prince Halftime show from Super Bowl XLI 2006
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MP3 Of The Day no.14 – The Walkmen ‘In The New Year’
nice topical MP3 of the day today.
Happy new year too
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The United Kingdom: home of post-hardcore in the noughties
Searching and viewing the pages of YouTube as I do on a regular occasion when at night I have quite frankly fuck all to do, I have come to the conclusion that the UK during the noughties (especially during the mid part of the decade) was home to some of the best post-hardcore bands ever.
Whilst over in the states everything started fading to black, us Brits (who took the influence to bands such as At The Drive-In and Fugazi very seriously) started seeing bands such as the great – and sadly now all defunct – Meet me in St. Louis, Yourcodenameis:Milo and Million Dead gracing our gorgeous and underrated toilet venues. Bands like Bridport’s Secondsmile – who released their debut EP on Big Scary Monsters created something that nowaday’s would be all over Rocksound and Kerrang! Even Funeral For A Friend when their first EP’s came out and their debut where fucking good, and who can forget Hundred Reasons and Hell Is for Hereos.
It’s a piss take really, seems like it’s just brushed aside.
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WHY JOIN THE AUTOMATIC YOU DICK?!
He’s got a thisGIRL t-shirt on! booya
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STOP RELEASING BILLY BRAGG BOLLOCKS MATE
PS: James Cleary you still have my fucking Secondsmile CD that I lent you 6 YEARS AGO. GIVE IT BACK! I KNOW YOU HAVEN’T LOST THAT THING BOY!
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Jim Jarmusch, Bradford Cox, and Randy Randall
Pitchfork filmed an unlikely collaboration during their time at the recent ATP in the States. Director Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man, Coffee & Cigarettes) teamed up with Bradford Cox (Deerhunter) and Randy Randall (No Age) to do a cover of the brilliant Neil Young song Cortez The Killer from Young’s Zuma LP.
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