I’ll keep this short. The Polaris Music Prize is announced on Monday. My prediction goes to Plants And Animals. Why? Because they don’t give a shit.
And if they don’t win, then I’m giving it to Holy Fuck. Why? Because they don’t give a shit either.
Discuss.
Toronto - Metronomy is an electro dude from Brighton, England. He has been remixing a lot of stuff in recent years (including Kate Nash’s Foundation song) and recently released his second album off the Because Music Label called “Nights Out”. It is essentially an electro/funk party album and features a some songs that are destined for car commercials featuring cool 20 somethings having a good time while driving to a night club.
I have decided on a creative take on reviewing this album, which is basically my conversation on googletalk with Vik while listening to it.
1:13 pm me: hat metronomy single is good
1:14 pm Vik: i not listen. but shall
1:26 pm me: ok,im about to listen to the album
1:27 pm Vik: wots da name of da singleu were talkin bout?
1:30 pm me: 01 A Thing For Me (Breakbot’s B-LIVE Miami Mix)
1:44 pm me: this metronmy album is okay, nothing special, typical dancy shit
1:45 pm Vik: i can’t beleive i’m wasting precious company bandwidth download that album off itunes
1:49 pm me: haha, heartbreaker is a good tune though
1:50 pm me: yea good tuen
2:06 pm me: this metronomy album is aite
2:07 pm Vik: hahaha, you talked about this band link 10 times since this morning
2:08 pm me: im using this convo as the review for the album
2:22 pm Vik: yeah not feeling it, too many bleeps and bloops
3.5/5 (first listen)
WTF?
British Sea Power got robbed.
Article here
Maybe I should listen to Seldom Called Kid or something.
Toronto - Our monthly podcast returns. This time we cover the return of TV, the NFL season, Virgin Festival and Darryl’s Hard Liquor and Porn Festival. Also, we have our FIRST EVER PANIC MANUAL Contest. Listen to the podcast for details. The award is awesome.
Songs played:
Update: Jez from Blind Spectator has informed me their myspace page is a lot better then the one I made fun of in my podcast. It can be reached here
Here it is:
Breaking news live from V-fest courtesy of Ricky. Apparently Liam got a taste of a Canadian knuckle sandwich. Here are the (sparse) details of what went down in text message stylee:
Ricky: Liam just got decked on stage
Me: Wtf? by who?
Ricky: No idea, came from side of stage.
Me: Any further detail?
Ricky: They continue on playing.
As I write this post, Ricky just called giving a bit more detail. He still doesn’t know who it was that punched Liam but as sure as Noel can strum some killer riffs, security stormed on stage tackling and dispatching said perpetrator, during which time Oasis left the stage for about 5 minutes, returning to play 5-6 more tunes but not nearly as much as expected. Liam sang ‘Wonderwall’ and ‘I am the Walrus’ and Noel subsequently took over vocal duties for the rest of the gig.
The set is officially over now, watch this space for updates as they transpire.
That’s rock and roll mista.
update: apparantly, security got to the fan before he got his punch on, but both men went down. It was pretty fast. I was too busy singing whats the story morning glory to notice..but then the mic dropped. Liam also sang Supersonic, but the set ended at 10:38 w/o encore.
Apparantly, it was Noel..and the guy was from under the stage, WWF Style.
1:25 mark
another view
50 second mark, followed by a NOooooooooooo by a fan at the 1:05 mark.
You have to love liam givin it to the guy after he got tackled.
Toronto - For most people, September means the end of the summer, kids go back to school, the trees start turning color and it’s time for the fun and games to stop. Nowadays, September also marks Toronto’s annual festival on the island, also known as the Virgin Festival . In it’s third year running, the V-Fest is Toronto’s Coachella or Bonnarro or Lollapalooza, only it seems less cool. Why? I don’t know. Maybe it’s the corporate name attached to the festival. The first V-Fest was plagued by scheduling problems and no shows (Massive Attack). As a result, many fans left disappointed when Flaming Lips were told to get off the stage. Last years V-Fest was definitely better organized, however, relying on the aging Smashing Pumpkins to main event the event was a bit of a miscalculation. Bjork, MIA, The Killers and the Editors all put on a stellar show.
It appears that the people at V-Fest learned from the SP mistake last year, and have picked two well known acts to anchor both nights. Saturday sees Dave Grohl and his Foo Fighters take the stage, and Sunday sees Liam and Noel Gallagher finish off the V-Fest in what will probably be a spectacular fashion. Say what you will about Oasis, they are made for festivals. Who isn’t gonna sing along to Wonderwall?
Lets take a look at the Saturday lineup. Me and Gary of the Panic Manual will be attending, so if you are going, give me a holla and we shall meet up.
Here is our schedule
4:15 p.m. Spiritualized
I have no idea what Jason Pearce and Co are going to play, but I have never seen them before and with such a big back catalog, it wouldn’t be a surprise if they reached back to the days of Ladies and Gentleman .. days. I suspect they’ll play a lot of tunes from the latest album - Songs in A&E, which will be a nice gentle way to ease your way into a all day festival.
4:55 p.m. MGMT
Like MIA last year, MGMT will be my #1 candidate to steal the show on Saturday. They have a hipster/MTV fanbase, they are known to be pretty decent live and they have a couple killer singles that the young’uns will go nuts for.
5:20 p.m. The Fratellis
A nice followup to MGMT, the brothers from England will benefit from having an already warmed up crowd to cheer on their version of pub/brit rock. Chelsea Dagger will be huge.
5:50 p.m. Flosstradamus
The Chicago mash up act made one of my favorite mashups ever - Kanye West/Twistas Superstar mashed with Sigur Ros’s Starálfur. They should get the dance tent pumpin and bumpin bumpin.
Break
This is where Gary treats me to food for taking him to the show for free.
6:50 p.m. Sebastian
Nothing like dancing after some food, and France’s Sebastian should fit the bill nicely. This dude has remixed everyone from Rage Against the Machine to Cut Copy to The Rapture. That suits me just fine. Wintersleep is also an option at this time, but after eating, I don’t think I want to see a band with the name ‘Sleep’ in it.
7:40 p.m. Bloc Party
Just out of curiosity.
All in all should be an interesting day/night. Virgin Festival is about 87$ for one day, which is a decent price for a bunch of bands.
