Plan B should scare James Corden too

Catch Plan B on Jonathan Ross on Friday night?

we're on holiday!

Normal blog services are will resume on March 15th as we're off to Japan!

Marina at NME awards

Marina and Biffy duetting on Many of HorrOr at last night's NME awards.
AMAZING.

your sword's grown old and rusty...

Lovely.

She Said...

Here's the follow up to Ben's top 10 single, Stay Too Long, out on 29th March. Well alright!

Camden Town

9/10

Cheers NME - that's just how we roll.
(click the picture for a read)

Ears checking #17 (Feb '10)

EARS CHECKING #17 - February (Spotify)

1. Bombay Bicycle Club - Always Like This
2. Fool's Gold - Surprise Hotel
3. Darwin Deez - Constellations
4. Gold Panda - I Suppose I Should Say "Thanks" Or Some Shit
5. Primary 1 - Nikoli's Rave
6. Memory Tapes - Bicycle
7. Boy Crisis- Dressed To Digress
8. In Flagranti - Pick A Trick
9. Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights (Erol Alkan remix)
10. Good Shoes - Under Control
11. White Rabbits - Percussion Gun
12. Devo - Gut Feeling
13. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Young Adult Friction
14. Plan B - Stay Too Long (Pendulum remix)
15. Shy FX & T-Power - Shake Ur Body
16. Marina and the Diamonds - Hollywood
17. Liam Lynch - United States of Whatever

EARS CHECKING #17 - February (Spotify)

2 choice bits of TV from the weekend

Jonathan Ross


GMTV

Hollywood karaoke

Having a scoot around Youtube this week we've spotted a couple of interesting little covers of Marina's single Hollywood (*cough out now cough*).
For ease of consumption, here's a handy Top of the Pops-style chart (ie, the first one is just sublime).

1 - David' Lyre

(i need one of those masks)

2 - Da Viglio

(she looks like that OCD one out of Glee. Topical)

3 - Charlotte Calamity

(we like the fact that she was being quiet becuase her dad was asleep and her mum was reading to her brother)

Amazing. Have you heard this re-working too?

Marina and the Diamonds - Hollywood(Monarchy's Gisle remix) - MP3

XX begin the take over

This reminds me off The Wave. I like it.

Gonzpiration

There's not much we need to say about this video, apart from we can't quite work out when or where in the past 20 years it was shot, but we're assured they are Estonian subtitles.

For the record, we bloody love Gonzales. Those gloves! That hair! The sweeping beauty of his remix, which you can download right here!

Marina and the Diamonds - Hollywood (Gonzales Orchestral Remake) - MP3

Sometime Wannabe

Ah Primary 1.
Nothing better then a dreamy piece of video poppin' up on Youtube of a Wednesday, and the above cut is taken from P1's current mini-album, Mess Detective. It's an arresting collection of wistful electronic jams and lo-fi pop gems, and one of the first essential records of the year.
You can buy it on a fancy CD here or if you're impatient, download the whole thing for free (FREE!) over on his blog.

But hey, have one of the finest cuts right here.

Primary 1 - Foaming (White Room edit) - MP3

Oh Alex James, what will we do with you?

And just what is Alan Titchmarsh doing on that show?

Remixes infected your brain - PART 2.

Have you seen the acoustic video for Marina's Hollywood above?
Not too shabby eh.

Also, just a heads up there there are two hyper-limited 7"s of Hollywood up for grabs.
The 1st - Hollywood and Bad Kidz - from Record Store
The 2nd - Hollywood and Hollywood (Gonzales Orchestral Remake) - from Pure Groove

But it's always nice to get something for free, so as it's nearly the weekend...

Marina and the Diamonds - Hollywood (The Juan MacLean remix) - MP3

TOUCH ME - Jacko generator

I would have liked the Jacko-Generator to be an offshoot of the Channel 5 show, Michael Jackson; The Live Séance, where you can magically make him pop out of your screen.
Alas, it's the slightly less mental and more office friendly site which you can tap along and make Jacko "OWWW" and "EEEHEE" to your heart's content.
Click the image above, or here, and turn your speakers up.

While we're here, I rediscovered this gem of a remix over the holidays.

Jacko - I Can't Help It (Tangoterje remix) - MP3

Yes, that is Marina in a bath. In her dress.

NME have graced us with their annual 'new bands for the year issue' and it's actually a really good read. A fair few mentions of bands we're keeping an eye out for this year and then there's this little spread on Marina. Peter Robinson (King of Popjustice) nails it.



(click for a bigger view)

Also, you can grab a bunch of new tracks, including Obsessions, on the NME mixtape thing here. You don't even have to give em your email address. Nice.

Things we loved (but didn't post) in 2009

1) Tempa T - Next Hype


2) Darwin Deez - Constellations


3) Everything Everything - MY KZ YR BF


4) Sneezing Panda

Remixes infected your brain...

How's your Christmas been? Filled with gammon and gifts we hope.
And as a final treat at the end of the year (decade too), have a spanking new Marina remix on us by the SPECTACULAR Fenech-Soler.
HAPPY NEW YEAR x

Hollywood (Fenech-Soler remix) (MP3)

happy bloomin Christmas, one and all