I first heard this song at the end of the very last episode of Veronica Mars. She goes to vote in the elections, then walks out and its raining. I love that show, and they always choose good music (I seem to prefer TV shows when they choose music that is similar to my tastes. Strange.)
I love this video, its so very 70′s! I never realised how similar Albert Hammond and his son look (who’s song “Hard To Live In The City” has been posted about before on the blog)
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Instead of one song, this is a random covers type band that I heard on Radio 1 recently, and it made me giggle a LOT.
They are called the Countryside Alliance Crew, and they do remixes and reworkings of some urban hits.
I think this version of Dizzee Rascals – Bonkers is my favourite, its been renamed Wurzzi Rascal – Conkers.
Bands, can we have more West Country-fied songs please?

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I can’t wait for Regina’s new album, Far to come out (on Monday, squee!), and this is the lead song from it.

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This totally only got my attention because Journey – “Don’t Stop Believing” is the first song.
Axis of Awesome are an Australian group who say that four chords – A , E , B, C# – make up many songs. How many do you recognise, and can you think of other songs that use those chords?

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Last Thursday, I headed off to That London as I had won tickets through iTunes to see McFLY at KOKO’s in Camden. I met my friend The Raaaaaaaaachel outside Euston Station and we checked into our hotel which was close by (although we headed off the wrong way at first, almost getting to the venue!)
After having a little wander up Euston Road (erm, I think), we got ready and went to KOKO’s. It was quite exciting actually, I love live music, and I think Rachels excitement was rubbing off on me.
We got to KOKO’s, handed over the tickets and were given iTunes lanyards that had little cards on them with access codes to download a sampler from the iTunes store. The bouncer near the ticket table made us put them on before we entered the main room and paid an extortionate amount for a Fosters and a Malibu and Coke. (Yes, we’re classy ladies)
KOKO’s is quite a small venue, but was big enough for about 300 people (I think). There was a surprising amount of older men there who knew all the words…
As for the actual gig, I thought they were pretty awesome. As mentioned (erm, probably) before, I’ wasn’t a huge fan, but they are so good live. We were in the ground area, and standing near the back of that crowd. We were right next to the sound desk, and there was a dude who was filming it for the Vue cinemas. If you were in the Vue, you were probably seeing my hair bouncing about a lot and me turning to grin like a fool at Rach!
They played a good mix of songs from their new album, Radio:Active and their most popular hits.
iTunes has some photos here, along with the set list. Also, more photos (and videos!) can be found here on Flickr.
I shall leave you with a video of the final song of the night, 5 Colours In Her Hair.

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I’ve been away this weekend in Bedford visiting friends for a Eurovision gathering. Eurovision was once an amusing event to watch as noone took it that seriously, and all songs were sung in the countries main language so translations via Teletext subtitles were often entertaining. Oh, and the UK actually had a chance of winning back then.

Now, it seems there are some countries that take it a bit too seriously (last nights entries from France and Spain were definatly exceptions to this!), most of the songs were sung in English (a way to others to understand it more, yes, but its just not as entertaining!) and political voting is something that is accepted by many people (especially Terry Wogan)

Here are some of my favourite entries…

Latvia – PIRATES!

They recieved many cheers from our crowd, mainly cause we love pirates (who doesn’t?). We decided that the only thing that would have beaten them would obviously be a ninja song.

Spain – Chiki Chiki

The dance moves in this song were pretty odd (Robocop anyone?) and there was one dancer who didn’t seem to know what she was doing.

France – Bearded Ladies

I’m not too sure why these ladies were beardy, but they were. Strange.

Anyway, I am back now in Bristol and will be writing much more things that you’re probably not so bothered about!

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One of the things I have to have with me at all times is my iPod. I can’t even go to Tesco’s (a five minute walk at most) without putting on a song to suit my mood at the time.
Lately I’ve started listening to the Tom Robinson’s Introducing… podcast as a way of finding some new music, although there is a flaw in this plan – I never remember which ones I wanted to look up when I get home!
I’d love to hear any recommendations that you may have – leave me a comment with your top 5 tunes.
When I find a song that I like on my iPod, I tend to play it over and over, because its normally stuck in my head. The five songs I’ve been doing that with most recently are:

• Ashlee Simpson – Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya)
• Fall Out Boy – Beat It
• Ting Tings – Great DJ
• The Bravery – Time Wont Let Me Go
• Kate Nash – Merry Happy

I realise thats quite a strange list, but damn it, I just can’t get those songs out of my head!

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