New Kate Bush album details released at LONG LAST!
And no I don't have any MP3s at all, sorry.
I got this from one of the many mailing lists I am on.
Kate's new album AERIAL will be released on November 7th. Kate's new single KING OF THE MOUNTAIN is out on October 24th!
31st August 2005: Well, hello there! It's been twelve long years since The Red Shoes in 1993, but finally in a press release this morning EMI Records have proudly confirmed the fantastic news: Kate's hugely anticipated new work, her eighth studio album, will be released worldwide on November 7th 2005 (Nov 8th in USA). It will be a double album. It is entitled Aerial. The first single King Of The Mountain precedes the album on October 24th. Both the single and album are produced by Kate Bush.
About bleeding time - I think she's fecking marvellous.
Having got a bit bored of dumping all my V stuff up on here, I thought I would really kill my bandwidth off for the month and put up excerpts from Bloc Party's Leeds set from last weekend.
Personally I think it's more polished than their Glastonbury performance, but chaotic enough to still be Bloc Party. Their remix album is out this week - it would be nice if Mr Amazon would hurry up and post it to me.
Edit: I have had SO MANY downloads of these tracks that I have had to host them off site now. Otherwise I'll have to stick the testcard up until Sept 30!
As I've never seen them live they were one of the few bands I was kind of looking forward to going to see, if I had gone of course. And I know they've been going downhill since 1994 but I kind of like their last single, which is where a lot of people stand with them these days.
I don't care what people say. You CANNOT write humour like this.
(Click the picture to get a bigger one.)
It's from today's Sun, of course. The story is NOT the funny bit. Jimmy Pursey was always in the Beazer Homes League of Punk - one half-good song, and a long career doing nothing apart from appearing in the listings somehow. John Lydon on the other hand - what can you say about a man who fronted perhaps the most overrated band of all time, and whose idea of anarchy was becoming a property developer in the States?The only good record he ever took part in was Open Up by Leftfield, with the famous line "Burn, Hollywood, Burn" - and soon after that he had to suffer the poetic justice of seeing his Hollywood home burn down.
No, no, no - the humour is in what the Sun does best - Photoshopping. I laughed long and hard at the thought of these two aging punks going hammer and tongs in front of bemused machine-gun-toting security guards - while Leith's finest hammer out their greatest hits with gay abandon. Surely no embassy can top this, even if they have Ferrero Rocher on tap 24/7?
Review of the Zutons from one of the many forums I read on:
Dreary indie rubbish and exactly the same as last year. Still, at least no thieving from the tents as all the Scousers were in the audience.
Which gives me an opportunity to have a cheap pop at Scousers (but only because I work with a particularly irritating Liverpool supporter, despite the fact he has never been within 200 miles of Liverpool), and to put up some music from the fairly harmless individuals too.
Just a quick post today. I won't bore everyone with my personal life, but my missus gave birth today, and I have put my editing on hold for six hours at least while I get the house tidy.
While 5 months pregnant (her, not me), we saw the Bravery live in April at the 200ish capacity Bowery Ballroom in New York with Ash in support - what kind of a gig was that for a small venue! - we'd gone over for a few days on holiday. For all their posing and preening and manufactured-band image, they really can cut it live, and the memory of that will probably erase all the bollocks they have come out with since.
Isn't E4's coverage of V awful? Some tit on there has just cut over "Gravity" by Embrace and said, "Embrace only write anthems. Fact." That song was written by Chris Martin. Fact.
Anyway, while I'm still angry, onto the Kaisers, and while I DO ENJOY their whimsy, it's true that the more I see of this band, the more I see of another band I quite enjoy - Blur. As if Employment didn't sound like Modern Life Is Rubbish part 2.
Great, inventive tunes evocative of an England that doesn't really exist - but nevertheless doesn't have the Daily Mail, warm beer and cricket on the green either.
But more importantly, the more I see of lead Kaiser Ricky Wilson, the more he reminds me of Damon Albarn. Especially every time he opens his mouth to speak. An absolute cock. (And he's not even a Chelsea fan).
Can you take any more Kaiser festival mp3s though?
I have no idea how Sonic Youth came to pass me by. I can happy listen to the Blue Aeroplanes and similar stuff but all I really remember from SY was a brief but amusing cameo in the Simpsons (unlike U2's, or JK Rowling's, or all of those American sports stars which no one outside the USA has ever heard of). Both of these tracks come from the band's most recent album, 2004's Sonic Nurse, and don't sound of out step with anything else they've done.
Anyway I spent all morning making up mp3s (there's some more to come) so I am going to spend an hour on the beach at Mersea (part of the world famous Essex Riviera), or at least until I lose my frisbee.
I've been busy at the Thurrock Music Festival, where I managed to arrange interviews with 37 of the bands for local radio thing Phoenix FM. I did about 8 or 9 of them myself including one with Dominic from the Others, who is not a tit as some people and music magazines profess, but an extremely nice person who had all the time in the world for us. That was on August 6, and after that I saw Data Panik and Luxury of Feeling Fine at the Dublin Castle in Camden, and then a couple of other bands I think, and finally Whoremoan and the Rejects (two local bands) at the Castlemayne (or Castle Mayne, I forget again).
By way of penance I am planning to put up 100 MP3s between now and the end of August. And if I don't, well I'm a big fat liar, sorry.
1 X&Y - Coldplay 1,216,204 2 Back to Bedlam - James Blunt 1,066,215 3 Hopes And Fears - Keane 683,000 4 Hot Fuss - The Killers 676,000 5 Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters 659,000 6 American Idiot - Green Day 630,000 7 Employment - Kaiser Chiefs 583,000 8 Forever Faithless - Faithless 575,111 9 Love Angel Music Baby - Gwen Stefani 574,500 10 Definitive Collection - Tony Christie 533,000 11 Don't Believe the Truth - Oasis 532,000 12 G4 - G4. 526,000 13 The Singles - Basement Jaxx 470,000 14 The Massacre - 50 Cent 464,000 15 Trouble - Akon 449,641 16 Tourist - Athlete 440,000 17 Demon Days - Gorillaz 394,000 18 Language, Sex, Violence, Other - The Stereophonics 389,000 19 In your Honour - The Foo Fighters 357,000 20 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand 349,000 21 Kasabian - Kasabian 328,000 22 Mind Body & Soul - Joss Stone 324,000 23 How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb - U2 318,000 24 Eye to the Telescope - KT Tunstal 309,000 25 Il Divo - Il Divo 295,000 26 Songs About Jane - Maroon 5 289,000 27 Finally Woken - Jem 272,000 28 It's Time - Michael Bublé 270,000 29 The Emancipation of Mimi - Mariah Carey 269,707 30 O - Damien Rice 258,000 31 Up all Night - Razorlight 256,000 32 The War of the Worlds - Jeff Wayne 250,000 39 Breathe In - Lucie Silvas 245,000 34 Encore - Eminem 245,000 35 The Documentary - The Game 242,000 36 Final Straw - Snow Patrol 239,000 37 Push the Button - The Chemical Brothers 236,000 38 Rhythm & Gangsta - Snoop Dogg 230,000 39 Get Lifted - John Legend 228,000 40 Time To Grow - Lemar 223,000
... if anyone has "Aboslute Shampoo" by Shampoo on MP3 (released in 2001, mainly internet only which was quite unusual back then) can they get in touch with me?
If you've never heard it then you won't know the joys of lyrics like this - Shampoo's Cupboard, from the album.
He-Man, She-Ra, Roger Red Hat, Hong Kong Phooey, Playaway, Button Moon Smell Of Playdoh, Weeble Wobble, Little Pony, Etch-A-Sketch, Buckeroo Flat Head Sindy, Mork And Mindy Pogosticks, KerPlunk! And Meccano Panda Pops, Corona, Um Bongo
Here's Some Things From Our Cupboard, Memories From The Young Shampoo Girls Here's Some Things We Remember Here's Some Things That We Used To Know, Yeah
Itchy Beard, Itchy Chin Jimmy Hill, Skill Double Dutch, Game And Watch, Top Trumps, Speak And Spell Deely Boppers, Space Hoppers, School Bean Bags, Cheapo Strap On Roller Skates Batwing Jumpers, Bodywarmers Disclosing Tablets, Toothache And Braces Thanks To Cola Cubes, Space Dust And Pacers
Here's Some Things From Our Cupboard, Memories From The Young Shampoo Girls Here's Some Things We Remember Here's Some Things That We Used To Know, Yeah
Mr Men, Grange Hill, Crackerjack, Rent-A-Ghost Action Man With Eagle Eyes, MiniPops, Stylophones There's A Lot Of Old Junk Stored Up In Shampoo's Cupboard Such A Pile Of Old Junk But It's Ours, And Yeah, We Love It Super Ted, Dangermouse, Roland Rat, Tiny Tears Pig Shaped Crisps, Donkey Kong, Care Bears, White Dog Poo
Itchy Beard, Itchy Chin Jimmy Hill, Skill Double Dutch, Game And Watch, Top Trumps, Speak and Spell Mr Men, Grange Hill, Crackerjack, Rent-A-Ghost Action Man With Eagle Eyes, MiniPops, Stylophones Super Ted, Dangermouse, Roland Rat, Tiny Tears Pig Shaped Crisps, Donkey Kong, Care Bears, White Dog Poo
