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Happy 2010 everyone!!!
Lately I've been spending my time to something else but I'll try to update this blog more often on 2010! ;-)
You don't trust me... :-(
Well, you're certainly right!
But here's the blog you can trust:

QUEENS OF SOUNDS

It's all about a whale... (she's feeling lonely in the sea...)

Hi everyone!
I haven't posted anything for a while now... I'm not updating this blog very seriously anymore, oops! When I started it, I promised myself I'd post something once a week... Oops! But here I am!!! I'm back today!
I've just lost myself one more time... how to explain to you?... Seems that anytimes this guy is around I'm not able to be myself anymore... I just turn into a boring mollusc... So I ran away from him, and I promise that from now on, I'll be myself!!
(It makes me sad though, when he's not around :-( but sadness makes us more creative so let's use it, and let's keep busy posting more and more music, and hopefully better days will come soon, I'll find another way to get happy ;-))

So... Once upon a time, a little whale escaped from a puddle to a pond to the sea...
She grew older, collecting lovely shells and racing seahorses, and then she got bored.
She could only feel lonely, despite everybody reminding her that "the sea is full of fishes".
So of boredom she died, all by herself!
And her soul went traveling over the sea of stars and if you listen now, you could hear her singing... singing the lone whale's song.


(Ok, I know, my little story is shit, but I just had this sudden interest for whales and wanted to tell something about a whale so I thought I'd make up a little story...)

I've heard this word at 3 occasions this week. And yet, it's been enough for me to notice it and to decree that there's something a bit odd!
Cause I think you'll all agree with me on saying that this word is not part of our usual everyday vocabulary... except maybe if you work for Seaworld Park, hahaha...
So, it started on Friday, I was listening to Modest Mouse's last album (No One's First And You're Next) and the best song on it is called "The Whale Song"
Then, on Tuesday, I had a chat about a film about whale hunting.
And finally today I went to a pub and on the wall was a picture of a whale!!!
Plus this morning I've randomized my music player and the first song coming out was the ELO's song, The Whale.
So yeah, it is quite odd, isn't it? And now I had to tell something about a whale, about all the whales!... about all the whales I've on my music library... there's not that much, just 5... but feel free to comment on this post to complete the list with your whale's songs everyone...

The Whale Song - Modest Mouse
The Whale - Electric Light Orchestra
Northern Whale - The Good The Bad And The Queen
Whale In The Sand - The Brunettes
Modern Baleine - Les Rita Mitsouko





(COMING SOON... I pomise I'll take 5 minutes to post the playlist ;-)
No, I really promise I'll post it today,... could even be now, I don't know, cause I still have 1hour before my appointment, but I feel lazy... ages I didn't have a real day off, so... ;-))

"I can't see the end!"... "but for the moment we are ok"...

Not only a song in my mind today, but all an album by a great north London trio band called Let's Wrestle.
First time I heard from them was via Your Twenties' myspace page (cf older posts), a couple of months ago, but I didn't realy pay attention until someone gave me the great "In The Court Of Wrestling Let's". Thank you very much!!!

So I've been listening to this CD all the week and saw them playing last evening and can't wait to see them again next week-end at Offset festival!!!
--- I'm so happy I can finally go there!!!! :-)) So excited that I can't concentrate on working on the next playlist I want to post ---

Let's come back to Let's Wrestle, I'm pretty sure I've seen this guy, the bass player, before but can't remember... Was he used to work in a bar somewhere?...

Anyway, I just encourage you to go and buy this CD, then sing along and clap your hands ;-)

My little picture from last night:


Couple of songs to get you to love them:
I Wont Lie To You (demo version)
I'm Ok, You're Ok

Falafels and cold coffee...

Silly title but I didn't have anything else in mind than what I am actualy eating and drinking!

So... this post is just a little report of my week-end's gigs:

On Saturday evening, went to see a friend's band in Camden Town, playing in a bar called "Camden Rock", simple and efficient name but definitely not the best bar in Camden.
I'm not gonna make any report about that friend's band but about one of the band playing after them... a teenagers band (they were looking so young... around 15, I would say) and really I didn't know if I felt like laughing or having pity for them!!! If I closed my eyes I was at a Foals gig! So exactely the same songs, but with different lyrics. And a bass player with a Sid Vicious' style, a guitariste with a Klaxons' style and the singer... ? try to guess... ??? No not Foals... try again... ???... surprisingly the band I thought about when I saw him was Korn, not really cause he had the exact look, but imagine Jonathan Davis singing in Foals and now you understand how I felt! hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha... ha.

On Sunday evening I've seen 3 bands playing at the Garage, on Highbury corner, a very good venue! I didn't know the first band playing, Deep Cut, and don't want to know more about them, it was so bad!!!!!!!!!! Gosh! Made me wish I was deaf and blind!
Then arrived on stage the very pretty Veronica Falls. James had swaped his Built To Spill tee-shirt for a marin one and Tricky had swaped his funny short trousers for a pair of jeans. ;-) They had better sound than last week at the Macbeth and I just enjoyed the entire set! They're my new fav band of the moment! I'm just waiting so much for a first EP... when? when? when?
And after that, a fantastic set by Crystal Stilts!!! I don't have to tell more about this band, just that if you don't know them yet, you've to go and buy the CD!


On Monday evening, I've seen Theoretical Gilr and Horse and Condor. A great evening wasted because of me and my mood! Why do I let everything affect me like that! I should just ignore!!!
Arrived early, met some friends had a drink, a couple of fags, and we went to see the support band Horse and Condor. Had another drink, enjoyed the gig, received 3 text messages and had a balloon landing on my head. Was my first time seeing Horse and Condor and that was good! very good! Just next time, I'll turn my mobile off before it turns my mood down! Then, had a 3rd glass of wine (trying to shift my mood back to good again), another fag, another text message. Then came an "overemotional" Amy on stage. Was a bit too much but we forgave her, was her night after all! And it didn't waste the set at all. It's just me, I don't like people who tell about their personal life on stage (cause, hey, there's blogs for that! ;-)). So yeah, her set was very good too! She started with a beautiful cover of Big Stars' Thirteen. And as I'm in love with Big Star since my teenage years, I could just appreciate! Made me feel a bit euphoric or was it the boose? Then I had to go out while she was playing Rivals, to answer the bloody phone (I wish I had not! My mood was definitely down down down, deeply going underground). Then I watched the end of the gig and staid at the Lexington with my friend to get drunk until 2am (Not the clever thing to do when you work and have to be up at 6am on the next day! Arrhhh...)

Next gig: ??? well, I don't know... I've got a tix to see Deerhunter next Monday but maybe there will be another one before... who knows? That's why we love to live in London! ;-)

Every Barbie’s got her Ken, mine is Stringfellow!

The song I’ve got in mind today is a song by The Diciplines, it's called: Yours For The Taking, it's on the album Smoking Kills.
I can already hear some people asking : «Who are they?»
Well, they are Ken Stringfellow ‘s new band!!!
«Who’s Ken Stringfellow?» keep asking the ignorants…
Ken Stringfellow, the Posies, I could dream all day, I guess you're right, ect. does it talk to you now?!

Hmm… Ken… ;-)
I’ve met him once… well not really "met" him, I’ve rather "seen" him to be exact…
Was in Paris, last January, on Saturday 31st, the day just after my sadest birthday…exactly on the same day I saw Jarvis Cocker!!! How odd is that…???!!!
Can you imagine meeting the 2 most sexy guys of the planet (according to me) on the same day!!! Isn’t it very weird? I wasn’t even supposed to be in Paris that day! I just went there because I broke up with my boyfriend and my brother offered me to come to see Of Montreal with them to cheer me up (this Of Montreal show was very grand by the way)…
So I wasn’t really in the mood but I jumped in the Eurostar, met my sister in law for a bit of shopping and then we joined my brother who was in a café with two of his friends.
After a couple of drinks and an animated conversation about the Zombies where I managed to sell my spare ticket to his friend, we saw Ken Stringfellow!!! Arriving with, who I suppose were, his wife and their daughter… Ken Stringfellow!!!
My sister in law said she were used to fancy him and I totaly agree with her, he's very sexy!
Hmm… Ken Stringfellow…! ;-)
Then, we went to the Bataclan, and just before the gig starts I went to the bathrooms and when I came back, my brother told me : «look who’s over there!» so I had a look and couldn’t see anything unusual so I asked : «what? where?» and he said : «This is Jarvis Cocker, just here, in the audience»
It was Jarvis indeed!!!! Hmm… Jarvis… ;-)
A sexy bearded Jarvis Cocker standing just two or three steps from us… :-)
So yeah, life can be very odd like that sometimes, in my 'Barbie world'!


Even sexy dressed as a sweeper...

Entre les deux mon coeur balance!

Well...

...JUST CHECK THAT!

1234 Festival!!! Great Line-Up!!!

Wanna see Hatcham Social, A Place To Burry Strangers, Televised Crimewave, etc. (for just 15 quid)?... Then, it's easy, just go to this Shoreditch festival on July 26th.
See you there!

Tickets
and for more details about complete line-up: www.the1234shoreditch.com

The best way to spend £2!!! Love you Sister Ray!

"Anyone who is in the back, kissing time is over now! So come here!"

Yesterday I found something great at Sister Ray record shop!!!!
The Slits live at the Gibus Club. (recorded in that parisian club on January 1978)
I've bought this CD without any conviction, as I just like few songs by the Slits (Love und Romance, Typical Girl, Newtown) because I don't really like this reggea direction... Anyway I also bought this CD just because everybody's talking about them at the moment... and it was just 2 quid so I wasn't really taking any risks! And also, seeing there was a cover of "Femme Fatale" decided me to buy it... ;-)

So I came back home and listened to it, and what a good surprise!!!
And this shit was just £2 - what a good deal!
This is dirty sound as I like it! (recorded 30years ago)
(Made me change my mind about this band, I've been wrong judging them too quickely!)

So here we go, with all my generosity, I'm giving you the complete set! You just have to download and enjoy cause those live version of most Cut songs sounds much better according to me!

1. Split
2. Vaseline
3. So Tough
4. Newtown
5. Instant Hit
6. Une Homme Et Un Slit
7. Love Und Romance
8. Femme Fatale
9. Shoplifting
10. Enemy Numero Une
11. Split 2
12. Shoplifting 2

PROBLEME FIXED!!! SHOULD WORK PROPERLY NOW!
I AM REALLY SORRY IT DIDN'T DOWNLOAD BEFORE. THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE...

Panic in the streets of London...

"Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ hey!"
(by the way here is a cover of this Smiths song, by Elektrocution (a great great great band cause there're from where I'm from! ;-) No, honestly, they are a great band to see on stage!)

So, what makes a good DJset? Well, first, I think there must be an opening ("hey oh, let's go!") and it must also have an end ("it's time to get away") then you need something new to make the people discover and something old to make them remember, and also few usual shits to make them dance on. And that's it! The list is complete!

So here is my list as promised, for a bit more than an hour of fun:

- 1. Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones
- 2. Greta - Ipso Facto
- 3. Ever Fallen in Love - Buzzcocks
- 4. She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
- 5. La Rançon Du Succès - Mano Negra
- 6. Love For Sale - Talking Heads
- 7. This Is Not A Love song - PIL
- 8. Heart Of Glass - Blondie
- 9. Look Back In Anger - David Bowie
- 10. This Charming Man - The Smiths
- 11. The Only One I Know - The Charlatans
- 12. Caught By The Fuzz - Supergrass
- 13. Monday Morning - Pulp
- 14. Boys Keep Swinging - David Bowie
- 15. Sisters Are Forever - Sexy Kids
- 16. Footsteps - Bricolage
- 17. Made of Stone - Spiral Beach
- 18. BMW - Let's Tea Party
- 19. Steven Smith - The Organ
- 20. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
- 21. I Hate Rock'n'Roll - The Royal We
- 22. Listen and Repeat - Televised Crimewave
- 23. Diamond Hoo Ha Man - Supergrass
- 24. Kind Of Beast - Spiral Beach
- 25. Time To Get Away - LCD Soundsystem

It's never been so true!...

Today let's go back in 1987, with the Mano Negra.
Cause someone told me about Manu Chao lately so I felt like posting something by them!
So the song in my mind today is La Rançon Du Succès which was on their album Puta's Fever.
It's about all those reality shows and those "wanna be" who just try so hard to get famous but they are only getting ridiculous!



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Coming next: My last playlist, just for you lovely people!...

Mine are almost gone!

Today I dowloaded something from a blog... a song called Caught Wheel, by a band called Your Twenties. I like it and it's now stuck on my mind so I decided I'll post it for you! Hope you'll like it! I think this band is to follow... Let's see what will happen next!

It's been a long time...

No posts for the past 2 weeks...
Well, I just had... nothing to post! Hihihi... Cause I didn't do my weekly homework, I didn't look for anything new to post, I've been lazy, I'm sorry!
So if there's nothing new to check on here, you can still go to check some friend's blogs like: "We Want To Wigoler" (www.ww2w.fr)

I knew from the finish to the start!!!

How did I know it was going to happen?...
Did you already have this feeling anyone? It's no extralucidity or prediction... it's more like certitude... you just know that's gonna happen and it does! You can't explain how you knew, you just knew! And you fear it because you don't want it to happen but there is nothing you can do about it... Maybe you even unconsciously make it happen a little bit...

Arrows Of Eros, by Golden Silvers (www.myspace.com/thegoldensilvers)

Trying to save my mind...

Tonight I'm feeling dead inside, and I'm losing hope to return to life...
Well, I don't think "dead" is the right word cause its quite vigorous inside me in fact!
I said dead cause I feel very down and powerless! But in reality, the frustration of not being able to do anything makes me boling inside! I'm feeling angry! I'm so angry! There's a big knot in my stomach and I can also feel it up to my throat.
If I continue that way, life would drive me completely mad! I hate this life, don't like this job, therefore I've got to make things change!
I know that I'm stronger than that! I've gone through periodes of my life much more difficult, I know I can do it again! I just need to find the energy to carry on!
Where would I find this fucking energy?... I just put my headphones on and listen to music! More and more music! again and again... May the music never stop and I'm gonna feel alright!

Here's the song I'm just listening right now: Listen and Repeat, by Televised Crimewave

That's how I feel!

It started yesterday... and now i'm feeling very bad!
I've been feeling worse and worse!

Because first, I've noticed yesterday on the diary that I'll have to work most of the evnings of this week and next week, despite they are sending me to Nice all the week-end! Which isn't very fair I think! But that's part of the job, so I didn't complain!

After, I saw that Jarvis would play an in-store gig at Rough Trade next Saturday (16th) but I will not be in London, as I've to go to bloody annoying Nice! So I was a bit nervous but not really feeling that angry... (I've already seen Jarvis on stage a couple of times, and even found myself close to him in the audience at the Of Montreal show in Paris. So let's just say: Nevermind! No matter! Cause that's what I'm used to say!) Then I've seen there's another band I quite like who is also playing in London, on that same Saturday, in the evening, in Leytonstone. And missing 2 good gigs on the same day made me feel a bit grumpy! But hey, that's just gigs after all! So I just went to bed to have a nice rest.

But, this morning, I woke up thinking about a discussion I had with my brother few days ago about our father. I felt a bit bitter about that but I thought that there's nothing much I can do! The demons of the past are always coming back from time to time, this isn't the first time and would certainly not be the last one! I just have to pass over one more time until the next one...

I just thought that I'd feel better after buying a great film and a grat one I've found indeed (Gandahar - René Laloux), but this fucking dvd was 17quids and as I'm actually broke, I decided to be reasonable and not buying it! :-( Such a big frustration!!!

Then I've found myself smoking a fag with my ex-boyfriend, and as a fag time isn't long enough to tell him everything I want to say, I've just been talking rubish! So that was more and more frustration!

After that, the icing on top of the cake: when I arrived at home I had an eMail saying that this Hatcham Social's gig I was supposed to go to, tomorrow evening, has been resheduled on October 28th! Fucking shit! The only fun time in the horizon this week and this is cancelled! Fuck them! So just because they ruine my only evening off, I will not post anything about them on this blog! ever! na!

But to be honest, in all this succession of anoying little shits, there's only one which made me feel that bad... not really difficult to guess... so here is the song on my mind tonight: The Smack Of The Pavement In Your Face, by Shirley Lee, cause "that's how I feel, that's how I feel now..."

If you like it, Shirley Lee are playing for a "What's Cookin'" evening at the Sheepwalk in High Road Leytonstone (it's at the junction with Aylmer Road) - Leytonstone tube station, and it's on Saturday 16th.

Give it to her!

Yeah, Give it to me! (or "give me it" as says the little one in here ;-))


Well, I've been listening to lots of 80's bands lately, and discovered that one: Ipso Facto.
Not to mix up with this actual shitty girlsband who stole the name, well maybe it's not kind to say "shitty", but for sure, it's nothing as good as the real Ipso Facto!

So Ipso Facto was a short-life band formed in 1983 releasing the record, 'Give It To Her' on their own Zodiak Records label in 1984...

So now I let you listening to the 4songs EP 'Give It To Her' cause this is what's on my mind today... Just give me what I want! ;-)
Hope you'll enjoy the songs!

Give It To Her
Greta
Blue Angel
La Femme Etait Un Homme

Kiss me, love me, and let me down again, one more time...

Love me, leave me and make me cry again... Ignore me, call me and snub me again...

Please, because I like it so much when the angels play their little drum machines. I've autodestruction tendancies maybe... I don't know... I might be a mazochist to want something that makes me suffer so much... Demolition is fun! Remember when you were a small fat kid playing with bricks... Let's break it and rebuild it again and again and again... Then, after a while, I know it won't be fun anymore though!

Hefner - When The Angels Play Their Drum Machines

I'll never get away hey hey hey...

Hi there,
I've been thinking of what I could post today to avoid thinking anything else, trying to focus my mind on silly little things to stop thinking about him - and thought I could post one of Jarvis Cocker's new song, Angela maybe..., but after reflexion... I've changed my mind!

I found without great surprise, that Jarvis' voice was singing sthg else on my mind! One corresponding much better to what happened last night... well, I will not tell you! Cause I'm already telling too much about what's happening in my life on here...
So here is the song I'm posting today: Little Girl, by PULP


           " - What d'you think Jarvis would do?
              - Hey, he would certainly write a song about it!
              - Oh, alright! D'you have a pen please? "

One day I'll find my way back to you...

Hey guys!
I'm back with the sun, and lots of things to share with you... I've got lots of songs on my mind...

So let's start with songs by Amy Eleanor Turnnidge a.k.a. Theoretical Girl

If you like what you hear, come to enjoy the gig tomorrow in Camden (at Barfly / 7pm / £8 / Tickets)

... DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO...


And now, a litlle bonus; something I filmed myself with my digicam last time I saw Theoretical Girl playing for Bandstand Busking. It was on April 5th by a nice sunny afternoon, on Northampton Square... The song is called "The Biggest Mistake"



... The truth is there's no-one like you...

If Marianne was born a man, she'd show you all...

New blog-post a bit in advence this week, cause I'll be away for a week (Easter break).
So this is NOT the song in my mind TODAY; but the song that will be certainely... cause, as I am not going to be in London, I am going to miss Marianne Faithfull's in-store gig at Rough Trade shop!!! I'm so sad of that!!! It is very upsetting me! I hope I'll have more chocolate in compensation!


so...

The Decemberists + Marianne Faithfull + Nick Cave = The Crane Wife 3 (written by The Decemberists, Feat. Nick Cave) -- Enjoy!

and also...

Marianne Faithfull + Jarvis Cocker = this nice video of "Sliding Through Life On Charm" for a french TVshow.

I LIKE IT!!!!!

So... The lady is playing next Wednesday at Rough Trade; for the lucky people who can go there and grab a wristband (I hate you!); and she will be back to London in the summer for a show at the Royal festival hall (great venue), on July 20th. Hurry up, the best tickets are already gone! ;-)

Happy Easter Everyone!

IT'S NOT OVER YET...

OR IS IT?...

"Remember me
So tenderly
Don't let it slip away"

That's "the song on my mind today..."
It's Not Over Yet by Klaxons

So easy to pretend!...

It's easy if you see what he/she feels.


The song on my mind today is Face In, by Dutch Uncles

It's easy...
I get my dress on,
I put my face right.


I've got this song stuck in my mind since I saw this band from Manchester, for the first time, yesterday afternoon, at Notting Hill Arts Club. They will play again in London on Thursday evening on Hoxton Square at the Bar&Kitchen. So I will be there and invite you to do the same! Don't miss them! They are great! And if you can't do it on Thursday, then you have to see them for an in-store gig at Rough Trade east on Record Store Day, on April 18th.



And as I'm in a good mood today (I call that "the sunny day effect"), here is the full album.

I can not sleep or eat but still I feel fine!

Hi guys!

First I shall say sorry for not posting anything the past week!
I wasn't able to "concentrate or focus my mind"!...
After 2 months that I barely eat enough to survive and that I can't sleep properly (and I start to seriously consider the sleeping pills solution!), that should happen!
But don't worry for me, I feel fine! I'll keep pretending everything's ok and carry on and smile, and tell that I'm doing well and that there's nothing special to report!

So... the song on my mind today is So In Tune, by U.N.P.O.C.

Last time my iTunes plaid it, was 1st January 2009 at 10.05pm, so that means that it was when I was in Berlin, lying down the bed, near by my fucking boyfriend, crying silently so he couldn't hear me, cause after he rejected me for the first time I knew there was something wrong to expect, and this something wrong happened 2 months ago! Happy bad year 2009!

"We're so in tune!
Don't look down it's a long way..."

Memories of the past...

Today in my mind, is a song by David Bowie: Space Oddity
Wich also brings me all those memories I don't want to remember but don't want to forget about! Yes this is a pure paradox but this is me and my twisted mind! Planet Earth is blue and there is nothing I can do! If major Tom gives up, I guess I just have to do the same and keep floating in a most peculiar way...

What's the song in my mind today...

This is the song that was on my mind when I woke up this morning: The English Head, by Darren Hayman. And it made me want to start a blog so here we go! I'll try to tell you 'bout what's on my mind... ;-)