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... ;-))
Friday, October 16, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
"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
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
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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! ;-)
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! ;-)
Sunday, August 02, 2009
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...
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...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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
See you there!
Tickets
and for more details about complete line-up: www.the1234shoreditch.com
Monday, June 29, 2009
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...
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...
Saturday, June 27, 2009
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
(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
Thursday, June 25, 2009
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!
Little advertissement:
DON'T MISS THE QUEENS OF SOUNDS PARTY, THIS COMING SUNDAY (28TH), AT THE BAR AND KITCHEN (HOXTON SQUARE), THERE WILL BE A SPECIAL TAHITI 80 ACOUSTIC SET!!!
THIS IS ONLY £5 ENTRANCE (or just £3 if you eMail at party@queensofsounds.com)
Coming next: My last playlist, just for you lovely people!...
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!
Little advertissement:
DON'T MISS THE QUEENS OF SOUNDS PARTY, THIS COMING SUNDAY (28TH), AT THE BAR AND KITCHEN (HOXTON SQUARE), THERE WILL BE A SPECIAL TAHITI 80 ACOUSTIC SET!!!
THIS IS ONLY £5 ENTRANCE (or just £3 if you eMail at party@queensofsounds.com)
Coming next: My last playlist, just for you lovely people!...
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