ShockHorror/ Don't Look Back In Anger- The View

Live at Koko in Camdentown, LDN... Wee Kyle's voice is just astonishing.

I'm sure

this was the scenester scene from hell (ooo, must listen to The Cribs), but sounds like some cool stuff went on...

Mark Ronson, Supergrass, The View, Babyshambles' Drew McConnell and Patrick Wolf were among those who performed collaborations last night (October 11) at the London Matter venue as part of the Diesel xXx series of gigs.

and oh HELL YES.

McConnell's final collaboration came next, when he played guitar to accompany Lethal Bizzle, backed by The Noisettes' drummer Jamie Morrison.

'5 Rebeccas'

New single from The View, featuring brief nudity from an unnamed Wee The View lad and Owen Morris shooting off fireworks in his garden.

I initially thought it was cute indie pop, nothing memorable, then caught myself humming the chorus, oh, 15 TIMES this weekend...

Abilities to speak or breathe...

I seem to have lost them.

Wee Kyle covering 'Don't Look Back In Anger.' With adorable somewhat-bad-dancing accompaniment.

I've listened to this song, oh THOUSANDS of times, and I have to say, the B-3 is a very nice touch.

As is the darling Scots imp singing it.

CAN'T. HANDLE. THIS.

TOO. MANY. OF. MY. FAVORITE. THINGS. IN. ONE. PLACE.

PIPEDOWN. WEE KYLE. OASIS. JANIE JONES. THE MAN WHO CAME TO STAY.

BRAIN. MELTING.

The View's Kyle Falconer played a surprise acoustic show in support of Babyshambles at the Brixton Mass venue last night (June 18).

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Taking the stage at 10:30pm (BST), after being introduced by Babyshambles bassist Drew McConnell, Falconer played an eight-song acoustic set which included an Oasis cover, a new song and hits 'Same Jeans' and 'Superstar Tradesman'.Falconer also played 'Wasted Little DJs', 'Skag Trendy' and a cover of Oasis' 'Don’t Look Back In Anger'.

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The band kept banter to a minimum and covered 'Janie Jones' by The Clash later in the set, then played 'Sedative' before heading off for a cigarette break.After the break Babyshambles played an amped-up closing set including 'Delivery', 'Pipedown' and 'Fuck Forever', which they closed the show with.

Although, may I point out that noting that Petey was wearing a suit and necklace, is similar to saying incredulously that the Pope is Catholic, bears shit in the woods, et al...

Random

Today at work, when we were in the weeds of funeral stuff, the Wee The View lads cover of 'I've Just Seen A Face' came on the stereo. We all started to sing along. Yes, I'm influential (*rolls eyes*) to the point that obscure Beatles b-sides become sing-a-longs at Iowa's Coolest Flower Shop.



Also, last week we had the revelation that my very posh co-worker, Denise, had all her family down for dinner, and started singing 'Rehab' under her breath. Obviously, her kids were incredulous that their mom was familiar with The Winehouse's oeuvre. She gleefully reported to me, "I told them that we've been listening to that for over a year now."

I'm making a difference, I suppose.

Obsessions

As of November 2007

-"Evening Breeze" Colonial Candles

-Jaqua Girls "Buttercream Frosting" Hand Creme

-Kicking Chuck Shumer in the ass

-This picture of Wee Kieren















-Kicking Nancy Pelosi in the ass

-This picture of Drew McConnell

You have no idea

how happy this picture makes me. From a Love Music, Hate Racism gig.....

'Valerie'- Mark Ronson at the BBC Electric Proms

featuring Wee Kyle Falconer. I love this version more than I can coherently state.

I adore this picture

Why? Let's go left to right.

lower row-

1. Love little Tom The Enemy's trackie jacket. And that he can convey attitude in a picture.

2. Wee Kieren. Sigh. Flashing a peace sign. Double sigh.

3. Wee Kyle's grin. So cute.

4. Bizzle's hoodie. Love it. Also love that his hand is bigger than Wee Kyle's head. Curly mop top and all....

Top row-

5. Carrrrrrrrrrloooooos. Hello, darlink.

6. Holy cow, is Kele Bloc Party SMILING? He is. Nice!

7. Drew. Le sigh. Am a bit concerned about the clerical look he's rocking, however. Who am I kidding? He's still swoon-worthy.

So many of my favorites....

*flails*

Wee Kieren talking about Love Music, Hate Racism. Good lad.

SQUEEEEEEEEE

While I was saving this pic, etc.... the old iTunes started playing 'Helicopter' by Bloc Party and 'You're Not Alone' by The Enemy. Crazy.....

Awwww

I love my socially-conscious boys in bands.....

(doesn't hurt they're cute, too;)

40 years of Radio1

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of BBC's Radio1, various artists have re-recorded one song from each year of the station's existence. Am very excited about hearing the following covers-

1969
'Cupid' by Johnny Nash
Covered by Amy Winehouse

1970
'Lola' by The Kinks
Covered by Robbie Williams

1977
‘Sound & Vision’ by David Bowie
Covered by Franz Ferdinand*

1980
‘Too Much Too Young’ by The Specials
Covered by Kasabian**

1987
‘You Sexy Thing’ by Hot Chocolate
Covered by Stereophonics***

1989
‘Lullaby’ by the Cure
Covered by Editors

1996
‘No Diggity’ by Blackstreet
Covered by Klaxons****

2001
‘Teenage Dirtbag’ by Wheatus
Covered by Girls Aloud

2003
‘Don't Look Back Into The Sun’ by The Libertines
Covered by The View*****

*and this isn't just because I know that Girls Aloud did the backing vocals

**er, this could be INTERESTING

***As Kelly Jones is a wee sexy thing- very appropriate

****Holy hell, do I want to hear this! Please, let it have sirens.

*****EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!

Love Music, Hate Racism

This is made of awesome......

LMHR “SCHOOLS CD” - ON THE COVER OF THE NME NEXT MONTH
NME - the LMHR issue. In shops: Wednesday 10th October 2007

The LMHR CD for schools, supported by the NUT, has drawn a fantastic response - with many top artists contributing exclusive tracks (see below). Even better, the NME have now come on board, meaning that the CD will be covermounted on their 13th October issue, and that nme.com will be hosting a LMHR minisite where a week after the mag comes out you can download all the tracks alongside information on fighting racism and fascism and on putting on your own LMHR event.

This special edition of the NME will feature a special LMHR-themed cover bringing together Lethal Bizzle, Babyshambles, Bloc Party, Dirty Pretty Things, The View and The Enemy, as well as feature articles about LMHR including a roundtable discussion with the artists on racism, the BNP and music. Schools, colleges and other organisations can order bulk copies of empty LMHR CD sleeves in which your own pick of the tracks can be burned to CD after you’ve downloaded them from the website. The empty sleeves will also act as a flyer for LMHR and will be distributed in schools across the country.

Here’s the 100% confirmed tracklisting, in alphabetical order, with one or two surprises still possible - it’s still tbc which will be on the NME cover CD and which will be exclusive download-only tracks:-

Akala (”Electro Livin’” exclusive track)

Albert Hammond Jr. (”Cartoon Music For Super Heroes”)

Babyshambles (”Stone Me What a Life! - exclusive track from new album sessions)

Billy Bragg (”The Big Lie” exclusive track)

Bloc Party (“Where is Home” - Diplo remix)

Blood Red Shoes (exclusive track from album sessions)

Carbon/Silicon (“The Network’s Going Down”, exclusive track)

The Charlatans (exclusive track)

Dirty Pretty Things (’9 Lives’, exclusive and specially-written track)

Drew McConnell, Seb Rochford, Fionn Regan & Albert Hammond Jr. - ‘Ampersand’ (exclusive)

The Enemy (’Fear Killed The Youth of A Nation’ tiny-indie-release b-side of 1st single)

Johnny Flynn (’Cold Bread’ - exclusive track)

Get Cape Wear Cape Fly (exclusive live track from LMHR Glastonbury 2007 show)

Hard Fi (exclusive remix of track from new LP)

Hardkaur (’Hype’, exclusive)

Lethal Bizzle (exclusive remix of “Babylon’s Burning Up The Ghetto”)

Maximo Park (exclusive live track “Nose Bleed”)

Mecca 2 Medina (track TBC)

M.I.A. (track TBC)

Natty (exclusive unreleased track)

Noisettes (’Shame’ – exclusive)

Fionn Regan (’Campaign Button’ - Hidden track on current LP)

Roll Deep (’Racist People” exclusive remix)

Skream (’Chest Boxing’, exclusive track)

Statik (’Summer Nights’ )

The View (“Fireworks and Flowers” - exclusive)

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Veteran rockers The Charlatans gave fans a taste of their forthcoming 10th studio album at a tiny show at London's Cuckoo club.

The View, Klaxons and Carl Barat were at the gig, filmed for Rockworld TV. Singer Tim Burgess told us: "It was mayhem." Mental...

This involves so many of my favorite musicians

that I could just cry. From the Raving Reporter blog at the NME online-

It was a long time coming but today we saw a whole new personality leap out of the immoral morass they call Babyshambles.

For Drew Babyshambles is the man behind the Love Music Hate Racism CD which will be appearing on the front of the NME in a few weeks' time.

And today I spent an enlightening few hours in the company of Drew, Kele Okereke, Lethal Bizzle, The View, Tom from The Enemy, Carl Barat and several spokespeople from the Love Music Hate Racism charity to discuss the issues thrown up by the fact that we suddenly have a serious responsibility to challenge the BNP.

The BNP, it turns out, have been making 'rock' CDs and handing them out outside schools in the interest of recruiting young kids to their way of thinking.

The BNP CD is full of hideous 'Oi' music and antiquated folk rubbish, everything they think is likely to appeal to the youth of today.

So there are not enough hats to take off to Drew and the other acts on the LMHR CD for realising that the best way to humiliate these idiots is by out-cooling them at their own game by getting the likes of Bloc Party, Dirty Pretty Things and The Enemy to contribute to a far more credible CD in response.

Anyone reading this blog is intelligent enough to know that racism is beyond idiocy, but what we can't forget is that complacency lets in the extremists, so make your voice heard. Like Drew did. An extremely intelligent man doing what he can.

Inevitably, though, after the serious issues were tackled, drunkeness ensued.

After several pints in a pub near the photographic studio, half of the participants ended up in Carl's car to the Cuckoo Club where The Charlatans were playing a secret set for Alan McGee's Death Disco TV show.

The spirits flowed freely, leading to this writer:

* having a heart to heart with Alan about what a bloody great bloke Tony Wilson was even though I personally never met him.

* necking so much scotch I can barely type right now.

* having a see-who-can-hold-their-hand-in-the-freezing-bucket-of-ice-water-for-the-longest contest with Kyle from The View just after he'd played an incredible cover of The Beatles' 'I've Just Seen A Face' and just before he started leaping around on his chair screaming for The Charlatans to play 'Love Is The Key'.

We may have set the world to rights but my own personal world went oh so wrong...

the view 4

the view 4, originally uploaded by RJP Photography.

HAHAHA

Gee, do you think that Webby and Pedro were drinking a wee bit? Nice Rosary, Kieren.....

DESIGNERS at Prada and Luis Vuitton would be tearing their hair out if they saw their bags being soaked by a Scots rock band.

But thankfully for The View, management at the new Mulberry store on Ingram Street didn't mind the Dundee band's champagne exploits.

The rockers shook a fizzed-up bottle and ended up spraying it over designer handbags and guests at the shop openingin Glasgow.

At least five bags were splashed, however management laughed it off as "the most rock 'n' roll launch we've ever done", despite an estimated £5000 worth of damage.

*fangirls*