How to play Calvin Harris on the stylophone
The first - and in all likelihood last - of My Chemical Toilet’s video tutorials shows how to teach yourself Calvin Harris’s awesome “You Used To Hold Me” on the stylophone.
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Sentric Music seeks prospective Hollyoaks soundtrack acts to play In The City
For unsigned artists keen to have their music featured on the tellybox - whether it be TV shows or adverts - and thereby gain entrance to this site’s hallowed Where Have I Heard That Song Before? category, Sentric Music have been useful people to hook up with for a while now.
Why, they’ve secured spots on Lexus TV ads, episodes of Hollyoaks and - the Sincerity Rock holy grail - One Tree Hill for all manner of bands you haven’t quite heard of yet.
They also ensure acts get the money they’re due from gigs and radio play by taking care of Performing Rights Society-related bureaucracy for all their artists.
This year Sentric Music are hosting their own showcase at the UK’s leading music “convention”, In The City. They’re looking for one more band to join the four they’ve already scheduled, with the winning act getting to play in front of all manner of industry bigwigs looking for the freshest blood to drink sign up. The other acts on the bill are The Federals, Gallops, Jamie Ley and Dirty Goods.
If you want to enter you’ll need to do the following…
- Sign up with Sentric Music. It’s a non-exclusive agreement which leaves you free to pursue other dirty money-making schemes while allowing the magical Sentric people to see what dosh they can purloin for you in the meantime.
- Then just email inthecity2009@sentricmusic.com with your artist name, MySpace link and a blurb saying why you want to play In The City in 140 characters or less. That’s so Sentric Music can show everyone how clever you are by tweeting your entry to their 2000+ followers
Entries need to be in by October 5th, with the winner due to be announced on October 7th.
Good luck - I hope to hear your dubstep opus featured on Grey’s Anatomy Skins real soon.
Buy In The City wristbands here
A definitive history of New Zealand’s pop music
In the pub with some New Zealandish people the other night, one of them kindly scribbled down a complete history of her country’s contribution to pop music.
Not sure what New Order are doing in there. And she spelled my name wrong.
Which period’s your favourite?
This comes courtesy of Philipa Drinkwater, who doesn’t have a website but does occasionally perform as Maria von Trapp.
“Thanks Philipa.”
Can You Gig It?: Smirnoff Experience: U.R The Night feat. Pet Shop Boys, Little Boots @ Matter, The O2, 10.7.09
It’s a fact of modern gig-going that the more brands get involved, the more unwieldy become blog post headers. Hence that displeasing title up there. Peh.
Anyway, Louise Doherty went to Matter for the latest Smirnoff Original Nights extravaganza, and came back with a newfound respect for Little Boots. And a tattooed tit.
Crowdsourcing is best known as that thing people do when they’re too lazy to use Google. Y’know, asking your Facebook friends or Twitter followers to find you a cheesetastic club in Margate, suggest a birthday present for your 84 year-old grandmother or decide whether you should dye your hair bright pink or not (all real life examples by the way – I have some scintillating friends).
But Smirnoff, undoubtedly trying to shake off the damage done to their brand by Smirnoff Ice-swilling chavs, have managed to harness the power of crowdsourcing for the greater good. No, really. Smirnoff: U.R. The Night at The O2’s Matter, part of the Smirnoff Original Nights series, was billed as an “innovative co-creation format” where attendees earned their ticket by helping to shape the night.
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Jet undergo welcome if surprising reinvention for “She’s A Genius”
Well, who saw this coming? Jet, priapic Antipodiean lowest-common denominator bollock-rockers, have decided to introduce some surprising - and yet welcome - elements to their new material.
Beginning with a stark, austere drum machine before being joined by a chilly synth line and the more familar rollicking guitar, “She’s A Genius” shows that the band, previously perceived as knuckle-dragging Oasis obsessives, have secretly been hiding a thrillingly eclectic outlook. And make sure you wait for the bit with whooooosh of sequenced beats as the chorus kicks in!
Nah, just kidding. It’s the same old crap.
Buy Jet songs at 7Digital, if you have to
Remember, remember, remember: Fame returns
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Clearly my head has been residing up my arse, because I had no idea the Fame movie was being remade. But it has been, and it hits cinemas “this Fall”.
Watching the trailer you kind of get the impression that the new Fame is going to be to High School Musical what 90210 is to Gossip Girl; that is, an opportunistic but kind of understandable attempt by a bygone “brand” to jump on the back of a successful product which owes a considerbale debt to the original incarnation of that brand.
And I’m sure that’s what the tweens will be saying as they exit the multiplex “this Fall”.
Band of the Coldstream Guards does “Thriller”
The MJ tributes are going to continue to come, from all manner of weird and wonderful sources. I’d like to say this is the first and last time I’ll feature any of them, but the truth is I can make no such promise.
With that disclaimer out of the way, here is the Band Of The Coldstream Guards doing “Thriller”:
[via Digg]
