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NICE TRY, RADIO: Festive and Depress-tive
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Sunday, December 12, 2010. Picture is awesome, but unrelated. The first- and possibly best- of these festive tunes comes from Frightened Rabbit. Some may find it odd for a band so normally buried in songs of everyday troubles, strife and heartbreak to come out with a song celebrating this, the yearly time of coming together and loving your fellow man. Well In a WAY they have? Frightened Rabbit- It's Christmas So We'll Stop. Dumped over the holidays? Being blanked by an ex? That's why the song needed some...
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NICE TRY, RADIO: August 2010
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Friday, August 27, 2010. GAGAPALOOZA: Thoughts on Lady Gaga after seeing her live. Are trying to mark this Bank Holiday has "Bad Romance Bank Holiday Monday" (or "Bad Romiday") then I figured now was as good a time as any to ponder my thoughts at other people. I seem to be in the minority of those who find some of her songs enjoyable, some not so much (though they are always catchy) and her outrageous behaviour to be sometimes righteous, sometimes misguided. But hearing the same person wax lyrical about ...
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NICE TRY, RADIO: Borgasmic
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Monday, April 12, 2010. Hey everyone, I've been a bad blogger lately and I apologise. Here's some music things that I've been paying attention to lately. Borland ( myspace link. And new-born twitter page link. You social network dah-lings) came in to Chorley FM. I should use this blog to promote my show more. Wednesdays 8 til 10) and did a very nice session on the Flat Iron Show. And then by December they had released House. And now apparently they have a trilogy of EPs AND an album due to come out soon&...
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NICE TRY, RADIO: Get your VEG(C)
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Saturday, October 23, 2010. The highlight of Love On an Oil Rig, for me, was the single "Parrot", which started with one of the most ominous clunking bass intros, before bursting into life as a twisted dance classic. It also featured a rather brilliant video:. The Victorian English Gentlemens Club - Parrot. From This Is Fake DIY Records. A Biting Wind Followed By An Occasional Drift Of Snow (Was No Way To Cure A Hangover). From This Is Fake DIY Records. The Victorian English Gentlemans Club.
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NICE TRY, RADIO: December 2010
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Sunday, December 12, 2010. Picture is awesome, but unrelated. The first- and possibly best- of these festive tunes comes from Frightened Rabbit. Some may find it odd for a band so normally buried in songs of everyday troubles, strife and heartbreak to come out with a song celebrating this, the yearly time of coming together and loving your fellow man. Well In a WAY they have? Frightened Rabbit- It's Christmas So We'll Stop. Dumped over the holidays? Being blanked by an ex? That's why the song needed some...
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NICE TRY, RADIO: January 2011
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Thursday, January 13, 2011. Peter Robinson, the man responsible for one of my favourite websites about music- Popjustice! Wrote a piece for the Guardian yesterday about how rock music is dead (it's here. Now, I think we can all agree that that is a massive sweeping statement, right? A sweeping statement from a man not afraid of making other sweeping statements, like boybands aren't fashionable. We could just wait 3 years for his statement to be proved wrong, but alas, this annoyed me a bit. Also, pop mus...
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NICE TRY, RADIO: CHROMEO-OOOH in the STUDIO-OOOH!
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010. CHROMEO-OOOH in the STUDIO-OOOH! I'm just going to point out that this is officially one of my favourite images currently in existence). The next time I came across Chromeo was hearing some live tracks they did for the sadly missed "And This Is Our Disco" podcast, the first podcast I subscribed to that wasn't based on the premise of "DJs play indie songs you can dance to" but "DJs play electronic music, alright? Ps Anybody fancy seeing Chromeo in Manchester? Return of the M...
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NICE TRY, RADIO: British Sea Power to the People
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Sunday, November 28, 2010. British Sea Power to the People. It isn't a secret that British Sea Power are one of the best bands of the decade, having produced two of the finest albums of the noughties- as well as providing audiences with the best gigs imaginable. From wrestling matches with bears to cannons showering crowds with fake snow by way of parading on unwilling bouncer's shoulders, anything could happen at a Sea Power gig. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Father John ...
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NICE TRY, RADIO: Everything is Dead
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Thursday, January 13, 2011. Peter Robinson, the man responsible for one of my favourite websites about music- Popjustice! Wrote a piece for the Guardian yesterday about how rock music is dead (it's here. Now, I think we can all agree that that is a massive sweeping statement, right? A sweeping statement from a man not afraid of making other sweeping statements, like boybands aren't fashionable. We could just wait 3 years for his statement to be proved wrong, but alas, this annoyed me a bit. Also, pop mus...
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NICE TRY, RADIO: Embryonic, Embryonic, put your hands all over my body
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Monday, September 27, 2010. Embryonic, Embryonic, put your hands all over my body. I have been told many times in my life that I'm a music snob. I disagree (read about why I'm not a music snob, actually, here. One criticism often levelled at the album, is simply that it's less pop minded than "At War With The Mystics" or "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots", and the Guardian even called it "career killing". Christ. So what makes a band release that kind of album? Well you can find out in a very good documen...