The boy least likely to

The English duo have just put some new songs up on their myspace page, this raises hopes of the follow up to The best party ever being close behind. The new tracks follow a similar vein to the first album, keeping the same upbeat tempo. Hopefully the album will be out in time to see them play Electric Picnic this year, a festival they are perfectly suited to and still missing out since they had to pull out two years ago. Here's hoping for one or both of the above speculations to come through.

Weekend Update

Another weekend well spent, working hard selling toys(like a captialist elf) and watching various forms of programming, as well as learning various forms of programming(the joyous life of a nerd).

Films Watched: Control (great, hard to go to sleep after watching it though), Mystic pizza (made me want pizza, fortunately i was not alone & dominoes was still delivering)

Tv showsWatched: Arrested Development, all of Series 3(a well spent 4 & 1/2 hours), Peep Show, 2/3's of series 3 (Makes me want to have a few people sectioned), disturbing documentary about a beauty pageant for 5-6 year old girls(Americas main contribution to society, expliotation), top 40 teen stars(g'wan the Molly Ringwald & the Coreys, also Anthony Michael Hall Looks hilarious now)

Films Downloaded: Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Say Anything, Singles (see the above mentioned teen star show)

Overrall productivity rating: Low to Medium (i did go to work and earn some money, and i did spend a few hours learn php & mysql)

The End Of The Chalets??

The rumormill is ripe with word that the chalets have split, one of my favourite bands of the last few years, said to have been working on a second album for release this year, it appears that we may never see it now. I for one am saddedned by the news. I'll just have to get my fix from the Warlords .
Here are a few great videos for thos of you who may have missed out on the chalets.

UPDATE: Two minutes after I posted this an Official Announcement was posted on their myspace.

Live on Other Voices


Feel The Machine

The state of Music Media in Ireland

Other Voices is back for a new series(I'm watching it as i'm typing), always nice to see something good keep going, Jenny Huston has joined john kelly this year, i wonder how she'll work out on camera, good luck to here though, one of the few tollerable presenters on 2fm. Something watchable on RTE keeps me happy.

Hot Press has just launched a new format to celebrate 30 years in the business, its shiny and glossy and a4 size, so no more having to fold the feckin thing to fit it in a bag or the like. I may start reading more often, it always ended up destroyed in a bag before.

Black Francis

On saturday night i went along to see former pixies frontman Black Francis(Frank Black), a great gig if you like his solo work, not such a good gig for the people who wanted pixies songs. I was in the former camp luckily enough, made it right up front and got talking to Sinister Pete from phantom for most of the gig. Nice guy, older than he looks and sounds and well up on his music(which is to be expected).
The gig was followed up with a kebab with my girlfriend dee(who had just had one of her designs in a fashion show) & after she went home i went to pravda to hang with people from work, i managed to lose my camera despite not being drunk.

Lessons learned from the night:
-Going to a gig alone is perfectly acceptable, if not possibly preferrable
-If you don't want to lose you're camera, get drunk
-kebabs are great

Improv in Grand Central Station

Interesting!

Video Of The Week

I know its a bit late this week but its been a busy week in college, with exam results and the ensuing panic.

So this week for anyone who hasn't already seen I present Tom Petty at the superbowl XLII(42) Half-Time show. Enjoy