nessymon.com

Blog

  • G.D.C: Off My Chest Review

    GDC from Facebook promoOccasionally something comes along and completely throws you. This isn’t what i thought it was going to be at all. Off My Chest is the first release from G.D.C. (Grá Don Cheol), the brainchild of Cillian Foster.

    I was expecting something in the signer songwriter vein so this threw me a little, instead I got an uptempo indie rock track. The song opens with a big drum sound before heading slightly into Britpop territory. There are echos of the Gallagher Brothers and Christy Dignam, especially in the vocal style but Foster has enough originality to make this sound his own.

    The track shows Foster has good perception of song structure and flow and the production cleverly plays lyric lines between his main vocals and slightly effected. Nicely done, not too over powering. A break of ‘Let me move on’ shows vocal harmonies balanced for a huge sound. Is that a thermin in the middle of everything?

    Damn fine start for a first track.. I’m genuinely looking forward to the album. (more…)

  • George Michael: True Faith Video

    Wow! So The Legend That Is has been getting a lot of stick for his Comic Relief single, a cover of New Order’s True Faith. March 18th is Red Nose Day in The UK and this just had its premier. I’m extremely impressed by its simplicity and sparseness while being full of imagery. Love the New Order figurine references and the inhaling of the smoke at the end. George Michael also showed again that he’s more than willing to take the piss out of himself buy appearing alongside James Corden in a skit for Comic Relief.

    Thumbs up Yog!

    So I don’t turn this whole blog into a George Michael tribute, I’ll include a link to a remix of True Faith by Nathan Jay.. nice video too

  • Duranies get ready!

    duran-duran-all-you-need-is-nowToday sees the Irish release of Duran Duran‘s, Mark Ronson produced, ‘All You Need is Now’. They’ve also announced an Irish date as part of their European Tour. The Birmingham natives will play the 02 on July 14th, Tickets are on sale on March 25th.

    Since Andy Taylor left the band again in 2006, they original four have been joined by Dom Brown on guitar duties.

    If you can’t wait til then DD will be kicking off the second year of ‘Unstaged: An Original Series from American Express’ in Los Angeles on March 23rd. So? I hear you say, well, you see you can watch the event live.. The event will be streamed live-streamed at 10:00PM ET / 7:00PM PT or 02:00 GMT on the morning of March 24th at www.YouTube.com/DuranDuranVEVO What’s cooler Filmmaker extraordinaire David Lynch (yes him of Twin Peaks and Mullholland Drive) will direct! Not to be missed.

    (more…)

  • Tune of The Week: 18/03/2011

    I’ve never been the hugest of BellX1 fans but I think they have a serious knack of writing damn fine quirky lyrics. Velcro is the first single from their new album ‘Bloodless Coup’.

    There’s the new video directed by Shane Delahunty. I like the long single shots. I can see why the the style was slightly changed during the chorus, it enables the new scene to be set. This is probably the best I’ve seen any Irish band come to make a video to come close to OK GO.