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    Nessy and Shouting At Planes

    Episode 41: Here’s what happened

    1. DJ Flip & Freezemaster Slick: Croassroads
    2. Garbage: Push it
    3. Beady Eye: Bring The Light (Recommended Free Legal Download available from their website)
    4. Skunk Anansie: My Ugly Boy
    5. Sleigh Bells: Tell Em
    6. Chat with Keegan from MGB
    7. MGB: Under The Sun
    8. A-ha: Butterfly Butterfly (The Last Hurrah)
    9. Shouting At Planes: So Young
    10. Ou Est Le Swimming Pool: The Key
    11. Chat with Shouting At Planes
    12. Shouting At Planes: For A Hero (Acoustic)
    13. Shouting At Planes: Hospice

    And it was over! Some great stuff lined up for next week at 2000.

  • Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip:Stake A Claim

    Yesterday I was asked on Facebook to join the group to get
    Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip’s Stake A Claim to be Ireland’s Christmas No.1. In the UK there’s a campaign going to get John Cage’s 4’33” to the No.1 Spot.

    As far as I can make out, the instigator of this is Eoin Aher who is the booker from Cyprus Avenue in Cork. Good Choice! Great Lyrics!

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYlVe-3P-8E]

  • Beady Eye: Bring The Light Review

    So the time has come for young Liam Gallagher’s new band Beady EyeBeady Eye, to unleash their wares on the world.

    Bring the Light is uptempo with sixties tinges. It’s actually damn catchy with clever piano hooks, hand claps, nice guitar lines and What surprised me most, Liam Gallagher’s vocals. Hand on heart, I was never an Oasis fan but this shows a side I, for one, haven’t seen before.

    It’s more rock n’roll and Gallagher’s vocals have been produced with a nice old school vibe. Some nice female backing vocals are also added to the mix, making this quite a surprisingly interesting free download. I like this a hellofalot.

    Download it from the band’s website .

  • Ou Est Le Swimming Pool: The Golden Year Review

    Ou Est Le Swimming PoolIt’s taken me a while to try and review this objectively. Even now I’m not sure I’ll be able to.

    From the opening notes of ‘You Started’, it’s hard not to feel nostalgic for a band whose lead singer’s life ended way too early. Charles Haddon’s vocals draw you in immediately in this sparsely produced track, letting his vocals and a simple piano line take centre stage. A beautiful cello line makes this track an amazing opener. Completely different from the singles we have previously heard from Ou Est Le Swimming Pool.

    ‘The Key’ is the first of the band’s four singles on the album. The track brings OELSP back into the 80s synth pop that we have come to know from the band. It’s also probably the least obvious single but is a definite grower with a nice build up in the chorus.

    OELSP have a great sound and playing it down as much as possible I love the dirty bass synth sound they have perfected so well.  These New Knights shows this in all its glory and shows Ou Est Le Swimming Pool were never going to be a one a one trick pony. ‘Dance The Way I Feel’ is infectious and makes you want to dance with its shouty chorus. On this version there’s also the introduction of a nice string section. Pure heaven! (more…)