Happiness is a monkey in a wig

I love Rex The Dog. He does amazing remixes of lovely songs. And sometimes he does videos to go with them. Look!



If that didn't make you smile then nothing ever will.

Dream On Pro

This made me chuckle, perhaps might ring a bell with those of you who have struggled with Reason, Cubase, ProTools, etc and so on:

Dream On Pro: Music Destruction Software

Festival theme...again

Didn't have a clue on the lyrics, artist, mix of previous entry but agree its "all gone quiet over there", so here we go.
Now I happened to catch some of the Radio 1 Maidstone weekend festival the other day. What really surprised me was how few naff bands were on it. Isn't this type of event supposed to be about boy bands and girl bandsand pop artistes that my kids like - well obviously not my kids as they have been schooled properly in music heritage. Maybe I am REALLY out of touch but surely bands like Raconteurs, Editors, Wombats are not mainstream?
Didn't see any crowd-surfing or signs of the "rougher clientele" chucking wee filled bottles at the Fratellis...and they plus all the others are playing Reading this year...
So does this mean that I have to get into obscure furry animal remixes of underground dance music......hmm
Still at least Be Your Own Pet are playing Reading.....

Sheets in the bedroom?

Seeing as you have all clearly been out enjoying the Great British Summer, I have a quest for you to drag you back to your laptops....

NAME THAT TUNE WHAT I DONE GONE AND HEARD ON THE RADIO PLEASE

Clues:

Female singer
Some sort of 4/4 house remix
Electropop band (I think)

Selection of lyrics as badly overheard by me:

"Girlfriend, with hypertension"
"Juice a secret?"
"It's risky, boozy ass"
"Try to keep it in positions"
"Sheets in the bedroom?"

Anyone? Please put me out of my misery in the comments...?

Big in Japa... China

They are the biggest band China at the moment. Good or bad? I'm plumping for good.

Band's called New Pants, song: You're My Superstar

The Frightful Follow-up

I can never remember if it’s supposed to be the difficult second album or the difficult third?

At the moment it seems that bands are being pushed much too hard into releasing that second album way before it’s ready.

We all know the score. You spend 5 years honing an absolute cracker, release an album, go on tour and then somebody says you’ve got three weeks to release album two. Because you’re half ways decent there’s one or two crackers that you’ve been working on. The only problem is that everything else sounds about as rapidly put together as Keith Richard’s wardrobe.

I thought the whole point of an A&R man was to look after the artists and guide them through these things without overexposing them or ruining their reputation. If the labels aren’t even doing that anymore their point is rapidly disappearing.

Festivals

I wouldn't say that I was eagerly awaiting news of the Reading Rock, or being modern Carling weekend, line up this week but as I already bought tickets I was interested. Metallica, Killers, Rage against machine bit non-plussed. Now lots of talking points I think:

Is it still cool or hip or with it enough to still do festivals or have they all been hijacked by corporate money and students (pah)?

Are the headliners actually important? (not for me certainly)

Is it OK to buy advance tickets so avoiding the Spring scramble?

Is anybody else going to Reading?

Isn't it always incredible how many people know the words of songs of bands I've never heard of?