When Trixie met The Cardigans

"We wanted to call the album something really ridiculous like Nerve-Wracking Acrobatic Backwards Dance  but the record company were like.... erm, no!"

Find out what else happened when I caught up with Sweden's greatest non meatball export for CD:UK 

**** STOP PRESS ****

For one night only, I return to Warwick Students' Union to DJ at the RaW edition of the Time Tunnel.

Joining me on the decks will be fellow London DJ and former Warwick Indiependance DJ James, his co-indiependance DJ Markt, and former Union DJ and Radio 1's finest James King.

We'll be playing the best tracks from the year RaW was born - 1970, as well as the tracks that student radio has made big ever since.

Expect T-Rex, David Bowie, Placebo, Elastica, Beck, Gorillaz, Black Sabbath, Freda Payne and even the Carpenters!

UWSU, The Cooler, 9  - 2am.  See you there!

[Yes I realise this isn't the most exciting news ever but it's exciting for me!]

Upcoming Gigs

06/10/05          Miss-Shapes, Ghetto
08/10/05          Time Tunner, The Cooler, UWSU
14/10/05           Trash Palace
20/10/05          Miss-Shapes, Ghetto
21/10/05           Trash Palace
28/10/05           Trash Palace
03/11/05            Londonist is 1. Offside Bar, Islington

Be at one of them or you're a loser! 

Oi! Give me some!

Oi! Give me some!, originally uploaded by g_lined.

My friends are scaring me muchly with this 'experiment'.

Happy 36th Birthday Grover!

Happy Birthday to the best of all the muppets. 

I could rant about how unfairly Grover has been treated in life, how that wanker of a creature they call Elmo manipulated and destroyed Grover in the eyes of the CTW production team, but I'll leave that to the brilliant 'Grover is Bitter' .

Let's just remember the great times he gave us when we were growing up.   And continue spending time each night with our Elmo voodoo doll made of POO.

When Trixie met Ladytron

"We’ve
ended up becoming a cult band.  I don’t know if we do want to be
mainstream, we don’t want to get so big that all our fans get bored of
us. We’d sooner just gradually grow over 5 or 6 albums rather than have
some huge hit that becomes an albatross."

Find out what else the band had to say when I caught up with Danny & Reuben at CD:UK towers last week here.

 

Ladytron - Witching Hour

"For a band so oft accused of being detached and cold, this album is filled with emotion, from the forcefulness of Destroy to the snarl of Mira's Bulgarian sung Fighting in Built Up Areas."

Find out a little bit more about Ladytron's Witching Hour here.

Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better

"They haven't suddenly decided they are going to become oh so serious,
with no track clocking in at longer than just over 4 minutes, nor have
they lost the fun and vibrancy that made us love them in the first
place. The change comes, most obviously, in production values."

Find out what else I thought about Franz's 2nd album here.