Purveyor of quality pop that I am, I feel blessed to have been given the chance to review Duncan James' debut solo album. Jeez, I inexplicably used to fancy this man. He had the hilariously same hair as he did in 2001 on Top of the Pops (sob) the other week. Bravo. It's not bad, it's just uninspiring, y'know.
If you're missing Darius and you're after a bunch of mid-tempo pop songs to ease you through the day, then this might just be it.
What a sell! How could you refuse! Read the whole thing online at BBC Music.
Wednesday, 21 June 2006
REVIEW: Duncan James - Future Past
Tuesday, 20 June 2006
Ta-dah! Popstarz presents… Scissor Sisters
The Scissor Sisters returned to the UK last night to play a special one off gig at our very own Popstarz. The bands first ever UK gig was at Ghetto so it was great to see them remembering their UK roots and returning to the same crowd.
The Scala was absolutely rammed and we were DJing for 2 hours before the band as well as an hour immediately after. Some rubbish photos are on my camera but I'll have a look through them later and try and put a few online. We played things like Dead Disco - Automatic, Sarah Nixey - Strangelove, Shiny Toy Guns - DIsko, The Automatic - Raoul, Morningwood - Nth Degree, Skunk Anansie - Lately, Peaches - Tent in Your Pants as well as all the usual Kaisers / Killers / Hole stuff.
The band were awesome. When we arrived, Ana was in the DJ booth talking to the sounds guys and has seemed to lose lots of weight since the last album. Her hair was much shorter and almost Geri Halliwell esque! Jake was the blonde we've seen recently and the rest of the band looked great. The hairy side of the audience were loving Baby Daddy, but a lot went very doe-eyed over Del Marquis who was looking uber cute and declared 'I first came to Popstarz when I was 19!' with Ana retorting 'Oh bless, and now you still look 12!' As had been rumoured, Sir Elton John and David Furnish showed up and got a mammoth round of applause and cheers when he appeared on the balcony with camera flashes going like crazy.
The band played a selection of songs old and new, and the new stood up just as well as the old. The highlight of new songs was the Ana-led incredibly funky and danceable Kiss You Off. Paul McCartney is the new Filthy Gorgeous while the Elton penned I Don't Feel Like Dancing got everyone, including Elton, dancing along. Comfortably Numb was AMAZING and I was pleased they played karinski favourite Music is the Victim where they were joined on stage by the tour manager's son (probably about 5 or 6?) doing some adorable dancing! Ana and Jake were very vocal in their appreciation of the UK audience, and said how brilliant it was to be performing to a mostly gay crowd who could do anything they wanted and were proud of it.
This was their setlist :
Take Your Mama
I Can't Decide
Tits on the radio
She's my man
Laura
Paul McCartney
Everybody wants the same thing
Kiss You Off
Mary
The Other Side
I Don't Feel like Dancing
Comfortably Numb
Music is the victim
Land of A Thousand Words
Encore
Filthy Gorgeous
Friday, 16 June 2006
Tuesday, 13 June 2006
Popstarz RULEZZZZ
Would it? YES IT WOULD.
Popstarz presents... Scissor Sisters - a full live gig at The Scala on Monday 19 June.
Needless to say I am wetting my pants. I'm Djing at it so I'll see you there. For convaluted ticket details check the popstarz homepage.
Thursday, 8 June 2006
Morningwood: Live at Koko
playing their first UK show at Club NME left me somewhat stumbling over
my words. First discoving them via essential US music blog Arjan Writes, their self titled album stayed on the stereo for a few weeks with Jetsetter and Nth Degree finding their way onto our playlists. Not having looked at their myspace page
for a while, I was delighted to see them booked in at Koko for a night
in mid-May and swiftly added them into the diary on a night that was to
become 'the night of 4 clubs'.
'This is a band who aren’t afraid to talk about sex, and during the dance rock ‘NY Girls’
Chantal gets a girl up on stage to dance with her. This is evidently
staged though, as they dance with more familiarity or intimacy than any
strangers should. In any case, this display of girl on girl groping
certainly wakes up any Camden boys sulking in the corner.'
Read the rest of my rather excited and garbled review of the gig over at Gigwise and good god, make sure you can see them live as soon as you can.
Oh, and number 4
At the risk of this turning into a music videos site, let me present Pull Shapes - the Pipettes come of age.
Monday, 5 June 2006
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