LITTLEMORE / LOTATALENT

I not so secretly hate people who have gotten to where they are within the music industry down to their parents or family name, whatevs, I often wish I'd had a producer dad or A&R uncle, but then again, I wouldn't work half as hard as I have done! But here are a few talented relatives!


Talented Littlemore #1 Nick Littlemore.

I think by now everyone has heard of Empire Of The Sun, the aussie duo who featured on my 'Aussie Bangers' playlist on itunes...



Anyway, before Nick Littlemore became said band, he was in the best bangin aussie outfit, the amazing PNAU!.

I'd heard of them but not actually listened to them for ages, until I stumbled across their website, home of the most addictive game ever <-- seriously, we'll come back to that later.

Anyway, they are amazing, and their most recent album never even made it to the UK which is dark, so, enjoy a couple of tracks here...

Wild Strawberries - download
Embrace - download

Talented Littlemore #2 James Littlemore

He is indeed responsible for the very addictive game you're probably still playing instead of reading this! And...probably the best 'animated' video in the world:



Look at that strawb go!!

I strongly suggest you check out his stuff: www.jameslittlemore.com


If that wasn't enough, Sam Littlemore aka Sam La More did a pretty good remix of Walking On A Dream, have a listen:

Walking On A Dream (Sam La More RMX) - download

they 'av ze dalent.

that is all!

Bono is such a knob.

I didn't attend the Brit Awards this year, I did however embrace various afterparties with my friends Wendy and the wonderful Julian Perretta - to whom I have every ounce of faith that he will indeed, be winning tings at Brits '10 (how weird does '10 look).

Anyhow, I watched the whole thing on TV the day after, and how much of a knob is Bono? I'm sorry, maybe I'm young and naive (what a tune) but I have never and will never enjoy the music of the band U2 - Their new song is absolutely awful, HANG UP YOUR BOOTS BONO.

Evidence of Bono being an absolute ponce:



I mean, look at him? fuck off bono.

I did however very much enjoy Pet Shop Boys and major props to the pensioner Duffy, who is afterall about 60. Clare Maguire will be doing a massive musical shit all over you in 09/10, take a whiff.

In the spirit of embracing great, british music, I strongly suggest you head over to The Maccabee's Website and download 'No Kind Words' - it's a banger with a side of sincerely enjoyable mash. A N D I T S F R E E ! To me it sounds like a perfectly mature progression for The Macca's and I eagerly anticipate hearing the new record, plus, the website itself is pretty cool too, loving it.

Until next time...

CIDER

I used to drink a lot of cider when I was around 16, one vivid memory (of very few) is one of drinking an entire 3ltr bottle of Morrison's finest own brand cider with my friend Jen across the road from the Camden Barfly within the space of about 10 minutes, the result being intense projectile vommiting moments after. The moral of this story is, don't drink morrison's own cider, because it doesn't taste nice, and don't drink 3ltrs of it.

I mention cider because a band by the name of apples are a pleasant little band from Hereford, who are bashing out some of the catchiest tunes around at the moment. If you're bored of Lady Gaga and the other crap currently clotting up our advert-filled spotify experience, enjoy this sweet little tune 'Reason 45' by Apples.

'Reason 45' - download