An archive of blog entries about music and music production.
Brace yourself. Steven Seagal and his band Thunderbox are playing Camden Underground on September 21st.
Tickets are £20 each, so get those credit cards ready now.
Two TV themes: Entertainment USA‘s and The Adventures of Portland Bill‘s. What’s up there?
After praising last week’s Screen Wipe, I was wary that it was going to be pants this week, just to spite me. Fortunately, it was just as good, if not better.
Brooker’s pretty much nailed down the right combination of puerility, extended rants and incisive commentary. And where he is using other contributors, he’s now picking the right kind, such as David Quantick and Adam Buxton. Absolutely hilarious from start to finish it was. I particularly enjoyed the slating of the extremely rubbish Are We Being Served?, which was basically a bunch of complaints by stupid people who couldn’t read and who had an extreme sense of entitlement.
But Adam Buxton’s use of his old character, Ken Korda, from The Adam and Joe Show was interesting. On Adam and Joe, Korda was rather a pathetic figure (here are some YouTube examples of Korda in action). On Screen Wipe, he was doing a faux director’s commentary on The Mint, ITV Play’s rather awful late night phone-in show. It was all suspiciously similar to Rob Brydon’s 2004 series Directors Commentary:
Continue reading “Charlie Brooker’s Screen Wipe still holding up”
There are some fights that are impossible to resist: Tyson vs Holyfield, Gracie vs Shamrock, Daleks vs Cybermen. They’re compulsive and compulsory.
There are some that aren’t, though.
How about this fight between Richard Madeley and Morrissey, as highlighted in today’s Independent?
Continue reading “Richard Madeley vs Morrissey: let the clash of the titans begin”
Want to know what the music they used in the Volkswagen EOS ad is? You know, the tune that starts “I woke up dreaming…”. You know, this one (although this is the US version and has a completely different track. But it has the same visuals, just so we know what I’m on about)
Well, it’s by an unsigned group called The Dallas Guild and it’s called “Men in White Coats”. You can hear their work on their own site or on their MySpace page. Sorry, no iTunes link because of that whole unsigned thing.
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