July Shenanigans - Not gone AWOL!

So it has been a while since a little music dose update, apologies, not that many will read but oh well!

What's been going on:

- 2-3 months locked in a university library

- 4 x 3hr45min exams determining the rest of my life

- 2 months of debauchery

- Nervousness from the worry of exam results

- Joy from the receipt of a 2:1 degree

- GLASTONBURY 2008 - first time of the visit of Worthy Farm and boy was it a good one!

- Music highlights - intimate Lykke Li set, Mystery Jets, FOALS!!!!!!!!!!!!, Florence and the Machine, Lightspeed Champion, Leonard Cohen, Emmy the Great, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, catching Fanfarlo again! Vampire Weekend, Manu Chao, The National!

- Graduation day - the donning of our mortarboards!

- The new ice cream man job to keep me busy til Winter breaks

NEW FAVE WEBSITE - 

Daytrotter - many a free mp3 downloaded session tracks - so far I have found Cold War Kids gems and Foals too, will keep digging - here's the linkage anyway.

NEW BANDS:

- Late of the Pier - new album sounding good, produced as like Mystery Jets by Erol Alkan

- Black Kids - new album sounding slick too, pop-rock

- Data Select Party - a slight Foals tinge to these guys but not a replica band like Venice Ahoy or Minaars

- Magistrates - great falsetto on the song featured on Zane Lowe's show, ones to look out for! 

OLD GEMS LISTENING TO STILL:

- The Dodos - Visiter - have now located their 2006 debut album so will be checking that!

- Mystery Jets - 21

- Jens Lekman - Night falls over Kortedala

- Cazals - What of Our Future

That's all folks

Remix zis ef el pee!

Ef el pee does some great remixes, check check check!

Lykke Li Black Cab Session

After seeing her great live performance on the Camden Crawl this year here's a taste of the Swedish sensation soon to be sweeping the airwaves. One cab, one take.

Books To Ashes Gig, June 12th, Leicester, Firebug Bar!

After pulling a few strings here and there we are putting on a night called Books To Ashes at Firebug Bar, Leicester on Thursday June 12th to celebrate after exams and raise cash and awareness for Cancer Research UK - click HERE for facebook link to the event and get in touch for tickets, only 40 or so left now going at £3.50 a pop.

Headlining this event is Rotating Leslie! Coming from Royston ,London, these guys are setting the scene alight at the moment, currently unsigned but already having a massive following down in Londonia and afar. After just getting back from LA on an Expotour they are hitting it hard back in the UK

Check their myspace songs for these great hard-hitting indie anthems which are quite different from your indie drab being churned out of the NME hype machine, I'm predicting these guys to go far in the next year or so, expect more banging tunes and the hype to surmount your radiowaves!!

The Sport from Stoke will be playing the event also, again they are a band for the future with support slots for The Wombats recently and various others around Stoke's top venues, they have their own fanclub and massive following after the formation of the group from the remnants from Agent Blue. Another band to watch this space for....

Leicester's own Autohype will be playing their tunes, with the band on the verge of being signed after gaining exposure on the Midlands circuit are setting out to take over the UK in the coming months, already with Radio 1 airplay expect more of it!

Beginning proceedings will be Leicester's Bukatchi Boss , blending rock, funk and rap. Set to recording their debut album over the summer in Brum, another band that will be making some noise for the gig and getting things off to a cracking start

Get in touch if you wanna come down, but it's strictly ticket only so get your hands on them asap!

London election time, it seems Boris has obliterated the opposition

Emmy The Great - talented! check her MTV 2 video below

One girl, a great voice and a guitar, lovely folk, check her MTV2 vid here

Lightspeed Champion at Paradiso, Amsterdam

Check out the new song Marlene and my personal old fave "Dry Lips"

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