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Coldplay (boo) does another beautiful video (yay)
I’m not the world’s biggest fan of Coldplay, but you can’t fault them for total videoclip ecstacy. The video for their latest tune “Strawberry Swing” has been directed by Shynola, and features some sexy, sexy stopframe and a resolution to put most modern motion pictures to shame. And giant squirrel attacks! Thanks to Sam at LeanMean for the link via Twitter!
An old friend pops up…
Found a You Tube posting of my old good friend Ashley Rothschild and his band Caligula (support in Oz for Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Pop Will Eat Itself and more 
) and got me thinking about what other mates I have in video clips.
silly and indulgent, but sweet…
Ash and Caligula
My old flatmate Jay singing…
Simon looking floppy
All the Feeder boys
The wonderful Michelle from Fur
Think I’m going to stop now, enough of the nostalgia already…
R.I.P. the human fly. Lux Interior dies at 62
From the earliest memory of seeing a live band (in Newcastle as I was WAY too young to get into the over 18s gig in Sydney) Lux cut an energetic, truly wild and thoroughly perverse figure. Taking off his own stiletto to drink the sweat from his shoe, I have to say I was mesmerised, hooked and slightly grossed out. That someone was so good at transgressing the boundaries of taste, gender and genre, and of writing and performing some of the most brilliant tracks of all time, still blows me away. A few years back when performing in London, he was bouncing around mostly naked like the best of them and I thought – that’s Iggy Pop, but even more so.
Love you Lux. Thanks for totally messing with my head. I wouldn’t have been 14+ in the same way without you.
Life is short, filled with stuff, don’t know what for, I ain’t had enough
— the Cramps, New Kind of Kick.
8-Bit Jesus for Christmas
Some things are just too good not to harp on about, and Dr Octoroc’s crazy album of game-soundtrack-inspired-christmas-carols is one of them. Download it for free – listed to it back-to-back at least once and hoard it in iTunes for next year
Augment your ears with RjDj
This brilliant new iPhone app takes recordings and sensory data from your live environment, and uses them to create a live soundtrack to your day…
Up the Resolution!
Finally got a chance to watch this yesterday, from the Creative Review blog. The new music video for The Cinematic Orchestra (covering not one, but two tracks – Breathe and To Build a Home).
Sit through the first little bit (I thought it was just a tad cheesy with all the flicking through photographs at first) and its SO worthwhile. Really packs a punch so low I had I lump in my throat for the rest of the day.
Wow. Awesome.
Favourite Bestival acts I’d never really been into…
Ebony Bones
Other stuff that was brilliant:
The Foals, Human League (bizarrely), My Bloody Valentine, Hot Chip, the sound of grace Jones from my tent, the learn-to-dance tent and so much more…
What wasn’t:
the mud…
