February, 2008 Archive

Saul Williams – “Sunday Bloody Sunday”

Mr. Niggy Tardust offers up a video for the polarising but really quite brilliant cover of U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday”. Bubbles’ friend Johnny from The Wire makes an appearance.

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No doubt, Mr Williams will be back in Ireland in May as he’s playing ATP in the middle of March. For more characters from The Wire in music videos, this thread on Thumped has loads. Did you know Pryzbylewski was the elevator boy in The Hudsucker Proxy? Yeh, I’m a Wire fanboy now, thanks to Jim and everyone else’s constant recommendations.

Speaking of videos, I saw the most indulgent, over-blown, self-important 13 minute long, short film/music video ever last night. 30 Seconds to Mars – “From Yesterday”. Emo actor and general tool, Jared Leto will hurt your insides.
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Music Video: The Infomatics – Wake Up

The first video from Kill or Create, the debut album from Dublin hip-hop group The Infomatics. These guys impressed me supporting the Cool Kids last week. Looking forward to the album now.

Free and Legal: Alphabet Set / Acroplane compilation

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Alphabet Set & Acroplane present DISAMBIGUATION. This is a 13-track compilation of Irish electronic artists like T-Polar, Bluefood, Sarsparilla, Filaria, Prince Kong, Herv, Lakker, Startslow and T-Woc. Mary Ann Hobbs played a couple of tunes from the release from Prince Kong and T-Polar last week. Here are two of my favourites to give you a taster.

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Bluefood – Slack Miner

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Prince Kong – Calamity Dogg

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Download it from Acroplane.

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Dubstep Souljahs documentary

Excellent Radio One documentary giving an overview of UK dubstep. The only downside is you have to listen to the woman Hobbs throughout.

Super Extra Bonus Party – Everything Flows Video


Produced by Steve MacDevitt and Al Dunne.

Best Music Blog – Shortlist

Myself and Aoife are both on the Irish Music Blog Award shortlist. List in full:

Congrats to all and fair play to Mulley, the judges and downloadmusic.ie.

Update: My most negative post of the year was nominated for Best Blog Post also.

Benga at the Shibeen Bass Festival

The Shibeen Bass Festival is taking place in Rush, North Co. Dublin on the Saturday 3rd May (a Bank Holiday Weekend). A host of promoters are involved and it’s early days but so far !Kaboogie are bringing over Benga, FFF and Ruffneck Discotek crew. Superb! More details as they are announced.

If you missed it the first time around, here’s Benga’s recent Breezeblock.

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Benga Breezeblock Mix – 9th January 2008

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SEBP / Nouveaunoise in photos/videos

A superb gig that managed to bring crowd-surfing back to Whelans! I was proud.. Photos by Dolan, Videos by me.

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Frank Black in Stephen’s Green.. any thoughts?

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Poor aul Frank getting arrested for rock ‘n’ roll busking on the streets of Dublin. I was 50 yards away but couldn’t hear a thing. Anybody anything to report? Did he play any tunes?

Here’s Frank getting arrested. Such an anti-climax.

More: Frank Black to busk in Dublin

Memphis Series: Pete Pederson & The Harmonicats

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I got kind of psyched about doing up some more in the Memphis Series. The original intention was to showcase some of the musicians from my hometown who would probably never be able to get out of Elvis’ shadow. I was thinking about who I could mention and Pete Pederson sprang to mind. Pete Pederson is an obscure footnote to Memphis music. He played the chromatic harmonica with The Harmonica Madcaps who later went on to become The Harmonicats and score a #1 hit with “Peg O’ My Heart” in 1947. Yeah, 1947. Pete left the group well before all that, though, and went on to create jingles for the likes of Pontiac and McDonalds. I suppose he could see the writing on the wall and didn’t want to hack out a career in a jazz group who, to this very day, exclusively play harmonicas.

While I realise probably nobody gives a fuck about Pete Pederson or The Harmonicats, I do have to say that I’ve always liked their version of “Tico Tico.”

So here it is, for no conceivable reason, that old nugget “Tico, Tico” as interpreted by The Harmonicats:

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The Harmonicats – Tico Tico

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Just to make this post well-rounded, here’s Ethel Smith ripping the motherfucker up on a Hammond:

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Memphis Series: DJ JRoc Pimp C Mixtape

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So, I had to sideline the Memphis Series for a bit due to circumstances. You know the scene: work, work, work. Anyway, here’s something to get back into it with.

Pimp C was born in Texas and died last year from an overdose of Promethazine and Codeine (a mix known as “Syrup”). Pimp C was a major player in the Dirty South rap scene and performed with Jay-Z, Too Short, as well as Three Six Mafia, performing on “Sippin’ on Some Syrup.”

Here’s a link to download DJ JRoc’s mixtape, Pimp C – Trill Niggas Don’t Die. It’s mostly Pimp C, but features Scarface, UGK and others.

Pimp C – Trill Niggas Don’t Die

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