Musical Advent Calendar - Recap Days 21 - 24
By the time you read this, it’ll be Christmas Day. Music Towers will have shut up shop for a while (at least until we’ve put the finishing touches to our 2008 Almanac), and will have settled down to watch the Dr Who Xmas Special with a big bottle of gin. Later on you will find us wandering the streets, drunkenly singing the four songs you can see below. We might be dressed as Santa, we might possibly just go naked - in either case, it won’t be pretty, but gosh darn it will be entertaining.
Have a very merry Christmas, from all of us here at Music Towers. We just hope that someone got us that White Zombie boxset we’ve been dropping hints about over the last month….
Day 21 - ‘Christmas Is Awesome’ - Rueben
Day 22 - ‘Merry Christmas Baby (I Don’t Wanna Fight Tonight) - The Ramones
Day 23 - ‘Happy Christmas (War is Over)’ - John Lennon
Day 24 - ‘Oh Come All Ye Faithful’ - Twisted Sister
Musical Advent Calendar - Recap Days 16 - 20
Have you done your Christmas shopping yet? We have. We’re so up on Christmas like you would not believe. We’ve taken to striding about our office dressed as Santa Claus. Local children are terrified when thye see us struttung up and down the high street like a gaggle of red-clad drunks. It’s amazing.
ANYWAY - here’s the last five days of our splendid musical advent calendar - we really love Joel Moss Levinson’s bitchin’ song we used yesterday.
Day 16 - ‘Last Christmas’ - Wham!
Day 17 - We Wish You A Merry Christmas’ - Weezer
Day 18 - ‘Fairytale of New York’ - The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl
Day 19 - ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ - My Chemical Romance
Day 20 - Christmas Kicks Hanukah’s Ass!’ - Joel Moss Levinson
Musical Advent Calendar - Recap Days 11 - 15
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JUSTTENDAYSTOGO! No, we don’t know why Christmas makes us so exicted here at Music Towers. Maybe because we know we’ll be getting that White Zombie boxset we’ve had our eye on for the last few weeks. Or maybe because there’s a Doctor Who special on TV. Or maybe because of the vast amount of mince pies we’re going to eat. Or maybe it’s the mulled wine. Or the mistletoe! Or the fact we’re going to get dressed up like Santa and ruin someone’s office party. Or that we’re going to hire a snow machine and set it off in our garage.
Or maybe it’s because the best is still yet to come on our amazing Musical Advent Calendar? There are some real gems coming up in the last ten days. In any case, here’s the last five entires, which you may have missed if you’ve been out Christmas shopping or something.
Day 11 - ‘We Wish You A Merry Christmas (Rave Mix)’ - DJ Cool
Day 12 - ‘It’s Christmas And I Hate You’ - Paloma Faith & Josh Weller
Day 13 - ‘Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End)’ - The Darkness
Day 14 - ‘Jingle Bell Rock’ - Girls Aloud
Day 15 - ‘Someday at Christmas’ - Stevie Wonder
Musical Advent Calendar - Recap Days 6 - 10
The results of Days 6 through 10 of our Musical Advent Calendar, presented for those who might’ve missed a day.
Day 6 - ‘Christmas Duel’ - The Hives and Cyndi Lauper
Day 7 - ‘Dick in a Box’ - Saturday Night Live and Justin Timberlake
Day 8 - ‘Heavy Metal Jingle Bells’
Day 9 - ‘Christmas Tree’ - Lady GaGa
Day 10 - ‘No Presents For Christmas’ - King Diamond
Are you as excited as we are that it’s NEARLY CHRISTMAS!?!?!?!?!!!
VIDEO: Joe Gideon and the Shark - ‘Daughter of a Loony’
Bronzerat Records seem to be really drudging up the best in sleazey lo-fi rock’n'roll right now. They’cw just finished this ace video for Joe Gideon and the Sharks’ track, ‘Daughter of a Loony (DOL)‘. This is the kind of song that makes me want to put a band together, rustle up a video, then just put it out into the world for one man and his dog to look at.
Joe Gideon and the Shark - ‘DOL’
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I Set My Friends On Fire: the band you never heard of, are coming to sellout a festival near you soon
So: the design is perfect, the name and logo are excellent. It seems they have fourteen billion MySpace listens already and 100 date tour. Already no doubt sold more records then Guns N Roses and The Killers combined. And nobody has ever heard of them. I can already see them on main stage at Download or Bloodstock or somesuch, book them up now.
Music Towers can only assume thar this summer, I Set My Friends On Fire will come over here to blow our tiny little minds, with their accomplished mix of hardcore electro, High School Musical pop, and their comedic yet postive outlook.
Here is them putting all of that into practice, in a YouTube video masterclass:
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Something For The Weekend: White Lies
I first heard this track, White Lies’ forthcoming single, ‘To Lose My Life’, on Steve Lamacq’s BBC 6Music radio show last night. It was one of the tracks being reviewed as part of Lamacq’s Round Table feature, where musicians and celebrities listen to new releases and give their two-cents on them. We were quite taken with it, as was the awesome Marcus Brigstocke, who’s love of The Cure has always made him a bit of a hero here at Music Towers. It wasn’t universally popular though - Huey the bore-off from The Fun Lovin’ Criminals thought it “sucked”, but then he hasn’t made a decent record in over a decade. It’s easy to see why he’d be bitter about a track as awesome as this.
So, to ease the pain of the end of Friday in the office, why not take a couple of minutes to watch the video. It has soup in it. Amazing:
‘To Lose My Life’ (the single) is out on 12 January 2009, with an album of the same name out a week later. Both are being released by Fiction Records.
What do you mean, you haven’t seen…The Computers
We here at Music Towers are big fans of The Computers. We’ve caught them playing live a couple of times, and when we got hold of their debut mini-album, You Can’t Hide From The Computers, a few weeks back, we were more than a little impressed.
Well, on last week we busted down to the Camden Barfly to catch the boys play a killer set to mark the release of their mini-album. We brought along our trusty (ie, creaky and useless) video camera, and before the show we pinned down bassist Nic Heron (that’s him on the left) and drummer Will Wright (on the right) for a chat. In one of the Barfly’s gloomiest back passages. No, that’s not a euphemism, you filthy-minded oiks.
Anyway, why not busy yourself for the next three minutes with the end result?
We’ve got some more live footage, if that’s your cup of tea. Let us know if you want to see more.
‘You Can’t Hide From The Computers’ is out now on Fierce Panda. For more info, tour dates, that sort of thing, go check out the band’s MySpace page.
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