Spotted Dick: Week 1
With the invention of innovative, new technology comes the invention of innovative, classy little blog posts. One Ms. Lauren Evett has had the brilliant idea of creating a weekly spotify playlist on It’s Not For The Cock and calling it Spotted Dick! Best feature name ever?
The idea is to make a playlist of new bands/music we’ve discovered/band’s who have recently been in the news/songs we just like/what we’ve been listening to/whatever the hell we wanna put in it.
Glastonbury Festival 2009
Spotify this bad boy while you read!
http://open.spotify.com/user/g-town/playlist/6ApR9k7FLFzGkJA7Va15He
After a Thursday night spent tragically missing East 17, wondering from field to field in the rain, catching great sets my Kap Bambino and Metronomy and having the news of the King of Pop’s ™ death gradually filtering through from “blatant festival rumour” status to a full on “Oh Shit!” reaction (through the haze, I somehow remember sitting at the Stone Circle at about 5am adamant that it is actually a fake death by MJ to escape the crippling debt, child molestation accusations and massive workload of the O2 residency…seriously, mull it over! Well, it sounded ok at the time….)….ANYWAY, after all that and much more besides, it’s time for the festival proper to kick off with the full music schedule.
Kap Bambino Album Launch, Cargo, 16.06.09
Kap Bambino are an electronic French duo who’ve been releasing and touring independently since 2002 up until recently signing with Because records, sharing a rosta with the likes of Klaxons, Late Of The Pier and Justice. Its with this collaboration that the pair have released new album Blacklist which is seeing them finally making the waves they are capable of. Tonight’s UK album launch a Cargo is only proof of this. Click to read more …