It’s been awhile but Fr*day D*sco is back for 2012! That’s right every Friday I will put something for you to fling yourself about to, preferably in public, and remind you IT’S NEARLY THE WEEKEND BABY.
Any excuse for a party: Fridays are mint, even the last one before pay day in a January with about 8 weeks in it
A bouncy little number this week care of Huey Morgan in for Lauren Laverne this week, got a lot of Huey love in this house…
xoxo
If you have email and friends you’ve probably been sent this already as it has done the rounds, but it’s just a bit too good and I wanted to put it on here for you.
I love her explanation of “the companies are trying to trick little girls!” and just HOW p*ssed off she is about the whole thing.
Right on sista!
xoxo
I was going to apologise for putting up a girlie post, but actually everyone wears socks and in our gender banishing fashion fronted society where boys go about in aztec leggings and with better handbags than me, I think to hell with a soft formal approach.
These socks are amazing. And they do them as a yellow piggy as well.
You can get them from Olga de Polga and make your feet exciting.
xox
All Aboard!
It’s the inevitable January bunfight to predict who will be massive and claim, “it was me! I said it all along!! I saw them in a dirty club about 2 years ago and knew then! YES! I AM cool!”
The precarious BBC Sound of 2012 announced it’s Top 5 this week, with the usual mix of boy, girl, band, someone “urban” and has resulted in the little known singer songwriter Michael Kiwanuka being championed as the one to GO BIG in 2012. Emeli (real name, Emily, well actually Adele) Sande has been named the Brits 2012 Critic’s Choice Winner and the blogs are awash with “they’ll be huge, just you wait, you heard it here first!”
Now I’m no Mystic Meg, you know me, I like what I like and that’s that. And I like this.
Azelia Banks was number three in the BBC Sound of 2012, was number one on the NME Cool List and can now have the coveted title of “Miss P says she likes this”
There’s already a whole load of chat about this 20 year old Harlem MC (even that was borrowed from The Guardian) and shamelessly I am going to jump on the bandwagon, not because I think she’s going to be massive, just because I think this track is awesome.
A huge thank you to 6Music coverer and all round generally brilliant bloke @jonhillcock for bringing her to my attention before anyone else. He’s good like that and you can get his mega podcast, New Noise, here.
xoxo
So 2012 got off to a roaring good start, especially if you happened to be listening to Xfm between midday and 3PM on the 1st. Yep, it was my first show on the full Xfm network and I utterly loved it. Not only did I get to live precariously through your hangover (had an early one so I didn’t talk absolute drivel to you) I played you brand new Lana Del Ray, Noel Gallagher and Gotye. Bliss.
What’s that? You didn’t hear it?!! Well we can’t have that now can we?
Hear Sarah Powell bringing you Xfm joy HERE
Over the course of the show I asked who you were most looking forward to seeing/ hearing/ going after in 2012. Lana Del Ray, Gotye, The Stone Roses gigs, Foals, Niki and the Dove as well as Tribes, We Are Augustines were all giving you your zip back after too much Quality Street and gin over Christmas.
However there was one band who made smoke come out of the text machine as even it got overexcited about the forthcoming new album. The Maccabees have gained a special place in my heart, not least because I lived in Brighton for 3 years where you’d regularly bump into them having a dry cider in The Mash Tun and be reminded what thoroughly nice chaps they are.
Their music has always been massively underrated so it’s good to see so many listeners getting excited. “Given to the Wild” is out on Monday (9th) so get your little mitts of it to keep you warm til Febuary.
xoxo
Here it is! Sarah F Powell’s official Top 16 (couldn’t chop it down to 10 and wanted all killer no filler so didn’t round it up to 20) of 2011! Couple of hotties with Nero and DJ Fresh as well as Gaga and Rihanna. However, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Friendly Fires stole the show for me and I was lucky enough to see both of them live, both were outstanding so if you get a chance to go, GO. Get a gin on, crank up the Spotify and have a good little hour with this lot.
In no particular order…
Nero- Me and You
DJ Fresh- Louder (was a tough call and almost led to a fallout with @joelbabyherc about whether it should be this or Gold Dust but it’s MY TOP 16)
Keren Ann- My Name is Trouble (thanks to Shaun Keaveny for playing this for me, and the nation)
Beastie Boys, Santigold- Don’t Play No Game That I can’t Win
The Rapture- Come Back to Me
Little Dragon- Ritual Union
Metronomy- The Bay (so many tracks on this album could have made it)
Beyonce- Run the World (who? GIRLS)
Friendly Fires- Live Those Days Tonight (Album of the Year FACT!)
The Horrors- Still Life (Suprise “Like” of the Year, wicked set at Field Day, still got the hair)
Florence + The Machine- No Light No Light OR Breaking Down (you’ll have to decide)
Cocknbullkid- Asthma Attack
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds- The Death of You and Me (I would have had If I Had a Gun but it’s the new single released this year, bugger. Still he can be happy with Gig of the Year at The Roundhouse)
The Black Keys- Lonely Boy (still not getting bored of it after the 84th play)
Lady Gaga- Born This Way (best track she’s ever done)
Rihanna- Cheers (Drink to the Weekend)
Afternoon sweets! It’s FRIDAY! Woop Woop and whilst I’ll be hanging with famille de Powell in Oxford for the weekend I want you to dance it away with the cocktail of your dreams.
ANY EXCUSE FOR A PARTY: New Haircut care of Fran at Vision Hair in The Old Truman Brewery (she’s wicked, good tattoos as well) Take Me Out.
xoxox
An overcast Friday in November with the smell of Heinz tomato soup wafting through for bonfire night and Carry On Doctor on the telly, the perfect run up to seeing one of my favourite bands of all time.
Tonight after swooning along to Patrick Wolf at The Roundhouse XOYO are hosting the Tummy Touch 15th Birthday party with Swimming, Tom Vek DJ-ing and The Phenomenal Handclap Band (there’s still tickets go go go go go!!)
ANY EXCUSE FOR A D*SCO: It’s Alex’s 30th!! WOOP WOOP
xoxoxo
So after the rumour mill on overdrive it’s now official that there will be a new Amy Winehouse album featuring new tracks and covers released in December.
According to heatworld.com “The album will feature songs written about Amy’s marriage break-down and has been produced by Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson.”
Mitch Winehouse told The Sun, “One of the new songs on the album, Halftime, I’d never heard before. It is just incredibly beautiful. Had the family felt this album wasn’t up to the standard of Amy’s others, Frank and Back To Black, we’d never have agreed to release it. We believe it will stand as a fitting tribute to her musical legacy.”
As part of his Symphony gig, George Michael covered “Love is a Losing Game” and it reminded me again how much I miss her. It seems it would be a tragic waste for these songs to go unheard and unloved by not releasing them.
Gorgeous sleeve as well…
xoxoxo