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I've just been watching a bit of 'Game On' before I couldn't take the laddishness any more, but my, I remember being a massive fan when I was forteen. They used phrases like "wank" and "take her from behind", and Samantha Janus would wander around in a towel. I still can't entirely work out whether I fancied her then, or whether I just suspected that she was the sort of person I was supposed to start fancying at around that time. It was probably the latter.
There have been quite a few rubbish sitcoms/dramas with sort-of indie themes. I'd love there to be a crap indie band who specialised in playing them. They could start their set with the instrumental from 'This Life', then tear through that "when I find my heaven" tune from Game on (by... erm... the Gigolo Aunts), before playing, oh, I don't know, the theme from 'Hollyoaks'. Yes, so that's three. Quite a few, as I said.
Anyway, cheers to everyone who came on Saturday, hope you had as good a time as I did. The pictures will be up on the site soon-ish, and the songs that I can remember playing are written in a big long list underneath this sentence.
Till next month,
J x
Cracking Up - Murray the Hump
Let’s all Make Believe - Oasis
Love on the march - Belle & Sebastian
Four Skinny Indie Kids – Half Man Half Biscuit
Theme from Monkey Magic
When I’m Cleaning Windows – George Formby
Why don’t women like me – Again, George Formby
I think I need a new heart – The Magnetic Fields
Lazy Line Painter Jane – Belle & Sebastian
Plan B – Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Who’s got the crack – The Moldy Peaches
Nuclear War – Yo La Tengo
Lessons Learned from Rocky I to Rocky III
Jackie Wilson said – Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Higher & Higher (Your love lifts me) – Jackie Wilson
You Will You Won’t – The Zutons
Chicken Payback – The Bees
In the morning – The Coral
Blue Orchid – The White Stripes
Psycho Killer – Talking Heads
Cool for Cats – Squeeze
Wouldn’t it be nice – Brian Wilson (live at the Royal Festival Hall)
Spectacular – Graham Coxon
Blitzkerig Bop – The Ramones
The Temptations – Get Ready
Tainted Love – Gloria Jones
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Headwave
Uptight – Steve (oh, alright, Stevie) Wonder
One way or another – Blondie
Not if you were the last Junkie on Earth – The Dandy Warhols
If – The Bluetones
Rock n Roll Star – Oasis
Step On – Happy Mondays
Please do come along. It promises to be fabulous.
Entirely stealing an idea I read about in the Guardian last week, I've been thinking about doing a homage to an album cover. One idea my associate had was of doing a pose like the Definitely Maybe album cover, featuring the London Loves DJs. It's a preposterous, uber-cheesy idea, and one I wholeheartedly approve of. The only questions are, who gets to be Liam? And where do you buy giant inflatable globes?
The other idea I had was of recreating the sleeve of another of my all-time favourite albums, Liberation by the divine comedy. I thought of this because:
a) I look a little bit like Neil, though not quite (I hope) as slappably smug
b) The sleeve photo was taken in Richmond Park, which is quite near where I live.
Does anyone else have any ideas? What album cover would you re-create if you had the time and/or inclination? Answers on an electric postcard, please.
There have been quite a few rubbish sitcoms/dramas with sort-of indie themes. I'd love there to be a crap indie band who specialised in playing them. They could start their set with the instrumental from 'This Life', then tear through that "when I find my heaven" tune from Game on (by... erm... the Gigolo Aunts), before playing, oh, I don't know, the theme from 'Hollyoaks'. Yes, so that's three. Quite a few, as I said.
Anyway, cheers to everyone who came on Saturday, hope you had as good a time as I did. The pictures will be up on the site soon-ish, and the songs that I can remember playing are written in a big long list underneath this sentence.
Till next month,
J x
Cracking Up - Murray the Hump
Let’s all Make Believe - Oasis
Love on the march - Belle & Sebastian
Four Skinny Indie Kids – Half Man Half Biscuit
Theme from Monkey Magic
When I’m Cleaning Windows – George Formby
Why don’t women like me – Again, George Formby
I think I need a new heart – The Magnetic Fields
Lazy Line Painter Jane – Belle & Sebastian
Plan B – Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Who’s got the crack – The Moldy Peaches
Nuclear War – Yo La Tengo
Lessons Learned from Rocky I to Rocky III
Jackie Wilson said – Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Higher & Higher (Your love lifts me) – Jackie Wilson
You Will You Won’t – The Zutons
Chicken Payback – The Bees
In the morning – The Coral
Blue Orchid – The White Stripes
Psycho Killer – Talking Heads
Cool for Cats – Squeeze
Wouldn’t it be nice – Brian Wilson (live at the Royal Festival Hall)
Spectacular – Graham Coxon
Blitzkerig Bop – The Ramones
The Temptations – Get Ready
Tainted Love – Gloria Jones
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Headwave
Uptight – Steve (oh, alright, Stevie) Wonder
One way or another – Blondie
Not if you were the last Junkie on Earth – The Dandy Warhols
If – The Bluetones
Rock n Roll Star – Oasis
Step On – Happy Mondays
posted Thursday, June 09, 2005
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London Loves Saturday 4th June
Well, here we go then, the dawn of a new era. From tomorrow, London Loves will be the first Saturday of every month at Push Bar, Dean Street, Soho, nearest Tube, Tottenham Court Road, nearest pub, the Nellie Dean, nearest supermarket, the Somerfield across the road, nearest transsexual prostitute, upstairs.Please do come along. It promises to be fabulous.
Entirely stealing an idea I read about in the Guardian last week, I've been thinking about doing a homage to an album cover. One idea my associate had was of doing a pose like the Definitely Maybe album cover, featuring the London Loves DJs. It's a preposterous, uber-cheesy idea, and one I wholeheartedly approve of. The only questions are, who gets to be Liam? And where do you buy giant inflatable globes?
The other idea I had was of recreating the sleeve of another of my all-time favourite albums, Liberation by the divine comedy. I thought of this because:
a) I look a little bit like Neil, though not quite (I hope) as slappably smug
b) The sleeve photo was taken in Richmond Park, which is quite near where I live.
Does anyone else have any ideas? What album cover would you re-create if you had the time and/or inclination? Answers on an electric postcard, please.
posted Friday, June 03, 2005
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