Music, Film, and Gaming
The official video for North Atlantic Oscillation’s ‘Cell Count’, a track taken from the band’s ‘Callsigns’ EP. ‘Cell Count’ has been going down well with the critics and music fans alike, and was even given the award of Single of the Week over at Drowned in Sound.
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The official video for the Sparks The Rescue single ‘We Love Like Vampires’, an amusing nod towards the vampire obsession that has rocked the world thanks to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series. ‘We Love Like Vampires’ can be found on the band’s 2009 re-release of the ‘Eyes to the Sun’ studio album.
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The official video for the We Are The Ocean single ‘Look Alive’, a track taken from the band’s ‘Cutting Our Teeth’ studio album which is all set for release on January 25th 2010.
Label: Hassle Records
Release Date: November 16th 2009
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The official music video for the Gay For Johnny Depp track ‘Hey Fucked Up! (Punk Rock Can’t Exist In Countries With Good Social Services)’, track 21 from the band’s upcoming ‘Manthology: A Tireless Exercise In Narcissism’ album release.
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An interview with the London based Irish four-piece Black Soul Strangers. The band is all set to release its debut album ‘Animate’ in 2010, and can here be heard talking about subjects such as gigging, crowd response, and battling with nerves.
This video was shot in May 2009 as the band prepared for a show at Camden Proud Galleries.
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The official video for the A Skylit Drive single ‘Those Cannons Could Sink A Ship’, a track taken from the band’s ‘Adelphia’ studio album.
Label: Hassle Records
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Alberta Cross performing ‘Taking Control’ live at Brixton Academy on June 26th 2009. ‘Taking Control’ is to be released as a single on November 23rd through Ark Recordings.
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Jamie Archer’s X-Factor dream came to an end this week as he lost out to Lloyd Daniels on the public vote. With Simon and Dannii opting to send Lloyd home, and Cheryl and Louie pushing for a Jamie Afro exit, the decision of who was to go therefore went down to the public vote and it was ultimately Jamie Archer that lost his place in the competition.
Neither act gave a particularly spectacular performance on the live show, and it was probably right that it was these two in the bottom, Lloyd has been riding his luck for some time however and is fortunate to still be in with a chance of winning the competition.
Jamie’s stint on the X-Factor is now over, and we’ll now just have to wait and see if he was right when he stated his belief that “it’s not the end, it’s the beginning”. Simon Cowell has faith in Jamie Archer’s ability to succeed, and it’ll be interesting to see whether or not this is indeed the last we ever hear of Jamie Archer.
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Simon Cowell prompted great anger across the land on Sunday night when he took the elimination decision to the public vote. With Lucie Jones up against John and Edward Grimes, Louie voted to save his own act by sending home Lucie, Cheryl and Dannii meanwhile both opted to send home the twins. With the final vote once again falling to Simon, Simon Cowell for the second week running decided to put it to the public, reasoning that he didn’t think either act could win so out of curiosity he would like to see which act the public would most like to see back. Lucie Jones it was discovered received the least public votes, John and Edward meanwhile will be back to sing again in the competition next Saturday.
With Simon Cowell having criticised John and Edward’s lack of vocal talent each week leading up to this point, many therefore expected him to take this opportunity to get rid of the twins; the fact that he didn’t wasn’t exactly met with the most positive reaction in the world. Frustrations were sounded on Twitter, Facebook groups were formed, and an X-Factor boycott was threatened, all because Simon let the public choose which act got to remain in the competition.
Did the right act of the two of them leave? Arguably, yes. Lucie Jones was the artist that received the least public support, definitely didn’t give the final performance her all, and just didn’t have the same life and energy that John and Edward did. You can tell that John and Edward really want this; they’re not the greatest singers in the world and they never will be, they can never be accused of not giving it their all though, and it’s good to see real passion triumphing over people that just seem content to coast through on their looks without putting in any real effort.
Lloyd got a break from being in the bottom two this week, next week though his time could well be up.
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Just a quick post to wish you all a very happy Halloween! The BBC has its usual selection of horror on this evening, with a double helping of Haddonfield’s Michael Myers starting with Halloween at 11:20pm, and continuing with Halloween II straight after at 12:50am.
E4 is sticking on its Big Brother zombie drama Dead Set at 10:00pm, whilst Film4 is warming up with the weak The Watcher at 11:00pm, before then kicking on with Suspiria from 12:50am.
Halloween followed by Suspiria is a pretty solid selection for your All Hallows’ Eve viewing I reckon, and of course if you do have the luxury of having Sky Movies then I’m sure there’ll be plenty more to choose from.
Have a great Halloween, and whatever you decide to watch this evening I very much hope you enjoy it.
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