Many happy returns of the day my bestest boy, hope you like the song, although Dave mentions a few things, don’t feel like you have to:
Lots of Love
Daddy, Mummy & Skye x o x
Bought tickets for me and the old lady yesterday, Iggy & The Stooges @ Harewood House, Leeds, 31st August. Have not seen Iggy live for a while, and not impressed with the return of the Stooges (on new record at least), however, Iggy is the best live artist we have ever seen, so can not wait for this one to come round. Maybe he can hit Kasey on the head with microphone again (which he has done in the past :O)
Further details @ the Rock The House site: HERE
Not a lot of Bowie news these days, but mooching about always brings up something new I aint seen before. Here’s Dave in and episode of the Adult Swim toon “Venture Brothers” where he appears as a bad dude, check out Iggy Pop right at the start as well:
Article in the Birmingham Mail last night advised me that I could avail myself of a free musical album by The Crimea, downloaded this morning, and as I began to listen whilst getting kids breakfast, making tea and such, basically not paying attention as I really did not expect a free album to be that good. You know what? I think it may be a very good album after all, so good in fact that I wanted to share it with you as well.
First impressions of the sound? I am getting smatterings of Arcade Fire and The Cardiacs, so if any of them your bag, get down diddling now, IT’S FREEEEE what have you got to lose?
Clicky Piccy:
From NME.com
The Beatles’ music finally set for download release?
Apple and EMI set for major announcement tomorrow
2 hours ago
Speculation is mounting that The Beatles’ back catalogue will finally become available to download.
Apple have called a press conference at the EMI label headquarters in London tomorrow (April 2), where boss Steve Jobs will make a major announcement about iTunes.
The Beatles and Apple recently settled a long-running legal dispute over use of the Apple brand name, clearing the way for a deal to be struck over the digital release of their music. Since EMI control the band’s catalogue, insiders are predicting that a deal between the two will be announced tomorrow.
The Beatles music has never been available to legally download before.
Recent changes in chart rules allowing downloads to count towards the singles chart have prompted speculation that when it is available, the band’s music could dominate the UK Top 40.
Depending on the details of tomorrow’s news, this could now happen as early as next Sunday (April 8). There is also speculation that the announcement could include information about the European launch of Apple’s latest MP3 playing gadget, the iPhone, which is set to make its US debut this summer.
Check NME.COM tomorrow for full details of Jobs’ speech.
Rumours over at macrumors.comsuggest that the press conference could be about EMI becoming the first record company to remove Digital Rights Management from music downloads, something Steve Jobs has recently proposed in his “Thoughts On Music” article from Feb 2007.
Or maybe we get both? Certainly been a bit dry on the Apple news front recently, all will revealed tomorrow.
UPDATE: DRM removal it was, more details over on aunty BEEB
Iggy Pop & The Stooges new album “The Weirdness” out on Monday 5th March !! Yehaa, it’s only taken them about 30 years to record a 4th record.
Great interview with Iggy in the Guardian today, available online HERE.
Really shit REVIEW in the same paper today as well though, so they aint given a nice review because they got the interview.
Anyway, I’ll judge for meself when I get a copy, sample “My Idea of Fun” over at The Stooges myspace >>> HERE
David Bowie made an appearance at the end of episode 2 – series 2 of Ricky Gervais’s “Extras”
Here he is singing a lovely little ditty for Gervais’s character, Andy Millman:
Update 15/04/07: BBC had youtube pull this, round about the time the DVD of series 2 came out – sorry peeps. We had over 300k views on this as well.
Bowie Cock
Who would have thought Bowie would have such a lasting legacy?
Please please ignore the media hype and if you need to get a new CD this week, go for The White Stripes “Get Behind Me Satan”, much more interesting, and slightly less depressing to boot.
I’m all for re-cycling, keep the planet nice for the kids etc (dumped off last weeks newspapers with them today actually, then went and bought some more).
But, this seventies/eighties cack songs being sampled into cack dance songs is really too much, I understand that leaving the vinyl to fester in a second hand shop is equally as bad (potentially), but at least I do not suffer first hand. Latest I hear today (though I am probably behind the times) is Yes having “Owner of a lonely heart” sampled with a umf umf beat. Utter tripe.
I do however look forward to a Pat Benetar “Love Is A Battlefield” thang with naked birds wresting with geezers in custard for the video. Actually, leave out the geezers, it is the new century, lets just have the girls.