How very Debbie Harry…
Scanners @ SXSW ‘07
Two great bands descend upon Crawdaddy on November 25th. Brooklyn’s Asobi Seksu headline with support from one of my favorite UK acts, Scanners. This is part of a major UK tour which also includes a November 26th performance at Belfast’s The Speakeasy.
Tickets are €14 and available from Ticketmaster.
p.s Don’t forget Los Campesinos! play Whelans tomorrow night. Tickets still available. It’s gonna be a great night!
-phil
Today is Friday.
If you do one thing today, go and marvel at The LK (AKA Lovekevins), as part of the HWCH festival in the Pod complex, Harcourt Street. They take over the Crawdaddy Stage at 20.40 and you would be rather simple to miss it. Seriously, I saw the band three times last year and they’re most definitely a central attraction at this weekend’s tomfoolery.
They’re Swedish for Christ’s sake.
And song lyrics include “Panda Bear”, “Tandem Bikes”, “The Fall” and “Fuck all”. AND they wear spectacles with panache. What’s not to love?
I like the LK
I dislike anything else that’s on at the same time as them. Purely by default.
Link: my top friend’s in myspace! …gimme a break…refer to opening sentence…
_sarah_
So HWCH is almost upon us (exciting!). Below are the weekends schedules with the surprise inclusion of the Odeon as a venue. Tickets are still available (Night pass €15, weekend pass €30) and can be bought from the POD box office which is open 12pm - 11pm each day. Below is my list of Irish recommendations and you can view the individual schedules after the jump.
-phil
*deep breath*
Alphastates, Betamax Format, Butterfly Explosion, Channel One, Chicks, Dark Room Notes, Dry County, Evil Harrissons, Fifteen Minutes, Fight Like Apes, Gavin Glass , Grand Pocket Orchestra, Halves, Ham Sandwich, Hassle Merchants, Jenny Lindfors, Kill City Defectors, Le Bien, Los Langeros, Michael Knight, MIGALINX, Miss Paula Flynn, Noise Control, One Day International, Panda Kopanda, Queen Kong, rhob, Sub Rosa, Super Extra Bonus Party, The Laundry Shop, The Radio, The Terribles, Tidal District,Valerie Francis, White Noise Continue reading ‘HWCH Schedules’
Oh Sony Bravia let me count the ways…well there are two actually. Balls and paint. But number three is on the way, form of play-doh! So here’s the stats:
2.5 tonnes of plasticine on set
40 animators
3 weeks
189 2ft bunnies
150 1ft cubes
10ft x 20ft purple wave
30ft giant rabbit.
6 cameras.
40 animators working through 4 hours generated 4 seconds of footage.
40 animators working on the same scene had never been attempted before.
The 60 second spot will be constructed of approximately 100,000 stills.
What a generation we live in when adverts get teaser trailers and said trailers actually get me excited. Read all about the new bunny play-doh commercial by checking out bravia-advert.com.
Heres the making of video for the original bouncy balls ad which helped push Jose Gonzalez into the public domain.
-phil
Nostalgia at it’s most raw. And entertaining…
I like Johnny Greenwood
I dislike how today is only Thursday
_sarah_
Not really much to say about MIGALINX because, well I don’t really know much about them. Another group I came across while checking out this year’s lineup, all I can tell you is the following:
Can anybody add anything to that?
-phil
Loud. Crunchy. Dirty. Electro. Punk. Rock. Noise Control. Single “Steel” quickly made it to No.2 in the Irish download charts and Noise Control have been snowballing ever since. The band played support to The Prodigy for the Irish leg of their European tour so already their hanging out with the right crowd. My first introduction to Noise Control was last years IMRO showcase and I guarantee you they will take the roof off the Pod room when they play this year’s HWCH. Look out for them at 10pm on the Saturday and be sure to check out the Star Little Thing remix of Steel on their myspace.
-phil
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