Just so we're not the only blog on the planet not sporting The Big Pink, here's the coolest band around :D
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Poster Child
Hey readers,
After a night when I got well and truly knexed roughly a year ago (knex party 2 will happen in the very near future – and fyi actual knex is involved), there was a lot to be ashamed about. But I had never thought it would include the posters in my room.
After a night when I got well and truly knexed roughly a year ago (knex party 2 will happen in the very near future – and fyi actual knex is involved), there was a lot to be ashamed about. But I had never thought it would include the posters in my room.
I was told by two friends that my room was quite 90s, which was quite ignorant of the fact that Buffy and the Vampire Slayer and the Foo Fighters continued right into the 21st century. But when girls notice these things, it’s important to do what they say. Plus being a fickle, of-the moment guy, I tend to react to these things swiftly – consequences be damned. Come to think of it, that explains a lot about me.
Anyway, I’ve always been one for grand gestures, so I set fire to the posters. Forgive me Sarah…
Anyway, I’ve always been one for grand gestures, so I set fire to the posters. Forgive me Sarah…
I guess at least one of you readers is wondering what became of my bare walls (there’s a lot of you according to the flag counter so I’m optimistic). Well as it happens, I decided to toss up any poster that came my way from clubs (thanks to my sister’s vague job which she got paid for. I’m semi-sure it was nothing dirty), cinemas, and cds, but mostly music mags. Namely NME.
This year NME has sort of made a point of including lots and lots of posters in their magazine. Around the time of the NME awards, they were simply in every issue. Most are unusable, which tends to be the case when they’re not a picture of a band posing or if it was a concert which you weren’t at.
It’s a good thing I’m quite ignorant about these things as long as I can put them on my wall. Plus if people ask, I was at all of them ;) Thankfully they’re all double sided so you can genuinely avoid the very worst pics (I’m talking about you giant nude Pete Doherty/unimpressive pics of Glastonbury tents).
So here’s the FTCz official review of the posters that have made my room look gaudy, childish and messy, but importantly, more 21st century-esque. Even though some are of old films I haven’t seen (*NB: I’ve never seen Jaws or Close encounters, but I’ve gotten the jist from various spoofs and homages).
So here’s the FTCz official review of the posters that have made my room look gaudy, childish and messy, but importantly, more 21st century-esque. Even though some are of old films I haven’t seen (*NB: I’ve never seen Jaws or Close encounters, but I’ve gotten the jist from various spoofs and homages).
All who have entered my room recently have approved of the new posters but public opinion should always take a backseat to reviews, no matter how much Bon Jovi think the inverse is true :P
Anyway, the review...
Above My Amp
This spot lies above my somewhat damaged amp. There's two really cool MGMT posters, 2 eqaully awesome Crystal Castles posters, a decent Klaxons one, some nothing ones of KoL, Florence, White Stripes, the Distillers (from my Kerrang days doncha know) and the lamest possible pic Late Of The Pier could ever be in. Despite the shameful LotP poster, this section gets a FTW rating.
By My Vinyls
There's this cool looking radiohead one with the odd advice 'right hand pull trigger.left hand shrug shoulder'. Needless to say i always try it when i'm hungover. There's also the cool blur reunion pic, useless posters of white lies (gag), Florence Welch with Glasvegas (why not separate pics?!?) and a YYYs one that reminds me of my giant Karen O poster. This corner of the room earns a meh rating.
By my locker
The last of these terrible pics (which i didn't have to leave my bed to take as you can tell :P) is by my locker. Out of all the other sections around the place, this is probably the worst combo. I don't care for Oasis, Munich and that is the worst Libs poster i could possibly have. Good thing it's hiden to the side. This section gets an epic fail rating.
While my dodgy pics didn't do their posters much good, NME were pretty good about giving away so many. Hopefully they'll keep it up :)
Till next time...
Teh ClassikZ #6
Hey readers,
As bloggers, we here at FTCz have a very low attention span. So when we introduced this feature way back when, we were surprised that it lasted any length at all. But for some reason, we here at FTCz have decided now is the time to bring it back.
I, sonic c, am working at some Irish version of Hello magazine at present, so while searching frantically for an article I accidentally closed, staring me in the face was the big list I made on a whim for teh classikz series. And believe me, it’s a rubbish list. I’d consider any list that has 2 Boards of Canada albums enough to kill off my pulse. But there’s a few albums on the list FTCz approves of (except Bruce, who very clearly told me to turn some of them off).So here we go…
First up is the ‘not really a classic, but still more worthy than any of the previous entries’ debut album from Be Your Own Pet.
On a trip to a yacht party recently (such is my life), my friend was a little bemused that I was playing such angry music in my car. I responded by saying that I only ever listen to this cd or gangster rap in my car. But rather than the usual response of ‘turn this shit off now’, she allowed it to a) loop and b) turned up to a ridiculous volume. Silent J (FTCz nickname for her) is pretty…um…strong willed, so if she disapproved, I would have known :P
Be Your Own Pet broke up last summer making them the best band to split up in a long while. It was a blow which we haven’t fully gotten over, which is strange. In fact, we feel pretty good usually when bands break up because they can’t deal with playing the same songs over and over on stage. And we were very chuffed with ourselves the day the disgraceful Boy Kill Boy broke up (I binned my review copy of that album and gave them a rotten review at some newspaper if I recall).
Anyway, while Be Your Own Pet are no more, they did leave behind 2 really good albums for us in their wake. And while I’ll never quite understand what the album cover picture is of, their debut album is quite a memorable affair. It doesn’t hurt that it’s ridiculously loud either.
As bloggers, we here at FTCz have a very low attention span. So when we introduced this feature way back when, we were surprised that it lasted any length at all. But for some reason, we here at FTCz have decided now is the time to bring it back.
I, sonic c, am working at some Irish version of Hello magazine at present, so while searching frantically for an article I accidentally closed, staring me in the face was the big list I made on a whim for teh classikz series. And believe me, it’s a rubbish list. I’d consider any list that has 2 Boards of Canada albums enough to kill off my pulse. But there’s a few albums on the list FTCz approves of (except Bruce, who very clearly told me to turn some of them off).So here we go…
First up is the ‘not really a classic, but still more worthy than any of the previous entries’ debut album from Be Your Own Pet.
On a trip to a yacht party recently (such is my life), my friend was a little bemused that I was playing such angry music in my car. I responded by saying that I only ever listen to this cd or gangster rap in my car. But rather than the usual response of ‘turn this shit off now’, she allowed it to a) loop and b) turned up to a ridiculous volume. Silent J (FTCz nickname for her) is pretty…um…strong willed, so if she disapproved, I would have known :P
Be Your Own Pet broke up last summer making them the best band to split up in a long while. It was a blow which we haven’t fully gotten over, which is strange. In fact, we feel pretty good usually when bands break up because they can’t deal with playing the same songs over and over on stage. And we were very chuffed with ourselves the day the disgraceful Boy Kill Boy broke up (I binned my review copy of that album and gave them a rotten review at some newspaper if I recall).
Anyway, while Be Your Own Pet are no more, they did leave behind 2 really good albums for us in their wake. And while I’ll never quite understand what the album cover picture is of, their debut album is quite a memorable affair. It doesn’t hurt that it’s ridiculously loud either.
Monday, May 25, 2009
King of the lols
Hey youz guyz,
My sister felt the need to tell me about all the hilarious posts Calvin Harris made on twitter recently (she's low on gossip - apart from her getting trapped in a cave under her school. Her new nickname is Tomb Raider at school) and it seems to be pretty much in line with the sense of humour he has on tv. And that one time we saw him live. Calvin Harris is pretty funny.
My sister felt the need to tell me about all the hilarious posts Calvin Harris made on twitter recently (she's low on gossip - apart from her getting trapped in a cave under her school. Her new nickname is Tomb Raider at school) and it seems to be pretty much in line with the sense of humour he has on tv. And that one time we saw him live. Calvin Harris is pretty funny.
I remember him telling jokes of sort back when we saw him at Oxegen two years ago but it was hardly an appropriate time since the tent he was playing in had water leaking throught it :'(
Then he started cracking wise on E4 in the morning a month or so ago which i wasn't expecting at all. I even got a text saying 'Calvin Harris is on E4 being funny. How r u?". Unfortunately for the person in question, i was already watching it. He was being dry and if it weren't E4, he would have been considered a hostile guest.
But Calvin didn't stop there. Next up he went on the sound on BBC, let himself get felt up a little and then said it being on the show was better than food. He was supposedly funny at Trinners Ball as well but sis is being a prude and not disclosing all the events of said event.
So today, FTCz salutes Calvin Harris for bringing the funny. Nothing brightens up our day more than hearing what he's eating. We're awful sad clearly :/
Sunday, May 24, 2009
They're back :O
Hey users.
After months of exams and theses, FTFZ started up again last week and now FTCZ is back. And while one of us is still doing exams and another one of us fucked off to Italy for "academic reasons", at least one of us is here :P
Thankfully, there only seems to have been a dozen or so essential albums released in the 2 months we've been distracted. We lack the energy to do 12 posts on this blog per year (thanks to lazy contributors - i'm looking at you Bruce/Aidano), so it's likely you'll only be hearing about Passion Pit and Kap Bambino out of that dozen :P One of those bands in particular reminds me of you-know-who so they'll be the first to get a rub from us ;)
Kap Bambino received the highest of compliments at a poker game i was having recently when somebody pointed them out to me in the background unprompted. IIRC, they said "Cill, your phone is ringing" at which point I explained that it was not the phone. It was, in fact, this hot French band called Kap Bambino.
After months of exams and theses, FTFZ started up again last week and now FTCZ is back. And while one of us is still doing exams and another one of us fucked off to Italy for "academic reasons", at least one of us is here :P
Thankfully, there only seems to have been a dozen or so essential albums released in the 2 months we've been distracted. We lack the energy to do 12 posts on this blog per year (thanks to lazy contributors - i'm looking at you Bruce/Aidano), so it's likely you'll only be hearing about Passion Pit and Kap Bambino out of that dozen :P One of those bands in particular reminds me of you-know-who so they'll be the first to get a rub from us ;)
Kap Bambino received the highest of compliments at a poker game i was having recently when somebody pointed them out to me in the background unprompted. IIRC, they said "Cill, your phone is ringing" at which point I explained that it was not the phone. It was, in fact, this hot French band called Kap Bambino.
Aside from having the FTCZ-approved dynamic of stunning frontwoman and mopey guy with long hair doing the music bit, they seem to be '09s answer to all the awesome dance rock that emerged last year.
We for one are glad that someone stepped up to the plate, since Bruce's music project 'Gangsters of ebonic proportions' seems to be inactive to say the least. Our band of the week endorsement seems to have been a kiss of doom in the past, so we're going to endorse them without letting that poisoned title near them. Consider Kap Bambino endorsed by teh choonZ :D
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
