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Atomic Hooligan "I Dont Care"

This is I don’t care taken from Sex, Drugs and Blah Blah Blah which goes on sale today. it’s the business I think you will agree. This is the second album from the UK based breaks outfit. The First 2005’s
You Are Here garnered the duo heaps of praise and lots of remix work for the likes of Grove Armada Tomcraft and Underworld. This one has shaped up nicely from what I’ve heard of it. I’ll bag it next time I go on an album hunt.

Picnic Time!

Sex Pistols, Sigur Ros, Grinderman, Franz Ferdinand, George Clinton & The P-Funk Allstars, My Bloody Valentine, Goldfrapp, Christy Moore, Wilco, The Gossip, Duffy, Underworld, Tinariwen, CSS, Tindersticks, New Young Pony Club, Josh Ritter, Lisa Hannigan, Cathy Davey, That Petrol Emotion, The Breeders, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Sinead O'Connor, Henry Rollings, The Waterboys, The Roots, Kila, Micah P Hinson, Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes), Hayseed Dixie, Candi Staton, Juana Molina, Turin Brakes, Faust, Midnight Juggernauts, Tartit, Hadouken!, Silver Apples, Mark Geary, Teitur, Blitzen Trapper, Absentee, Balanescu Quartet, Lou Rhodes, Adrian Crowley, One Day International, The Yard Dogs, Tobias Froberg, Boss Volenti, Dawn Landes, Constantines, Yacht, Lionheart Brothers, Large Mound, Emmy the Great, Foals, Kormac & the BSQ Band, Jape, Noisettes, Dublin Gospel Choir.

The list comes form here. The ones in bold have gotten me all giddy.

Lee Scratch Perry, The Orb, Gemma Hayes, Bloc Party, James, David Kitt, Human League, Rodrigo y Gabriela and Fatboy Slim are also tipped to play. Now if they could steal The Prodigy for a set we would be rightly sorted.

The fun runs from the 29th to the 31st of Aug

Giveamanakick Borrowed Time

Giveamanakick have a new album, Welcome to the Cusp and they have a new song, Borrowed Time, and they have a video for this song, it too is called Borrowed Time as it would not make sense to call it anything else. Here it is. Its pretty damn good I think you will agree.

Pendulum Propane Nightmares

Pendulum are stadium D&B. I thought their first album was epic as was their Voodoo People remix. Beats in this are tasty enough but not sure bout the vocal. A stab at the charts, what do you think? Released on 28-4-2008

Pendulum 'Propane Nightmares'

Broadcasting Commission of Ireland Go Mental (No Other Way To Put It)

You know the way that everyone and their dog claims to be a little Irish around Paddies Day. The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland have decided to go one step further & let a whole bunch of Artists and Popstars (I cant bring myself to call Kyle an Artist) with not an Irish Granny to rub together between ‘em to claim to be part Irish. Well in the sense that their songs are their babies anyway. Any Song by any artist recorded in this green (and mad it seems) island will be counted as Irish Music. R.E.M.’s new album Accelerate is one case in point and as will of the afore mentioned nice bottomed pixie from OZ who recorded some of he new stuff in Dublin's Windmill Lane Studios.
Why do this I hear you wonder? The fact that most Irish Radio Stations have to make a percentage of their total airplay Irish music (about 30%) may offer some clue as to why. As you can imagine this has annoyed and not to say confused many actual Irish Artists. The rule on Irish airplay was meant to be a launching platform for home grown talent but it has now been side stepped in a very blatant way. Lazy assed radio  stations cant be bother to look beyond whatever press release gets posted to them or just want to ape the charts in the UK and US and now have found a nice loop hole to get out of having to look at the Irish music scene to ideas. In fairness it’s not like there is a shortage of Irish bands worth their salt, both contemporary and classic to make up the numbers.
I wonder what these fools make of an Irish Artist who records in another country, Will Gemma Hayes have to hand over her passport cos she records in the US?