Battle of the Bands @ The Castle

This past weekend saw the start of The Castle Irish Bar's very own "battle of the bands competition". This weekends bands ranged from lairy punk to incomprehensible metal. But as of yet there hasn't been any dubstep.

Seeing as I'm behind the bar all the time concentrating on "pouring the perfect Guinness" I haven't had that good a chance to listen to the acts we've had so far. But next weekend it's all happening again with bands like Despair Academy who are known to be good at winning this sort of contest and Tank who are so fresh and new that they might not even have any songs yet.

It's 2€ to get in Friday and Saturday and I'll be waiting to fulfill all of your alcoholic/non-alcoholic fantasies. This is one you probably could miss, but you know some of these acts are the type that you might never see otherwise. Either through them being absolute shit or just that you'd never hit upon them out in the cold bleakness of Turku

Right. That was the prep. Now I'll either see you there or I won't. Either way, I still get paid.

Having a serious Esben & The Witch moment

I think I'm a bit obsessed. Obsession often ends up with stalking and then someone getting horrificly mutilated/killed if we're to be believe what the likes of bolly/hollywood keeps telling us. I'm pretty adamant on not getting mutilated. At least not outside the bedroom. Eh Eh.

Er anyway.

Esben & The Witch signed to Matador Records some time this year, making them the first UK band signed to Matador in about a million years. Using their new-fandangle record label the Brightonians have released the Marching Song single also featuring a couple of new tracks.





So that's on its way in the post. But as if that wasn't enough I also found myself pre-ordering their up 'n' coming debut LP Violet Cries. That should hit my postbox sometime in January.





You can download the new track Warpath from here

I guess I really do like this band.

Warpaint finally on spotify

Post title sums it all up. The brilliant Warpaint album The Fool is finally on spotify. It's been up for streaming for a while now on various sites. That's how I know it is brilliant. But now it's on the BIG S you do whatevers with it. Play it offline. Play it inbetween endless Justin Beiber adverts. Scrobble that shit. Whatever you want baby. Let's do it.

I think it's also available to be purchased instead of spotify/illegal torrents, but I can't be sure.

Warpaint - The Fool on Spotify



Seriously gutted I missed these at TGE. Everyone's saying these were the epitome of greatness. Of course they'd say that though.

There ain't no vampires here

I promise I'll get back to "reporting"/blog-loving some of the almost-newest shit-hot music acts out there pretty soon. But tonight I'm celebrating. Exam-week's over already. F**k knows if I've passed, but that's hardly the point. It's gone. It's over.

Bought a painting today. Not sure if it's anything to do with celebrating. In fact I can't even remember what it looks like. I left it in the shop.

Just wanted to chill tonight and celebrate like an adult. Drink some gran sangre, look at some art. Maybe read something by Nabokov.

Well. I've got the wine. And I've also got a handful (well maybe more than a handful) of Four Tet tunes and remixes to keep me occupied.

Here y'are. You too can pretend to be me after exam week. It's simple. All you have to do is follow this extremely easy to follow playlist and you too can be me!

two of this years Flow's finest getting down together to make something a bit ooh!


this track is just a 9 minute streched-out virtual orgasm




two more of this years Flow's finest get down together for ever more Ooh!

New Lykke Li

Hey man!

Go get yourself the new Lykke Li track Get Some right here from her website. You'll also get the b-side of her new single, Paris Blue. Or alternatively you can just watch these videos of them.





Or if you'd rather do neither you could just oggle at this amazing picture of her by Patricia Reyes.

Monday funday

I always used to laugh at Linkin Park because all their songs followed pretty much the same pattern and sounded pretty much exactly the same. I used to laugh at people comparing all their albums and bitching about which one's the the shit and which one's plain shit, when they're all in fact exactly the same. I used to laugh at people who said 'LP' were torchbearers for creating this insane style combining rap and guitars and singing/shouting. I used to laugh at people who forced me to listen to LP in order to "see the big picture".

Just a bit a go, I was in the presence of a tv. Quite the rare commodity where I live. I turned on MTV. You know, hoping to catch a glimpse of some super sweet 16 year olds getting MADE whilst having their rooms raided back at Jersey Shore.

MADE. I love MADE. Ugly people who want to be made pretty is a genius concept. Something Mr. Walt Disney already knew back in the middle ages.

MADE wasn't on. MTV were showing random music videos for some reason. I was well gutted. I wanted to watch some jackass Paris Hilton's new BFF get punk'd in the Hills.

Linkin Park's "amazing" video for their "amazing" new song Waiting for the End came on and I was taken aback. Shit, I was breathless. Have LP done this to stop me laughing at them?

According to Wikipedia, LP once released an album called Hybrid Theory. Seems they've developed a new "hybrid theory". Some kind of Turin Brakes/Fun Lovin' Criminals cross-breed.

The Turin Brakes song I wanted to 'embed' on here had disabled its embed function. Probably don't want to be associated with LP.
It was Painkiller.

It is better than this: (but hats of to LP for doing something a bit different)



That's enough from me now.