my fave 4 tracks of the year so far

white lies –

doves – kingdom of rust (still going remix)

empire of the sun:

metric – satellite mind

stunning white lies video and ostriches

polydor have still not learnt that by not allowing embedding of videos on websites mean that their artists are not being promoted to a wider audience – what they fail to understand is that anyone with half a brain can download the video and then re-post it on the net – thereby taking away hits that would have otherwise gone to them

(i used to work for polygram/universal – polydors umbrella company)

so here we go

i love this and think it deserves to be seen by a wider audience

nme radio – a year on

i think it was june 1st last year that nme radio starting broadcasting over the net – i didnt like their first tune but forgave them when the programming came through

prior to nme i went through various radio stations since capital radio took over xfm in the late 90’s, but always ended up getting pissed off for one reason or another relatively quickly

i listen to radio all day so it cannot be obviously repetetive – and its hard to find radio that isnt

now at 1am i’m in a situation where i want nme radio to play a couple of naff tunes so i can turn it off and go to bed – so they play rem and ride… great…. thats going to get me to turn off

ministry of sound iphone app

forgot to update – after a phone call from their head of legal and business affairs, ministry of sound have decided to remove their ibiza wifi hotspot listings from their iphone app – cant possibly imagine why

Metric – Satellite Mind

I just absolutely adore this track – i just want to hug it and snog it – the sonics on it are amazing

sonics metric – satellite mind

i absolutely love this – it has power, lyrics and sonically great – i love it – (not sure if its the full version but this will do in the meantime)

the music

i loved their album and its always interesting when you come back to something a few months later and wonder whether you still like it – i LOVE it – am going to try and work out where i go and see them live – its something i have to do

history

i was

oh bloody hell just as im about to write some wonderful prose – suede so young comes on the radio and i forgot what about to say – then gods children by the guttertwins comes on

it’ll have to be another time

the quote

how come the quote ive loved for best part of 20 odd years appears nowhere in google ?

i googled the quote again and obviously my last nights post comes up

but where did it come from ?

as an aside i’m sure i faxed this to ed bicknell in mid 90’s, manager of dire straights, who loved it

new ministry of sound iphone app and some odd coincidences

ministry of sound have launched their new iphone ibiza app – but there was one thing that got me alerted

in their wifi hotspot listings they have manolos y finas tiny bar downstairs and it surprised me that they knew about it – when i looked it had the exact same 2 sets of 5 decimal place longtitude and latitudes as our wifi hotspot listing

as i checked further – their entry for “ibiza town park” listing also had the same 5 decimal place lat & long as our iphoneibiza.com website – bear in mind the park is probably 100m x 100m – why the exact same location?

as i randomaly picked out entries they all had the same lat & long

i’ve asked the ministry of sound for an explanation – i would re-publish the replies but i know that the ministry of sound have an alleged history of litigousness

stay tuned