Don't we all love Monday? Hell yes!
Let's get right to the short and sweet.
Kids In Glass Houses are the band on everyone's lips as they debuted their sophomore submission, Dirt. From single Youngblood (Let It Out) to the anthemic Matters At All and Sunshine, no stone has been left unturned by the once Smart Casual Welshies. Really, if The Best Is Yet To Come then over the next few years we are in for one heck of a treat.
Reading and Leeds' line ups were announced today a mere 15minutes after the much coveted tickets went on sale. Think Arcade Fire, Biffy Clyro, Lostprophets, The Gaslight Anthem, Paramore, You Me At Six, Bombay Bicycle Club and, erm, Blink 182. Oh crumbs! It's really gonna be a great year...Full details at http://www.readingfestival.com/.
BBPD.
Showing posts with label You Me At Six. Show all posts
Showing posts with label You Me At Six. Show all posts
Monday, 29 March 2010
Sunday, 14 March 2010
Charmed
Rock doesn't get sweeter than this. Well, unless you head to Barry Island and sample Marco's ice cream delicacies, which incidently I did this week. Surrey's finest rock quintet, You Me At Six, hit up the Newport Centre and gave it a massive cwtch. The queue outside was so enormous many of us missed We The Kings. From the excitement of the three 15 year old girls infront of my in the phenominal queue wrapping its way around Newport Centre, I predict the first of the acts' set was a teen-pallette pleasing affair setting the sweaty Tweens, who had made it inside, up for the UK's new next big thing (didn't you get the memo? It's so not Ellie Goulding!)
Coming on stage with no more room than their support acts, pop-rockers We The Kings and Texan Cheddar-rocking genre-blurring Forever The Sickest Kids , YMAS blasted us with track after track after track. It definitely seemed a bit strange and there were times when I questioned if they'd forgotten their set or perhaps decided they weren't too cool to play on any more space than their warm-ups. After each of the first 4 songs everyone expected the black curtain to drop. After each song, we were left confused but rocking out no less.
Then, the sirens started. Red lights flashed. The curtain disappeared and the full stage set, including ramps, lights and satellites, were revealed. YMAS continued to rock in a way that only they can. As the gig went on it only became more apparent why frontman Josh Franceschi is such a hit with his female adorers. He, and his band, are endearing, completely relatable and , let's face it, not too difficult on the eye. Although slightly awkward at times, their on stage rock outs remind you the youthfulness of a British five piece who are as utterly charming as they are talented.
Oh yeah, and everyone's favourite Blackouter, Sean Smith, came out to play. And it was awesome.
BBPD.
Coming on stage with no more room than their support acts, pop-rockers We The Kings and Texan Cheddar-rocking genre-blurring Forever The Sickest Kids , YMAS blasted us with track after track after track. It definitely seemed a bit strange and there were times when I questioned if they'd forgotten their set or perhaps decided they weren't too cool to play on any more space than their warm-ups. After each of the first 4 songs everyone expected the black curtain to drop. After each song, we were left confused but rocking out no less.
Then, the sirens started. Red lights flashed. The curtain disappeared and the full stage set, including ramps, lights and satellites, were revealed. YMAS continued to rock in a way that only they can. As the gig went on it only became more apparent why frontman Josh Franceschi is such a hit with his female adorers. He, and his band, are endearing, completely relatable and , let's face it, not too difficult on the eye. Although slightly awkward at times, their on stage rock outs remind you the youthfulness of a British five piece who are as utterly charming as they are talented.
Fireworks seemed an odd choice to end on, but en cores of Always Attract, Save It For The Bedroom and Hold Me Down's Underdog saw the boys go out with a bang. Franceschi left us with attitude exclaiming to his 2000 strong crowd, 'they can't hold me down'.
Oh yeah, and everyone's favourite Blackouter, Sean Smith, came out to play. And it was awesome.
BBPD.
Monday, 8 March 2010
Getting Out And About
Seeing as it is the start of another good week, I'm getting out and about. Plan? Hell yes!
OK, so I'll be taking Roxy to the beach, Dewi out for a gallop in the forestry, going to the Newport date of You Me AT Six's Hold Me Down Tour, attending Strange News From Another Star's EP Launch at Clwb Ifor Bach on Friday and rocking out with Detached with friends John Q Public, Captain Accident and Hit Or Miss for the launch of their EP in TJ's. That leaves enough time to make it to work and enjoy Sunday Club with Giner.
Lovely.
BBPD.
OK, so I'll be taking Roxy to the beach, Dewi out for a gallop in the forestry, going to the Newport date of You Me AT Six's Hold Me Down Tour, attending Strange News From Another Star's EP Launch at Clwb Ifor Bach on Friday and rocking out with Detached with friends John Q Public, Captain Accident and Hit Or Miss for the launch of their EP in TJ's. That leaves enough time to make it to work and enjoy Sunday Club with Giner.
Lovely.
BBPD.
Saturday, 16 January 2010
Hold Me Down
My new favourite band, as of mid 2009, You Me At Six, have a lovely 2 part podcast on www.Kerrang.com. Josh and Matt chat to K! about Hold Me Down, scurrying to Mum and give away random shit from their pockets. Enjoy trusty followers.
BBPD
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Happy Monday!
It's Monday. And that means one thing and one thing only. NEW RELEASES. And today pulled a corker, namely with Vampire Weekend's Contra. I'm not gonna lie, it is delightful. Think traditional Vampire lyrics combined with delicate xylophonic poppy melodies and danceable beats on top of electric blooms. Their first single, Cousins, sets the bar but with tunes like Horchata, Run and California English, Contra definitely will not disappoint.
My favourite Surrey rockers released their sophomore album today. One word. Fan-effin-tastic. You Me At Six have hit back with bold, grit and attutide to boot with Hold Me Down. With all due respect, I for one am glad Josh Franceschi and his now-girlf-again broke up before recording got underway; a happy rock album would not have been bad but this anger and frustration at life fuelled offering is the genuine article. A slight RIOT! (Paramore) undertone, not imitation, but this is to no detriment to either band or album. My Heads A Prison And Nobody Visits, Playing The Blame Game and first single, Underdog are up there as my favourites in an excellent bunch of all killer no filler. I am rife with anticipation for the forthcoming tour...bring it on lads!
They're electronic. They're indie. They're full of on-the-surface sacharine. Think Foals but fluffier and you've got Delphic. Acolyte is an anthology of tracks just chomping at the bit to help you get your glad rags on and ready for the 'floor and yet all the while patiently waiting to soothe your hangover away the next day (cup of Quickie or Atack tea in 1 hand, BP bacon butty in the other, obvs). I am loving Red Lights and Halcyon for the former, title track Acolyte for the latter and This Momentary for both situations. Get your ears ready to have those January-I'm-SO-skint blues soothed away. Thank you Delphic!
These are my faves of the day. Please comment your favourite new releases below.
Happy Monday and have a fun Tuesday (I'm off for some fun in The Don until Thursday).
BBPD
My favourite Surrey rockers released their sophomore album today. One word. Fan-effin-tastic. You Me At Six have hit back with bold, grit and attutide to boot with Hold Me Down. With all due respect, I for one am glad Josh Franceschi and his now-girlf-again broke up before recording got underway; a happy rock album would not have been bad but this anger and frustration at life fuelled offering is the genuine article. A slight RIOT! (Paramore) undertone, not imitation, but this is to no detriment to either band or album. My Heads A Prison And Nobody Visits, Playing The Blame Game and first single, Underdog are up there as my favourites in an excellent bunch of all killer no filler. I am rife with anticipation for the forthcoming tour...bring it on lads!
They're electronic. They're indie. They're full of on-the-surface sacharine. Think Foals but fluffier and you've got Delphic. Acolyte is an anthology of tracks just chomping at the bit to help you get your glad rags on and ready for the 'floor and yet all the while patiently waiting to soothe your hangover away the next day (cup of Quickie or Atack tea in 1 hand, BP bacon butty in the other, obvs). I am loving Red Lights and Halcyon for the former, title track Acolyte for the latter and This Momentary for both situations. Get your ears ready to have those January-I'm-SO-skint blues soothed away. Thank you Delphic!
These are my faves of the day. Please comment your favourite new releases below.
Happy Monday and have a fun Tuesday (I'm off for some fun in The Don until Thursday).
BBPD
Friday, 8 January 2010
N Dubz make a point
Now it is no secret that I am, infact, not N Dubz biggest fan or that I enjoyed more than a spot of 2009's The X Factor, but the blond N Dubz vocalist, Tulisa, well that girl has a great point regarding the nation's favourite reality TV show. The 'singer' was quoted on MSN.co.uk, saying: "It's annoying watching X Factor contestants just come up there and become worldwide acts selling millions of records after just standing in a queue for an hour." Adding "It's annoying but because I'm selling records without the power of The X Factor...if they came out off their own bat and not X Factor wouldn't sell ten records so then you've got to remind yourself of that." Because she may just be right. Had anyone heard of Leona Lewis or bought a JLS CD before the shot to fame on X Factor? No? Me neither.
Tulisa joins the likes of Sting and Rage Against The Machine, via Jon Morter, in being just a handful of the artists speaking out against the Simon Cowell karaoke kings dominating our charts and, arguably, strangling our beloved British music industry. On November Sting treated The One Show audience to snacks from his latest album and notede that the 'real music' was made in pubs around Britain not on the cover-band stage of The X Factor. He has a point. Add the contest from other bands, from SiCow 'stars', the obstacle of loopholes in Spotify and illegal downloads and pitfalls of single-song downloads on iTunes. New artists have a tougher time than ever to get noticed, be heard and make their talents lucrative. In our internet, have-it-now, Primark generation, artists have to be so much more than just relevant and excellent lyricists. It seems musicians must be collumnists and fashion designers; both All Time Low's Alex Gaskarth and Slipknot's Corey Taylor have collumns in Rock Sound where Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes and You Me At Six's Josh Franchesi both have clothing ranges, and whatever else gets thrown their way.
In short, something's gotta give to get our home-grown, raw talent seen and heard. RATM's Christmas number 1 was definitely a great start in this much-needed protest and Spotify admitting they made a mistake in thinking happy record label = happy artist (read Pete Waterman's article on the Swedish streaming superhouse Spotify from The Times Lifestyle supplement from last Sunday). Has anyone downloaded the brand new music from industry babies for free from Frostwire or the like? Yes? Yikes, me too -New Years resolution number 3 was to not download any music for free this year unless the artist distributes it so. See Angels and Airwaves Love release on Feb 14th.
Rant over. Comments below.
BBPD
Tulisa joins the likes of Sting and Rage Against The Machine, via Jon Morter, in being just a handful of the artists speaking out against the Simon Cowell karaoke kings dominating our charts and, arguably, strangling our beloved British music industry. On November Sting treated The One Show audience to snacks from his latest album and notede that the 'real music' was made in pubs around Britain not on the cover-band stage of The X Factor. He has a point. Add the contest from other bands, from SiCow 'stars', the obstacle of loopholes in Spotify and illegal downloads and pitfalls of single-song downloads on iTunes. New artists have a tougher time than ever to get noticed, be heard and make their talents lucrative. In our internet, have-it-now, Primark generation, artists have to be so much more than just relevant and excellent lyricists. It seems musicians must be collumnists and fashion designers; both All Time Low's Alex Gaskarth and Slipknot's Corey Taylor have collumns in Rock Sound where Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes and You Me At Six's Josh Franchesi both have clothing ranges, and whatever else gets thrown their way.
In short, something's gotta give to get our home-grown, raw talent seen and heard. RATM's Christmas number 1 was definitely a great start in this much-needed protest and Spotify admitting they made a mistake in thinking happy record label = happy artist (read Pete Waterman's article on the Swedish streaming superhouse Spotify from The Times Lifestyle supplement from last Sunday). Has anyone downloaded the brand new music from industry babies for free from Frostwire or the like? Yes? Yikes, me too -New Years resolution number 3 was to not download any music for free this year unless the artist distributes it so. See Angels and Airwaves Love release on Feb 14th.
Rant over. Comments below.
BBPD
Thursday, 7 January 2010
Snowgate
OK, so it is still pissing down with snow, my cassette-wielding car is still stranded at the stables and somehow I have still made it to work. Everyday. Early. What's that about? But whilst on the train this evening, inbetween paragraphs of HST's Generation Of Swine, I got to thinking about what I am looking forward to.
Number 1) Kicking off my birthweek with Young Guns, All Time Low , The Blackout and My Passion on The Kerrang! Relentless Energy Tour hitting Cardiff on January 29th to . I literally tingle with excitement. Info here and beyond: tour.kerrang.com
Number 2) The vast number of immense gigs and albums gracing our shores over the forthcoming months; 30STM (Actor-cum-rockband not to everyone's taste, but I find them inoffensive...sorry Ian Watkins!), You Me At Six, Reel Big Fish, The Temper Trap, Fightstar, Dead By Sunrise...KISS!
Number 3) I love A Sides! And B Sides! The possibility of a cassette revival leaves me salivating a little bit (is that wrong? Oh well, if La Roux's hair doesn't have to be right then neither do I!). Is anyone else stoked to make a proper stop-record-pause-rewind-stop-record-stop-playback mixtape!? The Tapeworm are a cassette only label helping keep the magnetic-recording dream alive. For more info www.tapeworm.org.uk/.
Number 4) A Mark Hoppus-Pete Wentz hair-off! Sadly, this is made up but how great would that be? Well, until PeWe lost his emo-fringe to the mercy of Mark's clippers. In reality, the punk pair teamed up to create a tune for Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland. PeWe hasn't ruled out further work with the Blink-bassist assuring us 'it sounds nothing like Blink 182 or Fall Out Boy' (from Yahoo news UK). No hint of sarcasm, my breath is actually baited.
Number 5) Praise be for Christmas anarchy! As if splattering Joe McElderry's sad cover of Miley Cyrus's The Climb all over his Christmas pudding wasn't enough, Rage Against The Machine promise of a victory gig. This year. In the UK. For free! Should be. According to this week's Kerrang! magazine Mr Morello and his angry mob 'couldn't be more excited about it' and say the free show will be 'insane'. On top of all this the US politcal-rockers donated all the GBP800,000 (yeah, my pound sign doesn't work. Brilliant) profits from their Christmas Number 1 to UK charity, Shelter. RATM - we salute you.
BBPD
Number 1) Kicking off my birthweek with Young Guns, All Time Low , The Blackout and My Passion on The Kerrang! Relentless Energy Tour hitting Cardiff on January 29th to . I literally tingle with excitement. Info here and beyond: tour.kerrang.com
Number 2) The vast number of immense gigs and albums gracing our shores over the forthcoming months; 30STM (Actor-cum-rockband not to everyone's taste, but I find them inoffensive...sorry Ian Watkins!), You Me At Six, Reel Big Fish, The Temper Trap, Fightstar, Dead By Sunrise...KISS!
Number 3) I love A Sides! And B Sides! The possibility of a cassette revival leaves me salivating a little bit (is that wrong? Oh well, if La Roux's hair doesn't have to be right then neither do I!). Is anyone else stoked to make a proper stop-record-pause-rewind-stop-record-stop-playback mixtape!? The Tapeworm are a cassette only label helping keep the magnetic-recording dream alive. For more info www.tapeworm.org.uk/.
Number 4) A Mark Hoppus-Pete Wentz hair-off! Sadly, this is made up but how great would that be? Well, until PeWe lost his emo-fringe to the mercy of Mark's clippers. In reality, the punk pair teamed up to create a tune for Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland. PeWe hasn't ruled out further work with the Blink-bassist assuring us 'it sounds nothing like Blink 182 or Fall Out Boy' (from Yahoo news UK). No hint of sarcasm, my breath is actually baited.
Number 5) Praise be for Christmas anarchy! As if splattering Joe McElderry's sad cover of Miley Cyrus's The Climb all over his Christmas pudding wasn't enough, Rage Against The Machine promise of a victory gig. This year. In the UK. For free! Should be. According to this week's Kerrang! magazine Mr Morello and his angry mob 'couldn't be more excited about it' and say the free show will be 'insane'. On top of all this the US politcal-rockers donated all the GBP800,000 (yeah, my pound sign doesn't work. Brilliant) profits from their Christmas Number 1 to UK charity, Shelter. RATM - we salute you.
BBPD
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