Christmas Advent #17 – Countdown To Christmas

Christmas is only a week away. So here's the epic Glam Chops, featuring Eddie Argos and the boys getting their Glam out for Christmas like Wizard spinning upside down on a barrel of Crumpton Oaks in the corner of the best discotheque ever.

Hold My Hand As It All Slips Away...

... And we''ll wash up together on Arizona Bay!

1. Arizona Bay - Art Brut
2. She Smokes In Bed - TV Girl
3. Buried In The Ground - Tyrannosaurus Dead
4. Dig Up The Graves - Tullycraft
5. Stay A While - Beach Vacation
6. Alice - Dick Diver
7. Supermarket - Eddie Argos And The Lo Fi Punk Rock Motherfuckers
8. You Should Fall In Love With Me - Ballboy
9. Goat - French For Rabbits
10. Beautiful Despair - Comet Gain 
11. Bill Drummond - Wake The President
12. Moon / Two Out Of Ten - Songs For Walter 
13. Boat Song - Flowers
14. Lost For Days - The Notes
15. Cold Hands - Pants Yell!
16. Dovahkiin - The Indelicates 

Pop Music For People That Don't Like People

 

Art Brut Top of the Pops, Art Brut's epic 10 year journey from 'Emily Kane' to 'Axl Rose', with 'Sealand' and 'Arizona Bay' in between is available to stream for 7 days here. It includes brand new songs, rare b-sides, live versions, and is without any doubt the greatest 'best of' of all time.

Forget your plans for the next few days, grab a crate of Special VAT and make enemies in the kitchens of multiple house parties to the sweet sounds of Art Brut, with all the intention of waking up under a pile of stranger's coats. Alternatively just buy the album. Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot!

Soundtrack to my Summer

So the summer has slipped into hiding once again, and in the blink of an eye the freshness of autumn has arrived to ease us into, hopefully, another freezing, snowy winter.

Here's the Soundtrack to my Summer:

Catch – Art Brut

Guide to the shortwave radio – Ballboy

Another likely story – Au Revoir Simone

Teaching the obvious 2 the idiots – The Bobby McGee’s

Crush on you - Brakes

Out of my league – Darren Hayman and The Secondary Modern

Heavy artillery – Django Reindhart

Superglue – Everybody was in the French Resistance Now!

Something Lost - Flipron

Sympathy for the Devil – The Indelicates

Bucket and Steam - Ivor Cutler

Egyptian Reggae – Jonathan Richman

Deceptacon – Le Tigre

I’m in Love with Destruction – Let’s Wrestle

Have you ever heard a digital accordion? – Lovely Eggs

Take your time – Love is All

Souls of the Northern Lights - Ooberman

Pull Shapes – The Pipettes

Pony - Race Horses

Miss You Miss - Ooberman

A Song For Today #1 - Art Brut - DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshake

"I'm in love with a girl in my comic shop / She's a girl who likes comics /She probably gets that a lot"

Today I woke up at 2:30, had some strawberry milkshake, watched Batman and Superman for a few hours and then played football until the light faded. And like Eddie Argos I've often been accused of having Peter Pan Syndrome...