TweetJust found out this little nugget while I wait for iTunes to officially put me up on their player. But you can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes so that when there is a new one it downloads automatically.
All you have to do is when you're on iTunes click 'ADVANCED' on the top menu and move down and click 'SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST' you then put in the URL http://feeds2.feedburner.com/IfThereIsHellBelowPodcast?format=xml into the box. And you'll be greeted with the If There Is Hell Below Podcast and also any new mixes I'm also gonna be putting up on the feed.
Tweet Can't stop watching this video from The Peter Serafinowicz Show, which was a mish mash of crap and a hilarious little gems like this. It's the list of food that get's me, so funny. Gonna watch it again.
Tweet So here it is the second If There Is Hell Below Podcasts, expect to hear some great tunes from Alex Taylor, Elvis Costello, SALEM, Midnight Juggernauts, Deerhunter, The Horrors, Wooden Shjips, some rare'ish little gems and splattering of mic popping and unprofessionalism that seems to be my broadcasting forte.
I have also set up a twitter, if David Milliband is on it and "tweeting" from Bob Dylan gigs in the soulless o2 megadome then it really is a bandwagon I need to jump on before I lose my hip. Follow me on www.twitter.com/spacehips
Tweet Ever been lured into looking into you aunts 'Take a Break' or a skanky neighbours 'Pick me Up' magazine? I know I've found myself sneakily flicking through to read "I married my stepdad and couldn't be happier" or "I knew my husband was having an affair, but I wasn't prepared for anything when I saw him snogging the family dog".
These magazine have always published ways of getting through hard financial times by printing the readers "Top Tips". At last someone has taken the time to collect these in a blog, my favourites are Jimmy's Healthy Pizza Idea, The Posh Cutlery Vase and our featured tip above for an alternative After dinner mint. Read it all here at Hero of Switzerland
Tweet Noel Gallagher asked the Future Sound of London offshoot Amorphous Androgynous to remix the otherwise pretty bland Fallin' Down from their latest album, after hearing and raving about the mix/comp they put together last year A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble. Of course I can more than recommend it, filled with goodies from Aphropdites Child to Mahavishnu Orchestra to the more contemporary DevendraBanahart and The Earlies.
This is the 22 Minute Remix (yep 22!) they put together and it's wonderful, starts off like a bit of a typical remix of Oasis, and then as we get 5 or 6 minutes it gets interesting and out there. In the last ten minutes it's almost a completely different song going so far as having Noel duetting with some hippy chick who sounds like Shirley Bassey after sucking on some sugar cubes. It's a magical journey, far out and wouldn't be out of place on Stuart Maconie's excellent Freak Zone. As I said, they've made Oasis interesting and puts any remix released this year to severe shame.
Tweet You don't do films! Well maybe I do, and maybe I should now. I keep track of the old cinema game but not that intently, but I like that Sam Rockwell fella maybe because I believe I could be him (I could ok!) Trailers are alright, they're usually a bit formulaic and give away the best bits, Star Trek will bore me and Transformers is pointless (stop selling nostalgia). This one and the Bruno trailer are pretty exciting though.
Tweet Off to see Camera Obscura tonight at Shepherds Bush, they released a new album 'My Maudlin Career' this week. It's typically sweet, romantic (proper) indie laced in twee.
Tweet They were supposed to play White Heat tomorrow, but aren't now, I'm glad I wrote that. They sound like New Order and will probably do alright for themselves, seems like if you got keyboards and throw yourself back to the right part of the 80s then you taste like today's flavour.
Tweet Found this long t-shirt thing in Topshop, what the hell would anyone in Topshop want with a Grateful Dead t shirt? Do they know what the Grateful Dead are? Do they know how fucking awesome they are at what they do? I may be a bit presumptuous but I don't believe there are many female Grateful Dead fans who shop in the Swindon Topshop (where this image was scarily captured).
I have only seen this on the rack of topshop, this means there are potentially thousands of 'Dead fashion tees in the country, it has become a little harder for the single Grateful Dead fan to meet his equal, someone just dropped a huge mass produced bail of hay on that illusive needle.
Tweet I enjoyed Gideon Coe playing some Four Brothers the other night, a delightful introduction to a band I was previously ignorant to. They do Vampire Weekend better than Vampire Weekend, maybe it's the authenticity thing of not being from Brooklyn but Africa and they did it 30 years before. But it worked for Uncle Paul right? Enjoy this
Tweet Went into the Oxfam book and music shop off Kentish town, my dear god someone had a lot of El Presidente! albums to get rid of, I have one, I got it for winning a uni pub quiz and still the film remains wrapped around what I predict is an awful waste of time and plastic. But someone decided to donate the Heartbreak debut album 'Lies'. True the cover is pretty bad and some of the songs come close to sounding like some crap disco spoof on Mighty Boosh but for 99p it's pretty enjoyable and may get a few listens through.
You may notice from the side I have put up some links for blogs I like, apart from a couple I tried to stick away from the typical HypeMachine whores (I may be better because for some reason my blog can't get on there?), who pray on adding up hits with Boys Noize remixes and the dancefloor flavours of the month. Maybe you shouldn't give the public what they want and more of what they need and everyone needs everything on Paul Durango's and the Art Decade blogs. Here is some blog electro that although is very typical, cliche and predictable I really dig and I like Glass Candy anyway.
Finally, I am putting this up after i downloaded it from the excellent Sci-Fi Pogo blog, so just recycling for some fresh ears (I'm sure they have plenty of readers anyway). Macca is doing disco maaaan.
Also like to thank The Beat for putting up my last mix on their blog, it was a pleasant surprise and was flattered at the inclusion, did the hit counter some good too!
Tweet I've mentioned 'em a few times on this blog, and I would marry them as my love would define it. I haven't ruined the album for myself by downloading the leak, I am a music romantic in that I love buying the album on the day and listening with fresh ears, the new album seems so long away though and Lisztomania and 1901 only make me hungry.
So in the meantime I got the Phoenix compiled disc for kitsune, and a delightful little collection of wonders it is too. You can get this from good record stores, amazon and other such sites, maybe itunes? Soulless, soulless itunes.
Here are three of the many highlights, it's always great to hear Chris Bell.
Tweet Oh dear sweet bendy bus, you're not a danger you're a joy, an engineering classic a double-decker stretched out with an element of fun in the middle; with the wiggling floor like a crap fun fair funhouse. The bendy bus- my bendy bus the 29, meant free trips to Fopp for a fistful of albums, the bus is so long you get on the back and take your chance by not beeping your oyster in.
I've saved numerous 95-100p's by this incredible loophole from god... Until today, I should've been paying attention but was too busy with my new phone hypnotised by the touchscreen, prodding it like a scab on an 18 month contract, too busy to notice the hovering figure checking my oyster. Of course I hadn't paid and the man gave me a £25 fine (£50 if I don't hit the 21 days deadline).
He loved it, when your job is trying to catch people out, it is a little boring when everyone plays by the rules; people who play by the rules are pussies, I am an arsehole for not playing by the rules and he is a dick he has the power to fuck and he loves to fuck arse.
While all this was happening ELO was playing on my mp3 player, I will never be able to listen to 'So Fine' without thinking of those lost guineas.
Just found out this little nugget while I wait for iTunes to officially put me up on their player.
