Damn its hot

Title says it all really. Got up at 3.15am today and couldn't get back to sleep because of the weather. For my British readers, oh my God there's crap on the telly at that time!

I'm going to take a bit of a break, (nothing new some may say gonig by the lack of posts recently) only til Monday to jazz the site up and make it look and read better with better links and stuff so stay tuned, we'll be back!

See you Monday

John

Everything is Wrong today

Its strange to start writing anything like this and quoting Moby just sounded right when I tried to think of a title.

Terrorism once again rears its ugly head and this time its my nation's capital that gets the hit. Admittedly this wasn't on the scale of 9/11 but still it has managed to grind London to an absolute halt. Listening to radio, watching the TV, reading teletext or the Internet it all leaves you a bit numb. From early rumours it seems an Al Qaida (or however its spelt) splinter cell or affiliated group are responsible and issued no warning. This is a rumour I'm not blaming them, lets make that clear! Its not a good situation and after the euphoria in London yesterday after the Olympics result, its now a complete reverse. Makes you wonder though, if the IOC had voted Paris, would we be seeing this devastation in France?

Hopefully we'll get everything sorted by tomorrow, tough lot us Brits.

I'll post again at the weekend with all the usual, links and all the other nonsense. In the meantime cheer yourself up by listening to The Subways: Young For Eternity, Hard-Fi: Stars of CCTV and Jack Johnson's albums, quality.

Its really G8

Can't avoid it can you? Its Live 8 and I'm currently watching Coldplay play In My Place. I really thought a minor miracle had happened and Chris Martin hadn't wrote something on his hand, but I was mistaken, never mind. One day Apple will get miffed her felt tips keep going missing.

I fully support the cause, see look at the Make Poverty History banner that is on the top right corner of this page. Click it if you want. I may not agree with the concert itself and see it as a narcissistic pat on the back for Bob Geldof, but that still doesn't stop me agreeing with the message. I say drop the debt, it'll make the world a better place, for a while at least until they begin to need to borrow more money and the reset button is pressed and we see all this again in 20 years when a balding Bono gets on stage again to go through Vertigo again. I suppose thats why the make trade fair cause is just as important. If the rich keep getting richer then the poor farmers, countries, banana growers and coffee planters are still going to be poor. The whole thing needs to be taken into a real context, looked at properly and not just have celebrity endorsement and pressure thrown at it.

Admittedly the likes of Chris Martin, Bob Geldof and Bono are infinitely more intelligent that the most powerful man on the planet George W Bush and would have more intelligent things to say at the G8 summit other than "I want to bomb more eyeraqees cos they bombded my big tower and now we got him, ha ha ha ha, look at my button it says boom and its red" but unfortunately they're not going to be there, all we can do is sign a petition like them, buy a wristband and use our voice. We'll see what happens next week. The papers will be full of it, the Internet will be crawling with it, you cannot escape, unless your name is Osama Bin Laden. Still Coldplay rock!

Back to business, Subterranean tomorrow night, Sky Digital 903 10pm, get a load of this for a night of tunes.

QOTSA – In My Head
Interpol – Slow Hands
Kasabian – Club Foot
Razorlight – Don’t Go Back to Dalston
Audioslave – Be Yourself
Kaiser Cheifs – Na Na Na Na Naa
Babyshambles - Killimangiro
Milburn – Lipstick Lickin’
Simple Plan – Shut Up
Hard-Fi – Hard to Beat
Snow Patrol – Spitting Games
Finch – Bitemarks and Bloodstains
The Kooks – Do You Love Her?
Bowie & Jagger – Dancing in the Street
Foo Fighters - DOA
The Killers – Mr. Brightside
Green Day – Are We The Waiting
Oasis – The Importance of Being Idle
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
Bright Eyes – Take It Easy (Love Nothing)
Magic Numbers – The Mile
The Flaming Lips – Mr. Ambulance Driver
Diamond Nights – Destination Diamonds
The Cloud Room – Blackout
Gorillaz – DARE (With Shaun Ryder)
Willy Mason – Still A Fly
Arcade Fire – Cold Wind
Snoop Dogg – Gin and Juice

So we're at it again playing the best brand new music first. Just before Xmas last year I broke Arcade Fire on my listeners playing a quality demo version of Power Out. Three months later, the UK music press and other influential types get involved and show the mad love for the Fire. Now a month or so ago, I played Sufjan Stevens for the first time, I believe before any other UK DJ. We're back again tonight with Diamond Nights and more Sufjan Stevens, damn my show is cool! ;)

See you next week

we had all the time in the world

Well at least that's what you'd think. Again there's been a delay in me updating this. Plainly put, I've been a bit too busy. But I'll fire an update tomorrow complete with this weeks playlist, a quick look at a musician who I believe I'm one of the first UK radio jocks to play his tunes. Sufjan Stevens is ya man, you'll know more tomorrow.

Don't go changing y'all

Yo back up now and give a brother room

Life may be well and truly beautiful for Tomkat Cruiser but maybe things won't go so well for his new film, War of the Worlds. You see. UK critics have been banned from seeing it which is usually a studio defence mechanism for "oh my God this film is shit, we can't afford bad press on a major summer blockbuster starring probably the most high profile Hollywood star around. Let's put the shields up, let no-one see it and hope that nothing gets said and we still have a hit." Sorry boys and girls, the British press ain't that nice. They are all asking questions like "What ae you scared of Tom?" Hopefully it won't be shit, some of the trailers look cool but if they won't screen it to the press its usually a good sign that Dreamworks have a very giant turd in their hands.

Did anyone see New Order on BBC Three's Glastonbury coverage? How business like were they? "Tonight we'll start the set with Crystal". Invoice me later for the listening pleasure please Mr. Sumner.

On to tonights Subterranean proceedings, playlist below, you know where to be Sky Digital 903 in the midlands, 10pm the greatest alternative music show on digital radio, you knows it! Its the Glastonbury special tonight.

Chemical Brothers – The Boxer
The Bravery - Unconditional
Garbage – Bad Boyfriend
Kasabian - LSF
Futureheads – Decent Days and Nights
The Zutons – Pressure Point
Dead 60’s – Riot Radio
Hard-Fi – Hard to Beat
Editors - Blood
Willy Mason – So Long
Bloc Party - Pioneers
The Coral – Something Inside of Me
The Kills – Love Is A Deserter (track 2)
Pulp – Common People (The retro)
White Stripes – My Doorbell
Razorlight – Leave Me Alone
The Subways – Oh Yeah
Doves – There Goes the Fear
Basement Jaxx – Jump and Shout
Mylo – Destroy Rock and Roll
Magic Numbers – Love Me Like You
Bright Eyes – First Day of My Life
New Order – Blue Monday
Primal Scream – Kill All Hippies
British Sea Power – It Ended on an Oily Stage
Coldplay – Square One
LCD Soundsystem – Daft Punk is Playing at my House
Interpol – Slow Hands
The Killers – All the Things That I Have Done

Set it up DJ.

Self five

Its Glastonbury weekend and according to the met office, its gonna thunder and rain tonight over the site of one of the world's most famous festivals. Had to happen didn't it? Well if you're going, have fun. If not check it out on the telly. Apparantly there are 50,000 people there already and 24 have been nicked by the local constabulary for drug related offences, nice!

This Sunday on Subterranaean on The Villan (sky digital 903) is a Glasto special. Music from pretty much all the big acts on the bill and a few small ones too. I'll post the playlist on Saturday along with a rant and more stuff.

You know what, this blogging stuff is fun. Even MSNBC are at it, check THIS out. Go get your current affairs on.

Bryan Singer's Superman is out next year and is looking quite frankly awesome. If you've not seen Blue Tights.net then I advise you get yourself there now. Singer is posting a regular video blog, a la Peter Jackson on Kong is King and his latest entry is awsome and has to be seen. Check it out

Talking of King Kong, check this out, its only a few seconds but you get to see the big apes arms, a dinosaur and Naomi Watts, nice.

Fred Durst still doesn't love us, His blog hasn't been updated since November. Maybe he can't be arsed or he's just angry no-one bought the new Limp bizkit album.

If you're in the UK and like any Brit loves a brew check out Suburb who now sell Moby's Teany Tea. nice.

I'm gonna get my Banana hammock on, kudos to the Todd

What up?

Hows it hanging,

So I'm back, sorry about the hiatus. Things happened, what can you do? But here we go lets bring on the chocolate goodness.

What's been happenning in the world? Crazy Frog is still number one, seriously what are people doing? Are they all having the taste gene surgically removed? While I don't really buy singles, (I get them free ha ha!) Someone please release something decent and credible and remove it from the number 1 slot or it'll be here at Xmas mmkay. On that note may I recommend Hard-Fi and their spanking new single, Hard to Beat, they're the new Clash don't ya know?

Not going to Glastonbury this week? Nope, Me neither. So if your not doing anything else and can't listen to my show (pluggy pluggy) check out MTV and, oh yes, Pimp My Ride UK! Westwood in the house, holla at your butler, bow down and kiss the ring etc etc and check out Bez's pimped Black Cab, awesome!

I'll post a few playlists here too over the next few days

Do you have a ticket to Taste of Chaos? Why not? The Used, Funeral For A Friend, Killswitch Engage, Rise Against and Story of the Year. Bargain!!!!

This is funny, check it out, a US radio website developer has made this. Ask Tom anything. As umch as I like Cruise, this is good.

Righty, I'll be back later