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CONCERT UPDATE

Fresh from the Twilight Action Girl Facebook group:

MANIC STREET PREACHERS LIVE IN SINGAPORE!
November 24 2008 @ Fort Canning Park

TAG indie fans should not miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to see the Manic Street Preachers perform Live for the first time in Singapore at Fort Canning Park on November 24! General Admission Early Bird Tickets are S$95. Tickets go on sale September 29 at all Sistic outlets, www.sistic.com.sg or by calling (65) 6348-5555. Ticket price will be S$110 on day of show. 

Manic Street Preachers is proudly promoted by LAMC Productions in Singapore and also Hong Kong on November 26th. They will also be headlining the Bangkok 100 Rock Festival on November 30 in Bangkok, Thailand. As usual, KL has been ignored.

As usual... KL has been ignored................ thanks alot, Rest of the World.

The Prayon Kid

Enter the Pray-on Kid: a sandpit quagmire, stuck in a joke, stuck in an enigma, sandwiched by the walls of Pandora's Box; or simply my chosen moniker for posting on the CrayonKids blog.

This is my first time posting on a blog in about 4/5 years, and I've just realised it's pissing down cats and dogs outside and I've forgotten to close the windows in my room at home.. so what's a kid to do? but prayyyyyyyyyyy on hehe (i'm copyrighting that if you're reading Noel Gallagher)

Anyway, luckily I've got some delicious T and T (tones and tuneage for those of you who aren't me) to allay my fears for the moment, stuck in this invisible cubicle called my existence.

First off - Jack White. An absolute freak of a man, who gained fame for playing in a 2-piece outfit with his sister and/or wife. Recently, he's melded with 3 other assorted musicians from other semi-famous bands to form the Raconteurs (or the Saboteurs for you Aussies). Seven Nation Army? fuck that, STEADY AS SHE GOES.

As repetitive as the song gets, it'll keep pinching those same spots in your brain that you love, and the "Slave to the Sunshine Mix" does exactly that, with added flavour. Starts off with very simple loops and laps that entice you in... then slowly builds, like layers upon layers, just like that line which made Shrek famous. It ends with an almost reverse-crescendo as it reverts back to an all out rock fest, and if you're not nodding and rocking when the timer hits -1:00, then you've seriously gotta pick up a LedZep record or summat.

The Raconteurs - Steady as She Goes (Slave to the Sunshine Remix)

Secondly, this man needs no introduction: Calvin Harris. From Dumb-Friays (Dumfries), Scotland, he's got it goin' ON. Looks to be a rising star indeed, here's hoping he doesn't do the whole drugs + sex -> burnout thing.

My fave track off his album - ACCEPTABLE IN THE 80's, what a funny song... insanely rhythmic and catchy it borders on bubblegum pop. Oh and 'I Created Disco' is like new age disco-lectro Primal Scream haha! I love it.

Anyways, give that a listen..

Thirdly, don't you think the singer from the Kings of Leon sounds just like Whitney Houston after inhaling muscle relaxants sprays?

Lastly............. been listening to a little chillout lately, and Cardamar is the name to blame. CLICK HERE to download some of their wonderful longggg mixes.

I never enjoyed chillout/downtempo but now I'm growing older or something it's quite good on occasions where you gotta sit down and work. 

If you do download any mixes, make sure you check out "Nebra Skydisk" if you're a trance fan.. Trance legends Blank and Jones do a little cameo...

Anyway, this is taking up too much time, I've gotta do some incredibly boring and lame stuff.... Post up soon..

Ciaosers Bowsers.

Love, the Pray-on Kid.

CK do COVERS!!!

Because I'm really bored, I'm going to do a series of my favourite covers ever. And there are a LOT. But I'm going to go slow and do four per post. Soooooo... here goes! =)

1. Andrew Bird & Nora O' Connor -- "Oh Sister" (Bob Dylan cover)

Now I love Bobby D. and his songs are like holy to me; so I'm usually really critical of people who actually dare and try cover the great man. Sometimes I even tell myself that the original Dylan version of "All Along the Watchtower" beats the legendary Hendrix cover. (I knooow!) But then one day I stumbled along this cover, and fell absolutely in love with it. I'll even go so far as to say that it's better than the Dylan original, depending on what you like. Dylan's version, as usual, is strong and contains large amounts of loud harmonica -- quintessential Dylan. Bird's spin replaces the harmonica with yummy doses of violin and whistling (he is a professinal whistler, after all!), and renders the whole song....sweet. That's the only word for it. With Bird's soft melodies and Dylan's amazing lyrics ("time is an ocean but it ends at the shore"?? YUM.), this is one song everybody has to hear.

Andrew Bird & Nora O' Connor - Oh Sister (Dylan cover)

2. Amy Millan -- "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" (Death Cab for Cutie cover)

Covering legends is one thing (and risky business), but covering hit contemporary singles is another (but just as risky). Luckily, the Stars and sometime Broken Social Scene songstress is well up to the task. I love the original song, and even living through three months of the world incessantly singing it didn't make me hate it for life (and that's saying something!). So this is one my favourite covers right now; a feminine, more drawly (but just as mellow) take on a song that was maybe - if I have to criticise - a bit too sweet to the ears. Millan humanises the song with her voice.

Amy Millan -- I Will Follow You Into the Dark (DCfC cover)



3. Audrey Hepburn -- "Moon River" (Frank Sinatra cover)

SCROLLSCROLLSCROLL....and come down to my all-time favourite woman, Audrey Hepburn. Not satisfied with being absolutely gorgeous to boot, a brilliant actress and a lovely person, Audrey Hepburn had to go be a really sweet singer as well. As modern times have proved more often than not -- actresses (usually) shouldn't sing; it failed for Hilary Duff, it failed for Lindsay Lohan; it even failed for Scarlett Johansson (I'm sorry, Scarlett!). And yes, the indie masses will throw Zooey Deschanel in my face -- but she's special; an exception to the rule. And a beautiful voice wasn't always a prerequisite for acting in musicals, although Julie Andrews could do it; Hepburn's voice was actually recorded over in "My Fair Lady". Listening to this track, you wonder why. If anybody hasn't yet -- watch "Breakfast at Tiffany's". You'll do this song the most justice seeing it with the aura and atmosphere of the movie, all Holly Golightly-esque.

Audrey Hepburn -- Moon River (Sinatra cover)

4. Lightspeed Champion -- "Back to Black" (Amy Winehouse cover)

Yup; it's back to the old faves. This time we bringin' out the big guns with Lighthouse Champion again (yeah, remember him?), who does a sparse, acousticky version of Winehouse's sultry, piano-heavy "Back to Black". Where she went with hard-pressed keys, he goes with strums. The song loses none of its strange gloomy tone; in fact, I think it works better with this version, with its lack of instruments (save one). It's a nice change. CHECK IT OUTTT.

Lightspeed Champion -- Back to Black (Winehouse cover)


wahhhhh.
that's it for nowww! =)

we got invaded!!! by who??

The SEX INVADERS, of course. Lapsap (what happened to the other half? :O) & Sex Invaders. I wasn't there for too long, but Palate Palette, small though the space was, was having a blast. Again; I can't really describe electro beats properly with words -- so how bout some pictures instead? (19th September 2008)