Category: music

IOM Timelapses

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Spotted earlier, this from here, via here:

Very nice, and really excellent for a first attempt. Says Jan:

I proudly present my first TIME LAPSE video compilation taken on the beautiful Isle of Man.
For best viewing please switch the HD feature on and watch it fullscreen!

For the past few weeks I’ve been learning the art of time lapse and this is the first result. There is more to follow soon and I hope you will like it.

The music, of course, is from Ludovico Einaudi, standard fare for timelapse videos and attempted pseudo-arty photo essays.

Cover of a remix of a tune

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Mrs 6000 has been looking forward to seeing ISO (you may remember them from posts such as Destiny) at the Waterfront ever since she heard that they were going to be playing there this evening. Then I smashed my ankle into more pieces than should rightfully be in there and it suddenly seemed a bit of an ask to get there.

But I was adamant that she must go anyway and she got some unsurprising buy-in from the kids. I was good, stayed at home and RICEd, but since I’d planned to share this video tonight anyway, here it is:

Are you actually allowed to do a cover of a remix? Are you allowed to do dubstep on electric guitars?
ISO says yes, and I love it.

And the concert was apparently also great, with Richard from the band working on their future fan base after the gig:

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Scoop got their autographs and there’s even video of her rocking along to the track above, headbanging and all.
Scoop is 4. Dad is so very proud.

I Beg Your Pardon…

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Monday’s mantra:

Smile for a while and let’s be jolly,
Love shouldn’t be so melancholy,
Come along and share the good times while we can.

I’m not quite sure what invoked this earlier today, but something did and so I’m sharing it here.

This is Canadian one-hit wonder Kon Kan – a parody of the Canadian content regulation (often referred to as “Can Con”), which mandates that thirty-five percent of songs played on commercial radio stations in Canada must be Canadian in origin – with their 1988 song I Beg Your Pardon.

The singular success of the song (it got to number 5 in the UK) and the derivation of the band’s name make this Pub Quiz gold. The over the shoulder keyboard, the dodgy fashion and the black and white video set in a payphone (remember them?) make it 80’s perfection.

Musically, Canada has a lot to answer for: Sicky Dion, Justin Bieber, Shania Twain, Michael Bublé and Drake. But here is proof that – at least back in 1988 – some talent did briefly exist in those Northern climes.

HMV

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And lo, as had been widely predicted, HMV was placed into administration yesterday. I spent many a happy afternoon (and many a hard earned pound) in HMV stores, most especially Pinstone Street in Sheffield, Northumberland Street Newcastle, Cornmarket Street in Oxford (who could forget their midnight release of Radiohead’s OK Computer in 1997?) and, of course, Oxford Street in London.

That’s where this photo came from – a-ha doing a signing for their first album, Hunting High and Low, back in January 1986:

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Those clothes? That hair? Look, it was acceptable in the 80s.

As of course, was paying High Street prices for music and the like, because we never had the luxury of the internet. Thankfully, those dark days of bad clothes and worse hair are now in the past.
Sadly, after 91 years, so is HMV.

Let Us Move On

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Driving back from the Bafana Bafana game on Tuesday evening, annoyed, tired and annoyed, I heard this track Let Us Move On and, in the context of the appalling football display that I’d just witnessed, it didn’t seem like a bad idea.

At the time, I thought it sounded a bit like Dido (the artist formerly known as Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong). But how could that be, because Dido (TAFKAFCdBA) hasn’t done anything for years and anything worthwhile for even longer?

Well, obviously, it is Dido and it marks a new album Girl Who Got Away which is scheduled for release in early March.

Reminiscing on her early stuff in the late 90s and early noughties brings back memories of late nights chilling out at home with a glass or two of decent whiskey after the the pub quiz, the living room lit by Tiger Woods Golf and drunken chatter.

Has her music moved on since then? Not much it would seem, if this is anything to go by. But it’s worth a listen, just in case you want to mentally pop back to wherever you were 15 years ago.