I Set My Friends On Fire: the band you never heard of, are coming to sellout a festival near you soon

November 25, 2008 · Filed Under Videos, stuff we like · Comment 

So: the design is perfect, the name and logo are excellent. It seems they have fourteen billion MySpace listens already and 100 date tour. Already no doubt sold more records then Guns N Roses and The Killers combined. And nobody has ever heard of them. I can already see them on main stage at Download or Bloodstock or somesuch, book them up now.

Music Towers can only assume thar this summer, I Set My Friends On Fire will come over here to blow our tiny little minds, with their accomplished mix of hardcore electro, High School Musical pop, and their comedic yet postive outlook.

Here is them putting all of that into practice, in a YouTube video masterclass:


You Can’t Spell Slaughter Without Laughter

Epitaph 2008, Audio CD, £11.99

Venn That Tune

November 21, 2008 · Filed Under Blather, stuff we like · Comment 

If you like Venn Diagrams, you will like this. Some clever man called Andrew Viner worked out that everyone likes music, everyone likes Venn Diagrams, hence his just-released book, Venn That Tune.

Venn diagrams, or set diagrams, show all hypothetically possible logical relations between a finite collection of sets. Apply that theory to pop hits, and you’ve got yourself chunk after chunk of 30 second amusement.

Billy Ocean - ‘When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going’

The Hollies - ‘He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother’

Brian Adams - ‘(Everything I Do) I Do It For You’

The Beatles - ‘All You Need is Love’

Elvis - ‘A Little Less Conversation’

Cat Stevens - ‘The First Cut is the Deepest’


Venn That Tune

Andrew Viner. Hodder & Stoughton General 2008, Hardcover, 128 pages, £9.99

06/21/08 - Memphis Belle

June 21, 2008 · Filed Under Blather · Comment 

Who
Memphis Belle
When
Saturday, June 21, 2008
8:00pm - 16+
Where
(map)
Other Info
Memphis Belle has her album launch in the Music Palace in north London

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