May 18, 2010
Undercover Martyn – Two Door Cinema Club
Nobody needs to spend a million dollars to make a good music video.
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I bet that was filmed with a Canon 5d, unless it wasn’t.
also, it’s always wonderful to see such obvious talent spilling from the mouths and minds and hands of what appear to be eighteen year olds.
if that last bit sounded like snark, it wasn’t.
They appear to be eighteen because they are. Man, can you imagine being eighteen and on a world tour supporting your soon-to-be-huge album? They look terrified and almost catatonic in the few interviews I’ve found.
Their first album came out in March, but they all got together when they were fifteen and have been playing together since then. They’re from Northern Ireland.
I can’t help but think of Blur, even though the music is different, this reminds me a lot of their back story.
I hope they survive it.
This is wonderful. Thank you.
And yet another music video YouTube doesn’t allow us Europeans to watch (“This video is not available.”). I’m beginning to heartily dislike YouTube for this.
Alex James, the bassist from Blur, says that at the height of everything he was consuming singlehandedly 1% of Britain’s champagne import. That’s about three bottle or so a day at least. Said he knew he was going to be drinking every day so he chose champagne because he liked it, and just stuck to it. He says he was also spending hundreds of thousands every year on cocaine and other drugs and cigarettes. He doesn’t drink at all now.
I remember watching Starshaped for the first time, which is a 1993 concert-tour half-documentary following Blur around for a few major festivals in England and Europe, and there are tens of thousands of fans screaming their names, going beserk, and they deal with it by getting drunk out of their minds at every turn and generally acting insane, vomiting, disappearing, and hitting on every girl in sight. Actually they don’t have to hit on girls, they just wander around and girls flock to them.
That right there will mess you up.
Yes, what gives with YouTube?
And how’s that paper coming along, Amanda Mae?
I wish it was a paper about Blur.
“The musical language and notation of Blur: a comparison of search results found in Academic Search Premiere and Google Scholar”
I haven’t been able to watch any embedded youtube videos in weeks, and I’m in the US. And I never bother to go look the thing up on youtube.
I found a picture of Eli Roth eating blueberries in a swimming pool.
I think this band is playing the ACL Fest.
But I didn’t come here to write about them, I came to tell my Blur story! I saw them when I was a young innocent girl, and I have a photo of myself and Damon after the show. He is drunk and his fly is undone. I am very upset with myself to this day that I did not take advantage of him. I guess that’s not much of a story after all. I found a link for the tour:
http://blurliveaudioarchiveproject.blogspot.com/2009/12/tour-review-1992-usa-tour.html
Teresa. Post that picture. Post it right now. If not post, please email it to me.
I am so sad I’ve never seen them. Also that I was five when they were popular. That’s a major bummer as well.
Teresa, get yourself to the cwalken account now please and post that photograph.
That’s hilarious amanda, i just saw your comment above mine now.
I know the photo should totally be my screensaver, but it is packed away in a box. And I’m house and dog-sitting most of this week, so I won’t be able get home and look for the photo until this weekend. Will you guys still be interested in seeing the photo next week? If so, I’ll email it. I already told Deron I don’t understand computer technology and how to post things. And I’m unwilling and/or too lazy to learn, at this point in time.
Also, I’m not sure if the open fly is visible in the pic! But in the photo, he has his arm draped around me and I am about to DIE.
Um, Teresa, this is no passing flight of fancy. I want to see this picture whenever you come upon it.
This is an information need. And I am an information seeking youth. (Did you know that asking other people is the best way that Tweens find information out? (Anderson, 2007))
That’s so amazing, I really am quite jealous. Did you… happen… to meet Alex? or.. you know, did you look at him? did he say anything funny? I KNOW IT WAS LIKE A MILLION YEARS AGO.
I second Amanda’s enthusiasm though I have never harboured any such sexual desires about anybody in Blur. Waaaaay too English for me.
[...] I Like the Colors tweetmeme_url = 'http://treygivens.com/?p=1418';tweetmeme_source = 'TreyPeden';Found this over on Clusterflock. I’m posting it not because the song is really all that great (I don’t hate it, [...]
Well Lucy, Two Door Cinema Club has kind of sold me on Northern Irish boys if that’s any consolation? Maybe it’s a slap in the face, I don’t know. They look like guys from L.A. though. There was something so dopey and wonderful about English boys I’ve met. Must be the lingo.
I’ve always found Northern Irish boys kind of peculiar but each to their own. Neil Hannon is fun and a gent but I wouldn’t want to kiss him. Seamus Heaney is marvellous and earthy but ditto.
I think you’d love Irish boys but they wouldn’t be good for you.
What’s amazing to me is how much you can attribute the difference between the way this band sounds and the way Blur did to the Arctic Monkeys. The Arctic Monkeys broke in 2005, which means these cats were 13 at the time. If I can see the cycles starting to repeat in pop music, does that mean I’m growing up? I shudder to think.
Oooh! Why wouldn’t they be good for me?
Unless it’s some private thing I said over margaritas in which case email me.
Amy’s going to enjoy this conversation.
Lucy, does Ireland have K-Marts?
Cindy’s powers of recall are matched only by her precision with relevant items within the collection.
Okay, I’ll just wait out in the car.
I knew that was a bad thing to say as I hit ‘send’.
Terence I think you’re probably right, but only when you think about it.
I’m enjoying this conversation.
Field Music is a band of young Irishmen so similar it’s a bit eerie. Amanda Mae, they’re your type, if you’re in need of another Anglo-Saxon hipster crush?
I always thought Field Music were English since they are from Sunderland. A friend who lives there first turned me on to them. Apparently everyone in Sunderland knows everyone else there?
Anyway, they make fine music and are obviously adorable and may be perfect for Miss Amanda Mae.
Oops! I must have misjudged their accents and red hair.
Accents and red hair – two fabulous personal traits!
Even if they are artificial — like mine?
I’m actually not into redheads. But I mean, I might make an exception for a legitimate Irish bloke.
Also, Kelsey, my entire life is hipster Anglo-Saxon crushes. Let’s be real here.
Sheila, for women, artificial is fine. For men, they both have to be authentic.
Ooh, yeah, Amy. A man with dyed red hair and a fake accent would put me right off.
Lucy makes me laugh and smile.