Oxegen 2010: Saturday

The excitement is building, three sleeps til Oxegen! Here's the Saturday lineup:

Dance Arena: (any chance of A-Trak and Armand mixing some Duck Sauce tunes into each others sets? Ooh!)

# Armand Van Helden
# A-Trak
# Steve Aoki
# Louis La Roche
# Villa
# French Horn Rebellion
# Bitches With Wolves
# David E. Sugar
# Amasis

Red Bull Music Academy:

* The Drums
* Dirty Projectors
* Wild Beasts
* Alex Metric
* Jackmaster
* Space Dimension Controller
* Illum Sphere
* The Minutes

2fm/Hotpress Stage:

* Ash
* Kele
* Bombay Bicycle Club
* Yeasayer
* Hurts
* Mayer Hawthorne
* 3OH!3
* Chapel Club
* Daisy Dares You
* Matthew P

Heineken Green Spheres:

* Calvin Harris
* Hot Chip
* Gossip
* La Roux
* Cathy Davey
* Ellie Goulding
* Wallis Bird
* Panama Kings

The Vodafone Stage:

* Black Eyed Peas
* Doves
* Editors
* The Cribs
* Rise Against
* Two Door Cinema Club
* Tinariwen
* Kids in Glass Houses

Main Stage:

* Muse
* Kasabian
* Dizzee Rascal
* Florence & the Machine
* John Mayer
* Biffy Clyro
* The Stranglers


Doves - Pounding Alt

The Stranglers - Golden Brown Alt

Yeasayer - 2080 Alt

Oxegen 2010: Friday

Four sleeps til Oxegen. So I'm gonna post three mp3's each day for each day at the festival until the festival.

Here's the Friday lineup.

Dance Arena:

* Simian Mobile Disco (DJ Set)
* Erol Alkan
* Vitalic
* Aeroplane[disambiguation needed]
* Fred Falke
* Primary 1
* Ou Est Le Swimming Pool
* Dublin Streets
* DJ Gordo & Church

Red Bull Music Academy:

* Chipmunk
* Tinie Tempah
* Gabriella Cilmi
* Darwin Deez
* MemoryHouse
* Colm K
* Andreya Triana
* The Capitals

2fm/Hotpress Music Academy

* Villagers
* Frightened Rabbit
* Shed Seven
* O Emperor
* Joe Echo
* Lissie
* Sweet Jane

Heineken Green Spheres

* David Guetta
* Goldfrapp
* Empire of the Sun
* The Coral
* Delorentos
* God Is an Astronaut
* Kassidy

The Vodafone Stage

* Fatboy Slim
* Groove Armada
* Scouting for Girls
* Plan B
* Republic of Loose
* Drake
* Fox Avenue

Main Stage

* Arcade Fire
* Jay-Z
* Stereophonics
* Vampire Weekend
* The Black Keys
* The Coronas
* Eliza Doolittle

Decent but disappointed with the lack of new band stage, some really crap stuff on top of the amazing headliners.

Arcade Fire - Month Of May Alt

Vitalic - One Above One Alt

God Is An Astronaut - Fall From The Stars Alt

Bits & Bobs

No mp3's for the past few days, but posted some cracking videos, so enjoy those!

Quick one, last night I felt like shit. I went to see the amazing Super Extra Bonus Party. After seeing them a few weeks back in a Dublin venue with a crowd that seemed oblivious to their incredible energy, I was delighted to be part of a crowd of lunatics that enjoyed every minute of it. There was even a penalty shoot out mid gig which "Ghana" won, to make up for their gutting defeat just before the gig.

Anyway, I'd had a pizza before the gig and felt shit after it so scrapped my idea to go see Andy Weatherall after which I was gutted about. I don't know much about him but apparently he's responsible for Primal Scream going dancy and the remix of this song to make it a dancefloor anthem:

Happy Mondays - Hallelujah (Club Mix) Alt

I just heard Snoop Dogg is playing the Olympia in Dublin on Tuesday night. Oxegen is next weekend. I really should save a few quid between now and then. But it's Snoop Dogg. I've never seen him live, I hear he's amazing. Gonna dwell on this while I decide.

Snoop Dogg - Drop It Like It's Hot Alt

I'm DJing tonight, first time in two weeks, cos I took last weekend off. Looking forward to spinning this silly gem. Call on down to Kellys from 9 if you're in Galway.

Lipps Inc. - Funky Town Alt

Otherwise in Galway news, fair play to the 300-500 of you who got involved in the water fight on Eyre Square earlier on! To all of you hitting the Gigantic boat party this evening I'll see you there. And Ciara O D, Happy Birthday dude, I'll catch you after work for bouncing castles and late night lunacy;)

Panic Attract - The Wrong Place video

Cute song, very cute video!



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Cee-Lo Green covers Band Of Horses

I blogged a Gnarls Barkley tune yesterday and today Pitchfork posted a cover of one of my favourite Band Of Horses tunes by Cee-Lo Green. Be warned, there are boobies in this video, so eh, don't watch it on the bus.

Video: Cee-Lo Covers Band of Horses' "No One's Gonna Love You" (NSFW)

'mazing. What a voice.

Cee-Lo Green's Lady Killer is out in Autumn.

New feature!

I've been putting this off for a while but I want to introduce a feature or two to the blog. It's been running since October last year and I've thoroughly enjoyed it, but I'd like to make it a little more cohesive or something. I've always loved music, ever since I discovered a taped copy of What's The Story, Morning Glory, by Oasis in my aunt and uncle's house. They had much better taste than my parents, and though I've grown to love Elton John and James Taylor since, Oasis and U2 were sounds that blew my mind as a curious 10 year old. What I'm trying to say is ever since then I've loved discovering music, despite a teenage rut that had me stuck on 70's rock, 80's metal and Pearl Jam, but hey, fuck it. I like having an urge to listen to everything, and know everything about everything. I'll probably never know how to circulatory system works, or anything about global finance but I'd like to know loads of shit about music cos I like it.

To the detriment of many many fine works of film and literature all I really watch are music related documentaries and music related books. I generally have a few on the go at any one time, so I'm going to start writing about them. For anyone who's ever looking for something to watch or read, check in here and pick something out.

To kick it off I've spent the evening watching a fine Don Lett's TV documentary called Punk: Attitude, which came out in 2005. Interviewing the likes of David Johansen, Jello Biafra, Chrissie Hynde and Mick Jones, it hits the nail on the head. most of the interviewees make great points but can appreciate the time and place it had.

Here's the first part, go wild!

Gnarls Barkley covering Radiohead live

Good grief, this is amazing. If I ever get ridiculously famous and someone makes a movie about me, this has to be in it somewhere. A wonderful song from Radiohead's In Rainbows anyway, but Cee-Lo's vocals are so so haunting. I sometimes forget how good a band Gnarls Barkely are.