I saw bears, and there were tigers

March 07, 2006



After what seems like an eternity waiting it seems that Drowned in Sound Recordings are finally ready to release Emmy The Great's first single 'Secret Circus'. Now obviously, unless you're on your deathbed or just plain miserable, you're going to want to buy it, and you can do just that on the 27th of March! So soon, I hear you exclaim!

It's available on the Drowned in Sound Recording Digital Singles Club (or DiSRDSC if you're an idiot) from, like, every download store in the world; or you can get one of those new fangled 7" vinyl things that everyone's talking about from Fear and Records. Put it in your diaries.

 Posted by Chris at 03:15 PM

No, No, Diplo..

February 21, 2006

Yeah Yeah Yeahs are back, but you knew that. The Diplo remix of Gold Lion is incredible, but you knew that. They have really awesome LiveJournal and MSN avatars here, but you probably even knew that didn't you? And they have one of those annoying desktop buddies for download here, did you know that?

You can buy tickets and stuff too:
13th/Camber Sands / All Tomorrow's Parties // £125
16th/London / The Forum // £18
17th/London / The Forum // £18
19th/Glasgow / Barrowlands // £15
20th/Manchester / Academy // £15
21st/Birmingham / Academy // £15

Here, here, here or here.

 Posted by Chris at 03:46 PM |  Comments (2)

God 'aint got no apparently...

November 28, 2005

Tonight Swish Blog-favourites Action Plan launch their debut single 'Stendhal'/'Beauty Scars' (released on Young & Lost Records no less) at Push Bar in Soho (in fact it's at, unsurprisingly, the Young & Lost Club).


If you're interested in going to the gig here are the details:
ACTION PLAN SINGLE LAUNCH
THE PUSH BAR, DEAN STREET, W1
DOORS 8pm-1am, FREE ENTRY
LIVE SETS FROM ACTION PLAN, THE B PLAN & FEAR OF FLYING
DJ SETS FROM RAZORLIGHT, JET, COLIN DIS, GRANDAD & THE PYHRRA GIRLS.
We have been told to tell everyone to get there for when doors open to
ensure entry as it looks like it's gonna be busy.

You should, of course, also consider buying the single because it is ace (both tracks having featured on Swish Blog Playlist Mixes in the past). If this interests you then I have been informed that you can buy the single from: Pure Groove, Rough Trade (both London), Jumbo Records (Leeds), Vinyl Junkie, Escalotour Records (Japan) and www.onthefringe.co.uk

 Posted by Chris at 10:37 AM

Result

October 31, 2005

You may have noticed the 'Get Test Icicles Into The Top Twenty' campaign I’ve been running here on The Swish Blog for the past week, thanks to everyone who took heed of my frenzied campaigning and bought the single; remember one Test Icicle is worth seven Arctic Monkeys when it boils down to the future of world music - we're talking Wyld Stallyns stuff here.

Anyway they didn't make the Top 20, finally coming home at number 25 which, although not as good as we'd originally hoped, is still pretty good. That's two places above Audio Bullys (sic) - who were on Top Of The Pops last night - and one place below Magic Numbers - who seem to have whored themselves out to every TV show going this week.

 Posted by Chris at 09:48 AM

cst cst cst cst innit!

October 25, 2005

This has already been posted to my livejournal and myspace today, so if you stalk me (or are just really fond of me) you may have already seen this, if not please read on.

Please buy Circle. Square. Triangle by Test Icicles now! It's #25 in the Tuesday midweeks at the moment with 1,256 sales but I'm sure we can do better than that; Arctic Monkeys didn't have an MC Lars remix on their single after all.

buy
physical: hmv | pure groove | amazon digital: karma download | itunes

But remember: if you buy from itunes make sure you rip out the restricting (and in my opinion illegal) DRM by burning the track to a CD and then ripping it back into itunes.

edit: The single is now #24 in the chart (1,907 sales)! Not a great leap forward, but at least they're now above Rifles, which is great. Still two places below Will Smith though, come on guys!

edit: Right, this isn't good enough. Today (Wednesday) they are still at #24 with 2,625 sales. The main problem it seems is digital sales (with only 125 of them) - remember that downloads count towards 39% of the chart so this needs to be higher - so please, if you haven't already, click one of the download links above and buy the single. Both iTunes and Karma Download count directly towards the chart, so go, go, go!

edit: As of Thursday's midweeks they're still at #24, now with 3,100 sales (of which still only 186 are downloads!)... So there's still a lot of work to be done guys, vote for good music with your cash and your iTunes accounts, or as they themselves put it themselves in a MySpace bulletin yesterday, "help us keep it at 24 and not drop to number 3,000,000 like last time!!" Don't let it happen.

edit: I haven't got the chart update for today as I'm away from work, but today was the most important day for Testies to hold onto their good chart space. Let's hope the stay in the top 20/30. Good luck for tomorrow...

 Posted by Chris at 04:59 PM |  Comments (4)

'I promise I only dropped acid once...'

September 15, 2005

I know I've just updated but I couldn't resist this one, The Strokes have tentatively named their third studio album 'First Impressions Of Earth' (via nme.com)

Singer Julian Casablancas has been quoted as saying, "The album's kind of about how someone from outer space would objectively view things happening on earth..."

Hahaha, they have entered the 'going fucking mental' stage of their development then?

 Posted by Chris at 03:31 PM |  Comments (3)

M.I.A. & G.L.C.

January 22, 2004

Last night Zane played two fucking kick ass songs, number one was ‘Gulang, Ulang, Ulang’ (or something to that effect) by M.I.A., the second was ‘Your mother’s got a penis’ by Goldie Looking Chain. I’d heard of GLC before, and had a few of their songs downloaded off their website like ‘Monkey Love’ and ‘Delivery Man’, but until I heard ‘Your mother’s got a penis’ I thought they were just a novelty comedy act.
The end.

 Posted by Chris at 04:14 PM

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