Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Zane Lowe to Play Brand New Dizzee Rascal Single

Radio One DJ Zane Lowe will play the brand new Dizzee Rascal single, "Holiday", tonight at 7.30pm. The single is produced by Calvin Harris.


Monday, 29 June 2009

Murray beats Wawrinka ... Just

Congratulations to Andy Murray, who managed to see off a sustained challenge from Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka in a thrilling five setter on the Centre Court on Monday to make it through to the Wimbledon Quarter Finals. Andy won the match 2-6, 6-3, 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 and will play Juan Carlos Ferrero in the Quarter Finals on Wednesday. Good luck Andy.

Sunday, 28 June 2009

Random Glastonbury Fact!



According to Mark Radcliffe of the BBC, the Glastonbury fence is eight and a half miles long. No wonder everyone goes on about how vast Glastonbury is! Currently featuring on the Glastonbury highlights programme is Bon Iver, playing Skinny Love ... what an amazing artist! Nice beard and guitar too ...

Sunday Highlights from Glastonbury



More lovely stuff from Glastonbury, and great coverage from the BBC on their highlights programme. The Prodigy had the crowd rocking, with high energy performances from Liam and Keith, bright lights and bad language. The crowd loved it. It was good to see Blur return to the stage, it was as if they had never been away. Damon Albarn still has a passion for Fred Perry T-shirts, Alex James' other job is now a cheese farmer and Graham Coxon reminded us all just how good a guitarist he is. A big favourite with the crowd was Song 2, but our favourite has always been Country House, and Blur performed some more sedate numbers too, such as Beetlebum, and there was a rendition of Park Life which was also a crowd pleaser.

As we write this, Nick Cave, dressed in a smart three piece suit with flared trousers and a shirt with massive collars, is bringing his unique songs to the Glastonbury audience, whose flags are swaying along sedately underneath an orange sunset. One of the accompanying Bad Seeds guitarists has a ridiculously small electric guitar. Early we saw indie rock favourites the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, with their lead singer wearing brightly coloured leggings and an arty shawl/wrap, which was thrown off dramatically midway through one of their songs. This band has a great sound so we can almost forgive the guitarist destroying his guitar at the end of the set. Bat for Lashes is now performing, dressed in a sparkly rainbow sequin top, black lace gloves and purple leggings. She's singing "Daniel", which we believe is baseed on her childhood love of the Karate Kid, great song anyway. Lauren Laverne tells us Bat For Lashes has shamanic influences, which might explain why her keyboardist has a black crow stuck on their instrument.

Other performers at Glastonbury were Madness, with the band all wearing black shades and getting what we assume to be members of the crowd up on stage to dance in that distinctive Madness style. Welsh singer Tom Jones was also there singing Delilah, choosing a blue Satin suit for his performance, a blue satin shirt and his customary medallion.

Watch all the Glastonbury 2009 Coverage Again

BBC iPlayer currently has coverage of Franz Ferdinand, Lily Allen, Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen, Dizzee Rascal and Crosby, Stills and Nash. Great stuff, be quick though because it's not up there forever.

Saturday, 27 June 2009

Glastonbury Glamour is in Fashion

What's in fashion at Glastonbury 2009? It's all about Glastonbury Glamour. Fashion tips are to rock the glitter, add highlight touches to outfits to bring glamour and sophisticaqtion, 50s, wellies and fluorescents (Jo Whiley).

Glastonbury trendsetters include Daisy Lowe, the singer from the TingTings, Kate Moss (original), Lady Gaga, Lily Allen, Shingai from the Noisettes, Little Boots (hot pants, bright colours) and fashion designer Henry Holland.

Visit DropCost UK to find fashion at great prices. You might even find a purple catsuit like Lily Allen's, but as far as we know Lady Gaga's flame thrower bra is yet to hit the market.

Bruce Springsteen performs with The Gaslight Anthem

The Gaslight Anthem The 59 Sound Single

We're absolutely loving the BBC3 Glastonbury 2009 coverage at the moment. We've just seen Bruce Springsteen performing with The Gaslight Anthem. Bruce was the band's idol so you can imagine how their lead singer felt as they sang "The '59 Sound", The Gaslight Anthem's truly amazing single, which has the lyrics "Ain't supposed to die on a Saturday night" and something about hospital wards (the bit we seem to remember). Anyway, whilst we can't bring you the actual Glastonbury footage, we have found a high quality Director's Cut of the video to "The '59 Song" from YouTube, so you can hear the song we are raving about. You can also view Gaslight Anthem merchandise.

Maximo Park up next. Good isn't it!