It's been pretty quiet around here as of late, what with Ramadan and all, but I did watch Jools Holland's programme the other day (gasp!) and there were a couple of standout tracks on it, as well as an entire performance by the Manics! Not putting any Manics up though. Instead these...
First off, a track by Mark Ronson and his band with some guests, one of whom is Boy George. Boy looks quite strange but I like his voice on this. Not sure if he's doing more work that I'm not hearing about but he still has a voice that's worth hearing, I think, though he does seem to run out of puff a bit here and there:
Incidentally, the other track that Ronson and his band performed was a bit crap so I forwarded it -- something I also did with my second selection, by Klaxons. Quite liked this though; singer's a bit strange looking isn't he? But who am I to judge:
One more post to finish things, unrelated to the two above. Tim Westwood, Radio 1's longtime rap and hip-hop DJ, is being pulled off the air. He's a bit of a character but even I heard some good tunes on his show back in the day, only to return to the States and find out the tracks were quite underground. Came across this video when reading about him some more -- it's a UK hip-hop documentary from 1987 that Westwood put together. Probably worth checking out if you like that sort of thing:
First off, a track by Mark Ronson and his band with some guests, one of whom is Boy George. Boy looks quite strange but I like his voice on this. Not sure if he's doing more work that I'm not hearing about but he still has a voice that's worth hearing, I think, though he does seem to run out of puff a bit here and there:
Incidentally, the other track that Ronson and his band performed was a bit crap so I forwarded it -- something I also did with my second selection, by Klaxons. Quite liked this though; singer's a bit strange looking isn't he? But who am I to judge:
One more post to finish things, unrelated to the two above. Tim Westwood, Radio 1's longtime rap and hip-hop DJ, is being pulled off the air. He's a bit of a character but even I heard some good tunes on his show back in the day, only to return to the States and find out the tracks were quite underground. Came across this video when reading about him some more -- it's a UK hip-hop documentary from 1987 that Westwood put together. Probably worth checking out if you like that sort of thing:
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