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Säkert!

Säkert - Sanningsdan Säkert Discography [Jan 2007] Vi kommer att dö samtidigt [Feb 2007] Säkert! [May 2007] Allt som är ditt Band Members ♥ Annika Norlin ♥ Henrik Oja ♥ Daniel Berglund ♥ Lovisa Nyström ♥ Mats Hammarström Links Hello Saferide - Long Lost Penpal http://weheartmus... Hello Saferide is from Stockholm, Sweden, and is really just Annika Norlin. The name was inspired...

 

Säkert! is the Swedish-language project of Annika Norlin from Hello Saferide, which I previously mentioned on W♥M.

Recently, the band have been nominated for numerous awards in Sweden: Best Female Artist of 2007 on Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet's reader's choice award Rockbjörnen, the Swedish's version of the Grammy's (The Grammis Award) for Newcomer of the Year, plus Album of the year and Female artist of the year, among others!

It's easy to see why people are raving about Säkert! (which means "Sure!"), their debut album has one of the poppiest/catchies song called "Sanningsdan" (meaning "Truthday"?). Looking at the liner notes (all in Swedish), I think the male vocals is called Martin Hanberg from the band Sibiria. This song is excellent, in any language.

The only downside is that the whole album is in Swedish, although the album is well worth checking out if you are a Swedishpop fan (such the whole writing staff on W♥M).

I would have to say that though I can't understand it, I do get the general idea of what the song is about. For instance, "Det Kommer Bara Leda Till Nåt Ont" sounds like a dialogue between Norlin and Markus Krunegård. (I think it's about being naked or something).

Currently, it would seem that Norlin is quite busy, she's apparently the co-host (with Mattias Lindeblad) of a Swedish music radio show called Musikjournalen Live Session. I looked up Lindeblad, to see who he is, and apparently he was a bassit for a metal band called Liers in Wait from Gothenburg, Sweden.

Anyroad, I leave you now with Annika in an elevator, courtesy of musicadebolso.com.br:

 

 

�12/28/2007 19:10:37� vu my♥posts myspace sakert.blogspot.com

Top 7: Concerts

Josh Ritter and the Valley Girl Josh Ritter http://weheartmus... And the award for the happiest man alive goes to...Josh Ritter. From the moment he walked on the ...

These are the Top 7 in Concerts on W♥M.

There are some great concert reviews, I had to drop a few (apologies to Jack Penate, Ravenonettes, Last Town Chorus, and Jill Barber) in favor of just diversifying the different writers.

So, let's look at some of the concerts this year:

Ryan & Valley Girl went to see Josh Ritter, while Lara and Silpa wrote about Saint Bernadette.

The shows I wanted to mentioned was Robbers on High Street/Great Northern at 7th Street, with drawing! Plus Mark Olsen's show was equally memorable.

Silpa wrote about her show at the Village Underground for Girls Don't Cry and Lara attended the massive Fanatic Bands as part of the famous CMJ Music Showcase

Finally, Maggie takes the prize and wrote about her amazing concerts: Stars and Ming & Ping.

I don't know about you, but I'm looking forward to 2008. Hopefully, we'll bring even more concert experiences in the new year!

Ming & Ping http://weheartmus... Hong Kong is a city known for its East-meets-West sensibilities. HK-ese identical twins Ming & Pi... Delete	Hopewell - All Angels Road Fanatic Showcase @ The Annex, NYC (CMJ Music Marathon) http://weheartmus... After approximately 45 minutes of the New York obstacle course (sweaty subway blues, fragrant out...
Girls Don't Cry @ Village Underground http://weheartmus... The Village Underground's performance space is a funky brick-walled basement with blue light flo... Girls Don't Cry - That's the Sound	Great Northern - Low Is A Height Robbers on High Street at 7th Street, Minneapolis (11/17/2007) - Vox http://weheartmus... It was an cold night in Minneapolis, last night (Nov 17th), but we warmed up inside the 7th Stre...
Stars at the Orpheum Theatre, Los Angeles. Nov. 10, 2007 - Vox http://weheartmus... Last night the Canadian band Stars took over the beautiful Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angele... Stars - Heart	Saint Bernadette - Beat Dialogue Saint Bernadette at 11th Street Bar http://weheartmus... Though the space at 11th Street Bar seemed somewhat claustrophobic, with tables placed almost dir...

 12/28/2007 05:45:28  vu my♥posts www.weheartmusic.com

Earwig

Earwig - Center of the Earth Band Members ♥ Lizard McGee ♥ Matt Wagner ♥ Justin Crooks

Earwig - Used Kids

Earwig

Earwig are a band based out Columbus, Ohio. Self-proclaimed the "Anti-Next Big Thing" Earwig have been around for several years and can put together a nice 3 ½ minute rock song.

The band is comprised of Vocalist Lizard McGee, Bassist Matt Wagner and Drummer Justin Crooks. Truthfully, I had never heard of Earwig before and on first listen it reminded me of the Gin Blossoms. The songs on the latest release "Center of the Earth" are fun and catchy and in the spirit of DIY music they have an impressive following in their home state. They release all their own albums on their own "micro-indie" label LFM. To my surprise, "Center of the Earth" was released in 2006!

My favorites off "Center of the Earth" was the intro track "Used Kids" which really gives you a sense of Earwig at it's best. I'd love to see this band play this song live. There's so much energy in this song that the CD version doesn't even begin to do it justice. My other favorite is the 1:25 gem "Center of the Earth" which is just a sweet, sweet song.

You can stream the whole CD at their MySpace or visit the Earwig webby for more on their past releases. You can even buy "Center of the Earth" and their last CD "Perfect Past Tense" from the iTunes music store.

 12/27/2007 17:24:30  ceji my♥posts lizardfamily.com myspace.com/earwig

Lacey D

Lacey D - Man at Home Lacey D Influenced By Wynonna Judd, Trisha Yearwood, Jewel, Elvis Presley, Carrie Underwood, Bonnie Raitt, Faith Hill, Susan Tedschi, Carol King, LeAnn Rimes, Martina McBride, Norah Jones, Sheryl Crow, Jennifer Nettles Video Lacey D - One Heart

Lacey D has a debut album called Everyday Girl, released earlier this month, December 4, 2007. She's currently based in Washington, but reading her biography, she wrote that she's going to relocate to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue her country music career.

As you know, Nashville is home of all-things-country, but what you may not know is that each year the city put on the CMA Music Festival. Thousands of country music fans (including producers, managers, and talent scouts) flock the city for this event.

She started out singing at schools & churches, before meeting a songwriter/producer with a recording studio in Seattle. This lead to meeting Scott Turner, from Nashville, and, after hearing her sing, wanted to produce an album with her.

I'm looking at the time line here and it seem to have happened very quickly. This is a pretty amazing feat considering that you have to arranged all the songs, hire all the session musicians, and book the studio (Bayou Studios in Nashville) within the span of, maybe, six months (?), to cut and release the record in December.

The most interesting thing about this album is that there is a song called "One Heart" (written by Doc Pomus and Turner) that was meant for Elvis Presley. He never recorded it, so it was archived in the vaults until it resurfaced again to be recorded on this Everyday Girl album. So Elvis fans, you can hear a live version here. It's quite soulful and bluesy.

Anyway, I did enjoy the uptempo song such as "Simple as 1,2,3", "Everyday Girl", and "Man at Home". Especially "Man at Home" with this great line: "Well I've been up here singin' and my ears are ringin'/I've been pickin' this guitar all night/The road home's long, but it's my last song." This very country-pop song would be a great song to end a live set.

Everyday Girl is out right now on West Country Records and if you buy the CD directly from her website, chances are you're going to receive a bonus 5x7 autographed photo.

 12/27/2007 08:59:31  vu my♥posts www.laceyd.com myspace

Sia - Some People Have Real Problems

Tour Dates 02/15/08 Belly Up San Diego, CA 02/16/08 Club Congrss Tucson,AZ 02/18/08 Fillmore SF, CA 02/19/08 Wonder Portland, OR 02/20/08 Richard Vancouver,Can 02/21/08 Showbox Seattle, WA 02/23/08 Avalon Theater SLC, UT 02/24/08 Fox Theatre Boulder, CO 02/26/08 Fine Line Minnes, MN 02/27/08 Turner  Milwaukee, WI 02/29/08 Metro Chicago, IL [More tour dates on myspace] Band Members ♥ Sia Furler ♥ Sam Dixon ♥ Oliver Krause ♥ Gus Seyffert ♥ Brian Lebarton ♥ Felix Bloxsom Links Sia - Numb View site Zero 7 - Destiny View site

Sia - Academia Sia Audio Sia - Numb Destiny

Christopher mentioned Sia before (see link), well, she has a new album out on January 8th, 2008 (on sale in the UK on Jan 14th), called Some People Have Real Problems. It looks like her theme for this album is all pixelated "kid" drawings (I think they're all her art actually...).

The pixel art is also extended to her website, which may sound like a cool concept, but I just think it's hard to navigate. Please webmaster, stop using burning bright colors...

Sia Furler was already in the music scene with Crisp, an acid jazz band before releasing her debut OnlySee album in 1997.

She signed to Sony with Healing is Difficult (2000), but didn't get major recognition until Colour the Small One (2004). I first heard of her through the smash-hit song "Sunday" with that crazy video where she's being abused and trampled upon.

So anyway, in an effort to support her fourth album, Some People Have Real Problems, she is going to be on tour from February through March at fairly indie-friendly venues (I'm speaking from experiences because she's actually going to do Minneapolis).

I thought the best song off the new album is "Academia" because of the clever lyrics:

I am a dash and you are a dot
When will you see that I am all that you've got
I'm a binary code that you cracked long ago
But to you I’m just a novel that you wish you'd never wrote
I’m greater than x and lesser than y, so why is it
That I still can't catch your eye?
You're a cryptic crossword, a song I've never heard
While I sit here drawing circles I’m afraid of being hurt

 12/26/2007 22:20:31  vu my♥posts www.siamusic.net

Fort Pastor - Crazy

Crazy Fort Pastor Tour Dates 01/17/08 Lebanon Valley CollegeAnnville,PA 01/18/08 Wild Wing Cafe Wilmington, NC 01/19/08 Wild Wing Cafe Columbia, SC 01/20/08 Crossroads Church Greenville, SC 01/25/08 Lourdes College Sylvania, OH 01/26/08 Penn State Uni -Behrend Erie, PA 01/27/08 Avon Park UCC, Avon Park, OH 01/28/08 Penn State University - Hazelton, PA 01/29/08 Penn State University - York, PA 01/30/08 Penn State University - DuBois, PA 01/31/08 Penn State University - Altoona, PA [More tour dates on myspace] Band Members ♥ Brant Christopher Menswar ♥ Jeffrey Todd Keel ♥ Jono Callow Influenced By The Jon Butler Trio, Michael Franti, Spearhead, Billy Joel, Elton John, and James Taylor

I think I may have been over-zealous with my Christmas explosion (I even made a mix Christmas CD for anyone interested in getting a W♥M XMAS '07).

So getting back to work, I do have a few overdued CD reviews, so here we go with the first few batches:

Fort Pastor are from Orlando, Florida, and they have an album called Beautiful Imperfection (released October 9th, 2007) out on Koch Records. I actually really like Koch, based on the artists they pick to release (such as Ian Brown and Tim Burgess), so I was kind of really happy to get this to review.

The album starts off with that distinctive Didgeridoo sound, that's because one of the band member is from Melbourne, Australia, as described Christopher Menswar:

I'm a democrat, Jeff's a republican and Jono's an Australian

They seem to be a fun trio, and guess what? They're heading out on tour this January all the way to August, so check them out if they're heading through your city.

If you're wondering where their name came from, it's mentioned in "Dawn of the Dead", where basically everyone was trying to get to Ft Pastor from the mall. I was actually inspired to put on the DVD (I have three different version of the DVD: Original Cut, Extended Cut, and the European Cut - edited by Dario Argento with Goblin on the soundtrack!) So I can tell you that you never physically saw the fort.

Anyway, I really enjoyed Fort Pastor's "Crazy" (originally written and sung by Seal). Usually I really like cover songs that's completely different from the original. This version short of have a "world" sound to it, even beatnik.

It's actually not fair to choose a cover song to represent the band, so head over to their myspace to listen to original Fort Pastor songs.

Bonus: enjoy some other "Crazy" songs.

Seal - Crazy

Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - Crazy

Alanis Morissette - Crazy

Mushroomhead - Crazy

 12/26/2007 21:06:47  vu my♥posts www.fortpastor.com

Christmas Songs, Part 5

The Parselmouths - Voldy Baby The Parselmouths Harry Potter and the Phenomenon of Wizard Rock - We♥Music http://weheartmus... Today, the latest installment in the Harry Potter film series was released. Harry Potter and the ...

Alright, here's the final Christmas wrap-up (haha). They are fast and loose, so don't be too picky about my research.

The Parselmouths are two girls from Seattle, Washington, who writes Harry Potter songs through a Slytherin point of view. They're part of the Wizard Rock thing (see link).

They have an album called Sssss which they released last year. They seem to have been disenchanted (god I'm horrible with my puns) with traditional CD and will stop printing their debut album (currently it's selling at a reduced price of $8).

The Christmas song they did is a cover of "Santa Baby" (a song that's often miscredited to Marilyn Monroe) as "Voldy Baby" on the Jingle Spells: Leaky's Rocking Christmas (2007). All the details on this sold-out album is on the-leaky-cauldron.org.

More information on theparselmouths.com or myspace

George Strait - Merry Christmas Strait To You T.Rex - Christmas Bop Baxendale - Flash Gordon The Jackson Five - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus The White Stripes - Candy Cane Children

Speaking of puns, check out George Strait's "Merry Christmas Strait To You" from his 1986 album of the same name.

There are a few things I like about this song, first the 'strait' part and, second, it's very cheerful and unapologeticly country look and sound.

The other cheery and happier song I really like is T.Rex's "Christmas Bop", which I couldn't dig up any information about this Christmas single. It seem to have been released in 1976 and according to Rhino: "the quashed single". Was this song forcibly suppressed ? It's so good!

For those who don't know T.Rex, they are a wildly popular glam rocker from the 70s, whose lead singer, Marc Bolan tragically died of a car accident shortly before his 30th birthday. The band re-formed under Mickey Finn's direction, but renamed themselves as Mickey Finn's T.Rex until Finn's death in 2003.

The Lovers - Christmas Tree The Lovers The Lovers - French Kiss http://weheartmus... Fred and Marion are a real couple in their band, The Lovers. They're currently based out of Shef...

I previously mentioned The Lovers and their sex-drenched song "Christmas Tree" (I don't think she's singing about a tree, if you know what I mean) and so I thought I'd put up their BBC live performance.

A few songs will end this post: Baxendale's "Flash Gordon" is from A Very Magistery Christmas. I bought this song off of e-music and my number one complaint about e-music is that they don't offer album artwork - so apologies for the poor artwork.

As you know I love Baxendale and am sadden that they are no longer releasing music. You can read more about them on W♥M.

The Jackson Five's "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" is quite cute. I believe they only released one Christmas album (in 1970), but the album's been re-issued over the years with different artwork and tracklisting.

The original chart-topping song was recorded by Jimmy Boyd, who was barely 12 years old at the time.  Boyd went on to record several other #1 hits, but I've never heard of any of them :/

Finally, who doesn't like The White Stripes? V2 Records released Merry Christmas From ... The White Stripes on 7" in 2002.

The b-sides are pretty hilarious, it includes Meg White singing (or trying to sing while forgetting the lyrics) to "Silent Night".  The other b-side is just Jack White reading "Story of the Magi".

So happy Christmas, we'll do this again next year!

 

Cerebral Paul - The Spirit of Things

Edit: I was waiting for the artwork to "The Spirit Of Things", so I was finally given the image (it's very very tiny).

Cerebral Paul is a solo project from Paul Saylor, the keyboardist from Fish Relics.

He's offering this instrumental song for download on his myspace until midnight.... which is probably over by now.

In the spirit of the holidays, I've made my single In "The Spirit Of Things" available as a free download. This offer ends at midnight tonight, so get your copy now!

Find out more about Fish Relics on their myspace page.

 

 12/25/2007 19:02:34  vu my♥posts www.weheartmusic.com

Christmas Songs, Part 4: I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You

 

 

Claudine Longet - I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You

Claudine Longet

"I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You" is possibly my favorite Christmas song, written by Margo Guryan for Claudine Longet. Longet have always loved Christmas, marrying singer Andy Williams on Christmas Day (December 25th, 1961) and naming two of their children Noëlle and Christian.

Their marriage didn't last long, they separated in 1969 (officially divorced in 1975). By this time, she was seeing Olympic skier Vladimir "Spider" Sabich, who was fatally shot in 1976 by Longet.

In the trials, she claimed it was an accident, for which she was acquitted for felony manslaughter.

The irony she had made a recording of Cher's "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)".  It was later asked that she removed her song from public circulation.

 

 

Margo Guryan - I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You

Margo Guryan

Margo Guryan wrote "I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You" and as you can hear in her demo recording, it's slightly different (and I think superior to Longet's recording, even though she's lacking that French accent).

Guryan never toured or actively promoted her debut album Take a Picture (1968), so it failed to make much impact in the music charts. She retired and ended up being a music teacher and songwriter for other artists.

Here's an excerpt of an interview regarding her writings for Claudine Longet:

Excerpts from an August 23, 2001 phone conversation with Margo Guryan

Q: Tell me about writing songs for Claudine Longet.
A: Claudine Longet is the only artist that I ever wrote a tailor-made song for. With all my other songs, people ask me if I wrote them for different artists. I never did. I just wrote what I felt like writing. But Tommy LiPuma called David [Rosner, her husband/publisher] one day, and said "Can Margo write a song for Claudine? A Christmas song. No snow, no mistletoe, no presents under the tree. No mention of any of that stuff." So David asked me, and I wrote "I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You." As I was finishing the demo, there was a guy from UPS or some air-freight company standing in the studio, waiting for it. I was putting on a last vocal, and then they had to go out and make an acetate of it. They flew it to California, and she recorded it. Later, the group Saint Étienne heard it on Claudine's record, and they recorded it a year ago last Christmas for their fan club. It wasn't released commercially, but it was like the Christmas card they sent out to their fan club. And I've got a copy of that.

Q: What did you think of Claudine's versions of "Think of Rain" and "I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You"?
A: Well, obviously, I was very pleased that she did both of them. I was less than pleased with the Christmas song, because she didn't get the time right. But that may not have been her fault as much as the producer's. But ehh, I'd have to go through it, send you a lead sheet and show you where.

It's not worth it. Just say I loved it.

- From home.earthlink.net/~elbroome

Saint Etienne - I Don't Intend To Spend Christmas Without You Saint Etienne Saint Etienne - He's on the Phone http://weheartmus... The first Saint Etienne song I ever heard was 'He's On the Phone'-- I think it was on Rodney Bin...

St Etienne needs no introduction (in fact, Maggie did a wonderful article on them previously), they recorded "I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You" (based on the Longet version) and was made available to their fan club in 1998.

St Etienne must really love Christmas too, every couple of years they put out a Christmas EP for their fans. If you were interested in collecting them here are all their Christmas releases:

[1995] Xmas '95 (3-track CD single)
[1998] Xmas '98 (2-track CD single)
[2003] Xmas 2003 (3-track CD single initially given away free at Xmas '03 gigs then given out free to fanclub members in 2004)
[2006] Merry Xmas 2006 from Saint Etienne (2-track CD single given away free at the Saint Etienne Xmas Party Turntable Cafe on 21 December 2006)

- Information from wikipedia.org

 

 

 

Andy Williams - A Song and a Christmas Tree

Bonus: As I previously mentioned Longet being married to Andy Williams, he's quite the Christmas man himself! After giving up his The Andy Williams Show in 1971, he agreed to do Christmas specials in 1976. Throughout the years, he's released over eight Christmas albums, and I'm including a song from the re-issued The Andy Williams Christmas Album (1963).

This recording would've been pretty much around the time that he was married to Longet.

 12/25/2007 13:20:15  vu my♥posts www.weheartmusic.com

Top 7: Britpop

Salad - Party Salad Salad http://weheartmus... I finally finished my Vox banner! I decided to add some flowers in the background to make it a l...

This is the Britpop Top 7 on W♥M. Unlike the previous Top 7 entries, the selections of just Seven was quite hard for me. At the last minute, I had to drop Kula Shaker in favor of the obvious Shed Seven, purely based on their name. Get it ? Shedding Seven ???

Unfortunately, they're not the one spotlight, instead I have to go with Salad, because I get a lot of question about the W♥M banner. It is a vector of Marijne van der Vlugt, the singer of the band.

The last whereabout of Van der Vlugt is that she is the writer and singer of Cowboy Racer.  Their website is at cowboyracer.com and they also have a myspace page so you can hear what they sound like.

PS, you would think compiling these Top 7 is easy because it's basically just a collection of links, but it's not! Picking the best ones is really hard, I had to weigh all the 29 articles carefully. Special runner-ups includes: The Bluetones (will write about their 2007 album next year), Supergrass (too famous), Space (not quite Britpop), Powder (too unpopular!), and Gene (too, well, too Gene!).

Echobelly http://weheartmus... These days, Echobelly are just Sonya Madan and Glenn Johansson, but when they were at their heigh... Echobelly - Bunty	Lush - Ex Lush http://weheartmus... OMG!!!! Miki is coming back to music, as mentioned on www.seinkingships.com: 1-24-07 ...
Pulp http://weheartmus... When we last left my music history lesson, I had just been exposed to general "alternative" music... Pulp - The Boss (demo)	Me Me Me - Hanging Around Me Me Me http://weheartmus... Me Me Me - Hanging AroundMe Me Me 2 comments Milk, no sugar, thanks...Saturday morning, supposed...
Sleeper http://weheartmus... I used to be a radio disc jockey, I went by the name of "DJ Drivel-Head" (it was a bit of a joke... Sleeper - Bedside Manners	Shed Seven - Dolphin Shed Seven http://weheartmus... At one point in the conversation, Mel got up and said, "I have to leave!" and storms out of the r...

 12/24/2007 17:39:13  vu my♥posts www.weheartmusic.com

Christmas Songs, Part 3

Belle and Sebastian - Are You Coming Over For Christmas? Belle and Sebastian Belle & Sebastian http://weheartmus... The song is not really about Mike Piazza, but more or less a love song. If you follow the lyrics,...

Belle & Sebastian that well-loved band from Glasgow, Scotland, are back with a new Christmas song called "Are You Coming Over for Christmas?". The song is available for download on their official myspace on Christmas day.

Fans of B&S should already have their special Christmas Peel Session from 2002, but in case you don't have it, here the Christmas tracks from that session:

1. Oh Come All Ye Faithful
2. Christmas Time Is Here
3. Santa Claus (The Sonics)
4. Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto (James Brown)
5. Silent Night
6. O Little Town Of Bethlehem
7. Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me (Elvis Presley)
8. O Come O Come Emmanuel
9. I Took Some Time For Christmas
10. The Twelve Days of Christmas

 

The Pipettes - In the Bleak Midwinter The Pipettes The Pipettes http://weheartmus... Please note: that although these events are advertised as "Sold Out" on the venue's calendar list...

Here's another Christmas song from one of our favorite, The Pipettes. Good luck on finding this 7" single, as there were only two hundred of them made (by hand) and was only available at their Christmas show in 2004. The song, "In the Bleak Midwinter", is an old Lutheran Christmas Hymn, originally written by Gustav Holst.

They're currently on tour through Australia, but they still managed to put together a "Bandzine" The Pipettes Christmas Zine just time for Christmas. I did download the PDF file and it looks very professional for a bandzine.

Tour dates as follows:
12/29/07 The Factory Sydney, AUS
12/30/07 Tasmania Falls Festival Victoria, AUS
12/31/07 Tasmania Falls Festival Victoria, AUS
01/02/08 East Bruswick Melbourne, AUS
01/05/08 Southbound Festival Western Australia

Manic Street Preachers - Ghost of Christmas Manic Street Preachers Manic Street Preachers http://weheartmus... By popular request... ok one person mentioned it in a comment to the MoneySavingExpert post, but ...

Meanwhile, Manic Street Preachers is also offering a new Christmas song called "Ghost of Christmas" on their myspace. This is an original song with some jab at expensive technologies::

No xbox and no computers
We just used our imagination
A leather football was perfection
What more could you want

I wouldn't mind a soccer ball to play outside, but unfortunately it's snowing outside so I'm going to stay indoors with my PS3 :)

Anyway, the band is still around, releasing Send Away The Tigers on February 2007, and is actually the only album I don't have from this band. I guess, I'm just waiting to find it really cheap/used and there's really no compelling reason for me to rush out to get the album.

I think the only song I know off of it is "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" (that song with the Cardigans singer Nina Persson) which I think is quite popular.

Apparently so popular that NME have named MSP the 2008 "God Like Geniuses" Award.

Strawberry Fair - Let It Snow Strawberry Fair Strawberry Fair http://weheartmus... Hey, this is Vu on the road. I have the following pre-written offline on my trusty laptop and I'm...

Finally, remember the awesome Strawberry Fair (Jenny Franzén)? Lately she's been busy with her live band with: Mathias (Kissing Mirrors, Sarto, Twig), Alice (After School Sports, The Never Invited to Parties), David (The Morning Paper), Ida (The Bridal Shop), Maria (The Happy Birthdays^[W♥M]), appearing on Digfi playing some Christmas songs.

The two songs she did was "Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!" and "Winder Wonderland". I thought you can only watch it on Windows Media Player, but I was told that it will work on a mac using flip4mac.

The band was also recently on Rip It Up! 2007, you can watch some clips on youtube.

PS, this may be the last xmas post from me!  You're welcome!

 12/24/2007 09:41:29  vu my♥posts www.weheartmusic.com