Well I may have been living in a musical hole lately but one thing just
struck me; regardless of the Hip, Rock, Synth, Electro or just Cheesy
prefixes, there's a hell of a lot of British Pop acts around right now,
and they appear to be taking over the charts left right and center.
Well, inbetween Jacko that is.
Almost Top of the Pops right now is young 'un La Roux. Here she is trying to recreate the 80s pop sound again, in a suitably VCR quality vid of her Glastonbury appearance not too long ago.
Then there's BBC's Sound Of 2009 postergirl Little Boots, who gets my vote for best Glasto outfit. The hairdo ain't bad either. What? The music?! Erm... you decide. EDIT: Well that didn't last long. Well done BBC, ruining the promotion of artists once more... Here's the promo then:
I passed on chart darlings The Ting Tings
until I heard Mrs Ting speak. Jesus she sounds more of a northern lass
than I do. Which isn't quite right... But anyways, I promised to post
some so here they are in all their delay pedal glory:
And I better post this before I feck it up so... more to come in a few mins.
Ooook... and resume. Lily Allen. Love her or, more likely, hate her, Pop's current front woman can hardly be ignored. So hear you go. I'd post some of her Glasto appearance but I think we've had enought of 5 Kbps video for one post... So here's the official vid for "The Fear".
You didn't think I'd get through a post without writing about one
person you've never heard of, did you? Well thanks to the BBC's current
video-article on the UK Club Pop scene - today it's Dan Black
and his current single that should probably be harrassing the charts
much more than it is right now. It's not like it's the wrong genre or
anything...
And how can I leave without a nod to yet another decent band to come out of sleepy University town Aberystwyth - The Hot Puppies.
Luckily these lot were around while I was doing my degree, so I
actually got to see these lot play for once. I'm sure I've posted about
them here before but can't find the video so... And I've no idea what
they're doing now, but Wikipedia suggest... I hate to be rude but...
much Sleeper-esque inbreeding going on ;o) Oh those dirty dirty
puppies. Anyways, I'm not sure they're not quite as poppy as the above
but what can you do? And I swear I've posted this vid before... where
is it? Vu? You didn't steal it again did you?
Update: I forget the Noisettes' current gift to the advertising gods - Don't Upset The Rhythm.
So that's it. Is the UK pop scene back to full force? Or just a pop in the pan? In true DiS style... Discuss. Below. Somewhere. If you can find the button...
- Christpopher
Almost Top of the Pops right now is young 'un La Roux. Here she is trying to recreate the 80s pop sound again, in a suitably VCR quality vid of her Glastonbury appearance not too long ago.
Ooook... and resume. Lily Allen. Love her or, more likely, hate her, Pop's current front woman can hardly be ignored. So hear you go. I'd post some of her Glasto appearance but I think we've had enought of 5 Kbps video for one post... So here's the official vid for "The Fear".
- Christpopher
