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W♥M267: Sleeper

W♥M267: Sleeper (35 mins) Read More Sleeper I love fanzines. How I got into them were through Tower Records' massive magazine stand. They would sometime carry local fanzines. Usually the type of 'zines I was interested in were Morrissey, Suede…

Jon Stewart of Sleeper dropped in on W♥M Radio. Guitarist Jon, along with singer/guitarist Louise Wener, drummer Andy Macclure and bassist Diid Osman formed Sleeper in 1993.

Topics:

Surrender Dorothy and Sleeper

“Sleeper U.K.”

Indolent Records for UK and Arista Records (later BMG) for America

Britpop Movement

New live band members: Kieron Pepper on bass, Aimee on keys, and Neil on additional guitars

2017 shows (Brighton and Birmingham)

Star Shaped Festival (Britpop Music Festival)

Special Sleeper Christmas show on 02 December 2017

Song of the show: Sleeper’s ‘What Do I Do Now?’.

Sleeper is currently on tour:

29/07/2017 - O2 Institute Birmingham, Digbeth*
05/08/2017 - O2 Forum Kentish Town, London*
12/08/2017 - O2 ABC Glasgow, Glasgow*
19/08/2017 - O2 Ritz Manchester, Manchester*
02/12/2017 - O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, London

* Star Shaped Festival: Sleeper with The Bluetones, Space, Dodgy, My Life Story, and Salad

Bonus Section:

Elvis Costello’s ‘What Do I Do Now?’ cover

“That’s us, low-rent Blondie, that’s us”

Trainspotting used Sleeper’s ‘Atomic’ and ‘Statuesque’

Brand new Sleeper songs?

‘Little Annie’

Chuck D (Public Enemy)

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Pump Up The Volume (1990)

Pump Up The Volume (1990) New Line Cinema Read More Films I’m a sucker for the sports documentary. From “the thrill of victory” to the “agony of defeat” and all nuances in-between, I find it all fascinating. However, I have a special affection for the “Field Of Broken Dreams” .…

One of the best music teen angst film is Pump Up The Volume. The film was released in 1990, written and directed by Allan Moyle and starring Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis.

If you've never seen it, it is about Mark Hunter, who just moved to Phoenix, Arizona. He's a little anti-social, and expressed himself through a personality called Happy Harry Hard-On via a small FM pirate radio station that broadcasts from the basement of his parents' house. His station is popular with his high school and, of course, the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) eventually stepped in and try to stop the pirate broadcast.

As the movie's theme song, "Everybody Knows" by Leonard Cohen plays over the opening credit, you get a glimpse of Hunter's "underground" bands on cassette tapes: The Jesus and Mary Chain, Camper Van Beethoven, Primal Scream, Soundgarden, Ice-T, Bad Brains, Concrete Blonde, Henry Rollins, and The Pixies (see image below).

Pump Up the Volume Soundtrack MCA Records

The official soundtrack, released by MCA Records on August 14, 1990, features Concrete Blonde's version of "Everybody Knows", not the Leonard Cohen original. This is possible due to costs and licensing issues. For example, the movie Trainspotting wanted to use Blondie's "Atomic", but it was so expensive to license that the movie producer spent a fraction of that cost and had Sleeper record a cover of that song (that information was given on the audio commentary of the Trainspotting laser disc.) Instead, if you watch the movie, the Concrete Blonde's version does appear on Hunter's final broadcast.

Pump Up The Volume's soundtrack still holds up, as does the film. Although, I do find it hard to believe that some of the actors that appeared in Pump Up The Volume are teenagers, despite the fact that Slater previously appeared as a teenager in Heathers.

If you enjoyed Pump Up The Volume, other films, from this era, worth checking out: Say Anything... (1989), Dazed And Confused (1993), Singles (1992), Empire Records (1995), and, of course, Trainspotting (1996).

Pump Up the Volume: Soundgarden, Camper Van Beethoven, Pixies, and Henry Rollins New Line Cinema

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