Where Was Your Mind??

It's strange the things you'll randomly find on youtube, like this Ballet Recital to The Pixies, "Where Is My Mind"!!

Ballet Recital.

Shake it like a ladder to the Sun!

Oh yes!!!! Yeah Yeah Yeahs are back with a bang!

"So get your leather, leather, leather on on on on"

I have been eagerly awaiting YYYs to release something since "Show Your Bones" and now the time has finally come.
YYYs new single "Zero" is bursting with Karen O's distinctive vocals. Allegedly the band are trying to steer their music in a new direction but this track is dosed with elements of classic YYYs that we love to hear.



YYYs new album "It's Blitz" will be released on the 13th of April 2009 and the trio will also be appearing at this years Oxegen Festival in Punchestown, Co. Kildare.

Also here's a very unique cover of "Maps" for all you YYYs fans.

It's all about Fever Ray.

Karen Dreijer of Swedish band "The Knife" has just released a self-titled solo album under her moniker "Fever Ray".

Her vocals are as stunningly eerie as they ever were with "The Knife" especially on her break through track "When I Grow Up"

Another great track to look out for is "If I Had A Heart", especially Familjen Remix

Myspace: Fever Ray

Fever Ray are definitely going to be huge in 2009.

Fever Ray Album is due out on March 18th 2009.

This Monday, Feb 23rd, School of Seven Bells will be playing their first Irish gig in Whelans of Wexford Street. The New York based trio were formed by Benjamin Curtis of "Secret Machines", together with identical twin sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza formally of "On! Air! Library!"

School of Seven Bells are named after mythical South American pickpocket training academy.
Their 2009 tour sees them supporting the like of White Lies, Bat for Lashes and Fujiya & Miyagi.

Tickets are only €12.50 and can be sourced from Whelans itself www.whelanslive.com
or on www.ticketmaster.ie

Check out SOSB on Myspace
or the bands website SVIIB

School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep

LADYHAWKE, Feb 5th

New Zealand born Pip Brown, brought her 80s-tinged synth popband LADYHAWKE to the Academy in Dublin on February 5^th. Ladyhawke gained an early sympathetic vote from the crowd for turning up. The bands flight was diverted to Belfast due to adverse weather but luckily were offered a lift to Dublin just in time to make their gig.

The very shy Pip quietly welcomes the crowd and applauds them for coming out on such an icy cold night before they kick into their set. You can sense the enjoyment coming from the crowd as Ladyhawke belt out “Magic”, “Love Don’t Live Here”, “Another Runaway” and “Back of The Van”. When it comes to the bands latest single “Dusk Till Dawn” the crowd are jumping around to the extra long intro until the backing track skips and the band are forced to abandon their most popular hit. “Danny and Jenny” a b-side is introduced to an audience who have no clue as to what a b-side is.

The band leave the stage implying that the gig is over until Pip reappears giggling into the microphone “Oh, I always feel silly coming off when I know it’s not actually my last song.” When the band start into “My Delirium” the whole crowd are simultaneously rocking out and dancing around to the vocals of the leading lady. Ladyhawke thankfully decide to give “Dusk Till Dawn” another go. This time the intro is much shorter but luckily they make it through the song avoiding any mess ups. The gig ends abruptly, like most gigs do when the artist only has the one album, but it was obvious by the audience that Irish fans will be anticipating Pips next visit.

©Karen Spellman.