All gather 'round the Holiday warmth of the... TV and celebrate Xmas Eve with a stiff belly warming drink around the Yule Log. Things just wouldn't be the same without it. So meld your cheese balls well in preparation for tomorrow's feast while watching the fire.
Chestnuts roasting........... in a marshmallow world........... =*HM*
1. Can't Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head (Bootleg with New Order)
2. Spinning Around (7th District Club Mental Mix)
3. Wow (Death Metal Disco Scene Remix)
4. Love At First Sight (Kid Creme Vocal Dub)
5. Slow (Chemical Brothers Mix)
6. Come Into My World (Fischerspooner Mix)
7. Red Blooded Woman (Whitey Mix)
8. I Believe In You (Mylo Mix)
9. In Your Eyes (Knuckleheadz Mix)
10. 2 Hearts (Mark Brown's Pacha Ibiza Upper Terrace Mix)
11. On A Night Like This (Bini & Martini Mix)
12. Giving You Up (Ritron Re-Rub Vocal Mix)
13. In My Arms (Sebastien Leger Vocal Mix)
14. The One (Britrocka Remix)
15. Your Disco Needs You (Casino Mix)
16. Boombox (LA Riots Remix)
Patrick Wolf announces details of the release of his 4th album, 'Battle', due next Spring. Patrick has chosen to abandon the traditional label route in order to regain full creative control by releasing through his own label, Bloody Chamber Music, funded via Bandstocks.com, the revolutionary funding vehicle that allows fans, indeed anyone, to take a stake in an album’s success through buying stocks at £10 a time. As stockholders, Bandstocks owners will receive a share in the album’s profits, and a variety of privileges. These will include the opportunity to attend Bandstocks-only special events, to buy limited edition albums, and be offered concert tickets before they go on general sale.
Patrick comments - “My roots in the music industry have always been firmly placed in independent music. As a teenager, I was inspired by visionary labels such as Digital Hardcore, Fierce Panda, Planet Mu, and Tigerbeat 6. As an 18 year old, I was given full creative space by the small label Faith and Industry to grow and to make the records and sounds I had to. After two independent releases I decided to experiment to see what would happen when a major label and my third album collided. It was very beneficial and a great learning curve for me, but I am very happy to be back in the creative, free world of independent music; on my own label, Bloody Chamber Music (A bloody chamber being a heart, a tribute to the book "The Bloody Chamber" by Angela Carter), started earlier this year.
So, here I am. Album four with my own record label. With the old world recording industry a rapidly sinking ship; recording studios closing weekly, free downloads daily, more musicians hitting the long road than ever before to feed themselves, I am happy to have come across a new intimate system of audience and artist participation called Bandstocks. This will be funding Bloody Chamber Music, and the international physical and digital release of my fourth album, Battle, and its collective singles. It’s an exciting game we can play together; you get to be an investor and stakeholder in the album. You will get special editions, first copies of the album, private privileges and mixes... and we get to conquer the world together and show that independence and self sufficiency are the two ways forward and out of the mess the industry is in.
When I pressed my first EP we made one thousand vinyl copies. We sold these at friends’ shops across the UK, and with the money made we funded the mix of Lycanthropy. The music industry needn’t be so complicated or Wizard of Oz. It’s time to drop the curtain and stop relying on a stale patriarchy. I'm excited, I hope you are too. Welcome to the future!”
Bandstocks’ founder, Andrew Lewis, comments "Patrick is an original and genuine talent, destined for great things. I have been a huge fan since I was first introduced to his music four years ago and am extremely excited and honoured by his decision to work with Bandstocks. Bandstocks was designed for artists like Patrick: artists who want to control their own destinies and aren't afraid to take the road less travelled to get there." -From Bandstock.com
Rating Everything Else XXX XXX.
Nothing matters but that space in between the noise. You might as well fill it with something you can dance to... I'll show you my playlist if you show me yours...
"All I can ever be to you is a darkness that we knew And this regret I had to get accustomed to. Once it was so right, when we were at our high, waiting for you in the hotel at night. I knew I hadn't met my match, but every moment we could snatch, I don't know why I got so attached..." -Amy Winehouse, "Tears Dry On Their Own"
"So school is in session Get your chin off your desk Now pick up your pencil And turn over your test Use your education And take an educated guess About me..." -Ani Difranco, "Educated Guess"
"I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that i almost belive that they're real i've been living so long with my pictures of you that i almost believe that the pictures are all i can feel..." -The Cure, "Pictures of You"
"Hey I'll always wish I was with you. Hurt me. You can't kill me. Whatever you want to do. Hey I'll always wish I held your hand, and I would take away the Acid if I thought you'd understand... But I don't think you understand" -Emm Gryner, "Acid"
Pop Tarts...
"Now I grant you... I've partied." -Whitney Houston
"I always listen to 'NSYNC's Tearin' Up My Heart. It reminds me to wear a bra." -Britney Spears
"I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that ever happened, and vice versa." -Frank Zappa
"Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth." -Christina Aguilera
"I took a lot of them, I took a bunch of pain killers." -Eninem
Music spins me round round baby...
From all the drugs The one i like more is music From all the junks The one i need more is music From all the boys The one i take home is music From all the ladies The one i kiss is music (muah!)
Music is my boyfriend Music is my girlfriend Music is my dead end Music is my imaginary friend Music is my brother Music is my great-grand-daughter Music is my sister Music is my favorite mistress
From all the shit The one i gotta buy is music From all the jobs The one i choose is music From all the drinks The one i get drunk of music From all the bitches The one i wannabe is music
Music is my beach house Music is my hometown Music is my kingsize bed Music is where i meet my friends Music is my hot hot bath Music is my hot hot sex Music is my back rub My music is where i'd like you to touch
-CSS, "Music is My Hot Hot Sex"
What will wash up in 2009?
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