Tag: nirvana
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Teen Sprite
https://vimeo.com/249694026 Ahh that’s much better. Happier. Fitter. Stronger. I need a drink… “a pop punk band from La Jolla, CA.” – LOL. (Sometimes you see a video and although the whole major chord thing isn’t new, you just know it’s going to go viral immediately. This is one. WATCH! Or regret until you see it…
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How to make me feel very old
Kids React To Things seems designed to make me feel very old. Here they react to Walkmans, but also a previous one was the Rotary/Dial Telephone. After watching the Walkman video I’m like COME ON – they don’t know what headphones are? They don’t have iPods or headphones for their phones? Hmm. That technology hasn’t…
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You’ll never work in television again
A friend posting the infamous Orbital video lead to a journey into those musical moments where bands not only rebelled, refused to do as they were told, or just plain failed and created classic moments of TV. In the case of Orbital – Chime this is where a dispute over miming lead the Hartnoll brothers…
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New Videotones videos shown at Glastonbury inc a premiere from me: Kleptones – Brightness and Contrast
Yup you read correctly – Videotones videos including the premiere of this one (Brightness and Contrast) shown at Glastonbury part of Kleptones AV set – they are playing tonight (Sunday at 11pm – Rabbit Hole Stage, The Park). ‘Tell me now how does it feel’ – Music has become branding and branding has become music;…
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Videotones #2 – Kleptones – This Song Smells by BorisB
Yes installment #2* in the VideoTones saga is BorisB’s excellent video for Kleptones ‘This Song Smells’, which takes Nirvana’s ‘Smell Like Teen Spirit’ and Blur’s ‘Song 2’ and mashes them together – so blindingly obvious so of course no-one has done it before 😀 A veritable variety of vivacious video vernacular, especially where it builds…
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The NirGaGa Saga
I’ve been keeping tabs on the whole NirGaGa Saga, where DJ Lobsterdust‘s Nirvana vs Lady Gaga got a Cease and Desist recently from EMI, as well as Bootie for putting it on their Best of Bootie 2009 CD. I’ll let DJ Lobsterdust describe the timeline in his own words: september – Nirgaga (Nirvana vs. Lady…