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BIRDY: People Help The People. 15-year-old Jasmine Van den Bogaerde’s pure and silvery voice is little short of perfection on this stirring cover of Cherry Ghost’s original. The song’s universal themes and poignant melody make it perfect for someone yet to sit exams. 3.5 BORN BLONDE: Radio Bliss. A modern take on Britpop, with a twinkly backing track that lives up to its blissful title. 3.5 CHER LLOYD FT. MIKE POSNER: With Ur Love. A vast improvement on her painful and gimmicky debut, this is cutesy R&B with a fairly average cameo from Posner. 3 KELLY ROWLAND: Down For Whatever. Another clubtastic dance track from the X Factor judge, in which she explains her undiscerning approach to socialising. 3 SEAN PAUL FT. ALEXIS JORDAN – Got 2 Luv U: This synthy duet marks a decent comeback from the Get Busy rapscallion, aided by Jordan’s honey-vocalled chorus. 3 DOG IS DEAD – Hands Down: Youthful Indie pop in a similar ilk to Bombay Bicycle Club – this is gentle and palatable, but is at times suspiciously similar to Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know. 3 ARCTIC MONKEYS – Suck It And See: Alex Turner et al provide their fans with what they expect on this gently-paced number which features their trademark jangling guitars and wryly delivered lyrics. 3 KOOKY popster Megan Washington is a real maverick. She’s Papua New Guinea’s only chart star and uses KNITTING NEEDLES and CAR KEYS as instruments. Her debut album I Believe You Liar was a smash in Australia, selling truckloads and topping the charts. It’s only just come out in the US and is released here on November 7 — but that has meant she’s been stuck on the road. Megan, 25, said: “I don’t really live anywhere right now and I haven’t for almost two years, I’ve been back- packing with a keyboard which is a very inconvenient way to do it. “It doesn’t have the same romance as jumping on a train with an acoustic guitar. I have to wheel this 35kg keyboard around in a case. It doesn’t have the same glamour.” Her unorthodox approach seeped into the recording on the album’s big single Holy Moses. Megan said: “I recorded the demo with my friend in LA and he had a little stu- dio in his house. He didn’t have a drum kit or any per- cussion, so we improvised. “He pulled the trash can in and I was knitting at the time, so I used the needles, then started jangling his car keys. “We redid it properly in a studio but it didn’t sound right, so I stuck with that demo — it gave the song its personality.” Now Megan is about to embark on her first UK tour. She’s at Edinburgh’s Elec- tric Circus on Tuesday and then the following night at King Tut’s in Glasgow. But it won’t be an ostentatious affair — unlike her spectacular videos. Bonkers Megan said: “I have a very, very deep love of old Hollywood musicals. “I love the escapism and the pure theatre — that art for art’s sake mentality. “I’ve been waiting my whole life for someone to put me in a musical. “So when I got to make videos, I thought ‘I’ll make my own musical’. Luxury “They do feature dancing and a cast of extras but that’s a luxury I can only sustain on camera. “Ironically, the shows are hard to describe. It’s gro- tesquely real how things get on stage and often I disgust myself, it’s kind of creepy. “For this particular tour, I think I’m going to get rid of my band for the middle of the set — and take the time to stretch out. Before that I’ve done shorter shows so I’ve had to power through and bring the attention back to where it truly belongs, which is me.” Q Get tickets and pre-order the album at washingtonmusic.com.au [email protected] By ERIC MACKINNON ALICE COOPER’S CV lists movies, millions of album sales and even penning an episode of The Simpsons. But the shock rocker has one burning ambition to realise before he hangs up his mic — treading the boards of BROADWAY. The 63-year-old rock icon is floating the idea of taking his 1975 classic Welcome To My Nightmare album and recent Welcome 2 My Nightmare follow- up to the theatre. Alice, who is set to haunt and thrill Glasgow’s SECC on Hallow- een with his legendary live performance — littered with his ‘normal’ props of guillotines, electric chairs and snakes — said: “I would like to see Welcome To My Nightmare parts one and two as one Broadway show. “We could do all of WTMN as act one, an intermission and then all of W2MN as act two, then do an encore with all the hits like School’s Out. It would be bril- liant to do a month on Broadway with just that show. “You could have some of the seats rigged for shocks, smell-o-vision could attack all the senses. I am sending this idea out there because I think I’d need a sponsor and someone to come in and really put it together. “I think you’d need somebody who was experienced on Broad- way to tell us what’s doable and what’s not. “The only thing I’d insist is we’d not water down any songs. “A lot of shows go onto Broad- way and suddenly become all orchestra. I’d insist there be a rock band on stage. “The funny thing is I don’t have to play Alice. Somebody else could do that and I could direct him. I could still play Alice but 15 years from now somebody else could play the role.” The veteran shock-rocker is currently touring Welcome 2 My Nightmare, which boasts some surprising guest artists including pop-rapper Ke$ha. Alice explained: “I thought, ‘let’s go back and pull in some of the themes from the original album’. “At the same time I wanted to write songs which would give Alice a brand new nightmare. “We had to think about what Alice’s nightmare would be 35 years later? “I think disco would still be a nightmare for Alice so we did a really cool disco song — and tech- nology would be a nightmare too. Diva “I also thought if Alice was going to meet the devil in his nightmare who would that be? Originally I thought Christopher Lee would be great but it would make Alice far more anxious if the devil was a pop diva. “That’s where Ke$ha came into the picture. She did a great job. We wrote the song What Baby Wants and it turned out one of the best songs on the album.” Alice reckons Ke$ha, along with Lady GaGa, shows more ‘rock’ tendencies than most rock bands. He said: “I met Lady GaGa and really liked her a lot. “We got on very well and I think both her and Ke$ha are the two most rocking of all the girls out there. “It’s interesting now in rock ‘n’ roll that all the young guy bands are wimpy and it is the girl bands with all the image. Every- body’s so PC right now.” Monday’s gig will be the first time Alice has spent Halloween with his Scottish fans — and he wants a night to remember. He added: “It’s going to be fun on Halloween . . . there are a lot of ghosts in Glasgow.” HOT HOT TRACKS TRACKS HOT TRACKS NEW MUSIC CLUBBING BY JIM GELLATLY LIGHTGUIDES WHO: Mark Cowan (guitar/vocals), Martin Murray (guitar), David Cowan (drums/vocals) WHERE: Glasgow FOR FANS OF: Jimmy Eat World, Biffy Clyro, Twin Atlantic JIM SAYS: It’s funny how a name change can freshen things up — but I suppose We Hung Your Leader might not be the sort of moniker that suggests superstar status. Somehow LightGuides seems more palatable. It’s a couple of years since this Glasgow pop-punk trio switched, so it’s well and truly confined to history. LightGuides was the name of a We Hung Your Leader song. Originally formed while at school, brothers Mark and David and mate Martin have been crafting their art since graduating from uni. They followed their debut mini-album with a bunch of high-profile support slots, and secured a place on the T Break Stage for emerging acts at T In The Park in 2010. Now they are looking beyond our borders. Signing to Oxford label Alcopop! has certainly put them in the shop window down south. Mark told me: “Alcopop! approached us after we sent out album demos in January. They signed us before seeing us live which we always joke about, but Jack and Kev are the most ambitious and encouraging guys the band have ever been involved with. “We’re very lucky to be part of the Alcopop! family. “It’s home to some amazing bands like Jumping Ships, Stagecoach and Johnny Foreigner.” The latest LightGuides mini-album Samba Samba Samba has been picking up some great reviews. Inevitably compared to Biffy, they add another dimension to Scotland’s diverse rock scene. On one side of the coin they can rock as hard as anyone, but they pull it back with ease to lay down some beautiful melodies. Currently planning a special show in Glasgow for Christmas, plus some European dates in the New Year, and with more new material in the pipeline, the future looks exceedingly bright for LightGuides. MORE: lightguidesmusic.co.uk Q Jim will be playing Light- Guides on In:Demand Uncut — Sunday 7-10pm on Clyde 1, Forth One, Northsound 1, Radio Borders, Tay FM, West FM & West Sound FM. See jimgellatly.com ! PRESSURE @ The Arches, Glasgow, tonight: It’s techno heaven as Loco Dice, below — resident at Ibiza’s notorious DC10 — headlines the back arch, with local legends Slam warming up behind the decks. In the front arch, Swedish label Drumcode celebrates its 15th birth- day with founder Adam Beyer, Joseph Capriati and Harvey McKay — and the Slam lads also head through to play a live set. It’s a high-octane weekend at the venue — tomorrow night trance superstar Eddie Halliwell brings his Ed-It live show to the stage. $ JACKHAMMER @ The Caves, Edinburgh, tonight: A double dose of heavyweight techno and electro as veterans Billy Nasty and Radioactive Man join forces for a special Radio- Nasty show. Between them they’ve clocked up almost four decades of influen- tial productions and DJ sets so it’s sure to go with a bang. Support comes from Wolfjazz and Keyte. % HOW’S YOUR PARTY x VITA- MINS @ Sub Club, Glasgow, tonight: Superb line-up of cutting- edge talent, with broken beat legend Seiji and post-dubstep man-of-the-moment Objekt, not to mention hi-tech beats from Lando Kal. Sam and Shaun from Vita- mins do the warm-up honours. & HEAVY GOSSIP & ULTRA- GROOVE @ Green Room/ Below Stairs, Edinburgh, tomorrow: This haven for real house in the capital is going from strength to strength and this Halloween ball should be a belter. Get your fancy dress on and check out residents Gareth Sommerville and Nick Yuill, plus Harry Bennett, Jonathan Herd and the Juicy DJs, playing the best deep house and disco grooves. ( ELEMENTS OF SOUL @ Basura Blanca, Glasgow, tonight: Ace house night cele- brates its third birthday in this super-cool Merchant City base- ment. Irish duo Fish Go Deep are the guests, with Stephen Rodgers and Nick Ferrara warming up. Q Email your listings to tom.churchill@ the-sun.co.uk FILMS MUSIC DVDs GAMES BOOKS COMEDY BY CHRIS SWEENEY BY TOM CHURCHILL ONES 2 WATCH REGGAE lad Natty is just back from a US trip with Ziggy Marley. He hits The Arches in Glasgow on November 8 and Edinburgh’s Cabaret Voltaire the night after. Get info at nattymusic. com TEENAGE sensation Jess Hall hails from the unlikely outpost of Swindon, but who cares — she has some cracking pop tunes. First single Play Shy is a total gem. Give it a listen now at jesshallmusic.com 4 SFTW Friday, October 28, 2011
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BIRDY: PeopleHelp The People.15-year-old Jasmine Van denBogaerde’s pure and silveryvoice is little short of perfectionon this stirring cover of CherryGhost’s original. The song’suniversal themes and poignantmelody make it perfect forsomeone yet to sit exams. 3.5BORN BLONDE: Radio Bliss. Amodern take on Britpop, with atwinkly backing track that livesup to its blissful title. 3.5CHER LLOYD FT. MIKEPOSNER: With Ur Love. A vastimprovement on her painfuland gimmicky debut, this iscutesy R&B with a fairlyaverage cameo from Posner. 3KELLY ROWLAND: Down ForWhatever. Another clubtasticdance track from the X Factorjudge, in which she explainsher undiscerning approach tosocialising. 3SEAN PAUL FT. ALEXISJORDAN – Got 2 Luv U: Thissynthy duet marks a decentcomeback from the Get Busyrapscallion, aided by Jordan’shoney-vocalled chorus. 3DOG IS DEAD – Hands Down:Youthful Indie pop in a similarilk to Bombay Bicycle Club –this is gentle and palatable, butis at times suspiciously similarto Keane’s Somewhere OnlyWe Know. 3ARCTIC MONKEYS – Suck ItAnd See: Alex Turner et alprovide their fans with whatthey expect on thisgently-paced number whichfeatures their trademarkjangling guitars and wrylydelivered lyrics. 3
KOOKY popster MeganWashington is a realmaverick.She’s Papua New Guinea’sonly chart star and usesKNITTING NEEDLES and CARKEYS as instruments.Her debut album I BelieveYou Liar was a smash inAustralia, selling truckloadsand topping the charts.It’s only just come out inthe US and is released hereon November 7 — but thathas meant she’s been stuckon the road.Megan, 25, said: “I don’treally live anywhere rightnow and I haven’t for almosttwo years, I’ve been back-packing with a keyboardwhich is a very inconvenientway to do it.“It doesn’t have the sameromance as jumping on atrain with an acoustic guitar.
I have to wheel this 35kgkeyboard around in a case.It doesn’t have the sameglamour.”Her unorthodox approachseeped into the recording onthe album’s big single HolyMoses.Megan said: “I recordedthe demo with my friend inLA and he had a little stu-dio in his house. He didn’thave a drum kit or any per-cussion, so we improvised.“He pulled the trash canin and I was knitting at thetime, so I used the needles,then started jangling his carkeys.“We redid it properly in astudio but it didn’t soundright, so I stuck with thatdemo — it gave the song itspersonality.”Now Megan is about toembark on her first UK tour.She’s at Edinburgh’s Elec-tric Circus on Tuesday and
then the following night atKing Tut’s in Glasgow.But it won’t be anostentatious affair — unlikeher spectacular videos.Bonkers Megan said: “Ihave a very, very deep loveof old Hollywood musicals.“I love the escapism andthe pure theatre — that artfor art’s sake mentality.“I’ve been waiting mywhole life for someone toput me in a musical.“So when I got to makevideos, I thought ‘I’ll makemy own musical’.
Luxury“They do feature dancingand a cast of extras butthat’s a luxury I can onlysustain on camera.“Ironically, the shows arehard to describe. It’s gro-tesquely real how things geton stage and often I disgustmyself, it’s kind of creepy.“For this particular tour, Ithink I’m going to get rid ofmy band for the middle ofthe set — and take the timeto stretch out. Before thatI’ve done shorter shows soI’ve had to power throughand bring the attention backto where it truly belongs,which is me.”Q Get tickets and pre-order thealbum at washingtonmusic.com.au
By ERIC MACKINNON
ALICE COOPER’S CV listsmovies, millions of albumsales and even penning anepisode of The Simpsons.But the shock rocker has oneburning ambition to realise beforehe hangs up his mic — treadingthe boards of BROADWAY.The 63-year-old rock icon isfloating the idea of taking his1975 classic Welcome To MyNightmare album and recentWelcome 2 My Nightmare follow-up to the theatre.Alice, who is set to haunt andthrill Glasgow’s SECC on Hallow-een with his legendary live
performance — littered with his‘normal’ props of guillotines,electric chairs and snakes — said:“I would like to see Welcome ToMy Nightmare parts one and twoas one Broadway show.“We could do all of WTMN asact one, an intermission and thenall of W2MN as act two, then doan encore with all the hits likeSchool’s Out. It would be bril-liant to do a month on Broadwaywith just that show.“You could have some of theseats rigged for shocks,smell-o-vision could attack all thesenses. I am sending this idea out
there because I think I’d need asponsor and someone to come inand really put it together.“I think you’d need somebodywho was experienced on Broad-way to tell us what’s doable andwhat’s not.“The only thing I’d insist iswe’d not water down any songs.“A lot of shows go onto Broad-way and suddenly become allorchestra. I’d insist there be arock band on stage.“The funny thing is I don’thave to play Alice. Somebody elsecould do that and I could directhim. I could still play Alice but
15 years from now somebody elsecould play the role.”The veteran shock-rocker iscurrently touring Welcome 2 MyNightmare, which boasts somesurprising guest artists includingpop-rapper Ke$ha.Alice explained: “I thought,‘let’s go back and pull in some ofthe themes from the originalalbum’.“At the same time I wanted towrite songs which would giveAlice a brand new nightmare.“We had to think about whatAlice’s nightmare would be 35years later?“I think disco would still be anightmare for Alice so we did areally cool disco song — and tech-nology would be a nightmare too.
Diva“I also thought if Alice wasgoing to meet the devil in hisnightmare who would that be?Originally I thought ChristopherLee would be great but it wouldmake Alice far more anxious ifthe devil was a pop diva.“That’s where Ke$ha came intothe picture. She did a great job.We wrote the song What BabyWants and it turned out one ofthe best songs on the album.”Alice reckons Ke$ha, along withLady GaGa, shows more ‘rock’tendencies than most rock bands.He said: “I met Lady GaGa andreally liked her a lot.“We got on very well and Ithink both her and Ke$ha are thetwo most rocking of all the girlsout there.“It’s interesting now in rock ‘n’roll that all the young guy bandsare wimpy and it is the girlbands with all the image. Every-body’s so PC right now.”Monday’s gig will be the firsttime Alice has spent Halloweenwith his Scottish fans — and hewants a night to remember.He added: “It’s going to be funon Halloween . . . there are a lot ofghosts in Glasgow.”
HOTHOTTRACKSTRACKSHOTTRACKS
NEWMUSIC
CLUBBING
BY JIMGELLATLY
LIGHTGUIDESWHO: Mark Cowan(guitar/vocals), Martin Murray(guitar), David Cowan(drums/vocals)WHERE: GlasgowFOR FANS OF: Jimmy EatWorld, Biffy Clyro, TwinAtlanticJIM SAYS: It’s funny how aname change can freshenthings up — but I supposeWe Hung Your Leader mightnot be the sort of monikerthat suggests superstarstatus.Somehow LightGuides
seems more palatable.It’s a couple of years since
this Glasgow pop-punk trioswitched, so it’s well andtruly confined to history.LightGuides was the name
of a We Hung Your Leadersong.Originally formed while at
school, brothers Mark andDavid and mate Martin havebeen crafting their art sincegraduating from uni.They followed their debut
mini-album with a bunch ofhigh-profile support slots,and secured a place on theT Break Stage for emergingacts at T In The Park in 2010.Now they are looking
beyond our borders.Signing to Oxford label
Alcopop! has certainly putthem in the shop windowdown south.Mark told me: “Alcopop!
approached us after we sent
out album demos in January.They signed us beforeseeing us live which wealways joke about, but Jackand Kev are the mostambitious and encouragingguys the band have everbeen involved with.“We’re very lucky to be
part of the Alcopop! family.“It’s home to some
amazing bands like JumpingShips, Stagecoach andJohnny Foreigner.”The latest LightGuides
mini-album Samba SambaSamba has been picking upsome great reviews.Inevitably compared to
Biffy, they add anotherdimension to Scotland’sdiverse rock scene.On one side of the coin
they can rock as hard asanyone, but they pull it backwith ease to lay down somebeautiful melodies.Currently planning a
special show in Glasgow forChristmas, plus someEuropean dates in the NewYear, and with more newmaterial in the pipeline, thefuture looks exceedinglybright for LightGuides.MORE: lightguidesmusic.co.ukQ Jim will be playing Light-Guides on In:Demand Uncut— Sunday 7-10pm on Clyde1, Forth One, Northsound 1,Radio Borders, Tay FM,West FM & West Sound FM.See jimgellatly.com
!PRESSURE @ The Arches,Glasgow, tonight: It’s techno
heaven as Loco Dice, below —resident at Ibiza’s notoriousDC10 — headlines the back arch,with local legends Slam warmingup behind the decks.In the front arch, Swedish label
Drumcode celebrates its 15th birth-day with founder Adam Beyer,Joseph Capriati and HarveyMcKay — and the Slam lads alsohead through to play a live set.It’s a high-octane weekend at the
venue — tomorrow night trancesuperstar Eddie Halliwell bringshis Ed-It live show to the stage.
$JACKHAMMER @ TheCaves, Edinburgh, tonight: A
double dose of heavyweight
techno and electro as veteransBilly Nasty and Radioactive Manjoin forces for a special Radio-Nasty show.Between them they’ve clocked
up almost four decades of influen-tial productions and DJ sets so it’ssure to go with a bang. Supportcomes from Wolfjazz and Keyte.
%HOW’S YOUR PARTY x VITA-MINS @ Sub Club, Glasgow,
tonight: Superb line-up of cutting-edge talent, with broken beatlegend Seiji and post-dubstepman-of-the-moment Objekt, not tomention hi-tech beats from LandoKal. Sam and Shaun from Vita-mins do the warm-up honours.
&HEAVY GOSSIP & ULTRA-GROOVE @ Green Room/
Below Stairs, Edinburgh,tomorrow: This haven for realhouse in the capital is going fromstrength to strength and thisHalloween ball should be a belter.Get your fancy dress on and
check out residents GarethSommerville and Nick Yuill, plusHarry Bennett, Jonathan Herd andthe Juicy DJs, playing the bestdeep house and disco grooves.
(ELEMENTS OF SOUL @Basura Blanca, Glasgow,
tonight: Ace house night cele-brates its third birthday in thissuper-cool Merchant City base-ment. Irish duo Fish Go Deep are
the guests, with StephenRodgers and NickFerrara warming up.Q Email your listingsto [email protected]
FILMSMUSIC DVDsGAMES BOOKSCOMEDY
BYCHRIS
SWEENEY
BYTOM
CHURCHILL
ONES2WATCH
REGGAE lad Natty is justback from a US trip withZiggy Marley.He hits The Arches in
Glasgow on November 8and Edinburgh’s CabaretVoltaire the night after.Get info at nattymusic.
com
TEENAGE sensation JessHall hails from the unlikelyoutpost of Swindon, butwho cares — she hassome cracking pop tunes.First single Play Shy is a
total gem.Give it a listen now at
jesshallmusic.com
4 SFTW Friday, October 28, 2011
