The Wombats "Is This Christmas For Xmas Number One......Simon Cowell vs Les Dennis // Muppets vs Marsupials

So its that time of year again, we find our selves hurtling towards the end of another year, and another countless months of Simon Cowell all over out tv screens and his offsprings / manufactured machines polluting our airwaves.


Although Ive managed to avoid all of this years X Factor, thankfully, I have heard mumblings along the line of the hopefuls not being that good.


So as with last year, and the track We're All Going to Die by Malcolm Middleton, it may not have reasched the dizzy heights of number one but what it did do was get talk of an artist other than that Xfactor clan into the public domain at a time of the year it otherwise wouldn't

So cutting to the point how about a similar campaign this year? Give "real" music fans something to talk and ponder over that isn't something voting for a complete unknown on a Saturday night

Liverpudlians The Wombats seem the most likely choice:
The song in question is this christmas, is so apt right now its unbelieveable!!!!:

"i can hear the sleigh bells comign around the bend
here comes the darkest end
christmas is here

it's about nights extend into the overdraft
to scrape out what is left
at the end of the year"

So it may not be as dark and sinister as Malcolm Middletons offering last year but its a song that the nation can relate to, more than some inevitable half baked cover on a tv show anyway!

The video features fellow scouser Les Dennis and the proceeds of the single which is out to buy on the 15th December go to Mencap

Save a Wombat, Save Christmas - and annoy Simon Cowell!

"79p to save Christmas"

Join these groups and spread the word!!

http://www. facebook. com/home. php#/group. php?gid=32603080941&ref=ts
http://groups. myspace. com/wombatchristmas
http://www. last. fm/group/Is+This+Christmas+-+The+Wombats+For+Christmas+Number+One!

The Dead 60's are dead

Looks like Ska has no place in 21st century Britain





Arguably the Dead 60's in their finest moment "Riot on the radio"

The best cover version of all time?

Surely this has to be the main contender?


Johnny Cash - Hurt

Los Campesinos!

Will write about the album in greater depths when Ive lived with it for a few more days. My first verdict though: It may pnly be February but I can see this being one of the debut albums of 2008

Here's the video to the recent single "Death To Los Campesinos"

You've Got To Laugh Into The Dark...

As im sat looking at my Wer'e All Going To Die christmas card just before sending yet another email to a very exciteable Colin Murray, i suddenly reminded myself that this whole thing was just a joke.

Whether or not Malcolm does reach number one status this weekend (ignoring my knowledge of the midweeks) i feel that the "campaign" achieved what it aimed to do: promote the underdog, the independent artist that is becoming increasingly marginalised.

Whatever the outcome in this weeks chart the fact that people are increasily becoming tired of Xfactorisation (thanks for that one Dave Gorman)bodes well for the future. I now know that I'm not the only one who feels this.


Anywho, if you haven't already, download We're All Going TO Die or better still for the music purists amongst you seek out the 7"...

...No one ever said which number one everyone was aiming for :)


You should buy Mr Middletons great album "A Brighter Beat" as well.


Thats it from me on the subject - until next year **only joking** i think in the words of the man of the moment (and I don't mean Leon) this whole thing should just disappear into the ether. Like MM i never want to utter the words Facebook, bookies or Xfactor in close proximity for some time.

In the words of another independent artist "Have yourself a bitter little christmas and a twisted new year" (David Ford)

That Mcfly Plonker

RANT ALERT:

Tom Fletcher: Mcfly off no one cares about your views on the music industry - I bet you have never even heard of the Rumblestrips.

If there is something wrong with the music industry at present (which I don't think there is) then it is more likely to do with the three piece you call a band - all you really are is a boy band with guitars.

*sigh*

Santa Turns Bad

Continue spreading the word good people of the U.K:



Whatever you do don't download until 17th December!!