Friday Freebie: These Are My Twisted Words (or are They?)

Last week we directed you to Harry Patch (In Memory Of), and then we mentioned that while Radiohead do not have any new albums planed they do intend to release the occasional one-off single or EP.

Now this:

An mp3 labelled These Are My Twisted Words appeared as on Radiohead fan’s forum AtEase late yesterday so far there has been no word from the band, but it sounds the part in fact it is so much better than Harry Patch I don’t even care if it is a fake. Check it out for yourself

Radiohead ? - These Are My Twisted Words

Holy Crap! Soundwave 2010

Since its 2004 inception the Soundwave festival has grown from a single stage at Perth’s Gravity Games in to a (nearly) national touring festival committed to presenting the best Australian and International (mostly American) hard rock, metal, punk and hardcore bands available.

The Nine Inch Nails headlines in 2009 were the festivals best attended and most successful yet and if the 2010 line up is anything to go by 2010 might just go one better.

One of alternative rock’s legendary bands Faith No More will headline with more than adequate support from emo-opera stars My Chemical Romance the inform and hopefully fully fit Jane’s Addiction, goth punks A.F.I., and the Heart On inducing Eagles of Death Metal.

Further down the bill Isis, Mesuggah, Trivium and Clutch should please the metal heads, while the punk kids can look forward to pogoing to Taking Back Sunday, Alexisonfire, The Get Up Kids and Paramore.

Soundwave 2010 will be held in Brisbane on Febuary 20th, Sydney the 21st, Melbourne 26th, Adelaide 27th and Perth on the 1st March 2010.

Here is the line up so far:

Faith No More
My Chemical Romance
Jane's Addiction
Afi
Paramore
HIM
Alexisonfire
Taking Back Sunday
Trivium
Sunny Day Real Estate
Eagles Of Death Metal
The Get Up Kids
Anti Flag
Reel Big Fish
Meshuggah
All Time Low
A Day To Remember
It Dies Today
Escape The Fate
Clutch
Isis
Gallows
A Wilhelm Scream
The Weakerthans
Emarosa
Anvil
The Devil Wears Prada
Comeback Kid
The Almost
Dance Gavin Dance
Four Year Strong
You Me At Six
Whitechapel
The Aquabats
Rolo Tomassi
Baroness
Rx Bandits
Maximum The Hormone
The Creepshow

Head to http://www.soundwavefestival.com for more Soundwave news.

Phoenix: Playground Love - Too Sexy for the Internet?

Last week I posted links to the two tracks Phoenix recorded on triple j's like a version.

Well it seems they were too sexy for the internet, as such have been pulled down by the fun police.

You can still go here for the triple j recorded interview and peformance, enjoy!

Original Post: (Warning Very Sexy)

On Friday morning two Frenchies combined when Phoenix covered Air’s Playground Love for triple j’s like a version.

Playground Love is something of a fake cover for the band, as the song was co-written by Thomas Mars and Phoenix were for some time Air's live backing band.

The band also played an acoustic version of Lisztomania from their brilliant new album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.

Download:

Phoenix – Playground Love (air cover)
Phoenix – Lisztomania (acoustic)

New Radiohead album: Not for a long while

Thom Yorke has told The Believer magazine that we will probably be waiting a long time for the next Radiohead album.

"None of us want to go into that creative hoo-ha of a long-play record again. Not straight off,"

"I mean, it's just become a real drag. It worked with In Rainbows because we had a real fixed idea about where we were going. But we've all said that we can't possibly dive into that again. It'll kill us."

This is not the end of the bands recorded output, Yorke goes on to talk about the possibility of one off singles and EPs. Let us hope for more Harry Patch (In Memory Of) like releases in the near future.

Harry Patch (In Memory Of): New Radiohead

Today Radiohead released a new song for download via their Dead Air Space website. Harry Patch (In Memory Of) is a tribute to the memory of Harry Patch, the last surviving World War I combat soldier, who died on July 25 at the age of 111 on July 25 and will be buried tomorrow.

Patch served from 1916-18, fighting on the battlefields of France in 1917. After decades of avoiding discussing the war, Patch, at age 100, became a sharp critic of WWI, and war in general. The lyrics to Harry Patch (In Memory Of) are all quotes from Patch himself.

i am the only one that got through
the others died where ever they fell
it was an ambush
they came up from all sides
give your leaders each a gun and then let them fight it out themselves
i've seen devils coming up from the ground
i've seen hell upon this earth
the next will be chemical but they will never learn

The download costs £1, with all proceeds going to the UK veterans' charity the Royal British Legion.

Buy the MP3 from Dead Air Space, or stream it from the BBC before donating straight to the Royal British Legion.

Live Review: Nine Inch Nails & Jane’s Addiction, O2 Arena, London, 15/07/2009

Arriving at the O2 late I find my seat just as a stage sized Kevin Bacon introduces Jane’s Addiction. (like this)

With no new material the reformed Jane’s Addiction are all about the hits and the characters.

The hits, they are all there, starting with the epic Three Days, before the dirty Whores and mind expanding Ocean Size. The real highlight comes mid-set when the huge Mountain Song is followed by the radio friendly Been Caught Stealing and the violent Ted, Just Admit It....

The characters are lively as ever: Perry Farrell prances around shaking his ‘maracas’ over every inch of the stage. Dave Navarro shirtless (of course) and posing (of course) as he shreds away on the guitar, Eric Avery rumbles out some massive baselines and drummer Stephen Perkins was at his thumping best in one of his last shows before succumbing to the arm infection that caused the cancellation of the band’s Australian tour.

Jane’s Addiction close out their set with Stop! before returning for the acoustic guitar, steel drum laden Jane Says.

I have just enough time to get an over-priced beer and bad hotdog before Nine Inch Nails wander onto the stage - with the house lights still on and stage fully lit up, what looks like a last minute sound check quickly becomes the opening song Now I’m Nothing. It is not until the starting crash of Terrible Lie that the lights go off, plunging the band into their more familiar darkness.

This is the bands Wave Goodbye tour, and tonight their last ever UK headline show. Predictably the set list focuses more on the band’s 20 year legacy than promoting their latest releases. That said, 1,000,000 from last year’s free download album The Slip proves as powerful as anything else in the amped up first half of the set.

Hersey, March of The Pigs, The Becoming, I’m Afraid Of Americans - the hard rock tracks kept coming for well over an hour of rock, punk, metal and industrial noise, until a welcome break is provided in the form of the more delicate La Mer and The Fragile.

The volume is turned back up and second half of the show kicks off again, Non-Entity, The Big Come Down, Wish and Survivalism prove popular but the biggest cheer of the night comes when the band is joined on stage by Gary Numan.

Numan, an early Nine Inch Nails influence and more recently guest star on The Might Boosh, sings Metal (which was covered by NIN on the Things Falling Apart EP) before a roof raising version of Cars.

The Hand That Feeds and Head Like A Hole close the main set before the band return to the stage to play Hurt for the last time on UK soil, with everyone in the 20,000 seat stadium singing along and waving goodbye.

Metal (w/ Gary Numan):

The Fragile:

Hottest 100 of All Time: Doing The Sums

The Bawley Doing the Sums quiz is back and, as promised, it has a Hottest 100 of All Time twist. Are you old school or nu rave, are your tastes mainstream or do you tend towards the obscure?

Here’s how to find out:

Stage 1: Calculate your Average Hottest 100 of All Time position:

1. Write out a list of the songs you voted for in the Triple j Hottest 100 of All Time.
2. Write down the position each of your songs came in the Triple j Hottest 100 of All Time.
3. If a song did not make the list, put down 101.
4. Add up the scores, and divide by the number of songs you voted for.

Stage 2: Calculate your Average Year Of Release :

1. Write down the songs you voted for in the Triple j Hottest 100 of All Time
2. Write down the year of release of each of your songs (tip: use Wikipedia)
3. Add up the years, and divide by the number of songs you voted for.

Combine the two parts and you have your Bawley Hottest 100 of All Time Classification. Here is how to interpret your scores :

Average Hottest 100 of All Time position:

1-21: You want to live like Common People, you vote like common people do...
22-45: You are the reincarnation of Ian Curtis, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, and Jeff Buckley....
46-62: You rarely buy an album that hasn’t gone platinum...
63-80: You appreciate the legends but have a few oddities in your CD collection...
81-92: You have the super request number on speed dial but only ever get hold music...
93-100: You take pride in liking the obscure, maybe a little too much pride...
101: You are living on a different planet....

Average Year of Release:

before 1950: ...and you enjoy the finer things in life such as Mozart, Wagner, and Holst.
1950s: ...and you long for the days when R&B was played on the guitar and Doo Wop was more than a ringtone.
1960s: ....and you probably ate the brown acid at Woodstock causing you to forget that most Hippy music is shit.
1970s: ....and you fondly remember when protest songs were about Vietnam and feminism rather than Iraq and bushism.
1980s: ....and you see yourself as either a post punk minimalist, or a spandex and sequins covered glam rocker.
1990s: ....and you look good in your grunge styled ripped denim/flannel shirt combo but lose some style points for the floppy britpop hair.
2000s: ....and you have room for over 20,000 songs on your ipod but still can’t find space for anything that is not..., what is it this week? emo, garage rock revival, post-punk revival, dance-punk, nu rave, indie physicadelica, The Datsuns, Klaxons, MGMT, Passion Pit, The Temper Trap
2009: ...and you might have accidently submitted a copy of this week’s NME instead of your Hottest 100 votes.

Stage 3: The Result

1. Combine the two sentences from above and
2. Post your Bawley Hottest 100 of All Time Classification in the comments section below.

Here is an example:

The Cure – A Forest (1980) - 101
Joy Division - Dead Souls (1981) - 101
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends (2007) - 101
Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds (2005) - 101
TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me (2006) - 99
New Order - Blue Monday (1983) - 32
OutKast - Hey Ya! (2003) – 101
Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place (2000) - 101
Hot Chip - Over And Over (2006) – 101
The Cure – In Between Days (1985) - 101

My Average Hottest 100 of All Time Position Score: 93.9
My Average Year Of Release Score: 1996

I am the kind of person who takes pride in liking the obscure, maybe a little too much pride... and I look good in my grunge styled ripped denim/flannel shirt combo but lose some style points for combining it with floppy britpop hair.

And some scores from some Triple j type people:

Richard Kingsmill

Top Ten: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100_alltime/toptens/richard_kingsmill.htm

Average Hottest 100 of All Time Position Score: 86.6
Average Year of Release Score: 1992

Richard you..have the super request number on speed dial but only ever get hold music...and you look good in your grunge styled ripped denim/flannel shirt combo but lose some style points for the floppy britpop hair.

Bob Evans

Top Ten: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100_alltime/toptens/bob_evans.htm

Average Hottest 100 of All Time Position Score: 82
Average Year of Release: 1984

Bob you...have the super request number on speed dial but only ever get hold music......and you see yourself as either a post punk minimalist, or a spandex and sequins covered glam rocker.

Wil Anderson

Top Ten: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100_alltime/toptens/wil_anderson.htm

Average Hottest 100 of All Time Position Score: 63.3
Average Year of Release: 1992

Wil you...appreciate the legends but have a few oddities in your CD collection...and you look good in your grunge styled ripped denim/flannel shirt combo but lose some style points for the floppy britpop hair.

Rosie Beaten

Top Ten: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100_alltime/toptens/rosie_beaton.htm

Average Hottest 100 of All Time Position Score: 86.1
Average Year of Release: 2001

Rosie you...have the super request number on speed dial but only ever get hold music....and you have room for over 20,000 songs on your ipod but still can’t find space for anything that is not..., what is it this week? emo, garage rock revival, post-punk revival, dance-punk, nu rave, indie physicadelica, The Datsuns, Klaxons, The Presets, MGMT, Passion Pit, The Temper Trap

What is your Bawley Hottest 100 of All Time Classification? tell us below.