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So Joe and I have just been discussing the future of this blog. It started off well, but has kind of...

Sun, 08 May 2011 14:18:18 -0400

So Joe and I have just been discussing the future of this blog. It started off well, but has kind of fallen flat.

This summer, we intend to be serious about this, put in some hours and have a fully fledged music blog for your enjoyment.

It will happen, and any help you can give us (promotions, etc) will help along the way.

Love yaaaaaa xoxox

Summertime Blues

Sun, 08 May 2011 14:11:59 -0400

I read this article in the free music magazine The Fly and I looked for an online link for it but alas, it’s not on their website so here it is.

“Camping is not fun, if it was we’d all be voluntarily homeless…or Living in Millets.”
SO, HOW about this weather? Granted, it may be raining as you read this, in which case may I suggest you put the mag down and return to it after performing a brief yet intricate sun dance. Hot yet? Good. The arrival of the great yellow orb in the sky means several things: firstly, I will go through my yearly tradition of forgetting to wear suncream, getting burnt and shedding my skin like some sort of hairy, rouged reptile. Secondly, and probably more relevant to those of you reading this. it means that festival season is just around the corner and we can all look forward to drinking too much, sleeping out doors and spending days on end convincing ourselves we don’t need a poo and that nothing bad will happen if we just hold it in, like Elvis did. Fun, no? Just to ensure we’re not walking into this blind, let me debunk a couple of festival myths:

Camping is Fun
This myth was presumably started by a scout leader in a bid to lure young boys away from their parents so they could learn about tying knots, starting fires and playing ‘special games’ that they must never, ever tell anyone about. I do miss Akela. We all know the reality of camping is a little more than trying to wrestle a piece of canvas over a infinitely frustrating set of poled like some sort of masochistic crystal maze task, before running out of tent pegs, getting dripped on constantly of clods of dirt do their best to realign the discs in your back, and if you’re as unlucky as I was in 2001, sharing your sleeping bag with an army of ants intent on feeding on your flesh. Camping is not fun, if it was we’d all be voluntarily homeless or living in millets.

You’ll Meet Interesting People
You’ll meet lots of different people at a festival, and if past experience is anything to go by they’ll spend most of the time finding new and brilliant ways to annoy you; be it tripping over your guide ropes in the dead of night, or passing an acoustic guitar around a campfire so you get to hear eleven drunk teenagers play the same arse-awful rendition of whatever song currently has A-levellers pitching trouser tents. Glastonbury is the place to meer some fairy folk realign your chakras, Reading and Leeds will be where you meet those boys with the wonky fringes and eyeliner and V is where you’re most likely to run into the kind of sunburnt lager louts that don’t stop raving about Beady Eye until they pass out in a pool of their own vomit. As a rule of thumb, if by the end of the day one you haven’t met an arsehole, you’re probably an arsehole.

The British Summer
When was the last time a year went by without providing footage of Glastonbury looking like a Third World country after some horrific natural disaster and an influx of hippies? A bit of rain isn’t so bad, but with Bono there this year it’s only going to be a matter of time before he decides to provide emergency aid from the Pyramid Stage and starts trying to bail water out of the festival with his trilby. It’ll be like when Sir Cliff Richard started singing at Wimbledon. So, everyone excited?

John Kerrison.

Katy Perry fan club.

Wed, 04 May 2011 16:51:03 -0400

Katy Perry fan club.

patriincumuse: AND THAT’S A MUSE GIG.

Sun, 01 May 2011 11:11:45 -0400

patriincumuse:

AND THAT’S A MUSE GIG.

Apologies for the lack of Lithium Records posts recently. We are...

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:30:03 -0400

Apologies for the lack of Lithium Records posts recently. We are busy people leading busy lives. I can assure you that we will try and post something regularly, but come the end of exams then I will try and write something every day.

For now, have a cracking picture of Billie Joe Armstrong from that band Green Day.

Gig Report - Mabel Love, The Monocans, Silents.

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:09:27 -0400

I posted this a few days ago, recommending if you were able to come, you should…But boy did you miss out! The gig was rammed and Mabel Love absolutely killed it, in the best way possible!

There was also 2 special guests who were in attendance…Alex Turner and Matt Helders from another local band Arctic Monkeys!

I even bagged myself a Mabel Love shirt.

Pictures after the break!

Silents

The Monocans

Mabel Love

Debut Release.

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:34:33 -0400

thatguywholookslikesidthesloth:

bbushellmusic:

So here it is. My first actual release into the world.

The song can be heard here:

Roads? Where We’re Going We Don’t Need Roads by brbushell

Or you can listen to it and download it for free from my Bandcamp Page.

Thank you all for your support,

Brad.

There you all go :)

Reblog/Follow if you want to be SUPER lovely.

Shameless promotion of the day, done.

This is a quality track for a first release. Packed with loneliness and angst. It’s free, download it.

If you’re from South Yorkshire, I highly, highly recommend this...

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:10:55 -0400

If you’re from South Yorkshire, I highly, highly recommend this tomorrow!

Mabel Love are one of the bands hand picked by Alex Turner to support Arctic Monkeys at their 2 homecoming Don Valley Bowl shows in Sheffield. Mabel Love are also Supporting Miles Kane’s tour next month.

I think that proves their worth!

Tickets are £4 if you let me know today or £6 on the door.

nickdrake: Kurt Cobain What a fantastic picture.

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:41:30 -0400

nickdrake:

Kurt Cobain

What a fantastic picture.

JoeWinnard: One Direction...

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:33:24 -0400

JoeWinnard: One Direction...:

joewinnard:

Seriously, how the fuck can anyone think they’re talented and actually have a future career?

It’s all a get quick scheme for Simon Cowell to make money, why the fuck can’t people realise that? They’re doomed, talentless, generic, corporate puppets.

In 2 years one of them will probably be on…

Why is Joe a part of Lithium Records? Because he writes fucking beautiful stuff like this.

Why yes, that is Freddie Mercury riding on the shoulders of...

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:04:00 -0400

Why yes, that is Freddie Mercury riding on the shoulders of Darth Vader.

That’s right. We’re now hashtagging Gods of...

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:32:08 -0400

That’s right. We’re now hashtagging Gods of music.

God: Matthew Bellamy

Photo

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:39:07 -0400

The Pretty Reckless

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:55:55 -0400

I was wrong about Taylor Momsen. I used to despise everything she stood for.

I read an interview with her about The Pretty Reckless long before I had heard their music, and she likened the band to “fucking Led Zeppelin”. I couldn’t take her seriously. Classic judging a book by it’s cover. How could the little girl from The Grinch possibly be in a rock band?

Last week I heard Make Me Wanna Die on the radio after a few weeks without hearing anything of her. Having never really listened to it before, I opened my ears and was pleasantly surprised. I bought the album.

Now, this may be a severely unpopular and uncool thing to say, but this is a music blog, and I will say what the fuck I think. It’s a fucking good album. No, it’s not groundbreaking. No, it’s not fucking Led Zeppelin. But considering she’s the sort of person you’d expect to ruin any genre from overproduction and pretension, it’s fantastic. Of course, there are aspects I would change, songs I mildly dislike but it is good all the same. Listen to My Medicine on full blast. It will knock your fucking socks off.

Plus, she’s insanely hot. A+

Album rating: 7/10

Interesting how music develops. How one day in the future, current music will be seen as something...

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:02:21 -0400

Interesting how music develops. How one day in the future, current music will be seen as something beautiful and vintage. In the same way that we now listen to New Order, Joy Division and The Smiths, one day some of our children will be listening to the likes of Lady Gaga, Arctic Monkeys and Mumford & Sonds. Their music tastes will be seen as incredibly sophisticated and cool.

If I catch my kid listening to Tinie Tempah though, he will be instantly disowned.

A fine soundtrack. Alex Turner is one of the few greats.

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:16:28 -0400

A fine soundtrack.

Alex Turner is one of the few greats.

Why you should be going to Glastonbury this year (even though...

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:53:34 -0400

Why you should be going to Glastonbury this year (even though I’m not)

This is the final Glastonbury of its stint, taking the regular break next year. The Eavis’ have claimed they have packed as much as they could into this year’s festival, and just browsing this list shows that. Here are some reasons why it will be an incredible event this year:

This is the year they pulled in the crowd pleasers. Coldplay, U2 and Beyoncé headline this year’s event (#facepalm), but if you bought a ticket and are despairing, fear not! These acts will draw in all the twats at the festival and leave only the true music fans to appreciate the likes of Queens of The Stone Age (finally headlining a stage…), Primal Scream and Glasvegas who are headlining the smaller stages. I experienced this at last year’s Leeds Festival when the majority of the festival-goers went to see Pendulum instead of main stage headliners Arcade Fire, which made for a much more intense, exciting gig.
Morrissey is back! Admittedly, the crowd will probably be full of hipster types, but you can not miss this man in action.
A good mixture: As ever, Glastonbury is mixing the obscure with the mainstream. The Master Musicians of Jajouka on the same stage as Plan B? Fantastic.
As for individual bands you must see:

Wu Tang Clan
Fleet Foxes
Bright Eyes
White Lies
Jamie Woon
Hurts
The Coral
The Horrors
Miles Kane
Yuck
Graham Coxon
Pulled Apart By Horses

As well as your other household names…

So, in a nutshell, it looks like a good one. Yes, the headliners aren’t the best, but the back catalogue is fantastic. There’s no festival like Glastonbury…

More evidence Rivers Cuomo is the coolest musician ever.

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:01:05 -0400

More evidence Rivers Cuomo is the coolest musician ever.

fuckyeah-weezer: =w= If they did, I would buy that game....

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:59:43 -0400

fuckyeah-weezer:

=w=

If they did, I would buy that game. Weezer’s Blue Album is without a doubt one of the best of all time, as a full album, track to track, second by second…

But that’s for another day.

Conflicting emotions.

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:47:00 -0400

“variety is the spice of life”

I feel like I’m going to be shunned or disliked for this but…

Personally, I’m not a huge fan of the newer Arctic Monkeys stuff. I believe they’ve strayed too much from their original roots. I’m lucky enough to know many people who have links with the Arctic Monkeys, one of my favourite stories was bumping into Chris McClure while teching for my friends band Silents, who soon are supporting Mabel Love (who in turn are supporting the monkeys home coming gigs in June) and they all agree that the band has changed.

Some view it as a good thing, some view it as a strange thing. Alex is the only one who’s moved away from his Sheffield roots to live in New York with his girlfriend (very John Lennon) is smoking copious amounts of cannabis and in turn is isolating himself. Due to this his song writing has changed, it delves into the darker corners of his mind, Humbug is a prime example of this change. I wait with baited breath to see if Suck it and See has some of the boyish charm and wit from the earlier records now Alex has settled down into his new life or if the darker edgier sound is now the Arctic Monkeys.

Either way, I’m excited for this new album, but probably for other reasons than the fans.