Happy Blogging Birthday to me!

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Today marks 1 year since I opened Adem With An E. It also marks my 6th year of blogging in general, with the other 5 of those 6 years dedicated to my old site I’m Always Right (which you’ll now find the majority of its posts have since been migrated over here.) Ayye! As a sort of birthday present to myself, with thanks to my amazing best friend Stefan Nott (aka: Graphic Design God), I now have a new looking website to unleash upon you all. I really hope you like it; I absolutely love it and am so stoked with what Stef has poured blood, sweat and tears over. Particularly so when you take into consideration the amount of times I emailed him about changing a single picture, or adding another one… I can safely assume no one is more relieved it is all finally over than he is.

That said, I hope you enjoy the new look. There may be a few glitches if you’re using IE6 but, quite frankly, if you haven’t upgraded to IE7 or IE8 yet, that’s really not my problem (IE6 users will notice  the content in the sidebar is all the way at the bottom of the page…) Of course, there may actually be some glitches in general whatever you’re using; please bare with me whilst I sort it all out…

I’ll be popping up a bevvy of interviews this week and a few other special surprises, so keep coming back as the week progresses for prolonged birthday fun.

Unfortunately, I don’t have any actual birthday treats (other than the hot new site) to share with you all, so instead, here is a very recent (not even a fortnight old) video of Van She and New Young Pony Club being interviewed whilst in Germany. Please note; any of you upset by Matt Van Schie’s switch to brown hair will be pleased to see it’s now back to blonde.

Van She are guest programing rage tonight (Saturday evening) just a little after Midnight on ABC1. The playlist of video clips (all selected by the boys) has a number of corkers and a few delightful surprises. Perhaps none more delightful than the inclusion of what is Tina Turner’s 2nd greatest song ever, “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)”. I have no idea which of them chose it, but whoever it was is now my favourite member of the band.

Other clips they’ve chosen includes stuff by Soulwax, Kraftwerk, Phoenix, Cassius, Aphex Twin, The Cars, E.L.O., The Pointer Sisters, Prince, Visage, INXS, AC/DC, Def Leppard, Bjork, Michael Jackson, Sinead O’Connor and “many more.” You can view the full playlist here. From 3:30am onward, rage will then play all of Van She’s video clips, and some jtv live performances.

Guess that’s my Saturday night sorted then.

The clip for the next Ladyhawke single “My Delirium.”

Amazing.

In case you missed it, here’s my review of Ladyhawke’s stunning debut album from last month.

Fucking hell. Have you seen the first round (!!) line up for the Australian leg of Modular’s Nevereverland party?

Klaxons
Hercules & Love Affair
Van She
Ladyhawke
The Presets
Cut Copy
Whitest Boy Alive
The Bumblebeez
Muscles
Tame Impala
The Bang Gang Deejays
AJAX
The Lost Valentinos
Mission Control
Temper Trap
Canyons
Pepperoni
Andee Van Damage 

And again; Fucking hell. Is that probably the best line-up for a festival all year? How am I going to cope with so many of my favourite artists playing on the one bill? Seeing as she’s signed to Modular in Australia, will Robyn be a last minute addition? Could someone please make the latter happen?

Whilst I’m on the topic of all things Modular, some interesting news on Muscles has cropped up this weekend. He’s ditching his MySpazz account and urging fans to sign up to his official newsletter should they want updates on what’s going on with his new single and album project. Go to his bit on teh interwebs and sign up to “Muscles Mail” to stay in the loop.

When are Girls Aloud going to be signed to Modular?

I know. Just the other day I was banging on about how I don’t really post MP3’s that often on the site, and then I go and post two of them days apart of each other. This time, however, the MP3 I’m posting is very much legal and won’t get any of us into trouble should you download it.

You might remember me talking about the new Bang Gang Deejays ‘D Is For Disco, E Is For Dancing’ compilation CD last week. On the disc, there is an exclusive, previously unreleased remix of The Presets‘ “Kicking & Screaming.” It’s a bit of a stomper.

Thanks to the lovely people over at Modular HQ, I’m able to offer you that very remix as an MP3, in full, 320kbps super-sound FAW MAI READERZ.

The Presets – Kicking & Screaming (Bang Gang’s E Is For Edit).mp3 | MEDIAFIRE

“zomg.”

Congratulations to Kim Moyes and Julian Hamilton off-of The Presets for picking up the best awards on offer at tonight’s ARIAs (the Aussie equivalent of The Brits or The Grammy’s.) Best Group, Best Dance Release, and the big one; Album Of The Year. The cheers and shrieks of joy at the ARIAs party I attended this evening when that announcement was made were deafening. We were all so, so proud.

I interviewed Julian some time ago. If you didn’t read it when I originally posted it, maybe now that he’s an ARIA award winning artist, you might want to…

Congrats also to Modular, the boys’ record label, also for the wins and for bringing such pop art as The Presets into our lives all those years ago.

As for the rest of the awards, it was all very bland. Aside from show-stopping performances from The Presets (now THAT’S an on stage costume!) and P!NK (kudos to Sam Sparro as well for a pitch-perfect “Black & Gold” – though I’m not entirely sure his outfit would pass the Roisin Murphy fashion checklist and — as the lovely Phil at Worra said some time ago – it was very ‘My First Stage Costume’ in appearance), the rest of the ceremony was pretty much about Gabriella Cilmi, who won all six of the awards she was nominated for.

I’m slightly baffled, I won’t lie.

You all know how I feel about “Sweet About Me” and there were better nominees in each of the categories she was up in. She did thank Brian Higgins and Miranda Cooper though, which was nice. I would like to know if she was insanely drunk (a no-no seeing as she’s only 17) or just a bit of a mess when it comes to public speaking? Each speech she gave was squirm-in-your-seat worthy. So much so, each time she would win a gong, the smokers at the party I was at would clutch onto their cigarette packets and head outside for a quick fag.

I was quite pleased to see Axle Whitehead return to the ARIAs, and also to hear around 3 seconds of Van She’s “Kelly” during the introduction of one of the presenters. That was nice!

Full list of winners here.

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D Is For Disco, E Is For Dancing
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That is the cover art for the new Bang Gang Deejays compilation/disco/mixtape CD, titled D Is For Disco, E Is For Dancing (ho ho ho!) Someone drew that you know. Someone drew it with one of those pencil things (ask your parents) and spent a considerable amount of time on it. It shows because the imagery is very, very good. It really does make it all the more upsetting that someone probably spent the same amount of time in front of Photoshop coming up with this particular visionary masterpiece which was unveiled this week. And by ‘visionary masterpiece’, I obviously mean ‘absolute crock of shit’.

But back to the Bang Gang double-disc set.

Never has there been a more appropriate time to cry “Poppers O’Clock” at a CD then now, and with this very disc. D Is For Disco, (ademwithan)E Is For Dancing is a compilation which not only throws itself into your ears as a solid party record, it’s also a fine example of what a lot of “the youth” around Australia are taking a lot of drugs to dancing their little hearts out to in those discotheque’s week in, week out. There’s even some pop music on there (hello M.I.A, The Presets, Cut Copy, The Tough Alliance, Late Of The Pier, et cetera,) but it’s probably best not to tell the kiddies about that.

The CD also plays as the launching pad of the new Bag Raiders remix of Cut Copy’s next single from In Ghost Colours, “Far Away”, which is all sorts of delicious. Plus, it has the Crookers Remix of that “Day ‘N’ Nite” song I once saw someone cut their foot open on a wine glass to.

The Bang Gang Deejays comprise of six of Australia’s best, er, Deejays, and this is their second CD release after last years equally as impressive Light Sound Dance (LSD, FYI, would you look at that), whose only downside as a compilation was its inclusion of a Wolfmother “track”. THANK GOD THERE’S NONE OF THAT POPPYCOCK ON HERE THEN.

I’m having a chat down the blower with one of the Bangers, Jaime Doom in the next few days, so expect that up on the site next week some time. Visual aid of Doom here; hanging out with Kylie’s back-up dancers in someone’s garden, no doubt.

All in all, this is a pretty strong snapshot of what I’ve been listening to over the last 8 months or so when I feel like sniffing some poppers dancing around the lounge, or when I’m getting ready (read: looking for a Van She t-shirt, then slapping it on) to dance in nightclubs with people half my age. You’ll obviously like it too if you’re much of the same.

No remix of Girls Aloud’s “The Promise” on here though. Bit of a pity, I’m not going to lie.

You can view the full, wondrous 2 disc tracklisting here.

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