Many of you will have heard me talk about my best friend Ben on the odd occasion on this here website. In recent months, every Friday night Ben joins me as a guest on my weekly radio program. In his guest spot, Ben compiles together a list of usually little-known facts about some of your favourite pop stars and cinematic celebrities. In a move that pleases me to no end, Ben has now opened up his very own blog to showcase these lists, which are of legendary status.
* LIST 1 * Janet Jackson: “Janet’s next tour will be a series of lectures about the joys of having your period.”
* LIST 2 * Alison Goldfrapp: “Ms. Goldfrapp once slapped a fan who said they loved her in the movie Cocoon.”
* LIST 3 * Robyn: “Right now, Robyn is thinking about how much more mileage she can get from her last album.”
Add this website to your bookmarks kiddies; the list entitled “Confessions of Madonna’s Cooch” is an absolute hoot and surely on its way…
So my beloved Girls Aloud covered another beloved of mine, Robyn, today on Jo Whiley’s Live Lounge thingy. Whilst With Every Heartbeat starts of shaky (Nicola sounds awfully worried about something as she sings her opening lines; “Did I leave the oven on? Oh fuck, I think I di… Oh mai god… is Elvis taking a shit near Whiley’s bag? Fucking hell, what is he like?!…”) things eventually pick up, with what appears to be all hell breaking loose in the final minute and fifteen seconds. I’m sure Popjustice would approve. Big thank you to the lovely Don’t Stop The Pop for alerting me this had happened!
The girls also performed a nice, stripped back version for Jo of their new single, Call The Shots.
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Download With Every Heartbeat MP3
Download Call The Shots MP3
Special thanks to Jay1 at GirlsAloudMedia.com for these lovely HQ rips.
Yes, it’s a new site! Details on why/etcetera here…
Two months after her first show in Melbourne, within the walls of the ultra intimate and trendy Miss Libertines, Super-Swede Robyn came back to our city of lights for a bigger show at Roxanne’s, a trendy new nightspot down a CBD alleyway that used to play an integral part in the cities rave culture. How things have changed. The set was not much different to the one heard at Miss Libertines back in September (review here,) but we did get a very nice acoustic version of Be Mine!, which I managed to video record onto my phone. Hilariously, the picture quality is actually completely amazing, (has there ever been a phone as stunning as the N95?) so here is the YouTube video of (very nearly almost) the full song…
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And a short YouTube clip of Keep This Fire Burning.
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She did a fantastic job for someone who had just stepped off an incredibly long flight on a plane, and was apologetic through the show for not feeling 100% and being a little tired. Was a great gig, but the first one back in September was better, which I’m putting down to the charming intimacy of the venue and also to the fact she was full of much more energy then and raring to go.
Had a fantastic chat up the front with some Robyn fans to my left, and discussed the brilliance of Girls Aloud with some others to my right.
ROBYN @ ROXANNE’S, MELBOURNE
SETLIST 15/11/2007
INTRO
COBRASTYLE
CRASH & BURN GIRL
WHO’S THAT GIRL
BUM LIKE YOU
HANDLE ME
KEEP THIS FIRE BURNING
KONICHIWA BITCHES
BE MINE!
WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT
SHOW ME LOVE
JACK YOU OFF
BE MINE! (ACOUSTIC)
Here are some happy snaps. Clicky for zoom…
