Florence and the Machine and The xx have been responsible for two of my favourite albums of the year to date. As such, you can imagine the tidings of JOY that accompanied my discovery of a remix by The xx of Florence and the Machine's version of the Candi Staton classic 'You've Got The Love'.
Remarkably, this track not only lives up to my absurdly high expectations but practically pole-vaults over them. I can say with a considerable degree of certainty that this is one of my favourite tracks of the year.
My cyber-mates at Heineken Music have come up with the goods once again. They've only gone and organised a special gig featuring elecro titans Digitalism with support from blog-favourite Marina & The Diamonds.
The latest in their series of Heinken Green Energy gig takes place in Dinn Rí, Carlow on the 12th of November, the night after Marina's debut Dublin date at The Academy. Yes, Carlow is a little bit out of the way (for people like me, at least) but think how amazing it would be to catch these two rather different but equally brilliant acts in such an intimate venue.
Tickets for Heineken Green Energy gigs are free but you have to 'register your interest' here in order to be in with a chance of winning some. There's also tickets up for grabs for Pete Doherty in Galway at the moment, so be sure to enter if he's your 'bag'.
In other Marina news, Mowgli's Road has been confirmed as her first major release. The song's been floating around for a while but Marina reckons it's been one of the tour favourites and that it'll lend itself to an amazing video. The song is being tweaked for the release but you can hear the original version here:
I picked up my sister's copy of Limehouse Magazine this afternoon and am now kicking myself that I have been ignorant of this beautiful creation's existence for the past few months.
It's visually stunning and, although the copy is pretty standard, it's superbly edited and contains some wonderfully original ideas. I reckon it's the best Irish free-sheet since 'Mongrel'.
Apparently copies are available from Urban Outfitters so try nab yourself one if you can. If not, the two previous issues can be downloaded from here and I imagine the third one will be available soon.
Florence and the Machine and The xx have been responsible for two of my favourite albums of the year to date. As such, you can imagine the tidings of JOY that accompanied my discovery of a remix by The xx of Florence and the Machine's version of the Candi Staton classic 'You've Got The Love'.
