But it's not pressed in red, so they buy The Lurkers instead

[venta]

I was going to write something this evening. What was it ? Stuffed if I know.

Instead I shall point out, to anyone that missed it, that the BBC has provided a very fine page (with playable tracks, if you can handle BBC audio) detailing their predictions of who's hot in the music world for 2006.

See what you think.

Let me know if you're backing any of them as go-ers for this year. Personally, I'm really rather liking the Guillemots track - a good tune, a brass section and a theremin. What more could you want ? I must hunt out what else they've done.

For comparison, here's a page about how well the BBC's predictions went last year.

Right. I still haven't remembered what I was going to write about, so I'm off to bed. G'night.

Comments

[pigeonhed.livejournal.com]

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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! Let me out!

I've heard Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Actually I heard them first about 20 years ago when they were called Talking Heads. Less original than Oasis on the tracks I heard.

Plan B, I heard one track by, he's got a way with words, and a vicious wit. Kinda liked it.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Thus demonstrating why you shouldn't specify different font sizes when the user hovers over the text...


There's obviously an error in the markup somehow, since every piece of text on the page, after the link to Corrine Bailey Rae site, is styled as for linkage. That is, when you mouse over it, it turns blue, gains an underline, and reduces in font size. Which, since the changing font size makes all the text move, pulls it out from under my mouse. So, the hover changes immediately disappear, and the text re-enlarges, back under my mouse. And so the cycle goes!

[lnr]

Did you see my comments earlier in the year?

http://lnr.livejournal.com/487070.html

[venta.livejournal.com]

No... I hadn't. But yeah, I broadly agree with you :)

I'm glad (it's sound like) I'm not the only one who cringed at the "smooth"!

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Well, the only one I have the slightest interest in is Corinne Bailey Rae. Even that would require someone to actually write a good song for her. Good sound, though.

Bea liked the Guillemots.

Ryan liked the Automatic (of whom Bea's review was "Stop ! Stop ! There's too much music and it's too loud !").

But if we're supposed to be guessing which of these is going to do well, my top tip is The Feeling. They've got that tedious Travis/Coldplay drone thing going on. The kids love that.

[venta.livejournal.com]

The kids love that.

I presume that's the canonical kids, as I sincerely hope yours in particular have more sense!

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Not really my cup of coffee, any of them! Guillemots the most insteresting. But if I had a free bet I'd put it on Corinne B-R.

(PS re your post title, my big sister used to go to Rough Trade to buy Siouxsie and the Banshees, and even Read about Seymour -- although not the O'Level single, which remains obscure to me.)

Did she have £2.50 to go and see the Clash ?

[venta.livejournal.com]

One large kudo to you, sir, I didn't expect anyone to catch that one!