Winter Wanderland - Xfm

That Xfm got it right with their Winter Wonderland bashment at Brixton Academy in London. What a cracking line up spread over two nights. Ok, it is easy to put on a micro festival in London near Christmas because most bands are slowing their tours etc but, this was good.

We went on the sunday night and saw Editors, Maximo Park, Kooks, Hard-Fi and Dead 60's - had to leg it before the Karzee Chefs - but i heard them on the wireless the day after...pretty rockin.

Then i heard a bit of the monday's gig when Richard Ashcroft played....crikey! That man had the entire Academy in the palm of his hand - just him and his guitar...proper.

I thought Hard-Fi were pretty good live, Maximo Park were more 'stadium' than i wanted and Editors were best. All in all a quality night out - thanks Grozz and Lozz for the squeeze action.

Thanks to Xfm for sorting out a successful (totally sold out in 16mins!!!) night of top caliber bands. Great atmosphere - something to do with drinking for 7 hours?? - and the right way of giving something to the Shelter charity and 'the kids'! Maybe a few other broadcasters could carry the batton too?

Megarifico!

xmilo

Playlist 12th December 2005

Hi there

Check out my festive playlist recorded this morning - favourites are>>

The Pharrell bootleg...what a cracker!! 'Can I have It Like That' gone acid rave - u - mental. And then there is Tiga's new one which has some ace mixes too. The Soft Pink Truth mix of Franz Ferdinand is of mega proportions too - the song plus the squelch is greater than its parts. Ending with the Nathan Fake 'Silent Night' getting all festive on your derrier...nice


CAN I HAVE IT LIKE THAT PHARRELL WHITE
GOOD AS GOLD TIGA PIAS RECORDINGS
IT'S KILLING ME NICK & DANNY CHATELAIN OVUM
BACK YARD BETTY THIS IS SPANK ROCK N/A
WOP THE GROOVE CORNERSHOP ROUGH TRADE
STANDING IN THE WAY OF CONTROL THE GOSSIP N/A
TAHITI 80 BIG DAY ISLAND
ROCKIN AUDIOFLY JACK IT
JACK U P - DIDDY + FELIX GIGOLO
RE MATCH CIREZ D MOUSEVILLE
2 DARLIGHT DIGITALISM KITSONE
DO YOU WANT TO FRANZ FERDINAD DOMINO
SALTY TEARS AMEABA NEUTONMUSIC
EWHAT ELSE IS THERE ROYKSOPP WALL OF SOUND
REVELATION MICAH ACCIDENTAL
I WANNA BE YOUR LOVER PRINCE HOUSE PARTY
NIGHTMARE JOSH MARTINEZ BELLA UNION
DAHLIA ELECTRIC POP 4 EP MOFA
DANCE WITH ME THE MACLEAN DFA
LOVE IS A STRANGER EURYTHMICS SONY/BMG
SPEECHLESS MISH MASH CROSSTOWN REBEL
LIVE 05 THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS VIRGIN
HUMAN AFTER ALL DAFT PUNK VIRGIN
VALLEY OF THE MACHINE GODS PROPAGANDA MONTILLADO
YES YES EP EXTRA DISCOGRAPH
SILENT NIGHT NATHAN FAKE BORDER COMMUNITY

Incidentally i have Xmas and new year specials coming up soon - Highlights of the Year' show is always a good yard stick of skank....keep tuned for those.

Wickedo!

Milo

Only one Juan Maclean

What a cracking set Juan Maclean did for us at Mish Mash last saturday at Cargo.

Not only did he build up sonic barrages of beauty but he stashed his cowbells down his trousers and got his cohorts to whack them at will - but he also rigged up some kind of sample trigger to his hand so he played keys, sang and whacked stuff to fire off handclaps and all sorts of other sounds.....bloomin genius!

His set of around fifty minutes played most tracks off his LP, Less Than Human, plus some extra stuff i was not too familiar with. Extra special track for me was Tito's Way which was superb and really got the crowd going. I got the set recorded so i hope to have it broadcast on the Radio Speedwagon show - failing that i will sort out some kind of podcast nib jib here on revmilo blog.

If you get the chance - go and see Juan Maclean and his band of dudes in hoodies who play like demons posessed you won't regret it. They play rock music in a dance way with peaks and troughs using tight rythms, solid synth sounds, whoomping bass with live disco claps and percussion - basically, music for the head, heart and feet.

See you down the mosh pit!

xmilo

Radio Speedwagon 5th December

Please find the track listing for the show that went out last night - 5th Decemebr.

Extra special mention to the Supersystem backstage interview. What lovely chaps they turned out to be (interesting moustaches too).

Fave tracks below : the oldies - Underworld, Chris Spedding and Steve Miller Band

: the newies - Claude Von Stroke, Goldfrapp and Rolling Stones

GOOD AS GOLD / TIGA / PIAS
DIRTY HARRY - JON CARTER MIX / GORILLAZ / KONG
GOING NOWHERE - WHITEY MIX / CUT COPY / MODULAR
NO MOVING PARTS - JUSTUS KOHNKE MIX / COLOMA / KLEIN
CANT GET ENOUGH / INFADELS / WALL OF SOUND
PAIN THAT IM USED TO - JAQUES LE CONT MIX / DEPECHE MODE / MUTE
FEIST / ROCCO BRANCO / PLATZHIRSCH
2 DANCING RABBITS / 3 CHANNELS / CROSSTOWNREBELS
CHIMPS / CLAUDE VON STROKE / PHYSICAL
WALKING MACHINE - SIMIAN MIX / REVLON / BECAUSE
MIRACLES / SUPERSYSTEM / TOUCH AND GO
PARADISO / KONONO NO.1 / ACHE
BORN INTO THE WORLD / SUPERSYSTEM / TOUCH AND GO
ICH GEH DEN WEG MIT DIR / HORNSLEUTH / AMONTILLADO
MMM SCYSCRAPER I LOVE YOU / UNDERWORLD / JUNIOR BOYS OWN
SLIDE IN - DFA MIX / GOLDFRAPP / WHITE
ONE IN A MILLION / STEVE MILLER BAND / EMI
TITOS WAY - PRINS THIOMAS MIX / THE JUAN MACLEAN / DFA
AINT SUPERSTITIOUS / CHRIS SPEDDING / RAK
GOOD CLEAN FUN - CHICKEN LIPS MIX / CLEARLAKE / DOMINO
EMERALD / MADTONE / BLOSSOMS KITCHEN
RAINFALLSDOWN - BEEDLE DUB / ROLLING STONES / VIRGIN
BANGERS AND MASH / PHANTOM HAND BAND / COTTAGE RECORDS
SILENT NIGHT / NATHAN FAKE / BORDERCOMMUNITY

You can hear the archive by clicking the kiss 100 link on the right.

I am working on the Radio Speedwagon Grotto Greats at the moment - got any tracks that are the essence of 2005 that you think should be included?

Enjoy

Milo

I must stop drinking so much!

What a wally i am. Maybe i need glasses? Maybe i am experiencing 'mature moments'? Maybe i should not drink so much?

Why all this self beef i hear you ask? Well, i popped out last night to my freind Pete Herbert's birthday bashment in soho (The Player...home of quality disco action) and i bumped into a few old chums...One of which was the marvellous Judy who is always a becon of hope in the valley of rave. Of course, i managed to louse up the night by totally forgetting Judy's name and embarrassing both of us.

I have only one excuse for my lack of memory recollection skills and that being every time i have met Judy i have been rather pickled, it always being late in the night....So, from this day on i drink a bit less (failing that i photograph all i meet and practice the name game before going to bed)

Sorry Judy - it is always nice to se you! She is fourth person along from the left, top row on the link below (the cool one)
http://www.fabriclondon.com/team.php

One day until Juan MacLean....it should be a goody. Oscar and i have a few mega gems up our sleeve for the big night...make it!

xmilo