Alanis Morissette did this cover of the Black Eyed Peas‘ “My Humps.” The video’s quite funny but her cover of the song doesn’t fit. I know one regular reader who’ll be interested anyway…enjoy P.
Just got the official email from Electric Picnic, confirming my previous line up post and adding the following information…
Also performing are:
Excellent, I haven’t a clue who most of them are but I bet they’re brilliant.
Also of interest was this:
Electric Picnic intends to make a greater strides this year towards becoming as environmentally friendly as possible. Discussions with Cultivate Ireland & Global cool are on-going to investigate how we can reduce our use of non renewable energy & offset those we do. The festival will also have large on site recycling stations this year instead of recycling off-site as per previous years, and will be introducing a pro-active ‘Leave No Trace’ campaign. Enforcing a biodegradeable packaging policy with the traders and focusing on a more environmental traffic management plan
Electric Picnic will eat Oxegen for breakfast.
I have my Electric Picnic ticket already. I didn’t care who was playing, after last year I knew I would be going in 2007 no matter what.
But having said that I have been eagerly awaiting news… and now, from an unconfirmed source (Garret seems to have got hold of the EP press release), here is some line up info:
That’s a pretty damn good line up so far - those I know of them anyway. I’ve never seen Iggy play live so I’m really looking forward to that.
And I’m sure there’s still plenty more to look forward to - last year a lot of the smaller acts were the best fun, I’ll be watching for further updates!
Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning for those of you who didn’t buy early like me!
Get your tickets! See you there!
My Canadian cousin and her boyfriend Gabriel (both pictured) visited recently, and Gabe played us a few songs on the guitar (and piano), one of which was Death Cab for Cuties ‘I Will Follow You Into the Dark’.
I was really struck by the song, and so I looked it up… and was a small bit disappointed. I preferred Gabe’s version - he brought a sincerity and a sweetness to the song which I then felt was missing from the original.
Then I found the video to the song on YouTube and I realised that I had seen it before - which only reinforced that Gabe had done a better job of it, I hadn’t paid much attention to it when I saw this video of it.
However, I did find another video for it on YouTube, which was simpler and as a result worked better - I’ll embed it at the end of this post.
Gabe also did a great cover of ‘The General’ by Dispatch, who again I had never heard of. I found an unofficial video of the song which I will also embed at the end of this post, and there is a live version by Dispatch on YouTube too.
Again, I prefer Gabe’s version, I suppose he did have the advantage of being live in my kitchen - if either Death Cab for Cutie or Dispatch wish to perform live in my kitchen for more favourable comparison it can be arranged.
So before I get to the videos, I will direct you to Gabe’s own site, which has some mp3’s on it, however - and I hope Gabe won’t mind this constructive criticism - Gabe’s voice sounds somewhat forced on the mp3’s on his site. I would highly recommend Gabe doing some late night impromptu recordings at 1, 2 or 3am to capture the chilled out, easy going sound he so easily performed for us here in my kitchen!
Oh, and I also think he should record ‘I Will Follow You Into the Dark’, just so I can have my favourite version of it 
Death Cab For Cutie- ‘I Will Follow You Into The Dark’
Dispatch - ‘The General’
Yes folks, it’s time to start thinking about the summer again! The line-up for this years Live At The Marquee in Cork - moved to the Docklands, Centre Park Road - is starting to be announced. So far we have The Who and BellX1 on sale now with Slayer on sale Friday, and Status Quo on sale Saturday.
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