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Sat 8 Aug – DNBBQ: A Warm Jungle Expedition

I'd known about DNBBQ for over a year before I finally managed to make it to one; I wish I'd been able to go sooner, cos not only was there fantastic music, but I met some great people too. I continue to maintain that the drum & bass and dubstep scenes are by far the most warm and inviting of any you care to name.

I was half expecting to hear lots of new liquid and neuro tunes, but was pleasantly blown away by several hours of oldschool jungle. ALF and Ozi Batla were alright, though I'm not a huge fan of MCs chattering all over drum & bass. Highly Dubious was the standout for me. The headliner Kenny Ken, on the other hand, I felt was a bit disappointing. I'm pretty sure there were a number of occasions on which he rewound two or three consecutive tracks, and he seemed to really like his reggae/half-time breakdowns and intros. As a result, his set seemed rather disjointed.

Outside on the balcony, I saw part of El Gusto's set, which was quite good. It was a decent mix of hip-hop (Aussie and other), dubstep, etc. Unfortunately the air was thick with smoke, which I found to be intolerable. Don't get me wrong, there should be a place for people to smoke if they choose, but it's not cool when it prevents people from enjoying the gig.

Last, but perhaps most importantly, the barbecue was great! Gourmet wraps with sausages and delicious salad.

Lineup and set times:
Main Room:
6-7 Ryan
7-8 JP
8-9 Polaris
9-10 Highly Dubious
10-11 Dave Edwards
11-12 Alf & Ozi Batla
12-2 Kenny Ken
2-3 Foreigndub

BALCONY
6-7 Dojo Cuts Soundsystem
7-8 Firehouse
8-9 Basslines
9-10 Dj Ability
10-11 El Gusto
11-12 B Hopps

As a side-note; it's kinda sucky that none of the artists names seem to resolve properly on Last.fm. :(

Tracks heard on the night included:
Michael Jackson - Human Nature (Makoto & Specialist remix)
Klute - Part of Me
Origin Unknown - Valley of the Shadows
DJ Krome & Mr. Time - Ganja Man (Remix?)
Omni Trio - Renegade Snares (Remix?)
Panjabi MC - Mundian To Bach Ke (Drum & Bass Remix?)
Jayline & Vast - The Mummy
Caspa & Rusko - Bread Get Bun
Hermitude - Slychain
UK Apache & Shy FX - Original Nuttah (Kenny Ken Remix?)
Q Project - Champion Sound
Chase & Status - Take Me Away
Shut Up and Dance - I'm Raving I'm Raving (Remix?)

1: Jurassic 5 - Worlds
1000: Mobb Deep - Survival of the Fittest
2000: Main Concept - Wo geh ma hin? (feat. Vier zu Eins)
3000: Jedi Mind Tricks - The Age of Sacred Terror
4000: Creutzfeld & Jakob - Laß die Puppen tanzen
5000: Jovanotti - L'Ombelico Del Mondo
6000: Looptroop - Fever (feat. Freestyle)
7000: The Beatnuts - Who's Comin Wit Da S**t Na feat. Willie Stubz
8000: Freddie Foxxx - Stock in the Game
9000: Stacs of Stamina - Downtown tempo
10000: Die Unsichtbaren - Vom Atomkern zum Stern
11000: Dilated Peoples - Alarm Clock Music
12000: Panjabi MC - Mundian to Bach Ke (Jay-Z remix)
13000: B-Real - Don't Ya Dare Laugh feat. Xzibit & Young De
14000: The Lemonheads - Mrs Robinson
15000: Manu Chao - Radio Bemba
16000: Ini Kamoze - Here Comes The Hotstepper
17000: Huss Und Hodn - Noch niemals in New York
18000: Alpha & Omega - Bush Ganja feat. Gregory Issacs
19000: MC Lyte - We Can't Be Stopped
20000: Kool Savas & Azad - Bis ihr nicht mehr könnt
21000: Prodigy of Mobb Deep - If Ain't One Thing Its Another feat. AZ & Nucci Reyo
22000: Bob Marley - Turn Your Lights Down Low Feat. Lauryn Hill
23000: Snowgoons - Ride On feat. Defari, Nico Suave & Maylay Sparks
24000: La Coka Nostra - Bang Bang feat. Snoop Dogg
25000: Jedi Mind Tricks - Retaliation

gotcha by anniversary tracks grabber

To celebrate the return of well formatted lists to the Last.fm journals, I made a list of One Hit Wonders with a little help of my friend Knirrie and Last.fm's tags. Don't bother if you find your favorite artist here, some of mine are as also on this list. "A one-hit wonder is a music industry term to describe an artist generally known for only one hit single." says Wikipedia.

One Hit Wonders

1. Wild Thing - The Troggs
   
2. Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
   
3. Je t'aime... moi non plus - Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg
   
4. Where Do You Go To My Lovely - Peter Sarstedt
   
5. In the Year 2525 - Zager & Evans
   
6. Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum
   
7. Popcorn - Hot Butter
   
8. Mouldy Old Dough - Lieutenant Pigeon
   
9. Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
   
10. I Can Help - Billy Swan
    
11. All By Myself - Eric Carmen
    
12. In Zaire - Johnny Wakelin
    
13. Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
    
14. Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles
    
15. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
    
16. My Sharona - The Knack
    
17. Pop Muzik - M
    
18. Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
    
19. Tainted Love - Soft Cell
    
20. Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
    
21. I Ran - A Flock of Seagulls
    
22. Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
    
23. Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
    
24. Only You - Flying Pickets
    
25. Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder
    
26. Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
    
27. It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls
    
28. Take On Me - a-ha
    
29. Tarzan Boy - Baltimora
    
30. Axel F. - Harold Faltermeyer
    
31. Life is life - Opus
    
32. (I Just) Died In Your Arms - Cutting Crew
    
33. I Can't Wait - Nu Shooz
    
34. Two of Hearts - Stacey Q
    
35. Pump Up the Volume - M/A/R/R/S
    
36. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
    
37. Wonderful Life - Black
    
38. Waiting For A Star To Fall - Boy Meets Girl
    
39. What I Am - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
    
40. I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers
    
41. Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves
    
42. Twist in My Sobriety - Tanita Tikaram
    
43. Killer - Adamski
    
44. I Touch Myself - Divinyls
    
45. There She Goes - The La's
    
46. U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
    
47. The One And Only - Chesney Hawkes
    
48. Unbelievable - EMF
    
49. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Monty Python
    
50. Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus
    
51. What's Up - 4 Non Blondes
    
52. Life in a Northern Town - The Dream Academy
    
53. What Is Love - Haddaway
    
54. Informer - Snow
    
55. Runaway Train - Soul Asylum
    
56. Two Princes - Spin Doctors
    
57. Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies
    
58. You Gotta Be - Des'ree
    
59. Trouble - Shampoo
    
60. Inside - Stiltskin
    
61. Roll To Me - Del Amitri
    
62. One Of Us - Joan Osborne
    
63. You're Gorgeous - Babybird
    
64. Spaceman - Babylon Zoo
    
65. Eve Of Destruction - Barry McGuire
    
66. No Rain - Blind Melon
    
67. Breakfast At Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something
    
68. Lemon Tree - Fool's Garden
    
69. How Bizarre - OMC
    
70. Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
    
71. Kiss The Rain - Billie Myers
    
72. Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
    
73. Bitch - Meredith Brooks
    
74. Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
    
75. Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
    
76. Your Woman - White Town
    
77. Save Tonight - Eagle-Eye Cherry
    
78. Inside Out - Eve 6
    
79. Sex And Candy - Marcy Playground
    
80. Jeans On - David Dundas
    
81. Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...) - Lou Bega
    
82. You Get What You Give - New Radicals
    
83. Driver's Seat - Sniff 'n' the Tears
    
84. Drops of Jupiter - Train
    
85. Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus
    
86. Bad Day - Daniel Powter
    
87. Lovefool - The Cardigans
    
88. Wherever You Will Go - The Calling
    
89. F.u.r.b. (F U Right Back) - Frankee
    
90. The Reason - Hoobastank
    
91. Closing Time - Semisonic
    
92. Toy Soldiers - Martika
    
93. Lovin' You - Minnie Riperton
    
94. Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin
    
95. Stay (I Missed You) - Lisa Loeb
    
96. Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Steam
    
97. Would I Lie To You - Charles & Eddie
    
98. Lullaby - Shawn Mullins
    
99. If You Could Only See - Tonic
    
100. Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel
     

(The song order is no ranking, it's just the release date of my discs)

The Bitter Sweet Symphony of The Verve is misspelled to refer to the 'full track' on Last.fm.


Well, it's so much fun to meet them all again, I continue seeking for more OHWs, today... One Hit Wonders ...episode 2:

1. In the Still of the Night - The Five Satins
   
2. Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
   
3. Be Bop A Lula - Gene Vincent
   
4. The Loco-Motion - Little Eva
   
5. Wooly Bully - Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs
   
6. I Fought The Law - Bobby Fuller Four
   
7. You Keep Me Hangin' On - Vanilla Fudge
   
8. Fire - Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
   
9. Venus - Shocking Blue
   
10. All Right Now - Free
    
11. All The Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople
    
12. How do you do - Mouth & McNeal
    
13. The Hustle - Van McCoy
    
14. The Boys Are Back In Town - Thin Lizzy
    
15. Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
    
16. Because The Night - Patti Smith Group
    
17. Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang
    
18. Fade To Grey - Visage
    
19. The Message - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
    
20. 99 Luftballons - Nena
    
21. Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
    
22. Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer
    
23. Voyage, voyage - Desireless
    
24. Living In A Box - Living in a Box
    
25. Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
    
26. Stay - Shakespear's Sister
    
27. Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor
    
28. Turning Japanese - The Vapors
    
29. Hocus Pocus - Focus
    
30. Love Is All Around - Wet Wet Wet
    
31. Invisible - Alison Moyet
    
32. Boom Boom Boom - The Outhere Brothers
    
33. Cotton Eye Joe - Rednex
    
34. I Love You Always Forever - Donna Lewis
    
35. MMMBop - Hanson
    
36. Brimful Of Asha (Norman Cook Remix) - Cornershop
    
37. Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
    
38. Midnight at the Oasis - Maria Muldaur
    
39. I Don't Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats
    
40. Drinking In L.A. - Bran Van 3000
    
41. Blue (Da Ba Dee) - Eiffel 65
    
42. Better Off Alone - Alice DeeJay
    
43. It Feels So Good - Sonique
    
44. Something - Lasgo
    
45. Stacy's Mom - Fountains of Wayne
    
46. Mundian To Bach Ke - Panjabi MC
    
47. F**k It (I Don't Want You Back) - Eamon
    
48. Turn Me On - Kevin Lyttle
    
49. Funky Nassau - The Beginning of the End
    
50. No No Never - Texas Lightning
    

...and it's not finished yet, thx Bayou16!
Here we go: One Hit Wonders ...what's left:

1. Sh-Boom - The Chords
   
2. For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
   
3. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Single Version) - Iron Butterfly
   
4. In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry
   
5. Low Rider - War
   
6. Born to Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez
   
7. Down Under - Men at Work
   
8. Glory of Love - Peter Cetera
   
9. Luka - Suzanne Vega
   
10. Groove Is In The Heart - Deee-Lite
    
11. Step By Step - New Kids on the Block
    
12. Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinéad O'Connor
    
13. It's My Life - Dr. Alban
    
14. I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred
    
15. Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio
    
16. Zombie - The Cranberries
    
17. The Living Years - Mike & The Mechanics
    
18. The Boy Is Mine - Brandy & Monica
    
19. Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden
    
20. Bye Bye Bye - *NSYNC
    
21. Who Let The Dogs Out - Baha Men
    
22. Don't Leave Me This Way - The Communards
    
23. Breathe - Blu Cantrell
    
24. Mad World - Gary Jules
    
25. Mississippi Queen - Mountain
    
26. Touch Me (I Want Your Body) - Samantha Fox
    
27. Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer
    
28. D.I.S.C.O. - Ottawan
    
29. Heaven Is a Halfpipe - OPM
    
30. Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
    
31. '74-'75 - The Connells
    
32. Barely Breathing - Duncan Sheik
    
33. Steal My Sunshine - LEN
    
34. Simarik - Tarkan
    
35. Dancing in The Moonlight - Toloader
    
36. Macarena - Los Del Rio
    

to be continued...

listen to the One Hit Wonder tag radio

Beside from the "official" list, my favorite German One Hit Wonder, the highlight of every party:

• Marmor, Stein Und Eisen Bricht - Drafi Deutscher :)
  

Accounting vehement protests I'll strikeout the artists with at least 3 votes against mentioning them here. ;)

With the Festive 50 now over, we get back to regular shows - plus a new DJ, Katherine Godfrey.

Andrew Morrison:
Andy's 2-hour February show offers much more than the sum of its parts. small crew are exclusive session guests, providing four excellent new tracks. Brand new music comes from The Race, Y Diwygiad, James Yuill, Joy formidable and Shortwave Fade as well as a storming new remix of a Bomb the Bass classic. There's striking sounds from Andy's unsigned new find Raw Milk, and further unsigned tracks from Galchen, The War Crimes and others. Add Scott's Funky Five Minutes and Teresa's Tasty Tips into the equation, and there really is no reason not to factor the show into your leisure time calculations this February!

Jeff Grainger:
Jeff croaks his way through his first show of 2009 with thankfully enough brilliant tunes to distract you, dear listener, from the fact he totally lost his voice, to tonsillitis, the day after he recorded this show.
Jeff will be playing some of this months and recent releases; Carosel, A Middle Sex. The Joy Formidable and Headless Heroes. Along with some 'Northern Soul', 'Dub' and a few freebies; I Have Clones, Red Steers and Healey Island.
The countdown to The 'All Tomorrows Parties' Festival gives him the ideal opportunity to play classic tracks by Throwing Muses and Shellac. There'll be a small tribute to folk singer Odetta, who sadly died at the end of last year and for reasons that will be most apparent; a track by Julie London.

Katherine Godfrey:
Katherine's first show for Dandelion was recorded in a loft during a storm. Listen carefully and you'll hear the wind howling across the microphone. Or is that just the dark, atmospheric soundscapes of music from Italy's Alampo records?
Keeping your ears toasty warm this February will be music from Torsten Profrock, Tanlines, Ala Muerte, and a featured EP from Oxford newbies UTE, whilst Action Beat will be crashing onto the airwaves with the force of a hurricane in the featured album for the month The Noise Band from Bletchley.
With Distance and Reso's foundation shaking dubstep, and the glorious clatter of HAWKS, Yowie and K.I.T. in the mix, you'd better batten down the hatches.

Marcelle:
The good old medieval days

Marcelle displays in her new show a keen interest for music made years, even centuries ago. She plays an electronic music musician who draws his inspiration from 17th century baroque instruments and reveals which British band who dabbled in 14th century Italy ,eh, only 18 years ago.
She has a Zomby in her show, and Animals: An innocent little dog opens her show, appearing in an oil drum and Suicidal Birds fly side on side with Nightingales. 26 giants make an appearance alongside kung fu zulus. Men are also welcomed, especially as they use a John Peel sample in of their tracks. The Chicks in this month's show are On Speed and sing that everything is alright.
Marcelle investigates which song is a certain 'party ruiner' and champions Monty Python-esque words like 'Libythth' and 'Vinkepeezer'. She laughingly plays a 78 RPM record on 33 1/3 RPM and gets pushed aside twice by a very strong Cardopusher in three hours.
The Look Back Bore Records Of The Month (February 1979) are oddly shaped and an eight minute reggae cover. By the end of the show we speak French and come to the conclusion that we have drunk one beer too much; no wonder Mark E. Smith appeared twice in the show. With so many musical adventures we can only say: I Tank U. (77% Vinyl Guarantee)

Mark Cunliffe:
We are getting nicely into the New Year now and that resolution to cut back your food intake by only eating the filling of Custard Creams is getting a bit shaky. So far it's only been a whole Bourbon but a full Custie is only a matter of time....
So what do we have in this months show? King Clarentz does some seductive cooking and we get down to some punctuation in the Ghetto. Asian Dub Foundation sit on the fence for once and regret it with some singed crack hairs. Tigerstyle and Panjabi MC go dhol to dhol in a classic bhangra face off. Maga Bo & Xuman might have well been the pyromaniacs who set Asian Dub Foundation's fence (and arse hairs) on fire. Radio Datacha might be flying in something that sounds a bit like a sectioned helicopter and Spektre has gone planting banana skins around the cosmos....what are they on? Black Acid finds Amy Winehouse on the roadside and we have a live special from a band who's line-up changes completely from gig to gig, that band is God Has Tits
If you're still on the reduced Custie diet then congratulations, it's a filling diet....

Mark Whitby:
For the small price of spending three hours in Mark Whitby's company this February, you'll be able to hear an exclusive advance four-track preview of Welsh/Antipodean project Cwtch as well as tracks from new and forthcoming albums by Toykult, Filastine, Fol Chen and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. There's also a little something from the double EP by Beirut and (brace yourselves) a cassette-only release from the magnificent Twin Lion.
Sonic Youth join us to say a fond farewell to Ron Asheton, while Cosmo vs Flapsandwich say a less tearful TTFN to George W Bush. You'll find Fuck Buttons remixing Fever Ray, a Qemists remix and a good solid hard dose of electronic noise from the likes of Schaua, Androgyn Network and NONEWYORK. Plus a load of bands with "dogs" in their name, Well, two anyway.

Matt Jones:
The boy Jones is back with 2 hours of music to banish the misery of the worst month of the year. February is accepted by all known life forms as rubbish, but happily, the likes of Mrs Cakehead and Dilworth bring some strange sub tropical Lancashire warmth to those of you feeling the winter is a never ending lead weight dragging your soul further into a tarry mire of misery.
Strangeness and joy abounds still further as the gleeful mania of 3Sachetti competes with the schizoid delights of RomanianMyth for your attention and love. Elsewhere in the show, there is the little matter of hiphop, balkan brass, assorted forms of clicks and beats, a sprinkling of brand new dubstep and some lovely folk from Senegal. Oh, and another corking tune from the ever fantastic RevPorl. All in all, it's better than a kick in the face with a wet stick.

Pete Jackson:
February, like Atilla The Hun, is known for being short and cruel, so let's liven things up with an amazing session from the extraordinary Lord Numb, a whole bunch of new craziness from Bordeaux's second-greatest export Boxon Records, some noises made in the 1960s and 70s in Japan, Jamaica and Fort Lauderdale, Florida and some equally wonderous noises made more recently in Wales by Recordiau Safon Uchel and in Newton-Le-Willows by 13 Amp.
We'll also tip our hat to mark the passing of garage guitar god Ron Asheton with some classicStooges.

Rachael Neiman:
After missing our January show, "The Rachael Neiman Experience" returns for a jam-packed 2-hours in February with fabulous new art pop from Vanilla Ride, Shrag, Cats In Paris, And What Will Be Left Of Them, The Teenagers, Das Wanderlust, Monocle Rose and 2 Hot 2 Sweat, glorious indiepop from The San Marinos, The Give It Ups, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Procedure Club, foxes, Sparky's Magic Piano, Help Stamp Out Loneliness, Hari and Aino, The Lucksmiths and the latest single by Norwichcore heroes Bearsuit.
Elsewhere we have jaunty pop from The Momeraths, The Loves and Lucky Delucci, riot grrrl goodness from Fever fever and Stilletoes, melancholy pop from Tiger MCs and The Grizzly Owls and dramatic pop from Amanda Palmer. We also have two tracks from our featured compilation, A Place In Space, released on Invisible Girl Records from Elevation and Hektor.

Rocker:
A three-hour show with three fantastic featured LPs - by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Nightingales, and Emmy the Great. There's also new tracks from such acts as Clockwork Four; Phil Wilson; She Keeps Bees; Cats on Fire; Knight School; Mascot Fight; Lean Tales; The Mai 68s; and The Wednesday Club. There's a new single from Penetration, as well as a vintage Pauline Murray track, there's also a gloriously messed-up remix of a track from the current Grace Jones LP, as well as her gloriously messed-up 29-year-old cover of a post-punk classic.
There's dubstep from Wireman and Quarta 330, and electro / house from Dusty Kid; Milton Jackson and Sei A; and an amazing remix of Rennie Foster by Youngsters. There's also vintage soul from The Miracles.
This month's Peel's Big 45 is a blues classic from 1960, and my new "Educating Elizabeth" feature debuts with a Northern Soul standard from Herbert Hunter.
As well as little known acts, here's a little known fact, in fact it's a guest little known fact from The Nightingales: "If you keep on walking into a barbers, one day you're gonna get a haircut."

Simon Hickinbotham:
Whilst being mildly surprised at getting a show together for February, I'm nevertheless delighted to be presenting tracks by The Griefs, Two Minute Noodles, AK, Major Grave and Alien Hand.
We'll also be hearing more from those we've met before, including The Giant Leeches, Terry Edwards, Bill Nelson and Joy Division.
There's also a couple of half-cocked attempts at regular features - the long half of a "short song / long song" segment. The short song just wasn't short enough to meet the strict admission rules. I also attempt to play songs from two bands with very similar names - Mein and Maiun - but have trouble pronouncing both. Enjoy!

Yank Sizzler:
Behold the end of hibernation here on the Yank Sizzler Show following the fear of everything Santa. New recordings from The Homosexuals, Mammoth life, The Knux, Black Christmas, The Weakends, The Dutchess And The Duke & King Khan.
My disturbing love of Mississippi Records continues as I bring the old world immigrant song of the amazing LP "I Don't Feel At Home in This World Anymore". And of course we thrive on the collective gamut of blues, Swedish garage jazz, blistered fingers rock n roll, ska classics, English folk, highlife, soul, punk and indie gems with cuts by John Lee Hooker, The Thing, Abe Vigoda, Dark Meat, Free Kitten, Anne Briggs, Pissed Jeans, The Blues Busters, Rex Williams, Blood on the Wall, {{{Sunset}}}, Carla Thomas & many more.

1. Vashti Bunyan - Train Song
2. Nostalgia 77 - Seven Nation Army
3. Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia
4. Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy
5. Money Mark - Tomorrow Will Be Like Today
6. T.I. - Live Your Life (feat. Rihanna)
7. Akrobatik - A to the K (feat. B-Real)
8. Lupe Fiasco - Superstar
9. Gang Starr - Check the Technique
10. Dio - Het Is Je Boy
11. Panjabi MC - Mundian To Bach Ke
12. Mano Negra - King Kong Five
13. MGMT - Electric Feel
14. Sneaky Sound Systems - Pictures
15. Basto - Rock With You
16. Members of Mayday - Sonic Empire
17. Primus - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver
18. Pennywise - Brohymn
19. Mano Negra - Noche De Accion
20. Semisonic - Closing Time

Metal is deep, it's not about bitches and hoes like hiphop! Metal is about something REAL like dragons used as metaphors to describe what a long haired ugly man feels towards his vacuum cleaner. I am proud to be metal, and to be able to resist the temptations of FALSE METAL such as KoRn which is totally gay. KoRn and Slipknot others are disgrace to metal such as Disexistentsium or Spermswamp. Spermswamp at least isn't about sexual molestation or about bitches and hoes. Metal is the only reason this world still exists! Metal is LIFE! Metal is POWER! Metal Prevails!! Metal isn't primitive or catchy or loud like stupid music like Raunchy or Mnemic. I am sick of this shit you people should go and fucking die all of you!! I AM METAL AND IT MAKES ME SUPERIOR TO ALL YOU FALSE BELIEVERS!

Also Ghost Linking isn't metal so I will just fairly list the artist connections here.
Iron MaidenManowarLimp BizkitLinkin ParkKornSlipknotRadioheadThe BeatlesRammsteinJustin TimberlakeCannibal CorpseJudas PriestBlack SabbathMudvaynePanjabi MCBruce DickinsonCombichristNine Inch NailsRed Hot Chili PeppersRusko StarIced EarthNanowarBurzumDisexistentsium

Wiem, że wypisywanie line-upu marzeń nie ma większego sensu, ale czymże byłoby życie bez marzeń ;P
Choć nauczona doświadczeniem tegorocznym dochodzę do wniosku, że wypowiadanie na głos open'erowych życzeń przynosi efekt - często i gęsto mówiłyśmy, że chcemy Interpol i Roisin. Stało się.
Do dzieła zatem.

Zacznijmy od World Stage.
Reprezentacja polska: Kapela ze wsi Warszawa albo Village Kollektiv. Albo Yerba Mater. Obojętnie. A najlepiej wszystkie trzy, zwłaszcza, że w dwóch pierwszych składy ściśle się zazębiają. Poprosimy również zespół Sofa jako delegację soul/r'n'b
Bałkany: Fanfare Ciocărlia, Kustirucą i jego No Smoking Orchestra też nie pogardzę, ale to akurat jest wysoce nieprawdopodobne.
Zaległości: Beirut! Nie odpuścimy.
Mrzonki absolutne: Clann Zú. Obawiam się, że nic nie jest w stanie zmusić panów z zespołu do ponownego zejścia się.
Jak co roku : Masala Soundsystem
Nada się również : Andrew Bird albo Sufjan Stevens. I może Joanna Newsom, ale po niej to się nie spodziewajmy show w stylu DeVotchKi.
I... gwiazda wieczoru... Panjabi MC! :D


Namiot.
The Dresden Dolls, absolutnie! Dokładnie jako odpowiednik CocoRosie (wiem, wiem, ta muzyka bardzo się od siebie różni, ale stopień wariactwa ma ten sam)
Z Gotan Project mam problem, teoretycznie nadaje się również na World, ale Tent daje chyba jednak bardziej kameralną atmosferę.
Peaches, cobyśmy zobaczyli i usłyszeli prawdziwe erosong show, a nie taką chałę, jaką w tym roku wyprodukowała Marysia P.
Jazzu chcemy również, zatem Koop i Skalpel.
Na jakiś trip-hop też musi się znaleźć miejsce pod namiotem. Bonobo, Télépopmusik
Elektronika obowiązkowa - Matthew Herbert i Gus Gus. I Barbara Morgenstern, pasuje idealnie.
Po polsku - młodzi Waglewscy w dowolnej konfiguracji. Może być sam Fisz, może być Tworzywo Sztuczne itd. Do tego Pink Freud, Dr.No.

Główna.
Zespoły polskie, na rozgrzewkę : Pogodno. Nie lubię tego paskudztwa o jakże konceptualnej nazwie Kombajn Do Zbierania Kur Po Wioskach, ale muszę przyznać, że się nada. Choć Hurt też nie jest złym pomysłem.
Najchętniej Róisín Murphy, ale nie ma co na to liczyć.
Zatem Björk, jeśli łaska.
Z gatunku korzenie trip-hopu - Portishead, DJ Shadow, Tricky, Lamb, UNKLE, Air. Nie pogardzę nikim, wybieraj, AlterArcie!
Elektronicznie : Ladytron. Myślę, że godnie zajmą miejsce Goldfrapp.
Jako młodzi, niepokorni indie-rockowi idole indie-pedałów w szaliczkach nadadzą się Arctic Monkeys. Nie, nie chcę Radiohead!
Kontynuując indie i okolice, tudzież singerów-songwriterów - poproszę Becka i Feist. I Yeah Yeah Yeahs, bardzo chciałabym zobaczyć Karen O. w akcji.
Brit : Travis najchętniej, ewentualnie Coldplay. Na Blur obawiam się, że nie mam co liczyć.
Ooo, PJ Harvey, bezwzględnie.
A, jeszcze jakiś soul/r'n'b. Alicia Keys albo Mary J. Blige i wszyscy zadowoleni. Albo Kelis, mry.
I coś rapującego. Mhm. Hm. W tej materii czuję się zagubiona, przyznaję. Ale OutKast przyjmę z aprobatą.
Uderzenie ekstremalne - Prodigy :D

Zestawienie o najwyższym współczynniku prawdopodobieństwa. Choć oczywiście nie obyło się bez kilku, z różnych względów, całkowicie niemożliwych.

Teraz nie pozostaje mi nic innego jak podrzucić tę listę na wycieraczkę AlterArtu i cierpliwie czekać.

Do zobaczenia na Open'erze 2009 :)

Seriously, something wrong's been going on with my musical taste recently. The sillier the track is, the more likely it gets that I'll like that.

Some examples:

Crazy Loop - Crazy Loop. I feel ashamed, really. That guy was 1/3 of infamous O-Zone... Anyways,
They call me Crazy Loooop
Gotta gotta be crazy loooop
*off to do some silly dance*

Junior Senior - Move Your Feet. This one is SO addictive and the vid is a masterpiece. Looks like a 1980's Atari game. Seriously, it must be really hard to write such a catchy one.

d-d-don't stop the beat
I c-c-can't control the feet
p-p-people in the streets
com'on everybody, move your feet

*off to do some more silly dance*

Panjabi MC - Jogi. Panjabi music is love, and this one is one of the greatest examples I know. Makes you wanna take part in a Bollywood movie ^^

Maybe that's all because I need some bad stuff to totally wash my brain. I don't feel like thinking right now.

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Oh, by the way - Paolo Nutini is great. Even though he looks as if he's stoned most of the time ;]