Great interviews: Ida Maria with Steve Lemacq

I have been listening to Steve for several years on BBC 6 and finally, again about a year to late, I have been starting to listen to Ida Maria (Great Norwegian artist). I was very very happy then when I found this very great interview. It's a very strange but quite lovely interview. She is cute, shy, unsure, but strong intelligent and stupid at the same time. I would love to have a chat with her some day. Definitively a real artist. I like her.

Part 1 Part 2

I also really like "Oh My God" a lot. I love the contranst between the verse and the refrain a lot and the whole build up of the thing. It's so simple but at the same so genius. Makes me want to jump around a lot. And it makes me be proud to be Norwegian this :) And gives me hope.

Great songs & great lyrics: Samson - Regina Spektor

This is another one of those songs that just hit me so hard and just makes me cry because it's so beautiful. The voice is so piercingly beautiful and she does some amazing melody lines in there... and it all sound so so easy and playful. And it's very simple and very emotional. It has such a nice lyric and so much emotion in it. I like the studio version the most, but it's not on YouTube unfortunately. So here is a good live one too.

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first
Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth
I have to go, I have to go
Your hair was long when we first met

Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
He ate a slice of wonder bread and went right back to bed
And history books forgot about us and the bible didn't mention us
The bible didn't mention us, not even once

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first , I loved you first
Beneath the stars came falling on our heads
But there just soft light, there just soft light
Your hair was long when we first met

Samson came to my bed
Told me that my hair was red
He told me i was beautiful and came into my bed
Oh I cut his hair myself one night
A pair of dull scissors and the yellow light
And he told me that I'd done alright
and kissed me till the morning light, the morning light
and he kissed me till the morning light

Samson came back to bed
not much hair left on his head
Ate a slice of wonderbread and went right back to bed
Oh, we couldn't bring the columns down
Yeah we couldn't destroy a single one
And history books forgot about us
And the bible didn't mention us, not even once

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first

BBC Sound of 2009

As I sat here watching the Norwegian answer to Brits and Grammy's, "Spellemannsprisen", I saw Ida Maria preform and wanted to read more about here, so I consulted my trusty source Wikipedia. There I found that she had been on the Sound of 2008 list from BBC, the list of music that they think will emerge in 2008. I of course had to go and check out the 2009 list and it looks like a lot of cool stuff. Have a look yourself and see... The 2008 lists seams very accurate :) Click here.

Great live: Blur - Essex Dogs

As I have told you readers before, I really really love the song "Essex Dogs" by Blur. The other day I found an amazing live version of it. I think this is Blur at it's best in many ways... Quite crazy and atmospheric and the mix of Coxon creativity Albarns amazing lyrics and voice and Alex James is amazingly cool in this. You also get a quite good version of Song 2 live... There are a lot of bad ones out there, so enjoy this one :)

I remember thinking murder in the car
Watching dogs somersault through sprinklers on tiny lawns
I remember the graffiti
We are your children coming in with spray cans of paint
I remember the sunsets and the plains of cement
And the way the night just seemed to turn the colour of orangeade

In this town, cellular phones are hot with teens
In this town, we all go to terminal pubs
It helps us sweat out those angry bits of life
From this town, the English army grind their teeth into glass
You know you'll get a kicking tonight
The smell of puke and piss
The smell of puke and piss on your stilettos

Here comes that panic attack
My heart stops... and then it starts
Give me a drink
I'll drink your round
I take you round the pole
It's cold up here (I can see the universe waiting by a minibus)
You'll catch flu
Or you'll catch the city
Either way, you'll catch flu
Or you'll catch the city

Great interviews: Oasis - Noel and Liam in Wibbling Rivalry

One of the reasons I like Oasis besides their music is the fact that they never give a boring interview and are usually quite funny. This is an amazing interview where what Liam and Noel do is basically fight about what Oasis is about, what is rock'n'roll, what its about being in a rock band and who's in charge. This is a very great one. I think it's from 1994 so it's in the middle of that whole Brit-pop crazyness. They keep talking about a ferry, and if I am not mistaken Liam and the rest of the band was thrown of a ferry between England and the Netherlands...

This interview became so legendary that it was even released on a cd and is taking place at The Forte Crest Hotel , Glasgow, around midnight on April 7, 1994.

Here is a link for the interview: part 1 part 2





And here is a transcript. Trust me, you will need it. And I hope you are not afraid og swearwords ;)

Can't wait to see them on Thuesday :)