Overtones - Just Jack

Well, after a few listens to this album... I'm pleasantly surprised!



I had no idea this was his second album, the first has completely bypassed me, and I'm enjoying it. The single Stars in their eyes is fun and it's brightening up my workplace.

There's not much on Wikipedia and obviously I don't know much about Just Jack either so I'll include what there is:

According to the artist, his debut album, The Outer Marker is about modern life, relationships and the pressures of social situations. Originally released by the RGR Records, the album received favourable reviews from publications such as The Independent, Q , NME, The Big Issue, and others, despite some criticism of his lyrics. The Outer Marker was later re-released, with extra tracks.

Allsopp and his band have played his third gig to the Glastonbury Dance Tent, the Speak Easy Arena at Snowbombing in Mayrhofen, Austria, and plans to perform at the V Festivals in the summer of 2007.

Although his big break was in 2002, he didn't gain fame until 2007. Following his TV debut on BBC2's Later with Jools Holland, then on the Channel 4 show The Friday Night Project, where he performed the single "Starz In Their Eyes", this reached #2 in the UK charts.

His second album, Overtones, released in 2007, made #6 in the UK charts.

Official website: www.justjack.co.uk/

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The Crystal Maze - Star Wars style

Not too long ago, on Channel 4, there was a television programme called "The Adam & Joe show" and they made some very funny sketches with Star Wars toys. Here's one of my favourites:

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Nanaca crash

I'm sure everyone has played this little flash game to death...

Nanaca Crash

but I managed a score of over 10,000 yesterday! I'll put up a screen shot to prove it at some point but for now you'll just have to take my word for it.

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Lithium - Polyphonic Spree

Ok, now I love the The Polyphonic Spree and this video of sock puppets doing their version of Lithium is genius!

Unless you've been sitting in a hole over the last 2 or 3 years or perhaps you don't take any notice of new music or watched Scrubs you have probably seen these mad robe wearing musicians prancing around on a teletubbie-esque hill, waving arms around like a bunch of enthused children. And that's precisely why they're so good.

The music is uplifting, fun, jump around and shouty and makes you just want to join in. With the group currently comprising of over 4,500 members (maybe) you may even be able to slip into a concert unnoticed and get on the stage to jump around with them.



And I was planning on writing some kind of moaning rant after a busy day at work, watched a couple of Spree videos and this is what I've ended up with! Fantastic.

As usual with my posts I'll add in something from Wikipedia:

The group was founded by DeLaughter and has included 13 to 27 other members. It currently consists of 24 members ranging from vocals, to organ to tubular bells. The three original members, Tim DeLaughter, Mark Pirro and Bryan Wakeland were members of the band Tripping Daisy before their guitarist Wes Berggren died in 1999. After the end of Tripping Daisy, DeLaughter temporarily gave up music to run Good Records, a record shop in Dallas.

In 2000, DeLaughter, Pirro and Wakeland were asked to create a 30-minute album in support of Grandaddy. Rather than reforming Tripping Daisy, the three decided to explore a concept DeLaughter had of creating a modern symphonic rock band with a live choir. Inspired by operatic, experimental rock bands of the seventies such as Electric Light Orchestra that he loved as a child, DeLaughter sent the call out for a wide array of musicians and gradually built up contacts. A half-hour of music was written and rehearsed by 13 musicians that would become The Polyphonic Spree.

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Looks as though I've completely gone off the point of the original article. Anyway, the version of Lithium on Wait by The Polyphonic Spree is on their latest EP release and is making me itch to get my hands on their new album "The Fragile Army" - out in June.

And they're playing in New York on May 11th:

Get Polyphonic Spree tickets here

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