Hey all! It happened again, I left it ages!!

I went to Brighton last weekend for the Great Escape festival and it was immense. I had so much fun! This was my first Great Escape and I went down there very little idea of what to expect - and no planning, woops! I saw some amazing bands including the Dykeenies, One Night Only, Alphabeat, Sam Sparro (gorgeous AND put on a fantastic show!) and and the Ting Tings (possibly the best busy set of the weekend). My personal highlights were David E Sugar and Canterbury - the two sets I had gone down desperately wanting to see. They both lived up to expectations and I even managed to badger Canterbury into a photo. Anyway, there will be a full report of all my shenanigans soon, but I'm still trying to sort out photos, videos and all that jazz - I'll even tell you how I made an absolute eejit out of myself in front of George Craig (One Night Only vocalist)!!

Had my first listen to the Ting Tings album yesterday and I love it! I never expected That's Not My Name to get to number 1 though. Don't get me wrong I think it's a fantastic song - possibly one of my favourites this year - but to think they became so popular so quickly with a song that isn't typically mainstream is unbelievable. The entire album is filled with quirky pop tracks, guaranteed to stick in your head whether you like it or not. Aside from the amazing That's Not My Name, favourites include Great DJ and Shut Up And Let Me Go (yes the one off the new ipod/itunes advert). Great DJ is one of those songs, like the theme from The Great Escape (and I mean the film now kids), or "If I knew you were coming I'd've baked a cake, baked a cake, baked a cake" - you only need to hear the tune once and you'll be humming it for the next 3 days. So you if you have actually been living in a cave for the last few weeks you can check out the Ting Tings here or at their official website here.

Also, while you're at it, I recommend you all listen to The Sonixx who can be found here. There are some brilliant tracks up at the moment, though my favourite has to be LoveHate. It's a little bit Calvin Harris, a little bit Daft Punk and it's all melded together perfectly. When you listen to I Got 5 On It please be sure to ignore the vocals, which mainly consist of "I got 5 on it" because they're vaguely reminiscent of a fairground. Were there no vocals on this track it would be a quality electro track, but for now we'll have to settle for 'yeah it's alright'. But come on now, you know I wouldn't recommend you rubbish!! Both tracks are available for free download from The Sonixx myspace page

Finally, someone I first stumbled across properly in Brighton is Sportsday Megaphone who you can find at his myspace page. He completely blew me away when I saw him live - firstly to have the guts to get up on stage on his own and secondly with the quality of his music. My favourite track, L.A. is a sexy, stoned Hadouken! and once you're hooked on that you can move onto the other tracks like it was a gateway drug.

Anyway you lot, thats all I have for now I'm afraid. I'll be posting my top ten tracks to listen to within the next 24 hours on my myspace page. You should all add me, send me messages and make me feel loved and warm and fuzzy inside :D

Love
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