Why Am I Me?

Bruce Willis in Stylo

Just headed over to Youtube to watch the video for Stylo, the new Gorillaz single. For some reason they’ve disabled embedding so here’s a still and yes, that is Bruce Willis. Best musical project he’s worked on since Return of The Bruno.
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Just read this article The 101 Best Music Videos of the Decade which has the videos for some great work. No surprise there’s a bag full of Michel Gondry videos, including the winning entry ‘Fell In Love With A Girl’ for the White Stripes, although I was quite surprised that the video for Around the World by Daft Park doesn’t make the list.

So rare I even see music videos these days apart from on YouTube perhaps, was just trying to remember when I last saw a music video on the TV and I honestly cannot remember. Oh no, hang on, it was a clip of a Katherine Jenkins video which is a cover of some shite Evanescence song and it was a total load of bollocks, the song and the video.

I can’t even believe I just made the effort to find it on YouTube.

Unkle – Heaven Remix from We Love You So on Vimeo.

Just found myself over at the Spike Jonze blog and saw this video for Unkle, saw the original footage from Fully Flared a while ago and thought it was great, as is this video; skateboarding, explosions and music from Unkle.

Lagos Shake album cover

Just bought Lagos Shake, an album of Tony Allen remixes. I’ve only given it one listen so this isn’t an album review, more of an excuse to blog about the album cover. Puts those pups you see cruising around with their bull terriers look distinctly pathetic. I’m glad I haven’t bumped into this guy around Camberwell after the pub.
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Warner Chappell reveals Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ pot of gold

Warner Chappell will today reveal details of their view of the Radiohead licensing experiment at the “You Are in Control” conference in Iceland, including total sales figures of more than three million for ‘In Rainbows’.

Just read this article about sales statistics for the In Rainbows album by Radiohead, made interesting reading.

Some Stats:

1. After being made available for free for 3 months the album was no.1 in the UK and in the US
2. 1st Radiohead album on iTunes – no.1 album selling 30,000 units in the US in the first week
3. The physical CD has sold 1.75 million to date and is still top 200 UK & US
4. They sold 100k boxsets via W.A.S.T.E.
5. Nearing 17 million plays on last.fm
6. 1.2 million fans will see the tour
7. The digital income from the experiment made a material difference to WCM’s UK digital revenue this year

I bought the Discbox for £40 and then another copy of the album on vinyl for £10 because I was too lazy to keep opening up the discbox every time I wanted to play it.