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Choice new CD's - Click below for the latest on each artist
1 - THE LONELY ISLAND Jizz In My Pants new single 2 Feb video
1 1 PRODIGY Omen new single 16 February
3 3 RUDENKO Everybody new single 16 February
4 - BRAKES Hey Hey new single 2 March video
5 10 DEFEND MOSCOW Manifesto new single 23 February
6 5 KARDINAL OFFISHAL & RIHANNA Tide Is High from the 'Not For Sale' album video
7 2 RED LIGHT COMPANY Arts & Crafts new single 2 March
8 9 VOLUNTARY BUTLER SCHEME Multiplayer new single 2 March
9 - NOISETTES Don't Upset The Rhythm new single 23 March
10 12 WOMBATS My Circuitboard City new single 2 March
11 11 FILTHY DUKES This Rhythm new single 9 March
12 - U2 Get On Your Boots new single 15 February
12 - SEPTEMBER Can't Get Over You new single 9 March
12 8 MORRISSEY I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris new single 9 February
 ohell anagram Welcome to the internet home for Mike TreVelyan and Mad4it - a weekly and sometimes mobile club night. We like to raise the roof with the biggest indie & alternative hits ever and take in some mainstream & some unusual requests - click here for a recent setlist. Here's Cardiff Barfly's upcoming Friday live line-up :- Friday 30th January it's Haunts + Hunting The Minotar + Get Out Clause then on Friday 7th February Said Mike + Cornerstone + 4th Street Traffic and uh-oh on Friday 13th February it's Bensem and this gig is sold out

this week's post ...

Ida Maria
Fortress 'round My Heart re-released album 9 February
Ida's making the big time in America launching new single 'Oh My God' in the UK and seizing the opportunity to re-release her album 'Fortress 'round My Heart'. The 2009 issue has new artwork and a new tracklisting with three new songs : 'Leave Me, Let Me go', 'In The End' and the optimistic 'We're All Going To Hell'. See Ida on NME Awards Shows duty at london Koko on Wed 11 Feb, Manchester Club Academy on 12 Feb and Glasgow garage on Friday 13th Feb.

Ladyhawke
Paris Is Burning new single 2 March
Ladyhawke aka Pip made the top forty last time out with the 30,000 selling 'My Delirium' now here's the re-release of the excellent 123bpm 'Paris Is Burning'. A fine single and it deserves to go higher, top twenty? Yeah

Metro Station
Shake It new single 23 March
LA based 'pop/punk' Metro Station are looking likely to score big UK success soon with 22 million plays of four tracks on their myspace, of which their new single the 152bpm 'Shake It' recieved 16 million. OK get ready ... they're fronted by Trace Cyrus ... yep Miley's brother, Billy Ray's son ... bit of a head start then. Good single, plenty of press opp's and hey presto .. top forty possibility

My Chemical Romance
Desolation Row new single 9 February
Now then, MCR are back. The 167bpm 'Desolation Row' will be released as a 3,000 limited edition single on 12" and DMD formats next week. The song is featured on the upcoming soundtrack album to 'The Watchmen' movie due for big screen release in June and this is a powerful interpretation of what was Bob Dylan's finale to his 1965 album 'Highway 61 Revisited'. After the Brian May inspired guitar work on 'Welcome To The Black Parade' this seems somehow almost darker, faster and furious-er-er. At just under three minutes this is a taster for the new album the band are due to release this year. they were main support for Muse at wembley and I'm sure after four top twenty hits last time they'll head top side again

Prodigy
Omen Re-Mixes new single 16 February
One word - brilliant. The Prodigy are on top of their game, four great mixes on this CD : the 140bpm 'Omen Extended', the 128bpm 'Omen - Herve's End Of The World Remix', the excellent 135bpm 'Omen - Noisia Remix' and the 'Chase & Status Remix' of Invaders Must Die'. Irresistable, Prodigy seem somehow sharper and phatter than previously, brilliant

Rise Against
Audience Of One new single 2 March
Politico's Rise Against are back with a great single here, 'Audience Of One' pounds along at an edgy and alternating 80-160bpm not unlike a Green Day song, possibly reminiscent of 'Holiday', certainly in atmosphere. A good tune

Saint Ettienne
Method Of Modern Love new single 9 February
London trio Saint ettienne pick up where they left off with the new single 'Method Of Modern Love' (not the Daryl hall & John Oates song of the same name). A lush four minute listen with rich vocals and great production, warm keyboard sound travelling at 125bpm in five fine variations including an accapella version. 'Nothing Can Stop Us Now' and their superb version of Neil Young's 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart' come to mind and to the CD player again no doubt, the reason? The release of their new hits album, 'London Conversations - The Best of Saint Ettienne' on 16 Feb. Well worthy, look out for live dates to be announced soon

Snow Patrol
If There's A Rocket Tie Me To It new single 9 March
Recorded in Summer '08 at Hansa Studios Berlin where David Bowie recorded 'Low', 'Heroes' and 'Lodger' and produced by Jacknife Lee of U2, Bloc Party and REM production duty. Needless to say top quality arrangement of another edgy Snow Patrol song, the only impediment to the 138bpm 'Rocket's' top forty take-off (geddit - sic) will be the half million fans who will already have it on their 'A Hundred Million Suns' album. Excellent

Veto
Built To Fail new single 16 March
Another lush electro keyboard intro gets Veto's new single 'Built To Fail' underway before the stomping 155bpm dum track comes in. Veering towards the crossroads between Hot Chip, Nine Inch Nails, Klaxons and Pendulum Veto are a five piece from Arhuis and Copenhagen in Denmark (I wonder if Madness 'Our House' was a big hit in Arhuis? Just a thought, it may make a good cover for them one day). This is a good tune with remixes by Tomboy and James Braun. Airplay hit

VV Brown
Leave new single 2 March
Northampton born VV Brown is a fine song-writer, her debut single 'Crying Blood' having won many fans like Jools Holland and Damon Albarn who invited her to play his Africa Express adventure in Lagos. Second single 'Leave' is another uptempo 151bpm affair with an interesting 125bpm remix by Little Boots with her Tenori-on. Coool and hit potential, major new artist alert

last week's post ...

Brakes
Hey Hey new single 2 March
"I thought and I thought til I thought I had thunk and the ship was a sinking but it hadn't yet sunk" ... pure class.“It’s about a man who survives a boat crash, swims to shore and tells his story in a bar.” So says Eamon Hamilton. Brakes are back with a short sharp shock of a pop classic in their trademark style. 'Hey Hey' is the first single from their third album 'Touchdown'. You can see Brakes at Tommy's Bar in Cardiff on Monday 2nd February. This is superb record and if you don't geddit it's a mere two minutes long - check the vid for the revolutionary dough nuts gathering momentum before devourment. Well worthy brilliance. See the vid on you tube here

new cd's
our weekly a to z of new cd review's is listed below

this week
Ida Maria LP 9/2
Ladyhawke 2/3
Metro Station 23/3
My Chemical Romance 9/2
Prodigy Mixes 16/2
Rise Against 2/3
Saint ettienne 9/2
Snow Patrol 9/3
Veto 16/3
VV Brown 2/3

19 Jan
Brakes 2/3
Esser 23/2
Franz Ferdinand LP 26/1
Gary Go 16/2
Glasvegas 23/2
The Lonely Island 2/2
Mongrel
Noisettes 23/2
Passion Pit
Skint & Demoralised 16/2
U2 15/2
The Virgins
WhoMadeWho

12 Jan
All American Rejects 9/2
Basshunter
Defend Moscow
Filthy Dukes 9/3
Flamboyant Bella
Kevin Rudolph Remixes
Le Corps Mince De Francoise
Marmaduke Duke CD
Morrissey 9/2
Prodigy 16/2
Rudenko 16/2
September 9/3
Wombats

5 Jan
Franz Ferdinand
The Fray 26/1

29 Dec
Mad4these 08

22 Dec
Amy Studt
Filthy Dukes
Ida Maria
InnerPartySystem Voluntary Butler Scheme

15 Dec
Fall Out Boy LP

8 Dec
The Answer 22/2
Cage The Elephant 26/1
Fifty Phantoms 26/1
Franz Ferdinand Singles
Gold Teeth
Kaiser Chiefs & Calvin Harris
Kid Crudi Vs Crookers 12/1
Lady Gaga & Colby Odonis 5/1
Lily Allen 26/1
Little Comets
Madcon Jan/09
Metro Station
Noisettes 29/12
Opera House Remixes
Prodigy 26/11
Red Light Company
Snow Patrol Remix 15/12
View 2/2/09

1 Dec
All American Rejects
White Lies

24 Nov
FilthyDukes 16/2
Franz Ferdinand 19/1
Kevin Rudolph 29/12
Kid British 19/1
Killers LP 17/11
King Blues
The Sea sampler
Tommy Sparks 3/10
Wombats 15/12

17 Nov
Bye Bye Johnny 8/12
Flobots 1/12
Fratellis 22/12
Kaiser Chiefs
Katy Perry LP
Kinkane 24/11
White Lights 21/12
Wiley 1/12
The Wireless 1/12

45 years ago.. The battle was on between Mersey Beat and The Tottenham Sound. The Beatles had dominated the charts of 63, but a shrewd businessman / drummer led his London group The Dave Clark Five to a sweet conquest over the Fab Four with 'Glad All Over' replacing 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' at Number One in January 64.
In 1990 Ian Wright and his then Crystal Palace team mates covered the song for the clubs titanic FA Cup Final battle with Man Utd. Sadly for the Eagles after a thrilling 3-3 draw, United won the Cup 1-0 in the replay. At least Wright and Co. got to tour London's record shops signing 7" singles for fans!

Click here for Dave Clark 5's TOTP spot on YouTube

This week's Top 40 ...

Top 40 Sun 25 Jan 09

Lady Ga Ga & Colby O'Donis have a third week at the top and Lady GaGa's second track 'Poker Face' climbs to 26, see her on The Pussycat Dolls UK tour

Franz Ferdinand return with the excellent 'Ulyses' the highest new entry at 20, Jay Sean is back at 23 with 'Tonight' and Bon Iver (not Jovi) crack on at 37

3 new entries – 9 up, 22 down, 6 non-movers

This Week ... Last Week ... Weeks In ... Artist ... Title

1 1 4 LADY GAGA & COLBY O'DONNIS Just Dance

2 2 2 KID CUDI & CROOKERS Day N Nite

3 39 2 TINCHY STRYDER & TAIO CRUZ Take Me Back

4 3 8 JAMES MORRISON & NELLY FURTADO Broken Strings

5 4 5 SATURDAYS Issues

6 5 4 KEVIN RUDOLPH & LIL WAYNE Let It Rock

7 7 8 BEYONCE Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

8 8 16 KINGS OF LEON Use Somebody

9 26 3 PINK Sober

10 11 5 KANYE WEST Heartless

11 6 6 ALEXANDRA Hallelujah

12 9 8 LEONA LEWIS Run

13 23 3 ALESHA DIXON Breathe Slow

14 10 5 GIRLS ALOUD The Loving Kind

15 12 12 BEYONCE If I Were A Boy

16 13 11 KILLERS Human

17 17 5 BRITNEY SPEARS Circus

18 14 15 KATY PERRY Hot N Cold

19 15 20 KINGS OF LEON Sex On Fire

20 new FRANZ FERDINAND Ulyses

21 19 7 NE-YO Mad

22 28 3 JASON MRAZ I'm Yours

23 new JAY SEAN Tonight

24 16 13 AKON Right Now (Na Na Na)

25 20 12 T.I. & RIHANNA Live Your Life

26 30 2 LADY GAGA Poker Face

27 22 12 BRITNEY SPEARS Womanizer

28 38 2 JORDIN SPARKS One Step At A Time

29 25 12 ALESHA DIXON The Boy Does Nothing

30 21 10 MGMT Kids

31 18 14 GURU JOSH PROJECT Infinity 2008

32 33 14 SATURDAYS Up

33 24 11 THE SCRIPT Breakeven

34 35 2 WHITE LIES To Lose My Life

35 31 13 PUSSYCAT DOLLS I Hate This Part

36 36 18 PINK So What

37 new BON IVER Blood Bank

38 32 9 RIHANNA & JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Rehab

39 29 5 50 CENT Get Up

40 27 9 TAKE THAT Greatest Day

Still All Wright
I must have been to hundreds of commercial radio dj meetings. Always a discussion would ensue on "how can we beat Radio 2 or Radio 1".
Well there I was on Friday waiting for my car to be repaired when I noticed my ears getting excited at hearing the answer yet again. As the tedius Jeremy Vine closed up, on comes Steve Wright in his thirtieth BBC year and still going strong ..
First record Stevie Wonder 'Another Star', second record Yarborough & Peoples 'Don't Stop The Music', third record Donna Summer 'State Of Independence', fourth record Harpo 'Movie Star', fifth record Martha Reeves 'Nowhere To Run' ..
Wrighty used to use a branding statement to describe his show 'You'll Always Hear A Better Song'. I've always thought Steve's trick is not only are they better songs but you're pretty well certain to never hear these kind of oldies anywhere else.
So here for the moaning minnies of commercial radio is an analysis of the five tracks above ...
Stevie Wonder's 'Another Star', the third single from Stevie's classic 1976 double album 'Songs In The Key Of Life', followed the top five hits 'I Wish' and 'Sir Duke' just made the top thirty in 1977
Yarborough & Peoples 'Don't Stop The Music' a Stevie Wonder song which became the only hit for this duo, a top tenner at the turn of 1980 into 1981
Harpo 'Movie Star' - a top thirty hit for Swede Harpo in May 1976
Donna Summer 'State Of Independence' - Summer's first single produced by the legend Quincy Jones, a hit in 1982 at the same time Jones and Jackson were planning 'Thriller', Hot - no by now Steve's sizzling and he's only 10 minutes in...
Martha Reeves 'Nowhere To Run' - a 1960's mod favourite still loved on dancefloors today.
In sixteen years of primetime FM and Oldies radio I don't recall ever having had one of those first four classics programmed and rarely, maybe once or twice did I have the pleasure of playing Martha Reeves Motown classic 'Nowhere To Run'. Put that twenty minute segment in the mix with the Radio 2 playlisting of Lady Gaga, Franz Ferdinand and Alesha Dixon and it's not to hard to imagine why people would want to tune away from commercial radio's regimented boring computer programmed sequences.
So the answer to any aspiring commercial station who'd really like to compete with the intelligent music radio aspoused by Radio 2 is hire Steve Wright to do your music, or get someone else who knows a bit about it

A joker or a thief
Gordon Brown says he didn't see the recession coming. So it's make your mind up time, there's only two possibilities left - incompetance or deceit. Liberal Democrat Vince Cable has been predicting the credit crash loudly for near ten years. So are we to believe Great Gordon? The man who also said he didn't realise five million of the lowest paid would lose out with the abolition of the 10% tax band. This from a Labour Party man who's had the nation's cash book's in his hands for twelve years? Even Mr Bean could have done that sum. If Brown's not being truthful about not seeing the recession coming, then the possibility of mischief making arises. Entirely consistent with the 10% tax rate fiasco. How stupid does he think we are? I hope he's not right. View article in The Daily Express

America's Hot 100

This Week ... Last Week ... Artist ... Title

1 1 LADY GAGA & COLBY O'DONIS Just Dance

2 2 BEYONCE Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

3 3 KANYE WEST Heartless

4 4 T.I. & RIHANNA Live Your Life

5 5 TAYLOR SWIFT Love Story

6 10 THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS Gives You Hell

7 7 JASON MRAZ I'm Yours

8 6 KATY PERRY Hot N Cold

9 8 KEVIN RUDOLPH & LIL WAYNE Let It Rock

10 - BRITNEY SPEARS Circus