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Mike's Mad4these w/c 2 Mar 09
Choice new CD's - Click below for the latest on each artist
1 2 FREELAND Under Control new single 30 March
2 - ROBIN S / STEVE ANGELLO & LAIDBACK LUKE Show Me Love new single 23 March video
3 - YEAH YEAH YEAHS Zero new single 6 April
4 3 METRIC Help I'm Alive new single
5 1 NOISETTES Don't Upset The Rhythm Kissy Sell Out Remix new single 23 March
6 8 DOVES Kingdom Of Rust new single video
7 11 IN THIS MOMENT Forever new single 6 April
8 5 CHRIS CORNELL Part Of Me new single 9 March
9 - HOCKEY Too Fake new single 16 March
10 - THE VIEW Temptation Dice new single 13 April
11 - DINOSAUR PILE-UP Traynor new single 30 March
12 - FRANZ FERDINAND No You Girls new single 6 April
12 - FRYERS with DAVE GAHAN Visitors free download single from frYers myspace - click here
12 6 OPERAHOUSE Genius Child new single 30 March
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 :- on Friday 6th March it's Zenyth with support from Box Of Thumbs + Draw Me Storie and then on Friday 13th March it's Karima Francis + Zervas & Pepper + Brooke + Lily Green

this week's post ...

Asher Roth
I Love College new single 20 April
"Your time isn't wasted when you're getting wasted, I dance my face off and had this one girl completely naked ... I Love College". Here comes the new American hip-hop star Asher Roth, tipped by many 50 Cent, Kanye, Akon, Ludacris and it's easy to hear why on this 87bpm tune. Asher's voice sounds immediately warm and intimate, like a lazy lob, like a sleepy Will Smith. So laid back, kinda Jurasic Five-ish. Yeh this is a good single, and I like the Dirty version too! No surprise there. Look out for his album 'Asleep In The Bread Aisle' due on 20 April.

Billy Boy On Poison
Drama Junkie Queen - Sampler
These guys are 17 and have been learning their trade on Sunset Strip, Los Angeles. Named after Billy Boy Poison, a character in Anthony Burgess 'A Clockwork Orange' , this is an accomplished debut, five edgy indie type tracks, raucous even. The 142bpm 2 minutes 40 seconds 'On My Way' , the 144bpm 'Saturdays Child', 154bpm 'Standing Still' then the more subtle 93bpm 'Four Leaf Clover' with it's illuminating line about her "seeing her new shtrink" ... not quite UK yet, then again... finally the 80bpm 'Angry Young Man' with a pretty interesting effect on the vocal and intriguing lyric. Good start

Frankmusik
Better Off As Two new single 13 April
Island Records signing and 23 year old Thornton Heath college drop-out Frankmusik makes good ... new tune 'Better Off As Two' comes in five mixes here with Kissy Sell Out, Math Head and Fan Death on duty . Yes it's a good 119bpm debut with mixes upping the ante to around 130bpm and our Frank should raise some interest

Depeche Mode
Wrong new single 6 April
Martin Gore has penned the first single from Depeche Mode's new album 'Sounds Of The Universe'. Produced by Ben Hillier of Doves, Elbow and Blur credit it's a solemn 81bpm, 'Wrong' is a horror vid, the subject seems to be in perpetual nightmare "Wrong place, wrong time". Depeche Mode have a good point when they say they're bigger and have received little recognition from The Brits, but Pet Shop Boys have. Why? It can only be because DM are on the small independent record label Mute. A fine return

The Gaslight Anthem
Great Expectations new single 23 March
Kerrang favourites The Gaslight Anthem release their new album 'The 59 Sound' on 23 March, from it their new single 'Great Expectations' Powering along at 260bpm it's a short sweet 2mins 40secs that should get their year into gear for their support slot on the Bruce Springsteen tour at his Hyde Park concert on 28 June. Mmm should pick up indie/alt/rock airplay easily enough

Lady GaGa
Poker Face Remixes new single 13 April
Oh this is a great song and the remixes here are superb. A song about the shrewd manipulative playing of the 'Poker Face'. The tunes already been selling for a couple of months and stands at number three both here and Stateside this week, and these new mixes should lengthen it's stay considerably. We rather like the Space Cowboy remix, but any of the nine featured here are fine.. brilliant ... kitten of the year

Star Pilots
In The Heat Of The Night new single 20 April
Three guys from Sweden on Basshunter's label 'Hard2Beat' : Scott Mills loves it : nine mixes : a good pop song : strong production : nine mixes from the 127bpm UK Radio Edit & Wawa Edit to the 145bpm Headhunters remix. This sounds like a pretty big hit to me in the Eric Prydz vein but with a song included. I'd say err top ten

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

this week
Asher Roth 20/4
Billy Boy On Poison
Frankmusik 13/4
Depeche Mode 6/4
The Gaslight Anthem 23/3
Lady GaGa Remixes 13/4
Star Pilots 20/4

23 Feb
Basshunter Remixes 30/3
Bombay Bicycle Club
Detroit Social Club
Dinosaur Pile-Up 30/3
Franz Ferdinand 13/4
frYars
Hockey
Ladytron 2/3
Operahouse 6/4
Robin S, Steve Angello & Laidback Luke 23/3
Tommy Sparks 4/5
The View 13/4
Yeah Yeah Yeahs 6/4

16 Feb
Basshunter 30/3
Dananana-naykroyd 23/3
Doves
Freeland 30/3
Howling Bells 2/3
Just Jack 29/3
Kid British LP Sampler
The Kills
La Roux Remixes 16/3
Metric
Morrissey LP 16/2
Operahouse 30/3
Polly Scattergood 23/2
Prodigy LP 23/2
White Lies Remix

9 Feb
Animal Collective
Chris Cornell 9/3
Eugene McGuinness 23/2
In This Moment 6/4
La Roux 16/3
Maccabees 5/5
Red Light Company Vid 2/3
Saint Ettienne LP 16/2
The View 2/2
White Lies 23/3

2 Feb
General Fiasco 2/3
The Hours 30/3
InnerPartySystem Remix
Keane 16/3
King Blues 16/2
Lucien Caine 2/3
Me My Head 2/3
Noisettes Remix 23/3
Snowbyrds 9/3
Tigers That Talked

26 Jan
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

77 years ago.. The first ever Gold Record was presented to Glenn Miller for 'Chatanooga Choo Choo', a Billboard number one from the movie 'Sun Valley Serenade'. Oozing with joie de vivre in the new world of Hollywood glamour, it became the first million seller in fifteen years during the Second World War just as Japan bombed Pearl Harbour. The USA declared war and always a perfect gentleman and a 'model pop star' Miller immediately offered his services to bolster moral. The US Army turned him down but The US Navy accepted him. In Summer 1944 he was sent to London to entertain the troops. Aged 40 in December 1944 he was presumed dead when his plane disappeared over The English Channel. He was on his way to play for the soldiers who had liberated Paris.

All aboard, it's the vid for Glenn Millers 1941 'Chatanooga Choo Choo'

This week's Top 40 ...

Top 40 Sun 1 Mar 09

Kelly Clarkson repeats her Stateside success by going straight to number one in the UK too. Taylor Swift in hot pursuit up twenty at 2 and T.I. & Timberlake charge up to 4

Take That climb 21 to 17 while Akon & Colby O'Donnis enter at 30 with 'Beautiful'. Re-entries for MGMT and Madcon

Prodigy storm the album chart to take top slot with their superb 'Invaders Must Die' set

2 new entries & 2 re-entries – 9 up, 24 down, 3 non-movers

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

1 new KELLY CLARKSON My Life Would Suck Without You

2 22 2 TAYLOR SWIFT Love Story

3 15 7 LADY GAGA Poker Face

4 17 3 T.I. & JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Dead & Gone

5 1 5 LILY ALLEN The Fear

6 2 9 LADY GAGA & COLBY O'DONNIS Just Dance

7 3 21 KINGS OF LEON Use Somebody

8 6 5 SHONTELLE T-Shirt

9 10 5 PUSSYCAT DOLLS Whatcha Think About That

10 5 8 ALESHA DIXON Breathe Slow

11 4 3 PRODIGY Omen

12 9 4 EMINEM, Dr DRE & 50 CENT Crack A Bottle

13 8 13 BEYONCE Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

14 7 13 JAMES MORRISON & NELLY FURTADO Broken Strings

15 11 7 TINCHY STRYDER & TAIO CRUZ Take Me Back

16 14 25 KINGS OF LEON Sex On Fire

17 38 2 TAKE THAT Up All Night

18 13 7 KID CUDI & CROOKERS Day N Nite

19 23 5 ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS Gives You Hell

20 12 2 U2 Get On Your Boots

21 21 8 JASON MRAZ I'm Yours

22 19 16 KILLERS Human

23 18 10 BRITNEY SPEARS Circus

24 16 2 MILEY CYRUS Fly On The Wall

25 28 4 N-DUBZ Strong Again

26 26 10 SATURDAYS Issues

27 20 9 KEVIN RUDOLPH & LIL WAYNE Let It Rock

28 34 10 MIA Paper Planes

29 27 21 COLDPLAY Viva La Vida

30 new AKON Beautiful

31 29 20 KATY PERRY Hot N Cold

32 32 17 BEYONCE If I Were A Boy

33 30 8 PINK Sober

34 25 2 GARY GO Wonderful

35 re-entry MADCON Beggin

36 40 19 SATURDAYS Up

37 24 2 RUDENKO Everybody

38 36 25 MGMT Kids

39 re-entry MGMT Time To Pretend

40 35 4 ELBOW One Day Like This

What's The Point
Here's something to do if you've the money and inclination. Move to a new area and set about destroying it. Look especially for a millionaire apartment near a live music venue. All the better if it's been ten years in the making: it's management painstakingly creating a reputation for quality, negotiating it's way onto the circuit, progressively attracting major names to the 500 capacity shows. Even better if there's no other independent venue of the type in the City. When you're happily moved in to your new acquisition, complain about the venue, get the council to run them through the mill on sound proofing. If you're able to jeopardise the livelihoods of all who work there so much the better. It's a double whammy, you'll scupper all the help the business is giving by being a focal point for the live music community. If you play your cards really well you'll get the venue closed down and owing £100k in the process. Then you can feel really chuffed with yourself.

The closure of The Point in Cardiff Bay, a superb live music venue is a great loss. There are too few locally owned businesses of this type and we know how hard the owners and management worked to create a vibrant venue. Shame on those responsible for its closure. Official website statement

Another longstanding City destination bit the dust this week. The Taurus Steak House closed after thirty years, the owner blaming Council led pedestrianisation, the St.Davids 2 building works and the "violent disorder - no go zone" that's been created at the top of St. Mary Street with the alcohol frenzy our fantastic government's have facilitated.

Hey everybody, another million unemployed by the end of the year...

Hell hath no ...

America's Hot 100
This Week ... Last Week ... Artist ... Title

1 1 FLO RIDA Right Around

2 2 T.I. & JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Dead & Gone

3 2 KANYE WEST Heartless

4 6 THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS Gives You Hell

5 3 EMINEM, Dr DRE & 50 CENT Crack A Bottle

6 10 LADY GAGA Poker face

7 5 LADY GAGA & COLBY O'DONIS Just Dance

8 7 TAYLOR SWIFT Love Story

9 - SOULJA BOY TELL'EM & SAMMIE Kiss Me Thru The Phone

10 8 KELLY CLARKSON My Life Would Suck Without You