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Mike's Mad4these w/c 9 Mar 09
Choice new CD's - Click below for the latest on each artist
1 2 ROBIN S / STEVE ANGELLO & LAIDBACK LUKE Show Me Love new single 23 March video
2 1 FREELAND Under Control new single 30 March
3 - DEPECHE MODE Wrong new single 6 April
4 3 YEAH YEAH YEAHS Zero new single 6 April
5 - ASHER ROTH I Love College new single 20 April
6 7 IN THIS MOMENT Forever new single 6 April
7 4 METRIC Help I'm Alive new single
8 9 HOCKEY Too Fake new single 16 March
9 5 NOISETTES Don't Upset The Rhythm Kissy Sell Out Remix new single 23 March
10 6 DOVES Kingdom Of Rust new single video
11 10 THE VIEW Temptation Dice new single 13 April
12 11 DINOSAUR PILE-UP Traynor new single 30 March
12 - STAR PILOTS In The Heat Of The Night new single 20 April video
12 - LADY GAGA Poker Face Space Cowboy Remix new single 13 April
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 (Uh-oh again) 13th March it's Karima Francis + Zervas & Pepper + Lily Green
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this week's post ...

Chris Cornell
Scream new album 9 March
Five tracks featured on this sampler are awesome. Right from the start with the 5 minute album version of Chris's current single 'Part Of Me' with it's mock fanfayre and spooky deep voiced intro into the meat of the track the atmosphere is set for something special. Timbaland's influence can be heard throughout and as a cross genre collaboration the end result is pretty well perfect pop. 'Ground Zero' at 119bpm has Chris sounding like Kanye on 'Gold Digger' it's quite an amazing listen really. Then there's the 116bpm 'Time', the 117bpm 'Get Up' and the epic 60bpm finale, the six minute title track 'Scream'. Excellent

The Hours
See The Light new album 20 April
" .. I'm not in love no, I don't doubt that it's coming, next time it comes around I'll stop running, when all my dreams come true ... " so goes the untitled? secret track at the finale of The Hours excellent new album 'See The Light'. When The Hours songwriter Antony Genn writes "it's a message to me personally" seems to be his guiding light. It shows. Each track has a superb intimate quality with which it's easy to empathise. Title track, the epic 7 minute 'See The Light' is a "message of hope", hope that shone through on their first single 'Ali In The Jungle' a couple of years back. This second album includes their latest single 'Big Black Hole' and is a fine collection of titles like 'The Girl Who Had The World At Her Feet', 'Car Crash' and 'Love Is An Action'. An excellent new record

Kid British
Sunny Days new single 20 April
Well if the weather stays like today throughout the Summer Kid British stand a good chance of a Summer anthem with their choppy new 184bpm single 'Sunny Days'. An uplifting cheeky listen almost in the style of The Hoosiers, it's the third single from Kid British whose ranks of fanship must be swelling enough to give this a chance of some chart action anyway. The band have recently been studio-ing with Stephen Street of Blur/Morrissey fame, Steve Dubb - Chemical Brothers and utilising the mix talents of Steve Power. Their strong live show is winning new fans - good single

The King Blues
I Got Love new single 4 May
Another great song and single from The King Blues. The 101bpm 'I Got Love' is as intimate as you'll hear anywhere with a great beefy, dancefloor production, the band will be on an extensive University and College tour throughout April and May

Kleerup & Tityo
Longing For Lullabies new single 20 April
Kleerup is the initiator of this intriguing combination with Nenah Cherry's sister Tityo. Tits to her mates was very unlucky not to have a massive UK hit in the early 90's with 'Flowers' a superb track. Here she is with the man who helped Robyn to an international smash hit 'With Every Hearbeat' a couple of years back. The electro dance 'Longing For Lullabies' moves along at 118bpm on the radio edit and is paced up to around 127bpm with mixes by Shapeshifters, John Dahlback and Joakim together with a chunky bassed up Basltic Sea Beach Club Mix. Megahit potential

Maximo Park
Wraithlike from new album 'Quicken The Heart'
Maximo Park return with their intricately worked paced up rhythm tracks intact, more so in fact. The 160bpm 'Warithlike' moves along with many a twisting turn in it's 2 mins 28 seconds, a well worthy appetizer for their forthcoming album. Great

Rochelle
Chin Up new single 13 April
A fine piece of electro dance at 123bpm on the Planet Clique record label. You may have caught the three piece Rochelle playing live around the UK over the past year, their first single 'Fer De Dance' was hot wired by Fatboy Slim and this new tune 'Chin Up' comes with mixes by Manhattan Clique, and paced up mixes around 130bpm from Andy George and A1 Bassline. Chart chance

Vinny Peculiar & The Blue Poppies Of Ambrosia
Uniform new single 26 May
As ever there's some fine music coming out Manchester, Lucien Caine impressed recently and now here's the latest from Vinny Peculiar "former Smiths collaborator, Bill Drummond associate and Manchester's Tony Hancock of pop"! Trailing the new album 'Sometimes I Feel Like A King', the 139bpm 'Uniform' is a fine short sharp 2 minutes 26 seconds of choppy pop with a strong lyric and vocal. Vinny should pick up important airplay with this

The Virgins
Rich Girls new single
New York City band The Virgins follow-up to 'Teen Lovers' is ... 'Rich Girls' and this has something rather different about it. A stocatto 160bpm off-beat kind of a spoken verse wityh a more aggressive chorus, it's a stand-out track and I like it. I'm not sure the almost screeching vocal on the chorus is ideal in that the quite pleasant listen til then changes, but then again light and shade, and it does create a good dynamic. "... let the journey begin". Nice tune

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

this week
Chris Cornell LP 9/3
The Hours LP 20/4
Kid British 20/4
The King Blues 4/5
Kleerup & Tityo 20/4
Maximo Park
Rochelle 13/4
Vinny Peculiar LP 26/5
The Virgins

2 Mar
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

26 years ago.. Britain was in a relieved mood following The Falklands War. On the verge of a landslide election victory, Maggie Thatcher was enjoying being the most popular Prime Minister since the Second World War. Hard to imagine now, many were worried George Orwell's predictions for 1984 would come true, some thought he may have been a little early.... Art School graduates Duran Duran with vid's for 'Rio' and 'Girls On Film' were setting the pace with the new pop video market which had become an essential for MTV playlisting. It was March 1983 and 'Is There Something I Should Know' was No.1

Click here for Duran Duran 'Is There Something I Should Know' on YouTube

This week's Top 40 ...

Top 40 Sun 8 Mar 09

For the second week American acts occupy 8 of the top ten with Flo Rida beating the BBC's Comic Relief single by The Saturdays to the top spot.

Kings Of Leon's strange 'Revelry' enters at 29 with Chipmunk, Lemar and Beyonce's 'Halo' making up the six new entries

U2 with 'Boots' secured firmly get a tenth chart-topping album with 'No Line On The Horizon' equalling The Rolling Stones tally of number one LP's

6 new entries, 4 up, 27 down, 1 non-mover

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

1 new FLO RIDA & KESHA Right Round

2 new SATURDAYS Just Can't Get Enough

3 3 8 LADY GAGA Poker Face

4 1 2 KELLY CLARKSON Life Would Suck Without You

5 2 3 TAYLOR SWIFT Love Story

6 4 4 T.I. & JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Dead & Gone

7 5 6 LILY ALLEN The Fear

8 6 10 LADY GAGA & COLBY O'DONNIS Just Dance

9 8 6 SHONTELLE T-Shirt

10 9 6 PUSSYCAT DOLLS Whatcha Think About That

11 7 22 KINGS OF LEON Use Somebody

12 11 4 PRODIGY Omen

13 30 2 AKON Beautiful

14 17 3 TAKE THAT Up All Night

15 10 9 ALESHA DIXON Breathe Slow

16 12 5 EMINEM, Dr DRE & 50 CENT Crack A Bottle

17 13 14 BEYONCE Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

18 15 8 TINCHY STRYDER & TAIO CRUZ Take Me Back

19 14 14 JAMES MORRISON & NELLY FURTADO Broken Strings

20 18 8 KID CUDI & CROOKERS Day N Nite

21 new CHIPMUNK Chip Diddy Chip

22 16 26 KINGS OF LEON Sex On Fire

23 19 6 ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS Gives You Hell

24 25 5 N-DUBZ Strong Again

25 21 9 JASON MRAZ I'm Yours

26 27 10 KEVIN RUDOLPH & LIL WAYNE Let It Rock

27 22 17 KILLERS Human

28 23 11 BRITNEY SPEARS Circus

29 new KINGS OF LEON Revelry

30 20 3 U2 Get On Your Boots

31 new LEMAR Weight Of The World

32 26 11 SATURDAYS Issues

33 31 21 KATY PERRY Hot N Cold

34 35 15 MADCON Beggin

35 24 3 MILEY CYRUS Fly On The Wall

36 39 3 MGMT Time To Pretend

37 28 11 MIA Paper Planes

38 33 9 PINK Sober

39 32 18 BEYONCE If I Were A Boy

40 new BEYONCE Halo

Now Clwb worry
What is going on here?
I've just heard Nick Clegg appealing for voters to take a leap of faith and vote for his party.
He needs to come to Cardiff and see what he's responsible for here. I've never seen large numbers of parents crying on tv over an extreme school closure plan before. Traders in Cardiff's main City Centre street are faced with an even greater financial struggle because of a ridiculous pedestrianisation scheme, a heritage cake factory threatened over noise issues with a newly built estate, a succesful live music venue closed for the same reason.
Now the news that Clwb Ifor Bach is faced with a similar daunting prospect when a backpackers hostel opens next door. You would have thought the purpose of planning permission would be in the main to protect and preserve, obviously not so.
It seems the newly permitted has on too many occasions destroyed the existing.
Yes Nick I suspect many will be abandoning their traditional voting habits and taking a leap of faith, but not with your party.

Another True Story
... you're a programme controller with a problem - you want your £30k Breakfast Show DJ to leave so you don't have to sack him and pay up the contract. What do you do? Get your programme controller mate to offer him £50k to move. The elated and unwitting DJ moves on the promise of new contract near doubling his dosh. Your mate promises the contract but he doesn't produce it and sacks the guy after three weeks. Problem DJ sorted with no compensation, so what if he's now unemployed and can't pay his mortgage.

Another Story
This one can't be true ... You run a country and your mate has the task of running one of its big banks. He breaks records for you accumalating £24billion debt. You have to buy his bank to save it from bankruptcy - if his bank crashes, other banks will too and your country will more than likely follow them down the plug hole.
You need a distraction, so you kind of agree to your mate getting an unholy pension of £13,000 a week for his failures.
Then your master stroke, protest you were deceived, and you're not going to allow him to keep the money.
After much fuss and big stick waving by yourself, your mate can agree to give some of it or all of it back and you and he will come up roses for resolving this disgraceful but legal scenario in a right and proper way.

It's just not possible. Is it?

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

1 1 FLO RIDA & KESHA Right Round

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

3 6 LADY GAGA Poker Face

4 9 SOULJA BOY TELL'EM & SAMMIE Kiss Me Thru The Phone

5 4 THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS Gives You Hell

6 3 KANYE WEST Heartless

7 7 LADY GAGA & COLBY O'DONIS Just Dances

8 5 EMINEM, Dr DRE & 50 CENT Crack A Bottle

9 8 TAYLOR SWIFT Love Story

10 8 KELLY CLARKSON My Life Would Suck Without You