The Young Folks Disco. Peter Bjorn and John Live!

Guest Blog From the Beautiful Raver Disco

In the absence of FunBongo and Albert, Disco was joined by Maniac, Chappers and the good Shepherd to see some cool swedes getting hot and sweaty in Camdens's Koko. Despite being initially distracted by the giant disco ball Disco was soon captivated by the dashing young Swedish men, Peter, Bjorn & John.



(Disco disco...eyes on the stage!!)

Having been to see several swedish singing sensations of late I'm beginning to think that Swedes have more fun. The boys had boundless energy reserves, belting out songs from the last 3 albums and leaping around the stage looking like they didn't have a care in the world.

Charlotte Gainsbourg - AF607105

The girls were expecting some mellow tunage akin to the Young Folks track so we were pleasantly surprised when the boys rocked out with some of their new tracks - I swear I caught Maniac and Chappers busting some air guitar half way through the gig...



(Peter - he's so CUTE!!!)



FunBongo would have loved the live bongo's on Young Folks - the crowd went wild and the rhythmically challenged girl in front was a cause of concern for all of us...Peter jumped into the crowd with the microphone for the whistling part...he looked to be heading for Disco but was stopped in his tracks when Albert streaked across the stage (completely unexpected but most definitely the highlight of the evening). Encouraged by Peter (whose love of attention is actually very endearing), some superb crowd involvement followed, which was met with much laughter from the other boys. Great stuff.



Stylewise they didn't disappoint (the boys were much more on trend than Robyn whose dress sense still gives me nightmares). The only improvement could have been for the beautiful Peter to be wearing those same tight white pants that the Air boys are so partial too...

(Fun Bongo - please insert photo here of said white pants...just so I can re-live the memory - merci!)



All in all a super night - great music, hot swedes and a giant disco ball.

Buy the album!!! errrrr The Album



Charlotte Gainsbourg - Set Yourself On Fire

The Charlotte Gainsbourg Album 5:55 - Music by Air, produced by Nigel Godrich (Air, Beck and Radiohead...) and lyrics from Jarvis Cocker. Fantastico.

Robyn LIVE Konichiwa Jade!

Another week and another Swedish chick was in town to impress FunBongo and Albert Hoxton. Once again, we were joined by Disco .

Robyn - Konichiwa Bitches



Robyn - Cobrastyle

Disco said 'Sack the stylist'
Funbongo said' Not as good as The Sounds last week but better than the new Cardio Wave machine in the gym'
Albert said 'Where was Batman?'



Robyn - Jack You Off

Here is some of what it says about Robyn on www.robyn.com

'...(Robyn is) The most killingest pop star on the planet. A pint-sized atom bomb dosed to the tits on electric and dispensing wisdom in three-minute modernist pop bulletins on the post-adolescent condition...'

Robyn - Be Mine



We liked Robyn, she showed some good hustle.

The brilliantly titled album (Robyn, what a genius) is out on Monday. The cheapest place to buy it will be eMusic if you are a member. She is no longer signed to Sony and has started her own record label (Konichiwa Bitches), predicting that the major Record Labels will be out of business in 3 years. Mmmmm

Robyn - List Of Demands (Live)

The Sounds LIVE!

There were two types of people at this gig (I don't mean boys and girls): Trendies and Emo's. Trendies to the back, Emo's to the front. Me, Albert and Disco were, of course, kickin' it with the Emo kids. Quite literally actually, this underage lesbian couple in front of us were really 'sad' and kept waving their sweaty bingo wings in Albert's face so he kicked them. They seemed to like it so he stopped.

The Sounds - Song With A Mission



According to Albertpedia, The Sounds were discovered by Sven Goran Eriksson's assistant Tord Grip. They were busking outside Ikea moaning about the minimum wage and the Poll Tax. The rest is history.

The Sounds - Queen Of Apology (Fall Out Boy Mix)



Back to the gig. It was fantastic. Their music is good but not amazing. However, the performance was atsonishing. Maja Ivarsson is an incredible lady, she was a beast in the best possible way. She spat on stage in true 'Roy of The Rovers' fashion and staged dived twice. The first time she leapt into the crowd she groped Albert. Maybe it was the other way round; I couldn't tell from the yelp.

The Sounds - Painted By Numbers



So we give The Sounds 9.8 out of 11.2.

The Sounds - Hurt You

The only downside was the venue, the Carling Academy in Angel is horsesh!t. Its deafeningly loud and far too dark.



The Sounds - Night After Night

FYI The Islington Carling Academy stewards administer the most vigorous frisk that you will ever experience. Some people might like that, Albert went back 8 times. They failed to find his machete, suckers.

LCD Soundsystem LIVE!

While Firas was gettin' down with the Fire shoppers Albert took me across town to something quite different. Mayor Albert told me that we were going to see a fat, ugly American man who shouts a lot; I thought he meant Meatloaf. Imagine my surprise. Imagine Albert's surprise when it wasn't The Gossip (they are ok really).



Playing to a packed house James Murphy and Co did not disappoint. I wasn't a fan before but I am now.

He sounds like that thing off Sesame Street on this song

New York I Love You But Your Bringing Me Down



North American Scum

Watch The Tapes



This is a short post because I am feeling very EMO tonight, bye bye for now.

Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around (Junkie XL Mix)