Been wanting to get 120 playlists a permanent home for a while now, so gonna post em here. Will try and make sure they are updated everyday but please don't get the rage if I don't manage it.

Monday 28th July 2008
THE DROWNED & THE SAVED - OX.EAGLE.LION.MAN
CARROT ROPE - PAVEMENT
THE WITCH - CLINIC
I WISH THAT I WOULD SEE YOU SOON - HERMAN DUNE
NERVES - MATHS CLASS
DONKEY RIDE - MR SCRUFF / QUANTIC
WOOZY WITH CIDER - JAMES YORKSTON
NO PINS ALLOWED - JAMES YUILL
STARING AT THE SUN - TV ON THE RADIO
BUTTERFINGERS - BOMB THE BASS
I HEARD WONDERS - DAVID HOLMES
ASSASSIN - THE ORB
BUILDING A BETTER BOY - MACHINE BOY
CURSED SLEEP - BONNIE PRINCE BILLY
A GOOD CAFE ON GEORGE - THE ROSIE TAYLOR PROJECT
THE WOLVES - BON IVER
GOBBLEDIGOOK - SIGUR ROS
THE VELVET CELL - GRAVENHURST
SOUL ON FIRE - SPIRITUALIZED
GOOD FEELING - SOLEDAD BROTHERS
IN THE BLOOD - PIVOT
DEVIL'S EYES - BUCK 65
LOVLEY ALLEN - HOLY F***
DISKDUSK - MOUSE ON MARS
NAKED EYE - LUSCIOUS JACKSON
TONGUE TWISTER - ENVY
POISON DART - THE BUG / WARRIOR QUEEN
LUKE ABBOTT - MELODY 120
I FEEL IT ALL- FEIST
SINS IN THE DARK - SEAN DANTE / SCHEIZER GOODMAN
WE COME IN PEACE- BOBBY CONN / THE GLASS
THE BIGGEST WASTE OF 33 MINUTES - RAZMATAZ LORRY EXCITEMENT

Just a harmless piece of Friday fun, see?

Went to Latitude festival at the weekend - my first time and it was ace!

The site is stunning - surrounded by woods & next to a lake in Suffolk - yes it was pretty middle aged & middle class but the line up was great & the sun mostly shone.

Sigur Ros headlined Saturday and were fantastic (beautiful visuals too) & Joanna Newsom on Sunday morning nearly made me weep (in a good way) - her new songs on piano were ace too.
Other highlights for me - Noah & The Whale, The Twilight Sad, Yacht

Yes there were lots of babies with ear defenders, picnic blankets, theatre types but still a great festival I reckon (or maybe I'm just getting old..)

Joanna Newsom genius reminder -

I've just returned from a great weekend at Oxegen with the team, where I was amazed at my restraint being able to stand on stage behind the guitar tech during The Raconteurs and resisting the urge to lunge at Jack White. So back in the office and we're into discussions for other festivals to be attended over the next couple of months.

I was bitterly disappointed a couple of weeks ago when my main festival for the Summer was cancelled due to lack of ticket sales (Tapestry Festival is pretty small, but I didn't realise that by two of my mates waiting for pay-day the whole event could be in jeopardy), so I'm trying to decide on a replacement. There's so many to pick from, my brain is completely fried. The biggest problem is everyone has a different idea of which is festival nirvana, so trying to organise large group expeditions is impossible.

Will they keep multiplying like mutant cells, bubbling under the grass and erupting to the surface like musical boils with stages and portaloos, until every weekend is vying for your attention with hundreds of bands flying through the air to meet their 15 weekend commitments across the globe. I reckon it'll have to implode at some point, in the meatime we're spoilt for choice. So I'm looking for the light S&M, hair metal, nosebleed inducing, polka dot encrusted, non-muddy festival in the south west of England on a Saturday with on site accommodation and just me and hundreds of fit rock blokes attending. If you hear tickets are on sale, let me know.

It once seemed that when most indie bands first got together; rehearsing in their parents garage amongst spiders webs and rusty bilkes, this conversation came about -
'What shall we name our band?'

It seemed almost redundant that the first word of the bands name would be 'The',
For example:
The Libertines
The Stone Roses
The Verve
The Wombats
The Beatles
The Ting Tings and so on

However now bands have decided to abandon the humdrum 'THE' and try out 'AND THE'
For example:
Noah AND THE Whale
Joe Lean AND THE Jing Jang Jong
Pet AND THE Pirates
Florence AND THE Machine

Whatever next? OX.EAGLE.LION.MAN?

The MTV TWO team are preparing ourselves mentally for Oxegen Festival this weekend where we intend on filming anyone who's anyone and returning with a big bag of television to stick on the channel in a few weeks.

Fingers crossed we'll be catching up with Kings of Leon, Kaiser Chiefs, Interpol, The Kooks and loads of others.

Major bonus, I've just spotted that one of my favourite artists of all time, Cat Power, is playing on the Friday night. I like her recent stuff but check the album What Would The Community Think from back in the day to see her at her best in my opinion.

Vampire Weekend's Oxford Comma

I think there should be more videos done in one take, top stuff!

Was lucky enough to see Radiohead in Victoria Park on Tuesday, generally pretty ace until during 'Airbag' I spotted a weird looking guy pleasuring himself! Horrible enough in itself but when he saw I'd spotted him he flashed me a cheeky smile and carried on his feverish activity. URGHHHH

In other music excitement I can't stop listening to the lovely new Sigur Ros album 'Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust' - The video for Gobbledigook is proper briliant - nudists rule
watch the naked fun here -
http://www.sigurros.com/dvd3.asp

Us lot at MTV TWO towers are a bit spoilt when it comes to bona fide rockstars swinging by our office to chat to Zane in the Gonzo studio. I'm not saying we didn't all get a bit (and by bit i mean very) over-excited the first time we got to shake hands with say Josh Homme, Dave Grohl or errr the bass player from The Departure, but sometimes I think we're guilty of not appreciating the fortunate position we're in.

Anyway, absolutely none of this jadedness was present this week when an absolute legend (yes I do throw that term around lightly normally, but not so here) was spotted hiding, beardless, under a hat in the MTV cafe waiting for Zane.

I kid you not friends. The man Murray was here, on the brown couch, a couple of days ago to chat about the insane rise to fame of Flight of the Conchords and also his new stand-up comedy DVD under his 'real' name Rhys Darby. He tried to convince us that he plays a character in the show and he's not really the band's manager but we're not having any of it.

Anyway, safe to say we all wet ourselves, nervously shook his hand but bottled asking for a photo with him for our Facebook profiles.

See the interview with Zane on Gonzo in September.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCub8r1T5Rs

Pop Levi, London based ex-Ladytron bassist and now a well established singer songwriter in his own right has sprung a little suprise on the youtube watching puplic... He has created what can only be called the worlds first double youtube video... For his track 'Semi Babe'. It's actually a strangely satisfying little trick... Get involved.

A nice chap over at videoville put both clips on the same page.

Here are the original videos:
Semi Babe 1
Semi Babe 2