Enter Shikari to release new album

Of B-sides and various rarities on Nov 12th. Tracklisting;

The Feast’ (demo) – ‘Winner’/'Plan B’ b-side
‘Kickin’ Back On The Surface Of Your Cheek’ – ‘Anything…’ b-side
‘Keep It On Ice’ – ‘Anything…’ b-side
‘Adieu’ (Routron 500 Remix) – new song
‘Sorry You’re Not A Winner’ – Zane Low BBC Session
‘Mothership’ (demo) – debut download-only single
‘Acid Nation’ – ‘Johnny Sniper’ b-side
‘Enter Shikari’ (demo) – debut download-only single

Loads of bands seem to release b-side albums after only 1 or 2 albums. Is it worth doing so soon? It’s quite good if you’re a fan of the band, to get new fresh material in between albums, but if you’re a hardcore fan you’ve probably got all the tracks anyway. Enter Shikari are a great band, love their debut album. I do wonder that the most promising and different UK bands of the year, Gallows and Enter Shikari, both come out of Hertfordshire, and both are trancecore/hardcore music. Basically angry young men. Is Hertfordshire a cesspool? Possibly as I do live there! The towns are pretty crap: “Come Friendly Bombs” by Gallows is about Watford. Whereas the rural countryside is actually pretty nice; something Gallows fail to point out. lol.

They are two totally different bands doing different things, both make really exciting music though. They are seriously worth checking out even if you’re not a fan of hardcore music. Especially Enter Shikari who have some really euphoric moments.

New Radiohead album released tomorrow! Yaay!

Bloc Party: Flux

New song. Slightly new sound. From Radio One.

Bloc Party: Flux.

Is it just me or at the start of the verses, Kele has the infamous Cher vocal tones? The most over used auto bendy vocal thing ever.

I saw Stephanie McIntosh (Skye Mangel from Neighbours) at my union at Saturday. Completely lame. Came on at 12, played 2 songs and that was about as exciting as it got. Also Mimed! Someone threw a bottle at her, the wrong person was chucked out by the bouncers and beaten up by them (apparently). Also saw Vanilla Ice last night. That was amusing. Didn’t come on until 2am and the club was totally empty, about 20 people were there and no-one really knew that he was turning up. Still though, it was surprisingly alright, some bits anyway, his first song was good. Played with a live band, had some cool guy on drums. I don’t really remember that much to be honest.

On the subject of Neighbours, what was that band all about on Friday? They come on, start playing and there is a drum beat going on but no drums! Also Keyboards; no keyboards, but quite possibly the best acoustics ever.

Here’s a video that has nothing to do with music; Neighbours deaths!