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badkidsjokes:

how do you lose four pounds

cut your hed off

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Talking, as we were, about New Order covers, here’s one by my current musical crush, Buke & Gase.

Apparently originally recorded for RadioLab, which if you’re not familiar with, is well worth a listen.

Available at the Brassland Soundcloud page

merlin:

copycats:

“Ceremony” by Chromatics 

Originally by Joy Division / New Order

Just lovely.

Nice cover of Ceremony. Chromatics are one of the bands of 2012 for me, having seen them at La Route Du Rock in August.

Just on the train on the way home from another great ATP. Well, great from the perspective of bands at any rate. The venue (Pontins at Camber Sands) took a bit of adjustment after the relative luxury of previous years — a severely limited choice of food and a bordering-on-the-suicidal bar management policy (running out of three of the four frankly below-par draught beers mid-way through the second day, and chronic understaffing the bars) being the most obvious areas of want. Then there was the frankly baffling security policy — randomly closing exits for no apparent reason, very rigid application of apparently arbitrary traffic control — very rum.

However, rant over, there were some excellent bands on offer — with no real duffers, but here are my highlights...

Just getting ready to set off to ATP at Camber Sands. It’s going to be a great weekend! As a service to my fellow revellers, I’ve dropped the running order into a calendar you can subscribe to on your phone (or whatever).