music
They have been around for a while and I did hear one of their singles. Currently their album 12 Tales From Winter City is on the listeningpost of 3 voor 12 and I got reminded of them.
Their sound is very identical to Belle and Sebastian (especially "Girl From The Nortern States") and you can really hear their echoes in some of the songs. The Young Republic denies that they actually were influenced by Belle and Sebastian and their website does not contain any references to Belle and Sebastian so I can't conclude any other way than there either must be some sort of big coincidence here or they deliberately removed all references.
A long, long time ago I was member (PoZoR) of The Kip Brigade (hell, I even started it!) and we uploaded our own music to BBS-es to gain download credits. At first we uploaded our very best songs, but after a while that dried up. So of course we started making worse and worse music and especially worse music about chickens (kip means chicken in Dutch) with all chicken sounds we could find or sample from other sources.
I even remember sampling a Ko de Boswachter record for the line "Krijg de pip met je kip" which means something like "get ill with your chicken".
Apparently Dominos Australia started some commercial with BBQ chicken flavored pizzas and the result was some weird commercial with dancing chickens. It was taken from some artist who made a full video on techno chickens.
This is the Dominos ad:
This is the full video of the dancing chickens:
Great to see people still got The Kip Brigade spirit!! Or maybe it does have to do something with Mux moving to Australia?? ;)
Found a new interesting band last week and have been listening it for a while now: I Was A Cub Scout
It's a two-man band (originally one-man band) from Lincolnshire, England.
You can listen (only limited amount of time) to their songs on the 3voor12 listening-post:
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/luisterpaal/39278990
I find them a mix between synthpop and some of the britpop bands (Dodgy, James) of the last decade.
For more info:
http://www.myspace.com/iwasacubscout
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Was_a_Cub_Scout
