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Hard News: Paris S’Enflamme, tout la nuit

Posted at 12:24PM on 18 Jul 08. Permalink.

It says something that none of the references in the Wikipedia article about Wellington's Ladyhawke are from New Zealand media.

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It says something that none of the references in the Wikipedia article about Wellington's Ladyhawke are from New Zealand media.

She (officially, Ladyhawke is the band and Pip Brown is its leader, but everyone seems to call her that anyway) is signed to a white-hot Australian label and is based in London and will probably be easily the most successful new New Zealand artist on the world stage this year. All without troubling the official cultural machinery. It would be nice if someone brought her back to play the Music Awards later in the year.

In the meantime, it was a stroke of inspiration to have re-record her flagship tune 'Paris is Burning' in French. You can hear 'Paris S’Enflamme' here, and there's a clip for the original version here.

Her video diary from Glastonbury is worth a look too.

Staying with music, there are cool mixes of Ladytron and MGMT and even more MGMT remixes.
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But best of all, there's a big sampler swag of scandi-pop, officially free from Sweden's Labrador Records. You can download several of the tracks here, but the label's own server was swamped when the world rushed to get the full album. So they did the rational thing and put it on The Pirate Bay.

Fatty Jubbo at WFMU has found more strange and interesting imageblogs and photosets, and the blog also has a some links in tribute to the composer Raymond Scott, the designer of the Fascination machine.

Oh, and now that the Democratic primaries are over, One Good Move is back to its highly readable and diverting self. Phew.

PS: Our team won a rather truncated debate about the respective merits of "paid" and consumer-generated content yesterday, thanks to input from Peter Haynes, Steve Barnes, Emma Hart, Lyndon Hood and David Hamilton, whose words and ideas I incorporated in my speech. The big bags of Eden coffee go to Emma and David, who quipped "Paid content is to consumer generated media like Pacifier is to Shihad." David, can you email me so I can arrange delivery?

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mark taslov
From: beijing
Since: Mar 2008
Posts: 203

Posted at 12:24PM on 18 Jul 08. Permalink.

um..stroke of inspiration. what happened? 1994 is back in fashion again? the tragic decline of western culture mapped track by track since the 70s, 'i've lost my way" to be sure. exemplified by the fact that one of the links has already been removed. Justice with nursery rhyme lyrics, cutting edge.

Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 4665
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Posted at 12:29PM on 18 Jul 08. Permalink.

um..stroke of inspiration. what happened? 1994 is back in fashion again? the tragic decline of western culture mapped track by track since the 70s, 'i've lost my way" to be sure. exemplified by the fact that one of the links has already been removed. Justice with nursery rhyme lyrics, cutting edge.

Oh, actually it wasn't removed -- I b0rked the link. It's fixed now.

Simon Grigg
From: Bali, Indonesia
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1142

Posted at 12:51PM on 18 Jul 08. Permalink.

This video is not available in your country

I've never seen that on YouTube before..shame

George Darroch
From: Canberra
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 269

Posted at 12:54PM on 18 Jul 08. Permalink.

There is something ridiculously cute about hearing French in such a New Zealand accent, although it did rub for a few seconds as my brain tried to understand that seeming non-sequitur. As far as I can tell, a better version can be found on the Hype Machine.

Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 4665
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Posted at 12:59PM on 18 Jul 08. Permalink.

As far as I can tell, a better version can be found on the Hype Machine.

Ah. Well spotted.

Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 4665
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Posted at 12:59PM on 18 Jul 08. Permalink.

This video is not available in your country
I've never seen that on YouTube before..shame

Me neither.

Robyn Gallagher
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 924

Posted at 1:38PM on 18 Jul 08. Permalink.

Paris is Burning!

Kebabette
From: Christchurch
Since: Feb 2007
Posts: 20

Posted at 2:05PM on 18 Jul 08. Permalink.

been on the ladyhawke kick for a while thanks to my friends |The Joint and Pinacolada Records. Like her foxy Sharon O'Neill look too.

Hype Machine is my crack.

And there is just something wonderful about songs in French. Serge Gainsbourg etc but also cheesy pop like Ca plane pour moi by Plastic Bertrand. I found a post on songs in French that included the French version of Paris is burning along with various songs in French by Blonde Redhead and Girl Aloud (Can't speak french). Tasty.

Tony Judd
From: New York
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 59

Posted at 2:15PM on 18 Jul 08. Permalink.

Ladyhawke is nice enough, but did you see the Feist/Sesame street video down the page.

Wow. Educational & cute as a button. Mini-crush. Colour me a fan-boy etc...

She played the park just round the corner from me the other night. Beautiful show.

Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 4665
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Posted at 2:49PM on 18 Jul 08. Permalink.

been on the ladyhawke kick for a while thanks to my friends |The Joint and Pinacolada Records. Like her foxy Sharon O'Neill look too.

Totally ...

Hype Machine is my crack.

I'm in yr blog chekin out yr top Hypem tracks.

Luke Williamson
From: Warkworth
Since: Oct 2007
Posts: 22

Posted at 3:06PM on 18 Jul 08. Permalink.

I can see I'm not the only one who spotted the Shazza O'Neill angle. Adoraable.

Rich of Observationz
From: Beautiful Downtown Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 970

Posted at 3:14PM on 18 Jul 08. Permalink.

Paid content is to consumer generated media like Pacifier is to Shihad

What, not as good as the Datsuns whatever they call themselves?

Paul Campbell
From: Dunedin
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 420

Posted at 3:28PM on 18 Jul 08. Permalink.

I have no where else to post this and just have to, besides it's Friday- San Francisco just qualified Prop W for the presidential ballot - it will rename the "Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant" to be the "George W. Bush Sewage Plant"

sometimes revenge is not sweet it is smelly

Graeme Edgeler
From: Wellington, New Zealand
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 649

Posted at 4:28PM on 18 Jul 08. Permalink.

This video is not available in your country
I've never seen that on YouTube before..shame
Me neither.

Been around for officially licensed stuff for a while now.

But it being Friday, a couple of rather different videos, most certainly available in New Zealand:

CBS' Last Flight from Da Nang

And Walt Disney's Der Fuehrer's Face

Ben Austin
From: London
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 539

Posted at 2:34AM on 19 Jul 08. Permalink.

I saw Ladyhawke in a small Hoxton club about three or so weeks back and I had a pretty good time. They started off a little slow but soon the audience was well into them. I would definately recommend them as a live act.

Grant Dexter
From: Taipei, Taiwan
Since: Mar 2007
Posts: 195

Posted at 3:16AM on 19 Jul 08. Permalink.

Aw, come on David Hamilton. Everybody <i>knows</i> that those are the same bands!

Graham Reid
From: auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 24

Posted at 10:36AM on 19 Jul 08. Permalink.

Speaking of Wikipedia entries on musicians: up until a fortnight ago the occupations listed for Australian alt.country Kasey Chambers were "singer-songwriter, musician, lesbian".
I put this to her during an interview to be published in the Herald in advance of her Kings Arms concert with her husband Shane Nicholson (August 5) and she laughed.
Then she said, "what do you think of that Shane?" and he fired back with dusty and droll immediacy, "I think you should quit that job".
Seems someone else thinks so too -- that particular "occupation" is now no longer listed.

Emma Hart
From: Christchurch
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 862

Posted at 11:04AM on 19 Jul 08. Permalink.

lesbian

How much does that pay these days? Inquiring minds could be persuaded to a change of career...

Shep Cheyenne
Since: Oct 2007
Posts: 791

Posted at 11:23AM on 19 Jul 08. Permalink.

I find lesbians mostly invisable, except for my cousin and then she's not a lesbian, she's my cousin.

She's the one who has experienced the most domestic violence from her various partners than anyone else I know.

The TVNZ Charter seems to have 'forgotten' their obligation to this community. What was that rediculous puppet show on TV about? I might have missed a queer in joke but I think I wouldn't be alone on that.

Peter Darlington
From: Nelson
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 276

Posted at 11:12PM on 19 Jul 08. Permalink.

Hype Machine is my crack.
I'm in yr blog chekin out yr top Hypem tracks.

That 'Brighton Port Authority' is well good.

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