We're into the final dying days of 2008, what a year, things will never be the same again that's for sure! So after an exaustive set of vote counting, and some long nights spent at our keyboards. We present our Reader's top 30 albums of 2008 taken from our shortlist of 50 Writer's albums of 2008(at the bottom of this page) are you still with me?Good. Unlike some publications that use 'industry' panels or allow one person veto on a list, all of the artists below gained placings through votes cast. So pour yourself a stiff one, sit back relax and enjoy GIITTV's complete long playing highlights from 08!
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2983&type=Features
Happy new year!!
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008
Thursday, 13 November 2008
SWN IS SOON: A FESTIVAL PREVIEW:
SWN IS SOON: A FESTIVAL PREVIEW:
SWN FESTIVAL 2008. SWN means 'sound' especially of a loud, harsh confused kind, deafeaning noises. There will be plenty of it during this festival of music, art and film taking place across Venues in Cardiff, from the 14th to the 16th November 2008 (with opening night party on 13th November).
In its second year the event founded and organised by local movers DJ Huw Stevens and label honcho John Rostron takes on more of a local feel, rooting it self more firmly to the bosom of the Welsh music scene, thus local acts now make up the bulk of this year's line up. Alongside new buzzy indie acts: who have made the trip across the Severn and complemented by more established names on larger independent labels. Whilst this year's line up has drawn some criticism for not being different enough to many of the gigs that already take place throughout the year in Cardiff, its fair to say that if you’ve got the stamina you’ll get a lot of bang for you bucks at this year’s event.
One feels this year's SWN is attempting to bring some of what makes In The City so successful in Manchester to the Welsh Capitol, a diversity of acts that will get fans, labels, talking and enjoying new music. Whilst retaining what is interesting and idiosyncratic about Cardiff as a musical hotbed.
Cardiff residents and GIITTV writers Bill Cummings, Owain Paciuszko and Alex Skinner have been sieving for gold in SWN’s sprawling, eclectic line up. Whilst not forgetting the music documentary and music-related film nights in Chapter and multi media seminars in The Atrium building that will lead the way into the main weekend's events of SWN 08. So get your wall planner at the ready, and your marker pen poised to chart your journey through SWN, pay attention at the back, we’ll be taking questions at the end.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2871&type=Features
The Cure: Still Godlike?
The Cure recently released their new album 4:13 Dream through Geffen Records. GIITTV's deputy editor Fliss Collier looks at the new album, and considers what the Cure's new release lacks.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2869&type=Features
Reality TV can be saved
Reality TV was never meant to happen. No one ever wanted to invent it, not in it's present form, anyway. The continuous parade of desperate simpletons endlessly manipulated by cynical editing in order to grab at ratings by giving Heat Magazine something to write about, that was all an accident. The original aim of the shows now seen as pioneers of the genre was a degree of realism, whilst they were always intended to be fairly light entertainment the objective was to cover what’s real. It was a simple premise: Someone’s life is interesting enough for it to occupy all of their time, so surely there must be enough going on to fill a decent half-hour TV show.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2852&type=Features
SWN FESTIVAL 2008. SWN means 'sound' especially of a loud, harsh confused kind, deafeaning noises. There will be plenty of it during this festival of music, art and film taking place across Venues in Cardiff, from the 14th to the 16th November 2008 (with opening night party on 13th November).
In its second year the event founded and organised by local movers DJ Huw Stevens and label honcho John Rostron takes on more of a local feel, rooting it self more firmly to the bosom of the Welsh music scene, thus local acts now make up the bulk of this year's line up. Alongside new buzzy indie acts: who have made the trip across the Severn and complemented by more established names on larger independent labels. Whilst this year's line up has drawn some criticism for not being different enough to many of the gigs that already take place throughout the year in Cardiff, its fair to say that if you’ve got the stamina you’ll get a lot of bang for you bucks at this year’s event.
One feels this year's SWN is attempting to bring some of what makes In The City so successful in Manchester to the Welsh Capitol, a diversity of acts that will get fans, labels, talking and enjoying new music. Whilst retaining what is interesting and idiosyncratic about Cardiff as a musical hotbed.
Cardiff residents and GIITTV writers Bill Cummings, Owain Paciuszko and Alex Skinner have been sieving for gold in SWN’s sprawling, eclectic line up. Whilst not forgetting the music documentary and music-related film nights in Chapter and multi media seminars in The Atrium building that will lead the way into the main weekend's events of SWN 08. So get your wall planner at the ready, and your marker pen poised to chart your journey through SWN, pay attention at the back, we’ll be taking questions at the end.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2871&type=Features
The Cure: Still Godlike?
The Cure recently released their new album 4:13 Dream through Geffen Records. GIITTV's deputy editor Fliss Collier looks at the new album, and considers what the Cure's new release lacks.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2869&type=Features
Reality TV can be saved
Reality TV was never meant to happen. No one ever wanted to invent it, not in it's present form, anyway. The continuous parade of desperate simpletons endlessly manipulated by cynical editing in order to grab at ratings by giving Heat Magazine something to write about, that was all an accident. The original aim of the shows now seen as pioneers of the genre was a degree of realism, whilst they were always intended to be fairly light entertainment the objective was to cover what’s real. It was a simple premise: Someone’s life is interesting enough for it to occupy all of their time, so surely there must be enough going on to fill a decent half-hour TV show.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2852&type=Features
Sunday, 6 January 2008
Small Crew- Boxing Day/Getting Up- downloads
FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS:
SMALL CREW- BOXING DAY
SMALL CREW- GETTING UP
GIITTV singles club releases "Boxing Day" and "Getting Up" free double a-side single available on www.godisinthetvzine.co.ukf rom the 26/12/07
In its third digital release the GIITTV singles club (an offshoot label of the cult music/culture webzine www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk) releases the double A-side "Boxing Day/Getting up" from beat combo Small Crew. Released as a free digital download on Boxing Day itself (so you won't forget what it's called).
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2145&type=Fea...
Who are Small Crew? Small Crew is Richard Adderley and Dan Edwards (formerly of bands like The Boyfriends, The Lucas Group and Vermont), although neither is necessarily on any given Small Crew Recording. Small Crew is whoever is in the room at the time when Small Crew music is being made. Small Crew can also be at the end of a phone line, in the post or on a computer, radio or television. If you aid, facilitate or enjoy Small Crew activities, you are Small Crew. Activity is currently limited to this planet but this is purely for technical reasons.
Small Crew make any kind of music depending on what's in the room or who's on the phone. They like singing and dancing and they like to keep it dirty.
Small Crew are not a collective. They are a combo. To get a straight answer visit Small Crew at:
youaresmallcrew@hotmail.com
www.myspace.com/smallcrew
Ever get that anticlimactic feeling on the day after Christmas Day? It seems Small Crew have. A grand piano motif, complimented by cavernous drums ushers in "Boxing Day" a glorious musical shrug of the shoulders that aches with an indefinable sadness: for a relationship that could be crumbling? For the year that's gone? Or something all together more sinister? Reminiscent of early shoe gaze, floating, melancholic half remembering vocals look out of the window and wonder why it never snows even though the world seems so cold? A hazy head smiles politely as if to say sorry for the mistakes you've made ("You wear your new bruise on Boxing day/Look in the mirror and your face is grey.") and happy eyes cover up the lies of the picture perfect family gathering….
The virtual flipside "Getting Up" in contrast is a two minute jolt of indie pop: chiming guitars and keys ring out above a chopping rhythm, knowing, breathless vocals wipe the sleep from the eyes and go to school, certain that later that day you will hit the town for dancing on a Friday night ("Until you're smoking/Until you're Drinking/Until you're kissing/Until you're staying out."). A song: about self-empowerment perhaps? By the end of the night it offers a word of advice: life isn't always that straightforward, but your day will come ("Through a thousand gloomy days/And a thousand more mistakes/ you will find your own way"). It's got a instant melodic quality remincisant of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions or Richard Hawley, and hints at the best bittersweet melodies of Belle and Sebastian. In short it's rather brilliant.
Get previous Free GIITTV zine singles club downloads, from The Sailplanes and Time.Space.Repeat. here:
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/singles_club.php
SMALL CREW- BOXING DAY
SMALL CREW- GETTING UP
GIITTV singles club releases "Boxing Day" and "Getting Up" free double a-side single available on www.godisinthetvzine.co.ukf rom the 26/12/07
In its third digital release the GIITTV singles club (an offshoot label of the cult music/culture webzine www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk) releases the double A-side "Boxing Day/Getting up" from beat combo Small Crew. Released as a free digital download on Boxing Day itself (so you won't forget what it's called).
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2145&type=Fea...
Who are Small Crew? Small Crew is Richard Adderley and Dan Edwards (formerly of bands like The Boyfriends, The Lucas Group and Vermont), although neither is necessarily on any given Small Crew Recording. Small Crew is whoever is in the room at the time when Small Crew music is being made. Small Crew can also be at the end of a phone line, in the post or on a computer, radio or television. If you aid, facilitate or enjoy Small Crew activities, you are Small Crew. Activity is currently limited to this planet but this is purely for technical reasons.
Small Crew make any kind of music depending on what's in the room or who's on the phone. They like singing and dancing and they like to keep it dirty.
Small Crew are not a collective. They are a combo. To get a straight answer visit Small Crew at:
youaresmallcrew@hotmail.com
www.myspace.com/smallcrew
Ever get that anticlimactic feeling on the day after Christmas Day? It seems Small Crew have. A grand piano motif, complimented by cavernous drums ushers in "Boxing Day" a glorious musical shrug of the shoulders that aches with an indefinable sadness: for a relationship that could be crumbling? For the year that's gone? Or something all together more sinister? Reminiscent of early shoe gaze, floating, melancholic half remembering vocals look out of the window and wonder why it never snows even though the world seems so cold? A hazy head smiles politely as if to say sorry for the mistakes you've made ("You wear your new bruise on Boxing day/Look in the mirror and your face is grey.") and happy eyes cover up the lies of the picture perfect family gathering….
The virtual flipside "Getting Up" in contrast is a two minute jolt of indie pop: chiming guitars and keys ring out above a chopping rhythm, knowing, breathless vocals wipe the sleep from the eyes and go to school, certain that later that day you will hit the town for dancing on a Friday night ("Until you're smoking/Until you're Drinking/Until you're kissing/Until you're staying out."). A song: about self-empowerment perhaps? By the end of the night it offers a word of advice: life isn't always that straightforward, but your day will come ("Through a thousand gloomy days/And a thousand more mistakes/ you will find your own way"). It's got a instant melodic quality remincisant of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions or Richard Hawley, and hints at the best bittersweet melodies of Belle and Sebastian. In short it's rather brilliant.
Get previous Free GIITTV zine singles club downloads, from The Sailplanes and Time.Space.Repeat. here:
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/singles_club.php
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