Back in Blonde
Sweden is a truly beautiful country, and I was lucky enough to travel a long way North to experience midnight sunsets near the Arctic Circle. It was a stunning location for the wedding, overlooking the mystical-looking Lake Tiljan.
Had a great time in Stockholm as well.. surrounded by gorgeous (and friendly) girls, endless soothing expanses of water, and of course Volvos.
I also enjoyed the fact that Sweden's biggest tourist attraction is a ship that sank 300m after setting sail. I think any other country may have tried to keep it quiet! I suspect that is why they decided to get rather good at building cars and planes instead. Certainly the navy has had a quiet time these last 300 years!
I ended up having a right session on Thursday night ending up on an Ibizan style terrace blasting slightly rubbish house music out over the water . Met a lovely lass called Jessica (Hello if you happen to have had a look here..... I can't remember if I mentioned it). Tried to work out what I was supposed to do with my drink if I couldn't bring it outside with me to have a fag. Did a lot of laughing and joking with strangers. Spent a ludicrous amount of money. Yes Sweden fills your heart with joy... until that is, it's your turn to go to the bar. Good grief. How can a country claim to be civilised when they charge that much for booze?
So I was hoping to return with some great Swedish music, but I can only remember two songs. One: 'The Final Countdown', courtesy of the wedding disco. What a classic. (!) Two: This song by The Concretes, which rocked up on my ipod a couple of times courtesy of the 'Bugged In' disc of DJ genius Erol Alkan's new mix album.
I was wondering whether this was a cover of the Mirwais track (the Les Rhythmes Digitales mix of which I posted a few weeks back) or vice versa, when I realised of course that The Stones did this originally. How could I forget Mick Jagger's na-na-nanananana's on their late-70s disco stomp along.
So this is that, but done in a Swedish Indie-Pop style.
It's nice.
Wow... I just found this on my computer as well. Not sure where it came from or what it has to do with Ms Ross... but it's great.
I am contractually obliged to mention that the new album by The Concretes is out soon.
Elsewhere on the infowebs, I can't recommend highly enough R Kelly's 'Trapped In The Closet' (yes, really!) - a Hip-Hopera in 5 Parts. It's got more twists and turns (and overacting) than an episode of Poirot. And more importantly it's hysterically funny. Go here & click on 'Video'. Trust me....!
Finally, apologies for linking to her yet again, but Smacked Face has provided what can only be described as an orgy of sweet soul music. Now armed with the awesome power of mp3, this is gonna be one dangerous lady.
posted by headphonesex @ 6:20 PM
