Hit parade ram-raid with Neasden Postlethwaite

[hirez]

So I'm staring gormlessly at FTV this AM, as anyone with a brain might when confronted with enough vacuity to pull lawn-bowls up a metre column of mercury, when the music swaps from cranked-by-the-yard techno to someone trying very hard to be Joy Division.

I have no idea who it was, but it sounded like it might have been Depeche Mode. I know that post-punk-pastiche is the new Tractor, but the only way it could be more mired in the 80s would be... No, I can't think of it.

Meanwhile, some joker's (Hooky, probably) managed to swap money for the right to use 'Blue Monday' in a Mars advert. Other than pitching the BPM up a bit to suit Internet Time, it's unchanged since 1983. And entirely timeless. But then I would say that.


Elsewhere, multiple security patches. That's a whole bucket of cat-wax.

Comments

[inulro.livejournal.com]

There was a comment about that in last week's Jarvis Cocker-edited Observer Music Monthly. Apparently the only way he could do it was to have a big piece of paper with the amount of money they were getting paid taped up on the glass in the vocal booth.

[amanda-pink.livejournal.com]

Yeah, thats on the 'NewOrderStory' documentary... It was £250,000 I think.