Tonight, Tonight
Tonight at 9pm on BBC1 is David Attenborough’s Life Story, in which the man, the myth, the legend narrates all life on earth (including our own), according to Filipa Jodelka in this week’s Guide.
Meanwhile, in three-dimensions, cross-genre award board-sweeper (especially yesterday) Sam Smith plays the O2 ABC Glasgow tonight.
And in Dublin, New York comic Todd Barry plays The Sugar Club - you can sample his lugubriously misanthropic stand up above.
Lying, Exercising and Sponging Off Your Parents: How To Be A Drifter
The second series of girl-slacker comedy Drifters begins tonight (9pm, E4) - in Saturday’s Guide the sitcom’s creator and star Jessica Knappett gave us some advice on coping with your 20s.
Afternoon Links
Battling the post-lunch slump can be challenge. You can either give in to that inviting state of slack befuddlement, or you can wake yourself up with the help of the following new stuff (in order of stirring-ness).
To ease you in gently, here’s J. Cole substantially livening up Jessie Ware’s Kind Of...Sometimes...Maybe with some tongue-twisters...
Now be roused by some industrious swearing in the new trailer for upcoming crime thriller The Gambler, which features a newly slender Mark Wahlberg and cool new catchphrase: “fuck you!”...
Then let pop-punk kings Rancid invigorate you with their new album Honor Is All We Know, streaming ahead of its release on Monday (it all sounds like Fall Back Down = good thing)...
Finally, if the new AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON TRAILER FEATURING BOMBAST AND A LOT OF VERY LOUD NOISES doesn’t wake you up, seek help immediately.
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My Top Five: Axes' Favourite Instrumental Bands
Ahead of their UK tour which begins tomorrow in Brighton, we asked London math rockers Axes to give us a run down of their top five favourite instrumental bands.
Secret Chiefs 3 - Vajra
‘Secret Chiefs 3 are one of the most exciting bands around at the moment. They blend traditional Persian and Arabic folk with tech metal and electronic music to create the most interesting genre-jumbled hybrid. Trey Spruance, formerly of Faith No More, is the master of playing with the rhythm of his riffs within a section. Their live shows are equal parts impressive and hypnotic.’
Hella - Better Get A Broom
‘Hella manage to create a huge, aggressive sound with just one guitar and drums. There’s something very primal about the songs and the drumming in particular. The playing is incredibly technical but somehow there is a loose feel that sits within the songs, and plenty of seamless time signature changes. I think we have a similar ‘looseness’ to our playing that adds extra depth to our music.’
Holy Fuck- Red Lights
‘We’ve all watched these guys loads, pretty much exclusively at the now defunct ATP festival. They’re such a tight and fun live band and everyones goes mad when they play. They’re definitely an influence on the vibe we try to create live. They straddle being an electronic act and a live band, so you get build ups and drops and also gritty drums and bass.’
Three Trapped Tigers- Cramm
‘This track is a great example of how TTT manage to blend virtuosity with dark and powerful songwriting. I used to play in a band with drummer Adam Betts and playing with him really opened up my sense of how a band could pull music apart. You can see the guys doing that here. The real triumph is how the music sounds explosive and natural, whilst still being mind-bendingly technical.’
Don Caballero - Mmmm Acting, I Love Me Some Good Acting
‘The technical ability of Don Caballero is totally mind-blowing. They create songs that flow through various soundscapes and have a very urgent energy about them.’
Axes’ new album Glory is out on November 3rd.
The Room Spin-Off: So Bad, It's Bad
After Tommy Wiseau premiered his new sitcom in New York last month, the question on everybody’s lips is obviously: whatever happened to the supporting cast of the ‘worst film ever’, Wiseau’s unintentionally horrible The Room? Well, like everybody else in Hollywood, they’re on Kickstarter, where they’ve started a campaign to get a mockumentary made about their lives.
Watch the video below and then blame Michael Cera.
They’ve already raised $14,000 of their $18,000 target, which is slightly less impressive when you take into account $10k of that comes from one crazy person who has paid to be the executive producer. Privileges include: attending a premiere and a complimentary DVD (although ten THOUSAND dollars apparently doesn’t cover overseas shipping. You’ll need to pay an extra $15 for that).
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Tinchy Stryder x The Chuckle Brothers + Panda Bear
Two new videos for you this morning, both like weird, disorientating dreams in their own way.
Tinchy Stryder and The Chuckle Brothers have unveiled the music video for their collaboration entitled - what else - ‘To Me, To You’, which has been created to raise money for leukaemia charity The ACLT.
Fans of the pair will be pleased to note that all the brothers’ long-established tropes are there: ladders, vans, shoelaces, leaks, baffling incompetence, a new acquaintance slowly losing their mind (here played by Tinchy).
Panda Bear - aka Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox - has released the lead single from upcoming new album Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper.
Mr Noah (that’s the name of the song, not a formal address) is accompanied by this trippily-filmed video involving fraught domestic drama and that thing when you can’t be bothered to unstack some chairs so just sit precariously on the top one.
