05/03/2010 by admin.

Over 3 years after its inception at the Edinburgh Festival, the heartwarming and comical award-winning play “Meeting Joe Strummer” by Paul Hodson returns on a nationwide March/April tour.The play’s synopsis revolves around two men of disparate backgrounds who unite over a mutual fondness of legendary punk-rock band The Clash, more-so the band’s de-facto leader Joe Strummer - from the music to the clothes and social-political stance.


The play journeys across time depicting how the bond between them stands the test of time during the years of Thatcher’s reign, internal warfare of race and class and to the explosion of Acid House music. The two friends eventually reunite at a gig by Joe Strummer and his last band, The Mescaleros’.


Meeting Joe Strummer’ has proven to warm hearts and connect with theatre goers and critics alike for its exceptional combination of humour, wit and identification of values of rebelling, inclusion, honesty and every-man ideals that Strummer advocated during his life.



Meeting Joe Strummer - March/April Tour 2010


5 - 6 March - Unity Theatre, Liverpool 0844 873 2888 www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk


10 March - Komedia, Brighton 0845 293 8480 www.komedia.co.uk/brighton


11 March - Croydon Clocktower 020 8253 1030 www.croydonclocktower.org.uk


12 March – The Tower, Winchester www.towerarts.co.uk


13 March - The Old Town Hall, Hemel Hempstead 01442 228091 www.oldtownhall.co.uk


18 March – Lakeside Theatre, Colchester 01206 573948 www.mercurytheatre.co.uk/artson5


19 - 20 March - New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich 01473 295900 www.wolseytheatre.co.uk


23 - 24 March - Oxford Playhouse Studio 01865 305305 www.oxfordplayhouse.com


25 March - Carriageworks, Leeds 0113 2243801 www.carriageworkstheatre.org.uk


26 - 27 March - Hull Truck Theatre, Hull 01482 323638 www.hulltruck.co.uk


30 March - 3 April - Drum Theatre Plymouth 01752 267222 www.theatreroyal.com


6 - 7 April - Corn Exchange, Newbury 01653 522733 www.cornexchangenew.com


8 April - Swindon Arts Centre 01793 614837 www.swindon.gov.uk


13 - 14 April - Guildhall, Derby 01332 255800 www.derbylive.co.uk


15 April - Barnsley Civic Centre 0845 1800363 www.barnsleycivic.co.uk


16 April - Harlequin Theatre, Redhill 01737 276500 www.harlequintheatre.co.uk


17 April - Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham 01329 223100 www3.hants.gov.uk



A review on ‘Meeting Joe Strummer’ by Owen Adams for The Guradian Website


Paul Hodson’s Theatre company website

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21/02/2010 by admin.

Frequent guest vocalist on some of the 2009 and 2008’s groundbreaking beat-based music Fatima is now ready to forefront a solo release via Iglo Records on the 23rd March.
In the space of two years, the London based Stockholm singer has showcased her eclectic range through her performances on well-recieved singles by Floating Points (Peroration Five), Sa-Ra’s Shafiq Husayn (’Lil’ Girl’) and Mr. Beatnick (’Green Is The Colour Of Hope’) and collaborated live with I.G, Floating Points’ Orchestral Ensemble and Slum Village.

Her debut four track EP release is named ‘Mindtravelin’ and it features productions from Stones Throw-signed and funkster aficionado Dam-Funk, plus VeeBeeO and Funkineven.

Regularly played on BBC 1Xtra’s Benji B show, Radio 1 DJ Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide show and on Rinse via Alexander Nut. From Dubstep to Soul, Jazz to Orchestral, Fatima is set for great things.

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18/02/2010 by admin.

Before the addition of The xx, Fever Ray and Richie Hawtin, we were convinced that Rob da Bank’s Bestival MAY contain the best line up for any festival to be held in the UK this year. Now with the addition of these three deservedly acclaimed artists, it’s safe to to say that Bestival contains the best line for any festival to be held in the UK this year. Keep the 9th - 12th September 2010 free for this…

Taken from the Bestival website…

“Staying on course to deliver the closest thing to festival nirvana this side of rock ‘n’ roll heaven, Rob da Bank and the Bestival crew are just too excited to be able to hold in the latest mega-mungus line-up announcement for our seventh outing any longer. With the likes of Dizzee Rascal, Flaming Lips, Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem and Gil Scott Heron already out of the besti-bag, we have got some absolute belters joining the bill for the first Robin Hill Country Park adventure of the teenies!

Rob da Bank says: ‘OK, check this out for a triple whammy - my joint favourite band of last year The xx playing what will be a very rare UK festival appearance on our very own Isle of Wight, the audio-visual phenomenon that is Fever Ray with her ONLY UK festival this year and to cap it all one of the most important electronic wizards about, Richie Hawtin bringing his Plastikman guise to the Big Top. Selfishly these are three of the most played artists round the da Banks’ at the moment and if you don’t already own all the music get it now and get ready for September!’
Winners of a truck load of coveted accolades, including The Guardian and Rough Trade Shops’ Album of the Year, for their sublime debut album The xx will be taking the ferry to the Isle of Wight to blow you away with one of only three UK festival appearances this year that will see them baring the spellbinding lyrical interplay and evocative riffs that have deservedly made the masses fall head over heels for them. Aside from blowing us all away in the Big Top on Friday the band will also be loading Saam Farahmand’s groundbreaking, super-future ‘xx: a Sculpture of the Album’; a 3D physical interpretation of their music, into their van. Utilising film, light and sound via three specially created audio-visual units this will play all weekend in Bestival’s very own permanent cinema onsite … and you won’t see it at any other UK festies!”

The festival is to be held at Robin Hill Country Park, Isle Of Wight.

Visit the Bestival website for more information.

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10/02/2010 by admin.

…/ Hot Chip / LCD Soundsystem / Chase & Status / Echo and the Bunnymen / Simian Mobile Disco / Delphic / Rolf Harris / Marc Almond / dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip / Ellie Goulding / Flying Lotus / Four Tet / Kitty Daisy & Lewis / Stornoway / Tinie Tempah / Vitalic / The Cuban Brothers / Chilly Gonzales / Beardyman / Tunng / Hurts / Nathan Fake / The Gaslamp Killer / The Vegetable Orchestra / Laura J Martin / Samuel & The Dragon…

The title says it all, really.

Click here for the full outstanding lineup for this year’s festival

Rob Da Bank, BBC Radio 1’s purveyor and selector of strange and wonderful music has finalized and confirmed the line for this year’s Bestival, and by far the line-up is without doubt…strong - to say the least.

Taken from Bestival’s website…

“Always celebrated for its outlandish programming and open-minded ethos, 2010’s edition of the Bestival story is about to unfold before your very eyes. Following up last year’s sun-drenched intergalactic triumph will be no mean feat but once again Rob da Bank and the Bestival crew have pulled out all the stops to ensure that Robin Hill’s 88 acres of leafy beauty will be transformed into an unbelievably wondrous musical paradise for our seventh heavenly outing that is set to close the festival season from September 9th to 12th. After last year’s site move about we’ve listened to lots of feedback and have decided to give the main stage a new home, plus we have a few other tricks and treats up our sleeves… all of which will be revealed!”

Please visit Bestival for full ticket info and our terms and conditions.

We cannot recommend this festival enough.

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10/02/2010 by admin.

Bonobo is back with his 4th album ‘Black Sands’ to be released byNinja Tune Records on the 29th of March, 2010. Taken from this is the new single “Eyesdown”.



Bonobo (Simon Green) has produced a remarkable catalog of songs for roughly 10 years. Generally known for his beat driven music, Bonobo’s new single takes it further. It manages to mould and intertwine a steady linear beat with warm textural melodies, swings of small distanced trumpets and airy vocals by Andreya Triana in such a spacious and atmospheric way. It immediately captures the beauty found within the gorgeous photograph that is used conjunctionally for the single (see above).



It would be effortless and irrelevant to simplify the liberating sounds that Simon Green manages to command by compartmentalizing it as being a new take on “electronic-ambient-dub-style” sounds. The preview of “Eyesdown” is below.







“Eyesdown” is to be released on March 8th 2010, precedeing the release of “Black Sands” - Some Think Blue are happy to confirm remixes of the aformentioned single are to be conjunctionally released, by beat scientist Floating Points, Bristolian-native Appleblim and relatively new producing duo - Warrior One. Tour dates are listed on Bonobo’s official website.

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09/02/2010 by admin.

It’s no secret that the Southend band These New Puritans led by the elusive Jack Barnett eschew from pigeonholing when it comes to presenting their overall sound. As heard from their debut album “Beat Pyramid“, their mission is to build their own inner world with regards to seemingly disparate influences, (from the prolific underground rap producer J Dilla. to the atmospheric layering of Steve Reich and sombreness of Robert Wyatt’s brass). Continuous progression seems natural and of reason to the quartet.



Their sophomore album ironically named “Hidden” stands as a testament to slashing their way through pre 21sth century habits of categorising music and sounds…literally. Consequently, it definitely makes sense to not listen to this album in relation to anyone as if they have any musical peers.



These New Puritans - “We Want War” - Directed by Daniel Askill





Extensive precise methods of foley recording along with the employment of producer and mixer (Graham Sutton and Dave Cooley, respectively), Japanese Taiko drums, plus a brass and woodwind section, a children’s choir, prepared piano - combined with TNPS’ beat and sampling sensibilities. ‘Hidden’ truly sounds like TNPS may well be the true heir to the Wu-Tang Clan and Benjamin Britten. Truly remarkable and challenging.

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19/12/2009 by admin.

Welcome, please, Andreya Triana. The Brighton-based singer whose past credits include work with Mr. Scruff, Flying Lotus, Theo Parrish and Bonobo releases the first single from her forthcoming debut album, “Lost Where I Belong”.

Andreya Triana - “Lost Where I Belong” - Video Directed by Daniel Chester and Dave Prosser

“Lost Where I Belong,” like the rest of the album which will follow, is produced by Simon Green aka Bonobo, this track being co-written with Fink. The album came about before Bonobo and Triana worked on a track for his lastest album and ended up touring the US together. A beautiful, subtle slice of jazz and folk-inflected soul, “Lost Where I Belong” is, Andreya explains, a microcosm of what her album is all about. “The underlying theme of the song is even though we can strongly and clearly know what our purpose is in life we can still get a bit lost along the way and struggle sometimes.”

Bonobo builds subtle live strings, brass and effortless-but-understated drum work around the gorgeousness of Triana’s voice and lush harmonies. The remix comes from sometime associate and collaborator Flying Lotus who takes the original vocal out into the (LA) galaxy – all space fizzes and filtered drums – before Andreya roots it right back down again with an acoustic version which shows just how affecting her voice is, with Fink and Bonobo both lending a hand on guitar and double bass.

No diva-histrionics here – just an attempt to let the melody and lyrics do the talking.

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15/12/2009 by admin.

Undoubtedly two of the finest producers straight from Los Angeles, Nite Jewel and Dam-Funk have had quite the successful year. Both being admirers of each others work, and similarly inspired by chord structures and synth sounds of a half-remembered past of the 80’s, one could only imagine how the two together would sound like… until now.

Nite Jewel + Dam-Funk on XLR8R TV

With help from XLR8R TV, the two finally pair as a duo completing a remarkably mesmerising tune named ‘Am I Gonna Make It’ - think dancefloor ethereal funk with a purple sound. Cole MGN of lo-fi band Haunted Graffiti assists on bass guitar duties.

Nite Funk - ‘Am I Gonna Make It’ - click to download

We at Some Think Blue adore this track, and for you purple music lovers out there, if you tuned into Benji B’s 1xtra show on the 29th November, you also know that Dam-Funk will make collaborative links to the UK via man of the moment in the ‘Dubstep’ region - Joker.

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02/12/2009 by admin.

There are very few that can actually justify asking for up to £50 for tickets, but in what will no doubt be one of his most spectacular gigs, Paul Weller will now play a further third date at the Royal Albert Hall on the 26th of May, 2010. This event will follow the highly anticipated new album which will be released in the coming Spring on Island Records.

See Weller’s website for more details, live performances of 22 dreams and a preview of his forth coming track,  ‘7&3 Is The Strikers Name’.

The Mod Father is back.

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30/11/2009 by admin.

Blue. Blue. The word evokes something inside of us. A feeling. A thought. A sense of something that you can’t quite put your finger on, but it’s there. What is it? What does this colour, mood, movement, music or feeling represent?Scientifically speaking, blue the colour is evoked by the perception of a spectrum of light dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nanometer. Spiritually, it is symbolic to the fifth throat chakra. It is also said to be the aura colour shown when someone is oriented toward spirituality and is used to represent peace.Once considered a hot colour, it is now an icy, cool, calming, cold colour, said to help the perception of time pass more quickly, yet too much blue can make you feel dejected. Non can better describe this feeling than that of the Blues. No other label of a genre of music has been able to amalgamate everything that it has ever stood for or represented. It was something special, taking from its origins of European and African music yet retaining a completely new identity, one separate from either of its parent traditions. The American writer, Washington Irving is credited with coining the term ‘the Blues’ as it is now defined in 1807. From the expressive words of deprivation, extreme suffering the

“field holler” and spirituality all created a road from the fields to the towns for the Blues. The singer would speak of their blues and the guitar would answer back. Learning to make the guitar talk would enable them to give feeling that would travel through the most coldest of veins to the most hardened stone hearts and break them. Its a certain feeling that hits when you put on a blues track, you may lie back and ponder upon some of life most elusive answers. Looking up at the clear cloudless day-time sky while the molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun as demonstrated with the Tyndall effect in 1859.But Blue hasn’t just been in our minds, it has been a part of our language for many centuries. The modern English word ‘blue’ comes from the Middle English, ‘bleu’ or ‘blwe’, which came from an Old French word ‘bleu’ of Germanic origin. Though it started almost totally absent from ancient Western art and language, it is now formidable in everyday language, familiar phrases present us with both positive and negative aspects of the descriptive word blue. To be a ‘true blue’ is to be someone loyal and faithful. Out of the blue - unexpected (positive or negative). Yet it seems ever present that blue is just that feeling of being slight, one piece missing, feeling blue, blue Monday and of course having the Blues.

We can all feel blue, but only some think blue. It’s a state of mind, a way of life; it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re unhappy, it allows you to be in tune with your surroundings and their vibrations. You give though, like blue, to the different shades of life, sometimes you’re as blue as they sky, giving light with a smile, other times, you’re a deeper shade like Sapphire, finding it hard to retain your way.

We all think blue. I’m just the first to admit it.

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