HONOR BLACKMAN
The Star Who Fell From Grace
Music Infinity
This is more like it. Dame Blackman sing-talks her way through a litany of heart-wrenching pathos and regret that even Marc Almond would be ashamed to keep a straight face throughout. Probably the campest single since Elaine Page and Barbara Dickson power-moaned their way to the top of the charts, and at two minutes and nine seconds, sounds suspiciously truncated. Perhaps the intended finale was so overwrought that all involved dissolved in a pool of tears.
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Posted on July 6th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Tagged: A-HA, chipmunk, FINDLAY BROWN, FISCHERSPOONER, frankmusik, FRANZ FERDINAND, girls, HONOR BLACKMAN, Lady GaGa, Local Natives, MEMORY CASSETTE, MICHAEL JACKSON, PATRICK WOLF, THE MACCABEES
So ten days ago, majorly-hyped pop contender Frankmusik was dropped in a field in Scotland, with only twenty quid and his Blackberry. He was then asked to make it back to London while playing a succession of gigs that constitute his tour. More accurately, of course, Frankmusik’s been dropped in a field with twenty quid, his Blackberry © ® (TM) and a major cross-platform marketing campaign, driven by virals and street teams, including mailouts to all major news sources, a pair of Channel 4 cameramen updating his Myspace with clips of his continuing adventures on a daily basis, and GPS tracking his every move and uploading it to a map on his personal website while potted-summaries of his days are blogged by some or other backroom boyo on his official website. Read more »
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 | 17 Comments
Tagged: frankmusik, lost and on tour, selling out
