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 | No 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
You probably think that I’m going to make a glib joke about Texans eating roadkill, but frankly that kind of crap is boring and tasteless. The people of Austin have been so warm and so kind to us strangers that to make fun of their lifestyle is rude. And anyway, they don’t eat this kind of thing, they staple it to their sister’s brow so she can’t see them handjobbing the dog into their racist stetson. Read more »
Posted on March 23rd, 2009 | 4 Comments
Tagged: Fol Chen, Local Natives, SXSW, Texas
