And behind door number 22... a guide to some music of the more traditional kind
Catherine Munn and Jacob Martin list their Top 5 programmes to watch over the festive period.
And behind door number nine... some dazzling musical delights
The complete arts guide, for week 9
That's right, EVE! Kelly some-say-the-best-one-from-Destiny's-Child Rowland is releasing 'Like This' with Eve all over the video, looking, as a housemate here at Artsweek Towers pointed out, younger than she did on her last one. Congratulations Eve! And the songs not half bad either, a backing a bit like 'These Words', and Eve coming over all Drop It Like It's Hot. If you have access to a red convertible and a highway/American city this week, buy the single and drive up and down with your excitable girlfriends.
Look how happy she is on TRL at the end of the video! This is how happy she will stay if you buy her record: smiling away the stratospheric success of Miss Knowles.
Elsewhere, it's actually an amazing week for singles, but the real highlight is the return of indie-dancefloor fillers Justice with D.A.N.C.E. You're bound to have heard this, especially if you've been anywhere near B Henry's on a Friday night in the last couple of months, and you're going to hear it a lot more. When I say that this is going to be the summer of Justice I am not lying to you. Nor am I predicting an apocalyptic summer of reckoning, this is the kind of French filter-dance that Daft Punk would be making if they weren't 'a bit old now' and concentrating on their film. They've already become your friends with their Simian remix, now they're going to move your feet.
But move your feet to where? Well you could do worse than venturing down to York St John where the arts and design students are putting on their annual exhibition 10am - 4pm daily until this Friday. The exhibition will showcase the work of their talented graduates, hoping to get a place in the increasingly crowded world of artistic design. With the recent press focus on Victoria Beckham's presence at graduate fashion shows, this would seem an excellent opportunity to do the same for design.
Alternatively, you could move your feet to Fibbers on Thursday, where indie newcomers Pull Tiger Tail will attempt to show us what all the hype is about. What hype? You're possibly asking. Well, they used to share a flat in Leeds with the Klaxons so, if my theory about brilliance rubbing off like a sort of talent-musk is correct, they have to be at least 'quite good'. In fact, they're even better than that, with melodically-informed choruses and banging rhythms that are sure to fill Fibbers with head-nodding and toe-tapping. Get those toes a-ready, and this isn't even their best song:
Ahh, music. But if you don't like music, you might want to see some moving images instead. With words. Well: there's a new film out at the cinema. It is, I'm afraid, another superhero film. "Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer" is released (or possibly 'unleashed' in superhero movie parlance) at Vue on Friday. It's almost definitely going to be rubbish. I thought that silver surfer was a phrase created for people over 60 that use the internet, and so not a great subject for a blockbuster. Actually: this is a lie. I used to watch the quite-rubbish Fantastic 4 cartoon, so I know that the Silver Surfer is a baddy who leads a really big baddy to destroy the earth, but on encountering humanity (or, more specifically the Fantastic 4) he changes his mind about the whole thing. When you've seen the trailer you may find it difficult to understand why; the Fantastic 4 are so obnoxious that they are positively poster-children for the need for eradication of humanity. Here's the trailer. WARNING: THIS TRAILER CONTAINS MUSIC.
Awful. Oh well. That liberal film about Tony Blair being rubbish we talked about last week is still on at City Screen. Go to that instead.
Other happenings this week:
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