My Beloved Monster And Me

A brilliant day of Tweeting with Ellie Goulding, going out for sushi, catching Michael Cera and Steve Buscemi in a side-slapping movie (Year In Revolt) was this evening perfectly topped off with a soul-swelling experience watching Mumford & Sons play their biggest date ever. Does it get better than that?! Well, yes actually. Jaz can now share with you the one, the only... La GaGa! She came, she saw, she conquered...

Seriously, why debate the merits of introducing sex education in primary schools when you can escort your child to watch a former burlesque performer cavort around a Warhol-inspired backdrop of multi-coloured dildos singing lines like “Inject me… I like it rough… take a bite of my bad girl meat”? ‘What’s that mummy?’ is not a question easily avoided when you’re staring a 50-foot projection of a leather-clad gimp in the face. 

... and she's in full review on Who's Jack: http://www.whosjack.org/?p=4496

Enjoy - we know we did!

xxx

P.S More from Mumford & Sons to come. And don't worry - we haven't forgotten about that Groove Armada interview... we were just too busy trying to catch a certain Marcus Mumford's eye.

The Morning After The Week Before

As I spend all of Sunday in ecstasy watching TV from my bed - another failed attempt at a Grand Slam championship by Andy Murray and an edition of Dancing On Ice (a programme I traditionally find intolerable) - I rehydrate and extend my arm to intermittently scoff at the box of emergency cereal in my bedsit. In this state of inertia I wonder what I've learned. Some names may be worth remembering, most notably Ellie Goulding. Mainly I am Old To Q, and music is transcient. Although Marina & The Diamonds' Hollywood is still glued to my cerebellum, it won't stay there forever. And that's ok. Enjoy what you enjoy. Stop chasing the next bandwagon. The music will keep on playing on and on regardless. And, as for my inner grandma? There's life yet in the old bird... Jaz x

Night 5

I wake up to Marina’s Hollywood doing forty laps around the vacuous swimming pool of my mind. It’s exactly the same relationship I had once with Kylie Minogue. Hate it. Can’t get it out of my head. It’s Saturday. I’m teetering towards death and averting mirrors. Just about managing to muster up some last lap adrenaline I contemplate three final acts: Liam Bailey of whom I’ve heard nothing, Daisy Dares You of whom I wish I’d heard nothing and Ellie Goulding of whom I’ve heard nothing besides.

Daisy Dares You… to suffer for half an hour of your life. MIEEOOOOW is what I think I hear (and see) as a feline just-pubescent Katie Price who looks like she’s been dragged through a bush backwards quite literally tears up the New To Q stage. The Ess-eeks gal can’t sing to save her arse, which, by the way, she doesn’t want you to touch according to one of her pop punk “song”s. She evidently, however, wants you to touch her developed bossom, which is very much on display (not that her “arse” isn’t). Kudos to Avril Lavigne who, despite her vile nature, isn’t tone deaf. Lionel Bart, would you call the copyright police? A minor has committed first degree ditty homicide. The victim is Who Will Buy?, killed via Oliver: The Mosh-ical remake.

Ellie Goulding is an entirely different animal and the most anticipated having already won this year’s Critics Choice BRIT award before the release of her debut (something only achieved thus far by Adele and Florence & The Machine). Hiding behind no name other than her own and suffering from laryngitis, she creates an ice cool electro disco to do away with the carefully produced Diana Vickers-meets-Dido hue of her record. Her dramatic eyes, doll-like voice and exerted mouth are reminiscent of Bjork… but Welsh and probably incapable of random violent outbursts. You never know though, it’s always the quiet ones…



By the way, still know nothing of Liam Bailey owing to... I was late.

Jaz x