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The Boys Next Door

franhealy — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:15:54 +0000

The Boys Next Door played a storming gig tonight at the annual end of summer party next door. They have added a couple of Strokes songs to their set. They also have a new bassist. Anyways. Watch this space. They’re gonna be huge.

Range Life

franhealy — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:43:53 +0000

This is how it should be done. If you don’t know Pavement then you must go and buy all their records now.

Justin Bieber Slowed Down 800%

franhealy — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:52:14 +0000

Chillouuuuuuuut!

Vangelis meets Sigur Ros in the Sistine Chapel

J. BIEBZ – U SMILE 800% SLOWER by Shamantis

BYE KEANE

franhealy — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:16:19 +0000

Was fun tonight. The boys invited me up to perform Side. I rapped “The Message” in the middle. It’s Clay’s favourite song. Was funny. I think alot of folks thought it was serious… hahaa… It was.

Man that was a quick stint. It feels like the tour only started yesterday… I didn’t get a chance to make any videos… The past 3 weeks have been jampacked with prep work for Wreckorder OUT ON OCTOBER 5th 2010

The tour was so much fun. Keane are a great bunch of people. That extends to their crew who were all so welcoming. And Colin their tour manager even had a lovely nickname for me. FBF. Franny Boz Forever.

So I’m lying on my hotel bed now. We are leaving the hotel at 4 am!!! It’s a long drive tomorrow. Looking forward to Winnipeg. See you there…

WILD BEASTS IN BERLIN

franhealy — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:22:09 +0000

Nora and i went to see Wild Beasts last night at the Lido club on Cuvry Strasse. Andy and I played here 2 years ago for the 25th anniversary of Mr Dead and Mrs Free (Berlins best vinyl store). It’s a great venue. An old cinema I think… The band were on fire. The sound was incredible. It was their last show of the Two Dancers tour. The crowd loved it and made them do 2 encores. After buying teeshirts and vinyl we went back to say hello. They were sweet people. They had the glow only a band who had played their last show of the album could have. It’s a nice feeling. I asked them about this record and their history. Hayden (main singer) and the Drummer Chris have known each other since primary school. They made this current record with nearly zero funds and wrote and recorded it to tape in 6 weeks. Impressive. And having stood on the edge of the precipice following the luke warm sales and reaction to their debut record, were now at a point where they could feel the weather had changed for them. Ahhh so great. After a beer we left. If you don’t have their album. you need to
buy it

here

Peter Serafinowicz Does Hot Chip

franhealy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:36:35 +0000

Dark

WARNING

DON’T LET LITTLE KIDS SEE THIS IT WILL SCARE THEM

Follow Peter here

Buy Hot Chip here

ALEX CHILTON

franhealy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:10:20 +0000

Alex Chilton

December 28, 1950- March 18, 2010

Kidnapped By The Sun In A Time Of Production

franhealy — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:11:59 +0000

It’s a beautiful sunny day today in Berlin. I have been writing and writing and writing. It’s been good. The strike rate has always been 20 flat songs and 1 that stands up by itself. These songs come from a different place in the brain than the others. I’m not familiar with right left brain responsibilities but I think the reason it is hard to write a good song maybe relates to it coming from an unconscious area of the brain so there is no way of repeating it because it’s unmapped, unknown. Like being blindfolded and taken in a car somewhere and then blindfolded on your return, you would never know how to get there again. A song from here is a postcard which ignites upon consumption this area of the brain.
When I hear something which comes from this unmapped place, I get a little jolt and for a moment I am transported there. This feeling is addictive. It is escape.
Anyways I got one of these the other night. It is nice to know if I empty my head enough, I am still light enough to float off to that cool secret place.

On another note, I was driving the other day and I heard a familiar voice singing on the radio. It took a while to figure out who it was because the lyrics and his voice were beautifully juxtaposed and later it all made sense when the announcer said it was a cover. The song is by Magnatic Fields and the singer is Peter Gabriel. Still one of the best voices Britain has produced. The song is called The Book Of Love. I’ll take it down if it’s naughty to have it here.

It comes from his new album of cover versions buy it

here

and buy the Magnetic Fields original

here

Oceanway Los Angeles

franhealy — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:16:32 +0000

Here is MJ recording vocals for We Are The World in studio b at Oceanway where we recorded The Invisible Band. A great room.

Nirvanas Version Of Meat Puppets “Plateau”

franhealy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:54:44 +0000

Meat Puppets join Nirvana for this