Bitter Fingers
A blog about popular song by Mark Higgins.
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Lykke Li – Sadness is a Blessing
In: Music Video| New Music
28 Apr 2011Lykke Li – Sadness is a Blessing (Youtube)
WELL HELLO THERE.
Yes I know it’s been like a month since I last updated this blog. But I got a job! Well, a different job. A busier job. That requires me running around quite a lot, leaving precious little time for rambling on about videos on the internet. [...]
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Metronomy – The Look
In: Music Video| New Music
1 Apr 2011Metronomy – The Look (Youtube)
Metronomy and I have had something of a rather cool relationship over the past few years or so. I first came across them back when – god help us – I actually updated my Livejournal. Back then, when they were playing at the Wireless festival, I gave them a rather low [...]
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Two Wounded Birds – All We Wanna Do
In: Music Video| New Music
28 Mar 2011Two Wounded Birds – All We Wanna Do
Short song, short video, short post. It’s Margate’s finest Two Wounded Birds with a song featuring some rather loud guitars. Also there’s a Wimpy involved. It’s very good.
The band were in session for Lauren Laverne at BBC 6 Music today and they were very loud indeed. You can [...]
YELLE live at Electrowerkz, London 26th March 2011
In: Live Music| New Music
27 Mar 2011Last night, I ventured into the wilds of East London to take in a concert by YELLE, a band who need little introduction to regular readers of this publication.
They’re currently halfway through a tour supporting Katy Perry, and as such this tiny headline gig, technically at a club night and supported by about eight million [...]
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- Tags: Electrowerkz, London, Tiger Love, yelle
The top five eponymous songs
In: Music Video| Top Five
21 Mar 2011Earlier today I was listening to the very-good-at-being-a-DJ type Andrew Collins on 6 Music, who played my joint Talk Talk by Talk Talk. It then led me to think I should totally make a list of the top five eponymous songs, which I posited on Twitter.
As no-one has as yet been able to burst into [...]
SebastiAn – Embody
In: Music Video| New Music
19 Mar 2011SebastiAn – Embody by edbangerrecords
PRAISE BE. It’s only something brand new from SebastiAn, he of very good electro beats and remixes.
He’s one of those Ed Banger types I enjoy so much (Justice and the few tolerable Uffie songs) that I enjoy so much, and this is a particularly groovy new tune to come back with [...]
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This month it’s an absolutely jam packed edition of Bitter Fingers Radio – frankly I’m surprised we’ve managed to get it onto the internet in one piece.
My special guest for the show is Tom Williams, bandleader of Tom Williams & the Boat who are one of my favourite new bands at the moment. Their new [...]
The Looks – Screwdriver
In: Music Video| New Music
10 Mar 2011The Looks – Screwdriver (Youtube)
If you’re a fan of frantic guitars, stop motion video and tape then you’re in luck today, because Irish band The Looks have all of the above wrapped up in a tidy, video based package.
It has to be said that often the videos made by bands don’t require that much work [...]
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Fists – Ascending
In: Music Video| New Music
9 Mar 2011Fists – Ascending (Youtube)
Here’s the new video from Bitter Fingers favourites Fists, who regular readers may recall featured on volume seven of Bitter Fingers Radio. Seems like only yesterday Tom Whalley from their label was on discussing the breakfast barter system, which I might add, has caused division up and down the land since it [...]
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Belleruche – 3 Amp Fuse
In: Music Video| New Music
8 Mar 2011Belleruche – 3 Amp Fuse (Youtube)
You know, it was only the other day I was thinking to myself “I wish there were more songs that started off with timpani”, and lo and behold here’s a band doing exactly that. It’s like they read my mind! Or I made that bit up for the purposes of [...]
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Welcome to Bitter Fingers - a blog about popular song. Written by the hand of Mark Higgins, it serves up the very finest in new music, radio shows, spurious comment and #1 jams.
- Owen Duff: As a musician I totally understand her desire to keep within the concept of the album, and to be fai [...]
- anmari: I remember Cheggers Plays Pop, and 1984 - can't remember the 'biggest star of 1984' though? [...]
- Gabi: Gosh, I loved this post. I t really made me LOL. Brilliant!!! (from a Wham!/GM fan!). [...]
- Peter: My favourite is M.A.G.I.C. by The Sound of Arrow. Makes feel like a child again. http://www.youtube. [...]
- Grace: What about Nick Drake?? [...]
- Bitter Fingers Radio Volume 19: Fresh Jams
- The thing about Marina and the Diamonds, right
- In a rare non-George Michael related post, here’s Amanda Mair
- Hey so this new Kavinsky track is pretty choice
- “David Austin, the biggest star of 1984″
- The top five songs by Wham!
- Azealia Banks – 212
- Bitter Fingers Radio Volume 18: Quite Good Songs Of The Year
- I CAN’T STOP LISTENING TO SELENA GOMEZ
- The top five music videos where they’re driving a car, for some reason
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