Bitter Fingers
A blog about popular song by Mark Higgins.
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The top five music videos where they’re driving a car, for some reason
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10 Dec 2011Making a pop video! It’s a tricky old business. Not only have you got to look like you’re having a good time, or a thoroughly rotten time, or displaying some sort of emotion at any rate, but you also have to deal with “directors” and “producers” who seem to think that aside from miming your [...]
Well it bears repeating, at any rate.
Frankly their album Voyage is one of the better ones of the year, containing as it does synth-driven pop jams, of which Wonders (the video you can and should watch above) is just one.
ALL VERY SATISFACTORY
The Angry Years: a quite good sort of band
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8 Mar 2011Here’s a thing that’s good – songs by a band from London called The Angry Years. There’s three of them, they enjoy making slightly funky art rock and looking at lightbulbs, that sort of thing.
You can listen to a song of theirs called Dress Yourself As Someone Dead, which aside from being hideously morbid is [...]
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Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition 2011
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9 Jan 2011Each year, the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition gives thousands of unsigned acts from the UK and Ireland the opportunity to compete for an extremely coveted main stage slot at the festival. I’m extremely pleased to announce that for the 2011 festival, I will be helping to judge it.
You may not be surprised to learn I [...]
Bitter Fingers Radio Volume 12: Two Festive Fingers
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3 Jan 2011After writing up my Festive Ten for this year, I felt that mere Spotify and YouTube playlists weren’t enough to convey just how amazing a year it’s been in music. So, in a first for Bitter Fingers Radio, I’ve recorded a special two-part show playing out in full both mine and Mr. Matthew Sheret’s Festive [...]
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- Tags: Arcade Fire, Bec Hill, Breakbot, British Sea Power, Danger, everything everything, Fang Island, gorillaz, Katy Perry, laura marling, London Fields Radio, Los Campesinos!, marina and the diamonds, matthew sheret, Mystery Jets, Nigel Godrich, robyn, Sleigh Bells, Tamaryn, The Kissaway Trail, Villagers, yeasayer
Bitter Fingers Volume 11: Christmas Fingers
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20 Dec 2010IT’S CHRIIIIIISSSSTMAAAAAAAS.
That means it’s time for VERY SPECIAL FESTIVE EDITION of the Bitter Fingers Radio show, filled with the finest Christmassy tunes that I can find. If it’s an alternative Christmas you’re after, you’ve found it right here.
Special guest Kate Hutchinson also provides some top banter, as well as information on top events going on [...]
Bitter Fingers Radio Volume 9: Hello Winter
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6 Dec 2010I hate to labour the point, but my goodness is it getting treacherous out there with all the snow and ice and what not. Such conditions might stop a lesser man from making a radio show in a café, but not me! Hence why I’m able to present to you the ninth volume of Bitter [...]
A treat on this week’s volume of Bitter Fingers Radio on London Fields Radio – I’m joined by the rather wonderful Tom Whalley, owner/operator of the wonderful indie record label Hello Thor.
In a far-reaching show, we play out some of his label’s finest tunes, discuss the highs and lows of running a label and how [...]
Bitter Fingers Radio Volume 6: Powered By Bacon
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15 Nov 2010What with it being Monday, it is of course time to present you with the very finest radio show you’ll ever hear presented by me, recorded in a café that serves amazing bacon rolls. And I don’t think I’m bragging when I say that.
Plenty of literally very good tunes on the show this week, and [...]
The Drums – Down By The Water
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1 Sep 2010The Drums – Down By The Water (Youtube)
I saw The Drums at the Reading Festival and they were very good. Here is some press release to prove I’m not lying.
Fresh from playing Reading and Leeds Festival, New York’s The Drums have announced a headline UK tour for November. Latest single “Let’s Go Surfing” is out [...]
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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.
- 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?? [...]
- Gareth: In fact there's so much magic involved I got the title a bit wrong. [...]
- Gareth: It's a Kind of Magic is the best song about magic. [...]
- The Internet Garbage: I like this! It's really good - definitely a "Saturday morning jam" as you say. And the video is fun [...]
- “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
- I rather like We Show Up On Radar and here’s a song of his
- I’ve mentioned that I quite like The Sound Of Arrows before right
- Fred Falke – Aurora
- Jessica 6 – Prisoner Of Love
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