Fight Like Apes - Something Global

Remember we posted about #shootlikeapes - where lots of Fight Like Apes fans went to Whelan’s to shoot the video for their new single, Something Global? Director, editor, maestro Eoghan Kidney has just released the final edit: You can watch the bigger version over here. Considering the amount of cameras, footage and formats that were shot in on the day, this is an extremely impressive piece of work. The cut between the phones and the cameras, the angles and the directions is so tight as to appear like that’s the way it was set up altogether. And sure, perhaps it was. Well done everyone - something to be very proud of!

13,500 people sing Hey Jude in Trafalgar Square, London

I don’t think I need to add much to this. It made me smile. Even if it is an ad for a phone company.That is P!nk in the crowd. Brought to you by the same people behind the Liverpool Street Station dance. Update: could we do something like this in Ireland? What song would we sing? Answer here!

why did you do a number 2

sounds a bit…. and it kind of is. ok it is. so they make great films. tony the tiger they’re grrrrrrrrreat kinda films. And then some bozo in a big office decides to go and flip the whole flippin thing up.If I was McCauley Culkens Mom…. yeah ye know what I mean I’d have kicked his tusche for doing The Blues Brothers part 2. Yeah you heard me. Little Ms Crapinyopants McCauley did THE Blues Brothers. In anyways McCauley is a second name. Fact. They did Beverly Hills Cop Parts 1,2,3. No bother. Funny as muck. Bargain at the moment in HMV. You can’t go wrong. Well you can. Die Hard. parts 1,2,3 and then they change the guy in the swinging chair in Manhatten or some place where they remade miami vice looking and they made no. 4. And there’s no way yer man was the dead guys brother. … There’s more

Acceptable in the 80′s?

But not acceptable on last nights Apprentice! Anyone wonder where Philip’s highly original idea for a jingle might have originated? Check this out! Wake Up Call Cereal Spot (AKA Pants Man) Kellogg’s Fruit & Fiber - Campsite Spot - 1985 Philip was raised on a healthy diet of Apples, Hazelnuts, Bananas, Raisins, Coconuts, Sultanas….. and Telly!!

Fight Like Apes, Shoot Like Apes

So, remember I stuck this post up about the new video being shot for ‘Something Global’ the new Fight Like Apes single? I’m now in Whelan’s, listening to the band perform a six song set for the audience before we start shooting. Not sure how good the video quality is but here’s a video of dress rehearsal for Something Global. Probably the first video of the day to be uploaded!

Can’t Have It All by Jay Brannan

Title: Can’t Have It All Artist: Jay Brannan Label: Great Depression Records Release: Unknown Jay is due to play in Dublin on May 6 2009 in Crawdaddy on Harcourt Street,. The 140 character review Bittersweet. Honeyed tune with cyanide lyrics that hook themselves in to the brain. Sounds like a song around for centuries; showing talent. Be warned, there is swearing in the song and the introduction to the video. and now your reviews, Will