no. 1 it starts....

Here's a wee introduction for you to know why I'm blogging and hopefully give me a bit of direction in my thinking. If you read this first and than later find me going off on a wild tangent please tell me. I can get sidetracked, sometimes it is for good reason, more than likely I just have a whole whirlwind of stuff going round my head.

I have written little blogs on my myspace and facebook accounts but they aren't really that official and are intended to be less widely viewed than this one. This blog has been started for my Journalism course, and more specifically my online course in which we construct a website and link it to our blogs. We're making a website on pop music from round the globe. No, not world music just different pop songs and popscenes from around the world. Thats the idea anyway.

Hopefully i can contribute quite a lot to the website, through my blogging and digging around for articles and my love for indiepop songs and boys with funny accents. (Although from that last bit we could just end up with a page that says I LOVE THE FUTUREHEADS all over it, i'll try my best to get it a bit more interesting than that....). I'm off to new york city in March and I intend to hit some euro-festivals hard again this year. So there is potential for good things on here, well I think so anyway.

Bands and artists I love at the moment include...

• Those Dancing Days - Scandinavian high school girls with northern soul inspired twinkly pop songs. They look like they just robbed a topshop sample sale.
• The teenagers - french electro pop. ok so you're cringing a little bit, right? somehow these guys make it work. They've moved to London and despite still hanging out with justice and writing unmistakably french pop songs their frank and filthy lyrics poke fun at the naff french pop that you might be imagining.
• Tilly and the wall - more girl pop this time from Omaha, USA. they have a tapdancer instead of a drummer and they're currently recording some new stuff which I'm really looking forward to. a lovely summer band to get you out of the february durge.
• Jeff Lewis - Jeff Lewis writes comics in new york city. He also writes anti-folk songs and is supporting the Cribs and the Super furry animals round the US and Canada this spring.

Enough, now this is becoming less of an intro and more of me rabbiting on about bands I like. I purposefully haven't put any pics or vids or anything on here. I will, I'll probably do a post on all of these bands, and others. And it will (or may) be a multimedia whirlwind dropping you in a fantastic musical oz.

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