Picture courtesy of deviant art by sixhundredsixty for more check out http://sixhundredsixty.deviantart.com/Paul Brill - "Sunny Guy" from Team Clermont on Vimeo.
The Jessica Stuart Few
Good Weekend
The Devil's new festival correspondent Toby Jones hot footed it down to Micheldever in Hampshire to sample the delights of one of the newest festivals on the block, the comact and bijou Good Weekend.
The festival certainly lived up to its name with an eclectic range of new and established acts, crammed into a diary friendly schedule. Friday night was party night, with Rinse FM’s Monki warming up the crowd perfectly for legendary mixologist Parker’s headline set, where he had everyone jumping to music from the past twenty years with ease and flair.
Up on the Den stage, new kids on the block the Pippa Marias and Lighthouses gave their audiences something special and there was a definite atmosphere that these guys are ones to watch.
Flight Brigade were the perfect hangover cure on Saturday morning, but initial sound issues on the main stage caused continuing problems throughout the day. Yet these problems didn’t dampen spirits, and by the time Hot Club De Paris took to the stage early evening, everyone was geared up for a night of rock’n’roll.
Art Brut closed Good Weekend on Saturday night, rolling out their hits (of which “they don’t have any”) and Eddie Argos charmed the audience with his tales of a visit to the Van Gogh Museum.
Considering this was the organisers' first attempt, this event was something special. In the words of Eddie Argos, “Good Weekend, Top of the Pops”.
Thanks also to Jack Reed for the photos which captured the spirit of the festival perfectly.
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For those who couldn't make it to Hampshire here is a Good Weekend festival for your ipod...
SMACK by PIPPA MARIAS
New Love (2011 Rough Demo) by Lighthouses
New York City by Flight Brigade Music
Hot Club de Paris - "Free The Pterodactyl 3" by indiemusicfilter
Lost Weekend (Single Version) by art-brut
Yet another in the Devil's ongoing campaign to find as many ghost related artists as possible. Coventry MC ghostpoet with his slow-burning tripped out beats and soft vocals that sound like whispers from the world's most mellow seance, is possibly the most ghost like so far. At times he sounds like a mildly sedated Linton Kwesi Johnson at others like The Streets on pot. Spend an hour in the company of Ghostpoet's music and the world seems a much cooler, much calmer, much less frenetic place.
and here's the original, pre remix version of the Tigers That Talked track...
Picture courtesy of deviant art by sixhundredsixty for more check out http://sixhundredsixty.deviantart.com/Fingers of the Sun from Cinema DeTour on Vimeo.
THE BRUTE CHORUS - COULD THIS BE LOVE? from Matthew Barton on Vimeo.
Napoleon In RagsLoose Fit - Table Beggar music video from Abbie stephens on Vimeo.
Anthemic pop from the unlikely Anti-Flag side project White Wives. 
Choppy, eclectic electronic-tinged, lush weirdo garage rock.
We Aueronauts sound like The Beautiful South if they'd been formed from the ashes of Belle & Sebastian rather than the Housemartins.
In the Devil's never ending quest to uncover all the bands named Ghost currently plying their trade on the world's music scene tonight's post is dedicated to Mancunians Ghost Outfit (not to be confused with the less ghostly Manchester soul outfit Outfit). 
Acid Glasses - Polnara Setera from Acid Glasses on Vimeo.
If you've been thinking that music is 2011 is all a little too safe, a little too middle of the road, a little too much like a tired retread of what's gone before then you've clearly not been reading the Devil's blog. One thing you can't say about Danish five piece Sleep Party People is they're middle of the road. From their Donny Darko bunny masks, which are actually far more frightening than anything Slipknot have ever worn, to their eerie Super Furry Animalesque slowcore it's like they've been beamed in from another planet, nay another universe. It's music made by a race that's achieved a higher state of consciouness and we should be thankful that they've come to earth to share it with us.
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The race for the summer anthem of 2011 is well and truly on and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have stolen a march on the rest of the runners. 
Chelan sound like Portishead on happy pills. 
Sounds like an echo from the AOR radio stations of the mid 70s.
The Handcuffs
From: Chicago, United States
Chicago-based duo The Handcuffs are on a mission to relegate the omnipotent R&B sound to the margins of your musical life with a style and energy that'll take your breath away. Baby I Love You sounds like a duet between Lou Reed and the Ting Tings' Katie White. It's so cool it gotta wear shades. Dirty Glitter is a dirty, sleazy slice of glam rock that sounds like an epistle from Suzie Quatro. Miss You On Tuesday starts off like the Electric Prunes before morphing into a track that sounds like Blondie covering a long lost track from Sgt Peppers. It's garage rock with a classic twist and as catchy as a baseball mitt soaked in super glue.
You just can't escape the hold of the Handcuffs.
MP3 - The Handcuffs - Baby I Love You
MP3 - The Handcuffs - Dirty Glitter
MP3 - The Handcuffs - Miss You On Tuesday
These tracks are published with the permission of Green Light Go so please don't claim breach of copyright
Go Visit
The Handcuffs - Website : Facebook
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The Handcuffs
Can't Get the Girl (Without the Good Stuff, Baby)
Gazelle Twin
From: Brighton, United Kingdom
Brighton belle and multi media artiste Elizabeth Walking, aka Gazelle Twin, has been described as a dream weaver. However on her impressive debut album The Entire City, named after a Max Ernst painting, she deals more in the darker side of the brain's sleeping state. If you like your music serious, dark and intense then Liz is your girl. She channels the ghostly spirits of the trip hop pioneers into a bewitching, beguiling brew that shivers the soul and frightens the children. It's melancholic music that aches, it's music for the economic meltdown. If you're looking for x factor fake frivolity then you've come to the wrong place. The world is a dark and frightening place and Gazelle Twin is here with the soundtrack.
The album opens with title track, ‘The Entire City’ an instrumental which sets the album’s tone, taking the listener on a trip through a strange and frightening land. With synths that sound like they’ve been carved out of ice it’s an ominous, oppressive track that will surely be adorning a dark and edgy thriller soon. At the opposite end of the spectrum is ‘I Am Shell I Am Bone’. With its multi tracked vocal it sounds like the choir that greets you at the gates of heaven. ‘Fight or Flight’ is a curio, with treated vocals that sound like the noises in the head of a medium at a well attended séance. Not my favourite track on the album but a perfect demonstration of Elizabeth’s willingness to push boundaries until they’re close to breaking.
I’d been desperately trying not to compare the enigmatic Ms Walking with the similarly enigmatic Kate Bush. It just seemed too easy, too glib. But then ‘Bell Tower’ came along and I just couldn’t resist any longer. It sounds like the missing link between the teenage Bush and David Sylvian at his avant garde best. But it’s with the albums centrepiece, the simply stunning ‘Changelings’, that Elizabeth really raises the stakes. A siren song of existential lyrics and dark electronica, it’s the point at which everything that is good about Gazelle Twin coalesce, It’s chilling and beautiful, eerie and enchanting, haunting and ghostly. The rest of the tracks on the album are merely the supporting cast, the aperitif. That’s not to say that they’re not good it’s just that ‘Changelings’ is in a different league and the other tracks suffer a little in comparison.
As you may have gathered The Entire City is not a party album. I can guarantee that Nintendo won’t be bringing out a Wii sing Gazelle Twin any time soon but, depending on how your life is going, it could be the most uplifting album of the year or the sound that tips you over the edge making the tears flow and your heart break.
7.5/10
This article was originally written by the Devil for The 405 and is published with permission.
Go Try
Gazelle Twin - I Am Shell I Am Bone by rocketpr
Gazelle Twin - The Entire City by Freeman PR
Go Visit
Gazelle Twin : Facebook : Website : Last.FM
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Gazelle Twin
Changelings
Athletes In Paris
From: Newcastle, United Kingdom
Newcastle legends in the making Athletes In Paris have taken time out from their olympic 2012 preparations (surely some mistake - Editor) to chew the virtual fat with the Devil. In an illuminating interview they talk about how their band name has been handed down the generations like a family heirloom, their secret love of bands including the word boys and a collection of favourite words that may well be the indie lingua franca of the north east.
The Devil: Why Athletes In Paris?
AIP: Matts dad had a band in the 80's of the same name. Figured it sounded a bit nifty so we'd have it.
