Clockwork Noise are headlining The Twisted Pepper tonight, with support from BellaJane, and Biggles Flies Again, AKA Conor from The Gandhis (The Civilians are listed on the poster, but have unfortunately had to pull out).
With the season that's in it, Clockwork Noise have decided to go all festive, and record a Christmas song. The track, a cover of Elvis’ ‘Blue Christmas’, will be given away for free at the gig, along with a super-special-bonus track, all wrapped up and Christmas present-y. Yay.
Things kick off at 8PM, and tickets are €7- gig goers will also get free admission to the awesome Mr. Jones club night which is on afterwards in the Pepper.
Because it would be very 'bah-humbug' of us to deprive non-dublin folk of the chance to hear a christmas song, you can download it here. Go nuts!
Clockwork Noise Get Christmassy
Unexpected Cover Of The Day
The Killers covering 'Four Winds' by Bright Eyes.
Weird.
Apparently the band are releasing a covers album this year.
Weird.
Original here.
The Bamboos Cover Kings of Leon
Here's a pretty nifty version of Kings of Leon's King of the Rodeo by The Bamboos featuring Megan Washington.
I assure you that I did not hear this on Off The Rails. I swear.
Holy Fuck/Foals split
Holy fuck and Foals are currently on tour together and to celebrate this meeting of minds, each band did a cover of one of the others songs foals covered Super Inuit and holy fuck covered Balloons. Only 500 copies of the split 12" where printed up you can buy it here or at the merch stand at any of there gig if they happen to be playing next to you at the very reasonably price of £5.00
Holy Fuck - Balloons (Foals Cover)
Foals - Super Inuit (Holy Fuck Cover)
Boldly Going Where People Have Gone Before
Ahh, covers... if they're not good, they're always interesting.
Here's some good ones for your Tuesday:
Birds & Batteries- Heart of Gold (Neil Young)
Why?- Close To You (The Cure)
Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly- D.A.N.C.E.(Justice)
The Subways- Staring at the Sun (TV on the Radio)
And, for the sake of it, something interesting:
Ben Gibbard- Thriller
Yes, that Ben Gibbard, as in Death Cab, Postal Service, etc.
And, yes, that Thriller.
covers for a wednesday
Two covers first one is Radiohead covering Neil Young's "Tell Me Why"
The second is Bon Iver performing the fourth track "Blue Tulip" from the new Okkervil River album The Stand Ins.
Lovin's for Fools
Bon Iver & Bowerbirds cover Sarah Siskind's "Lovin's for Fools" at the Bowery Ballroom, New York, on July 29, 2008.
Death Cab Meet The Smiths
I'm a sycophant for covers and crossovers (which can quite frequently be guilty pleasures) so it's nice when it all works out. Here's an example of such a case- Death Cab For Cutie delivering an acoustic version of The Smiths' There is a light that never goes out:
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Happy Monday
Nothing like some sexual healing to cheer you up on a Monday- here's New Orleans' Hot 8 Brass Band giving their excellent interpretation of Marvin Gaye's classic:
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Top 5 Joy Divison Covers
So for no reason whatsoever I decided to try and find out about Joy Division covers. So I Googled "Joy Division Covers" and top of the list was this site. As you can see there's a ridiculous amount of bands that have covered them one way or another whether live or in the studio. Now obviously I have neither heard nor want to hear the majority of the versions on that list but seeing as we haven't had a Top 5 in a while I thought we might as well make a list of the Top 5 Joy Division covers as made by a band who went to the trouble of going into the studio and recording it.
See the list after the jump.
5. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Nouvelle Vague
Nouvelle Vague's self-titled first album consists solely of Bossa Nova covers of New Wave and Post-Punk songs. Track 1 was their cover or Joy Divisions best known track.
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The original (In true Joy Division/New Order style Love Will Tear Us Apart was a single and as such did not appear on an album. You can find it on the various compilations that are out there).
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4. No Love Lost - LCD Soundsystem
Trust James Murphy to come up with a truly obscure (but great) Joy Division track to cover in his own style and then release it as a B-Side to the "All My Friends" single.
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The original (can be found on "Substance")
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3. New Dawn Fades - Moby
Back during his hardcore techno days Moby released this cover as the B-Side to "Feeling So Real". The A-Side is pretty savage too.
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The Original (from "Unknown Pleasures")
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2. Dead Souls - Nine Inch Nails
Trent Reznor consistently plays homage to his hero's by releasing this excellent interpretation on the Original Soundtrack to the Movie "The Crow".
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The Original (can also be found on the numerous compilations)
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1. Isolation - Therapy?
So simple that its genius. Take this catchy (but raw-as-hell) riff and Metal it up. Then groan out the lyrics in a manner that would make Curtis himself envious before screaming out the chorus. Like I said. Simple but genius.
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Original (from "Closer")
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NOTABLE MENTIONS
A couple of random other ones by bands that kick ass.
As You Said - Tortoise
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Atmosphere - Codeine
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Isolation - Starchildren
(Starchildren is a Smashing Pumpkins spin-off band led by Billy Corgan which had numerous members including the other Pumpkins members at one time or another. They released two songs. One original and one cover. This:
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AND HOW NOT TO DO IT...
She's Lost Control - Grace Jones
