My body and my soul are telling me two different things at the moment.  My body is just hanging on for September for grim death, wishing that the weekend was over and that there was a full day I could sleep through just to make up for what I have been doing to myself for the last month or so.

And my soul, on the other hand, having seen Jonnie Common, Ulrich Schnauss, John Egdell, Benjamin Shaw, Neil Pennycook, Meursault (the two were very different), eagleowl, Woodpigeon, Withered Hand and an Antihoot in the last three days, is just plain excited about Brown Brogues, Ghost Outfit and Rollor tonight, the Antihoot Antifolk-off tonight and tomorrow and Retreat all weekend.  Joymageddon!*

I know there are plenty of people who have loved and supported the likes of eagleowl and Withered Hand far longer than I have, but I was so fucking proud watching them absolutely fill the Queen’s Hall last night.  And by that I mean both fill it with punters (which was nice), but also create a huge sound which did the grand old venue proud.  It was pretty amazing, considering these are bands who I’ve seen playing some of the worst venues in Edinburgh so a massive well done to Withered Hand, Woodpigeon, eagleowl and Meursault for last night, which I thought was a really fucking special gig. Fair brought a tear to my eye, so it did.

1. Coolest car in an old TV show.
2. Your favourite old person in a TV show or movie.
3. A cool skill you have lost.
4. You have a free punch.  Who gets it?
5. Name something trivial which drives you round the fucking bend.

Some theme tunes for you:

Inspector Gadget

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Knight Rider

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Pink Panther

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Scooby Doo

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The A-Team

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*Yes, I know it’s getting annoying. I’ll stop now.

I posted a spot of video yesterday, which I don’t normally do.  Not that I don’t get sent videos by people, more that… well, I don’t know why, really.  I guess I spend enough time trying to figure out what I want to write about albums, I don’t really make time to think about videos much.  Besides, at the level of music I am generally interested in most videos are just a vehicle for the song anyway.  And I can listen to albums whilst doing my proper job, which also hel… you’ve dozed off haven’t you?  Sorry.

Anyhow, this week I have posted a massive THREE videos.  Three!  How ’bout that.  And this weekend there will be another eight going up, from the New Year’s House Gig, including something of an exclusive: a new Broken Records song.  So there you go, we’ve turned into some sort of multimedia news-whore hipster haven in the new year, shocking isn’t it.

So, on yesterday’s posting of the new OK Go video, Bart suggested that I ask about favourite music videos for this week’s Friday Fives.  I thought I answered him politely enough, but the poor fellow’s gone completely off the rails.  I tried to get to the bottom of what he was burbling on about in that inscrutable ginger way of his, but all he said was this:

And erm, tee hee, sorry!  Gingers – the last ethnic minority it’s okay to ritualistically make fun of.  Anyhow, minor mentalist distractions aside, I thought this was an excellent idea, so this week’s five will all be about music videos.  This should be as good an opportunity to de-lurk as any, and of course, that’s what the Friday Fives are for – getting people out of the woodwork and onto the page – so have a go at these five.  the easiest way to answer is probably to just link to the YouTube videos where appropriate, I guess, but please don’t try and embed them in the comments.  I have no idea if it would work, and it will make the whole thread an ungodly mess – just paste in the URL and the link will be added automatically.

1. Favourite music video
2. Favourite laughably dated music video.
3. Favourite massively DIY music video.
4. Strongest memory of MTV.
5. Favourite band-related moment in an actual motion picture.

Clem Snide – Made for TV Movie

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Ben Folds Five – Video

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Nirvana – Dumb (MTV Unplugged)

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Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road (MTV Unplugged)

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The A-Team Theme (Okay, the movie looks awful, but I couldn’t resist posting this)

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