Friday’s Love Machine looks like it’ll be our best yet – not only do we have an Alphabeat DJ set, but hot pop property Fabio Lendrum will also be taking to the decks. As we like to do in these situations, we tore Fabio away from his busy schedule of looking cool in supermarkets to ask him some questions. And here are those questions:
Hello Fabio! How are you?
Not bad – just woke up its 4pm, had a messy night at fabric!
We’re very excited about your DJ set at Love Machine. What will be your biggest tunes of the night?
I dont want to give too much away but im a big fan of house/electro and there are so many good remixes coming through at the moment. Tune of the night will definitely be ‘One More Time’ by Daft Punk – that’s all I can tell ya
There are some incredible songs on your Myspace page. When will you be releasing one properly, and which one will it be?
Thank you! Nothing has been decided for definite yet, I really hope New Romantics is released first – its got a great and new sounding vibe which i think people will appreciate and understand.
What’s your biggest achievement to date? Obviously it’s being asked to DJ at Love Machine, but to keep it interesting please pretend it’s something else.
I got to perform one song at Bestival this year on the main stage with my good friend and co-producer James Harwood DJing. It was quite odd because they didnt actually let me use the main stage – I had to use a strip just in front of it about as wide as the corridor in my flat but super long. We were quite worried at first when there was a power cut in the first 5mins of James’ set which I was part of – but being able to be in front of that many people trying to hold a huge crowd’s concentration who have no idea who you are is a truly exhilarating and adrenaline pumping experience which I want to continue through the rest of my life.
It’s a well-known fact that Paulo Nutini’s real name is Paul Nutkins. Is Fabio Lendrum your real name or are you just trying to be a bit exotic?
Yep it is my real name – but i have been asked before if it’s a stage persona. I think i just have a two very different parents – therefore a weird combination of names came together to create what i am now called.
Please give us your projections for 2010, 2011 and 2012.
Ooooo, future predictions can be a bit dangerous I dont like to jinx anything – I’ve got a few things in mind. I’d like to become part of a songwriting team for other artists, really work hard at my DJing to create a very memorable night for the crowd at big events, and play play play play play and play loadsa gigs because I truly believe that is my forte.
Who is your favourite Saturday?
Haha, that’s quite an odd question….. but it has to be Frankie – she’s super cute. I’m sitting on my bed with my best mate Max and we just had a good browse on google images (no perving honest).
Looking forward to Friday! Hope you guys enjoy the set.
This is the new video from Aussie teen warbler Gabrilla Cilmi, the hardest-to-pronounce popstar since Ciara.
In summary:
0.17 What is it with pop acts sounding a bit like Van Halen this week?
0.48 Bloody hell she is a woman ‘n all
2.02 Ill-advised rap bit
3.05 Ends
Although ‘Sweet About Me’ was our most hated song since Sandi Thom’s ‘I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker’, we’re broadly in favour of both scantily dressed teenagers and synthy songs with a good “woah-oh” in them, so this gets the Love Machine thumbs up.
You can hear this and other excellent pop songs at the Love Machine Clubnight next week!
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The remix is a curious thing. For a long time, Pa Love Machine did not understand them.
“What’s wrong with the original? It’s just the same song with some boom-boom-boom nonsense underneath it.”
Of course, this is exactly what makes a brilliant remix. Take a great tune, make it dancefloor-friendly by putting some boom-boom nonsense underneath it. Hear it at our clubnight, job done.
Of course, there are a lot of bad remixes. Some are done for such music-industry conceptual reasons, which the humble consumer could never understand, like positioning, and targeting demographics outside of the ultimate target audience. Basically trying to make an uncool act with a rubbish song who the press and radio stations hate, cool, purely by assocation, and gaining that assocation by paying a lot of money. An act who are temporarily cool can take advantage of this and cash in on their 15 seconds in the hype-sun by charging exhorbitant fees for churning out rubbish.
Remixes also make record company people think they’re doing something to help. A quite fantastic appraisal of the business of remixes can be seen here:
However, there are also some brilliant remixes out there. When genuine new talent with something to prove meets a great original song and puts a different spin on it. And some boom-boom-boom nonsense underneath. And we have two for you, enjoy.
Of the 19 (!) remixes of Lady Gaga Feat. Beyonce’s new single ‘Telephone’ doing the rounds, here is this best one:
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And here is the Yes Giantess take on a song that we may have mentioned on Love Machine before:
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Ellie Goulding, the thinking man’s Diana Vickers, seems to be doing rather well for herself all in all. But although she’s picked up a Brit Award and topped the BBC’s Tips for 2010 list without having really done anything, Ellie is a sensible old stick and is already brushing up her sign language for a career as one of those people who pop up in the corner of the TV for re-runs at strange times of day.
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Things we’d ask Ellie Goulding if we got to interview her:
- Who would you be on Stars In Their Eyes?
- Having done ‘Starry Eyed’ with producer Starsmith, do you harbour any ambition to record a cover of the Star Spangled Banner with Ringo Starr?
- Any plans to record an alternate version called ‘Stary Eyed’ where you glower at the camera without blinking for three minutes?
At which point the interview would be terminated and we’d need to go home and nick some quotes off a BBC interview or something.
It is safe to say that The Blackout Crew are something of a marmite band. We here at Love Machine are firmly in the pro-Blackout camp – whatever you think of their music, it is surely a brilliant thing that 6 kids on a youth project in Bolton with no hype and no money effectively created their own massively-popular genre with nothing more than a donk and some home-made youtube videos. It is even better that virtually no-one south of Birmingham understands it. It’s almost like UK Garage in reverse.
But anyway, regardless of all this, what is definitively brilliant, is the video below, showing that not only can The Blackout Crew get crowds of thousands of 15-year-olds in Liverpool going mental, but also 50-year-old sign language interpreters. We will be incorporating the signing of ‘donk’, ‘bassline’ and ‘that’s good that Tony, haha sick’ into our dance moves at the next Love Machine clubnight.
It’s fair to say that we’re very excited about the next Love Machine clubnight. More excited than when spotted Andrea Corr outside our building. More excited than when we came up with a particularly good Paolo Nutini pun. Possibly even as excited as when we saw Kaci Battaglia’s ‘Crazy Posessive’ video for the first time.
This excitement is due to the fact that we have a DJ set from not only bloody ALPHABEAT, but also the incredible FABIO LENDRUM who’s one of this year’s hottest pop prospects. Plus our ever-brilliant residents David Oh and Love Machine DJs, as well as £1 shots, party poppers at midnight and balloons galore.
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Kimberley: Being very conspicuously several rungs below Cheryl by presenting one of the outside broadcast segments of X Factor. Jeff Brazier was presenting another.
Nadine: Working on a solo album. Get a move on love.
This is Rihanna’s video for her brilliant new single ‘Hard’. It’s recommended viewing for fans of nipple tape, military hardware and ludicrous shoulder pads. Which is just about everyone, right? However, we’re not sure Rihanna’s pink tank would be of any practical camouflage value in a combat situation, unless the theatre of war was in a bowl of blamanche.
We much prefer ‘Hard’ to current single ‘Russian Roulette’, although we must admit it’s grown on us. This version on Jonathan Ross is the best we’ve seen:
Again with the shoulder pads, Rihanna. It looks like you’ve forgotten to take the hanger out.
Here, to ease the pain of going back to work, is Love Machine’s official Absolute Best Pop Songs Of 2009 playlist. We started with every single song released last year, and edited out everything that was non-brilliant so you’re left with 1.7 hours of solid pop goodness. Here it is, in handy Spotify form:
Love Machine is finally recovering from the barrage of enormous roast dinners over Christmas and, as you do at this festive time of year, listened to Pa Love Machine set the world to rights on what ‘proper music’ is.
As is so often the case, Pa Love Machine turned out to be pretty much bang on with everything.
-The Cheryl Cole album isn’t very good apart from Fight (Fight) For This Love and Three Words, which are both excellent
-Paul McCartney is still brilliant live and has written quite a few good tunes in his time (even with Wings)
-Gary Barlow is, and always was, a genius
-And Shirley Bassey’s new album, The Performance, is bloody brilliant
In particular, this song, written by Richard Hawley, is an absolutely stunning track – a songwriter with experience and mastery of his craft, and a vocal performance nothing short of breathtaking by ol Burley Chassis. Sometimes you have to let the old gits show you how it’s done. Let’s all hope we get a bit more pop with this sort of depth and real emotion in 2010.
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