December 2010
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The Love Machine awards 2010
Albums by Kylie and Scissor Sisters. The continued chart domination of dishwater American R’n’B. The rise of synthtastic British talent like Example and Hurts. Matt Cardle. Yes, delving into our drawer of end-of-year cliches, we proclaim 2010 in pop to be ‘a mixed bag’. If you’re after an executive summary, basically lots of things were very good indeed, but nothing...
Dec 30th
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Twice as Bright as Light, Bright Light. Right.
We love Bright Light, Bright Light, and being an act of extremely good taste, they have DJed several times at Love Machine, ‘London’s Premier Pop Party’ (not our words, the words of Shortlist Magazine). They recently did a full UK tour with Ellie Goulding and fellow Love Machine DJ, Sunday Girl, and by all accounts it was really rather good (our invitiation to be the tour DJs...
Dec 21st
Twice as Nice as Ice
If you’re getting a bit sick of the ice & snow, here is something to melt your hearts & ears (not literally, that would be irresponsible of us). ‘Sunlight’ is a blast of, er, sunshine from Bag Raiders, who hail from Sydney and have done a load of cool remixes for other Aussie bands etc etc. If we’re not mistaken (and we very rarely are), this is a late contender...
Dec 21st
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Join our Christmas #1 campaign!
Fans of Love Machine, we need your help to get the X Factor Winner to Christmas Number One this year. Fighting bravely against the goliath of combined Facebook campaigns to get other tracks to the top spot, Love Machine will be spearheading the movement behind plucky underdog Cowell’s track - let’s show those soulless, corporate social networkers who’s really in control! It...
Dec 2nd
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A pleasant exchange of words with Sunday Girl
Sunday Girl is DJing at Love Machine this Friday, so as we do with all our guests, we bothered her with some silly questions. Hello Sunday Girl! We’re very excited about you coming to DJ at Love Machine this Friday. Are you equally excited, or to be brutally honest would you kind of prefer a night off? Haha well nights off are tempting but you don’t really meet interesting people,...
Dec 1st