Thursday 8 March 2012

All I see is you. Stars. Open-arms.


I could bet all the riches that I ever had.
Rush in the night like a shock, babe, would it be bad?
If I had to-
set the alarm 'cause those thrills that run up my back.
You're my star nothing else can lead me off track.

So all I can say is............. Thank Christ for Shazam!
It was getting quite ridiculous that I had been to 4 different bars in 2 weekends and heard this song played, sang to it, "danced" to it and loved it without knowing where on earth it was from. Finally I shazammed it in y hairdressers, moving far too quickly  for my phone and getting some pink/apricot hair dye on my forehead. The hairdresser leapt back from my hair quicker than ever asking "Oh shit you haven't changed your mind have you?" Nopppee I am just a little saddo who gets giddy over music! :) Two days later I realised the CD I had bought on my last day at Urban had it on. Note: Pay more attention to what's front of you to avoid hairdye to the face.

This song SBTRKT - Pharaohs, is addictive and "funky"? yeh i'm going with funky. i'm wearing headphones as big as The Beegees afro (maybe sporting some white flares too) so I feel I can use words like funky. you say the band name like "subtract" and is the stage name of Aaron Jerome, a musician and producer from London. Known for his remixes of artists such as Basement Jaxx, M.I.A and the lovely and ever so polished Mark Ronson he has progressed to collaborations with Drake (Hi Drake, Love you loads). Their most popular song "WildFire" has been an expression of their love for dubstep, two-step and US RnB (Not UK, not you Craig David). I find its easy listening but definitely something for the cool kids of which I am not, therefore I'll keep my love for the music to the confines of my bedroom and tap my foot and possibly nod my head descretly in public places.
SBTRKT is like mr invisible in the music world, he'd rather not talk about himself as a person but let the music speak for itself. Pretty cool, but I can only relate him to the successful guy who was a mute but wore a very large mouses head to all his gigs. PS. Why put a 5 at the end of your name, whether your "dead" or not it doesn't make sense! I see that SBTRKT has gone for the long beard approach instead, it simple makes me think of Doctor BeardFace, "It's Bearfacade!" (Scrubs reference there, no? OK.)
He claims to not be a very social person so gives his records out anonymously and seeing if they like it. "If they play it, they play it."

Well SBTRKT I very much like your music and have purchased your album, so in return I would love to see a few more online interviews and a few of your diary entries to get to know the real you! Thankyou please. So oh yes, get listening anyone reading! 
FiftysAtHeart xx