Skream- Rollercoaster (Ft. Sam Frank)

Daft Punk never created Disco, so why should they be the only ones making it. (They're not.) And now Skream AKA Oliver Jones is carrying on with the scene's revival too, which is not too surprising after his recent sets and remixes of late.

A chat with Ben. (Of Fenech-Soler.)

Back in August I caught up with Ben Duffy of Fenech-Soler ahead of their R+L festival slot and the release of their upcoming second album Rituals. (which is fab, review soon to be posted on www.flushthefashion.com) I recorded this for a feature in Music Week which has now been published so this could be stealing IDK. Just don't tell them. This was my first ever interview and I am cripplingly nervous.
DISCLOSURE: Very uncomfortable to sit through. Like listening to your parents having sex. Or your girlfriend having sex with someone else.

FRANCHISE ENHANCEMENT WINDOW DEADLINE DAY

(I know that's not what it's called but if you're not following USA Soccer Guy on Twitter. Go do it. @usasoccerguy)

The transfer window closed yesterday and Arsenal pulled off a worldy, so for once I can feel smug. But Liverpool also made some smart business this time round so I have no-one to point the finger and laugh at. Manchester United? They took the Dutch skunk from us so lets not bring that up again. That said #MoyesOut was trending for a good portion of yesterday which was fairly enjoyable and inexplicably stupid. I was beginning to think there were no fans more fickle than us of Arsenal. I don't believe for one second that those in charge of United (& Fergie) would not have foreseen Moyes having a tough start to probably the hardest job in football, and he has. So the club didn't bring in Bale or Ronaldo or any other rumours. But Bale was never going anywhere other then the Spanish capital and why would CR7 leave but he has kept you Wayne Rooney so give him time. Sir Alex once went 13 games in a row without a win. It's nothing.

Arsenal probably still need a striker but if we'd have bought a striker and Ozil people would be moaning about us not signing a CB. But if needs be Flamini can play there. And if Wenger is still feeling crazy by January he could do it all again.

Why didn't United sign Mata if Chelsea want him out (god knows why.)

I'm bored now to be honest. I'd rather watch Bad Education, which isn't great. I have substantially less to say than I thought. If you could help me with my fantasy team though that'd be most welcome.

Thanks.

Joker releases 'Joker Drive'

Floating about the internet now but the producer has released a nine-track mini album and it is COMPLETELY FREE. It's not going to change the world but it is basically like listening to a SEGA console do its thing. Pretty essential for anyone who oogled their childhood in-front of Sonic & Tails though. So me.
Joker previously experimented with this on his debut release The Vision on track Level 6 (Interlude).
It even has the little SEEEGGGA chime at the very start. SoundCloud player below.

List

I have nothing constructive or positive to say so here is a list of things I hate:
The Hobbit
Chase & Status
Scouting for Girls
Chris Martin
V Festival
David Guetta
Alesso
Swedish House Mafia & all of them individually
Armin van Buuren and all of the other producers that sound ball-achingly similar.
Robin Thicke
People who have a problem with people who own Apple products
A middle-aged man I met at the pub who thought The Rolling Stones and The Beatles never made a bad song
Anyone who dislikes Ricky Gervais or Kanye West
Anything that has left Eminem's mouth post 2003
Wax crayons.

The Weeknd- Live For Ft. Drake

The alleged beef with fellow Canadian and sort-of mentor turned out to be largely nonsense, which most of us already knew. The result is another cut from The Weeknd's first proper full-length Kiss Land. Due next month. Feels like a bit of a lazy hype song, sadly. What do you think.

The Hobbit

I never bothered going to see The Hobbit because it didn't tempt me. I didn't like the book. So when I found out old Peter was turning a 400 page book into a three part trilogy I became rather aggravated. LOTR was a bit erm wordy at times and that had three books to draw from. There is an interesting (to me) fact somewhere that represents the seconds of screen time a page in LOTR has to the second of screen time a page in The Hobbit has. Obviously The Hobbit has a lot more because there is a lot less material.
But I've waited until now to watch it for two reasons:
1. It's free. Literally. Every time I don't have money to pay for Netflix I just make a new e-mail address. This month I am 'cooper976isthebest@hotmail.com'. FYI a man trying to flog me 3 months of LoveFilm created this account for me. When I say 'trying' I mean succeeding. I buckled and bought into it.
2. I am a stubborn follower of critic reviews as I believe they know more than little people. So when I saw Rotten Tomatoes 68% rating I ignored it. Even though everyone I know told me it was 'amazing' I knew they would be wrong. They were.

I watched 1 hour 49 minutes last night before a horrendously over-sized moth distracted me from viewing. I owe it thanks. I'd say thank you but I killed it. In n hour all that happened was some singing and a wizard stroked a hedgehog. Shooting in SUPER HD (I made this up) hasn't really helped either and has made everything look a bit well fake, instead of magical. There are still another two and a half films of this to go. Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen are superb as ever, but surely Peter could have resisted the dollar signs and made one incredible three hour film out of this much loved (not by me) book instead of filling it all with large sections of sub-standard dialogue.
BLEEEHHHH.