Friends of English guitar music, here's two bands that sound like a children's birthday party at the playground—please listen to Great Eskimo Hoax and Cats In Paris.

Music from computer games. Back then: Fuzzy electro sound in the intros or loading sequences of games like Xenon II and World Games. Now: Pop. Here are a couple of bands whose music gets played in the background of what's currently my favourite football video game: Jakobínarína, My Federation and The Kissaway Trail.

Over at beatcast.tv there are videotaped concerts of Pennines, of Dartz, of Cats And Cats And Cats and other english bands. The video and sound quality is extraordinary!

I went into your house and stole all the pictures from the wall.

The last couple of weekends I didn't get around to write "Highly commended" posts because I was just too busy attending shows of wicked bands in England. Here is a band I kinda saw by accident because they played a show with Cats And Cats And Cats: they are called A Genuine Freakshow. They were indescribably good. After the show the band gave away CDs for free, containing the three songs they urrently have on their Myspace page . Listen to them, they're really nice songs.

Talking about England: Last night I finally got to watch Control, the film about the rather short life of Ian Curtis, singer of Joy Division. I actually didn't know any of their music before, but watching the film instantly turns you into a fan. So yea, you have to watch it. Watching actual live footage of Joy Division shows made me realise how accurately the acting of the guys playing the band in Control is. It's such a good film. Go to the video shop now.

This week I fell in love with the band Scholars. One of their members, Tom Woodstock, (who also has an awesome project called Elevens) has a small studio in a shack where they record all this cool stuff.

There's a review on Scholars' Myspace saying they sound like Hell Is For Heroes, which isn't exactly true, but they were great as well. Their Myspace says they broke up one or two months ago. Too bad.

Outside it just started snowing which is very pretty. It's cosy sitting inside, gazing out of the window and listening to Slowly Slowly by Fighting Kites. The Cathode Ray Syndrome are cool, too, but a bit rougher.

Man, when I first listened to Foxes! I was LOLing over the floor, laughing my arse off. Look out for the line "My dog got anal cancer" from the song Descartes.

And now dance! To Plastic Passion. Other than in what I remember musicwise, the 80s must have been wicked. Loads of musical citations.

• Plastic Passion - Pass Over
• Plastic Passion - Something's Wrong
• Plastic Passion - Look Around
• Plastic Passion - Out Of Sight / Out Of Mind
• Plastic Passion - Screaming Mess

Happy new year!

Wenn Sie an mathematischer Indie-Musik interessiert sind, hören Sie bitte Foals. Sinnlos geil:

• Foals - Balloons

Frohes Noise.

PS:
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
Oh my *gawd* :)

WIE GEIL: Sportsday Megaphone. Und fast vergessen: Cajun Dance Party und Data.Select.Party.

Wenn London nach vorne losgeht.