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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
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Current mood:  calm
Category: Music

Friend of The Wolfmen Daler Mehndi, has been bigging up the
band his blog Bollywood
Bhangra King Daler Mehndi .
We may not be familiar
with Daler's name or work here in the west, but in his home territory, Daler is a larger-than-life
legend. A giant icon of popular music with multi-platinum album sales and a
string of music awards to his name. Imagine an Elvis Presley/
Michael Jackson hybrid given a Bollywood a go-go make over
and you're close to the towering scale of his stature and
following. Internationally Daler’s
Hindi-Pop compositions draw a edicated global
audience, and has him regularly touring across the continents including Canada,
the US and UK
Self
composition, mixing and matching musical and cultural references are facets of
Daler’s unique
style, but his snappy fashion and
eye catching oufits have also earned him Elle
magazine’s "Most Stylish Person in Music" trophy.
A dazzling example of
Daler’s boundary-breaking, chart-topping, cross-pollinated pop is Two Eyes, a storming power
house of Indie-Punk meets Hindi-Pop and a Mehndi-meets-The-Wolfmen collaboration,which,
spent Four
weeks at number one on the BBC Asian Network
Chart . But don't just take
our word for how hot Two
Eyes is.......
BBC Radio 1's Bobby Friction: “The greatest crossover song ever to have come out of India.”....
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Music Week:
“The most
infectious Asian crossover single since Punjabi MC’s Beware.
of the
Boys.”....
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Big
Cheese: “The
shape of punk to come?”....
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The
Guardian: "Things this single could soundtrack: Delhi street gangs
squaring up
and
backflipping across futuristic rooftops in cyberpunk parkour;
camel-riding
insurgents
outrunning fighter jets, missiles and Airwolf in a desertscape; 1977
punk....
rockers
bogling, breakdancing and krumping in Bollywood; afterburners
igniting.....
Daler
Mehndi is one of India's biggest musicians, the Wolfmen were once Adam's
Ants
and this
fierce bhangra-rock crossover rules. Fire
up!"
I
If you haven’t heard it yet – taste test below. But be warned it is fast, furious and fiery.
You can catch Daler's thoughts on working with The Wolfmen here - see a gallery of the get-together hereAnd check out the official Daler Mehndi website ....
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
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Current mood:  awake
Jackie and Jonesy....
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Have you heard the news? Steve 'Sex
Pistol' Jones has a limited edition show on
BBC 6 Music. 'A Month of
Sundays with Steve Jones', which, airs between 3:30 - 5:30 on
Sundays. ....
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And guess who's made this week's show? The Wolfmen of
course! Yes, Jonesy has playlisted Jackie,
Is It My Birthday for a spin this coming
sunday. ....
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Whatever you're doing this weekend tune in here and
tell your friends......
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And if you're any sort of a Pistols fan you must see this.......
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Play In A Day The Steve Jones Way....
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Friday, October 23, 2009
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Category: Music
So You Wanna Hear Some New Tunes?....
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Friends of The Wolfmen
The Dandy
Warhols
have embeded the Courtney Taylor-Taylor mix of a minty new Wolf-tune
Wam
Bam JFK
on the DW website. 'The record is fantastic'
- is the official verdict
from Courtney himself - but click
on the link to hear this galloping piece of pop-rock 'n' roll for yourself....
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Wham
Bam JFK - Courtney Taylor-Taylor mix....
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And if you haven't grabbed a listen of
Cat Green
Eyes yet - set to be the second single,
preceeding Married
To The Eiffel Tower's release - check out the recent podcast Podrophenia
from Piley
and Mondo - where
Chris makes an appearance at 29:45
introducing
'Cat'
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Podrophenia
- Rock 'n' Roll Animals....
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Monday, October 12, 2009
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Category: Music
Jackie Is It My Birthday - Released On Vinyl And CD Today!....
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Possibly, in recent weeks, you've heard Jackie, Is It My
Birthday? during repeat plays on a cross-section of BBC
Radio formats : regional shows, 6 Music or perhaps
Radio 2 -
where last Saturday Dermot
O Leary (also of Big Brother and X Factor fame) give Jackie a good
plugging, describing the combined line up Chris Constantinou, Sinead O'Connor,
Marco Pirroni and Courtney Taylor-Taylor as "a dream team" and
"the Harlem Globe
Trotters of the music scene"......
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Now, from today Jackie
is yours to have and to hold as the single is released on hard-copy formats -
vinyl and CD, both are available from Cargo Records......
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Jackie, Is It My
Birthday? - CD single....
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Jackie, Is It My
Birthday? - 7" single....
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Or a digital download is available via
iTunes......
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And while your clicking around and about on the net, and if
you're a Facebooker - why not come on over and join the The
Wolfmen's offical Facebook page simpy click on the Wolf-widget at the
top right of this page......
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Friday, October 09, 2009
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Category: Music
Title – Plectrum Analyzer....
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There's a triple-whammy of Wolfmen goodies grabbable over at
our favourite new webzine (and bi-monthly magazine) Plectrum - The Cultural Pick....
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Plectrum is both
a website and magazine keeping a contemporary eye on all areas of the arts -
fashion, film, music, books, performance. A kaleidoscopic mix where Beatle
Boots and Biba, Nigel Weymouth and The Wolfmen appear on the pop-culture
playlist. So what was Plectrum's take on Jackie
?....
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'Surreal,
transcendent, glamorous pop'....
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Is just one line from possibly the review of the year.
It's a must-read and is viewable right
here.....
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And, as a Bocca bonus, check out Plectrum's Guy Sangster
Adams in-depth interview
with Wolf-meisters Marco and Chris. A pitch perfect contextulisation, threading
together and time-lining Ants history, Wolfmen formation and current
collaborators and projects.....
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You can dig in here,
and watch the video interview via
the Plectrum
Broadcast Player....
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
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Category: Music
I Am A DJ, I Am What I play *....
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Radio plays for new and vintage Wolfmen tunes continue
appear on domestic and worldwide radio shows.....
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On the UK's most listened to station - BBC Radio 2, Jackie, Is It My
Birthday? has been hand-picked by presenter Alex Lester
for his inclusion in his exclusive Lester's Library
collection.....
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While back in the USSA Little Steven's Underground Garage
show have been hitting Needle in The Camel's Eye with a run
of heavy rotation and officially labelling Needles one of The Coolest Songs In The World....
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* It's a pop quiz - which Bowie song is this
line lifted from?....
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
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Glowing web-whispers, internet interest and reviews for
Jackie, is
It My Birthday? continue to reverbarate around the interweb's
hottest music sites.
Ataricoolkids
'The MTV of Blogs' - pitches in with a piece here
While Altsounds.com
Describes Jackie as 'a spine- tingling duet' and 'the biggest, grittiest ballad you'll
hear this
year' along with some comments from Courtney
Taylor-Taylor on The Wolfmen's output and influence - you can check the full
feature here
And have you ever wondered why the name The Wolfmen was
chosen (or what the alternatives were)? How about strange venues? What would
they ask themselves in an interview? All this and more is revealed over at
The
Devil Has The Best Tuna

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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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Current mood:  blah
It's no secret that The Wolfmen are lifelong fans of the uber-cool, endlessly influential Roxy Music - see here for Marco's Roxy related tale (he's even got a Phil Manzanera style Firebird stashed in the collection you know).
Typically Roxy rarely get the credit they deserve for their huge musical impact and influence - which stretches from proto-punks to eighties icons and Eno's work with Bowie and U2. But the balance is tipped in the correct direction with release of Take Refuge In Pleasure: The Songs of Roxy Music Revisited
Take Refuge In Pleasure collects together a catwalk quality set of cover versions from a rocking role call of acts and artists giving classic Roxy material a bespoke makeover and re-tailoring tunes to fit as slinkily as an Antony Price suit. Strutting and striding amongst the remake remodels you'll find The Wolfmen's heavy-level take of Eno's Needles In The Camel's Eye.
Brought to you by Burning Sky Records Take Refuge In Pleasure comes in two versions. The single disc release - or the 3-disc, strictly limited Deluxe & Delightful Edition!
You can get your well manicured hands on both versions here
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiG5XSIFAGY
Directed by Paul Hills, this is the video for The Wolfmen's debut EP, released August 14 2006 on Damaged Goods Records.
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Monday, September 14, 2009
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Current mood:  aggravated
Category: Music
Don Letts Digs The Wolfmen....
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Old punks don't die - they just get cooler.
Take John Cale, the
New York Dolls or
Don Letts, legendary author,
film-maker, musician, DJ and now resident of BBC Six Music with his own
Saturday night shindig - Culture Clash
Radio....
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Let's make this clear Don
Letts has pedigree. Originally, resident DJ at the
infamous hangout 'The Roxy'
where he turned punky young raggamuffins onto reggae and roots rockers. The
former writing partner of Mick
Jones in Big Audio
Dynamite -
knows how to turn a tune and maintains a refined ear for what rocks,
rolls and rumbles.....
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So what made Don's most recent Culture Clash crate-digging
playlist? A previously unheard cut from The Wolfmen titled
July 20, a track taken from
the upcoming album Married To The Eiffel
Tower.....
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Believe us - July
20 is a scorcher of a summer sounding rock-pop
nugget. Like the Velvet Underground bootleg remixed with the Beach Boys to make
a space age sci-fi surf tune.....
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Turn on, tune in and bliss out here
- July 20 is at 23:39....
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