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iIt only took me a month to mention it but Last Survivor’s latest single is becoming a regular feature on the Ultimte Ulster stereo of late. Continuing the theme of 1980s future-dystopia that has made the debut album Kill For Love such a hit, Just A Creep has an irresistible strut of a beat, like a souped-up Erasure, with just enough darkness to make bluesy singer Marty Doherty’s vocals feel at home. If home is in a misty New England graveyard or something. As ever the nods to John Carpenter’s movie soundtracks are all present and correct and, as the bandmates Decky Mclaughlin, Mick Mccallion and Cara Molloy reckon, it “pretty uncannily syncs up very well to the 80s vampire movie The Lost Boys”. Sounds like a good reason to check it out...
i Philip Mccarroll has a new single out and it’s a slight departure from the hard rock and soul he’s best known for with his bands Pay*ola and The Back Four. No Longer is a out-and-out country heartbreaker, full of acoustic guitar and cascading piano and, of course, Philip’s powerful tenor voice cutting through like polished plowshare. “It’s Norn Irish Americana if you like,” the prolific singersongwriter explained. “And is a tale of love, lust, disillusion and regret... set in the picturesque County Down countryside.” Philip Mccarroll will be playing a special hometown show on Friday 25th November at The Deer’s Head, as special guest to US performer John Corabi, formerly of Motley Crue, on his Songs & Stories tour. Doors 8pm, tickets £22.50 from ticketmaster.ie.
iCool pop duo Wet Leg have been nominated for five Grammys – FIVE GRAMMYS – up against the likes of Bjork and Arctic Monkeys, and in the general exalted company of such superstars as Taylor Swift and Coldplay. Not bad for a band who started for “a bit of fun” and whose talking point name comes from the nickname given to outsiders in their native Isle of Wight. Anyway, the Grammy Awards aren’t presented until February so when Wet Leg visit Belfast’s Limelight next Sunday night – November 27 – they’ll be, in a Schrödinger’s cat kinda way, both Grammy winners and runners-up. That sounds like two for the price of one to me - so beg, borrow or steal to get your hands on a ticket. It’ll be years till they play in a venue this size again...
In another edition of Modern Things I Don’t Really Understand, Meta have announced a VR Notorious B.I.G. concert on Fcaebook on December 16. Hopefully, the dead star’s avatar will do a cover of Missing You and the internet will swallow itself. And you can read all about it in the newspaper on December 17...