After recently discovering the joys of Xtranormal, Friends of the Stars will now occasionally be communicating via the medium of cartoon. Here is Episode 1, which finds Craig housesitting for Elton John when he gets an unexpected visit from Executive Producer Robson, with hilarious conseq…..well, he gets a visit.
Warning: Contains swearing.
Categories: Apropos of Nowt,Promotion
Tagged: Elton John, The Feeling, The Gossip, The Klaxons, xtranormal
Teach your Children with Shortwave Number Stations and Ghosts… then check out Robert Popper’s blog
Categories: Apropos of Nowt,Live,podcast,The 2nd Album
More nice stuff from the web…
Business Guys On Business Trips is a satire on the increasingly baffling/boring/stupid world of modern business. The simple line drawings it uses reminds us of the wonderful Get You War On.
(Thanks to also-great Intercourse With Biscuits for the heads up)
Categories: Apropos of Nowt
Tagged: Business, Business Guys On Business Trips, Get Your War On
Christopher Cross performs “Ride Like The Wind” with The Roots AND Michael McDonald. Hat tip to Joe Muggs for the find.
Categories: Apropos of Nowt
Tagged: Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald, The Roots
IWANTMYBEARSUIT is a website collection of weird and wonderful images from the internet. I am finding it mildly, pleasantly diverting .
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Normally, school kids singing anything = rubbish, but this version of Bowie’s ‘Changes’ is ace in a Langley Schools Music Project kinda way
Categories: Apropos of Nowt
Tagged: Changes, David Bowie
A few years ago I found an old wooden box in a junk shop. It was a very old box originally made to transport bottles and I bought it for a bargain £2. It looked like it might just be the perfect thing for storing 7″ singles and once I got it home and tried it out, I realised I was right – the box was indeed perfect. Even better, the handles in the side of it designed to make carrying bottles easy also made carrying the 100 or so 7″ vinyl singles it stored very easy.
A couple of months… Read the rest
Categories: Apropos of Nowt
Tagged: Analog Apartment, Colorado Record Crates, Vinyl
Episode 18 of the Friends of the Stars Podcast is a PART ONE of TWO PART affair. Recorded just last week in the fine city of Glasgow, these episodes DO NOT feature Executive Producer Robson.
Wait….come back.
Containing tunes by David Bowie, Magnetic Fields, Kevin Ayers and Elvis Costello, “The No-Robson Club” finds Friends of the Stars members Campbell and Craig spending the afternoon idly considering exactly how many copies of their next album the band need to sell in order for all 5 members to live high on the hog. They also discuss the difficulties of having family and… Read the rest
Categories: Apropos of Nowt,Music,podcast,Promotion,The 2nd Album
Tagged: Brad Pitt, Commercially Inviable Records, David Bowie, Eddie Floyd, Edward Norton, Elvis Costello, Fight Club, Free music, Friends of the Stars, Geoff Mauldur, Glasgow, Heavenly, Jackson Browne, Joe Pye and The Weeds, Kevin Ayers, Magnetic Fields, mp3, podcast
No opinions. No tales of ‘where we were when we heard’. No grief, no anger and no jokes. No comment needed.
Listen to this…
(Feed viewers: This is the full 6 minute 07 second, 12″ promo version of “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough” by the late Michael Jackson. View it HERE)
Categories: Apropos of Nowt,Music
Tagged: Michael Jackson
It almost feels rude to intrude on this sweet, loving moment. …
Here we see Campbell and Executive Producer Robson gazing longingly into each others eyes as the sun sets on an early June evening in Birmingham. Feel the love, folks…
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Categories: Apropos of Nowt,Birmingham
Tagged: Birmingham, Campbell, June, Photo, Robson