an appreciation of Justin Bieber like no other....

originally published on Desperately Seeking Susan Boyle 

when posting my first video review last year I have had every intention of making it a regular occurrence...

unfortunately time constraints and the logistics of recording and editing were stretching my capabilities somewhat, I had the ideas, but the limitations I bumped up against were outstripping my power to push ahead with vlogging projects.

then 4music's Vlogstar competition came along, a competition that would land the winner a whole new bunch of hi-tech equipment, why not have a crack at it?

in a video of 30 seconds or less you had to deliver upon your full potential, I checked out the other entrants to see what I'd be up against... and time and time again I found I'd be up against the same things... straight to camera, blah blah blah, thank you...

my first crazy thought was to deliver a metal style review in a slipknot style mask, of course I left the whole thing to the last minute.... leaving myself no time to make said mask, but i instead went with making a little extra effort of a different kind, composing an accapella ode to Justin Bieber to be delivered in my best metal voice...

face paints, bare chest, screaming.... all captured through the lense of my sinister phone.
I knew full well that it may not win me the prize, I knew full well that it may not even be picked as a finalist, but i was certain it would stand out against the rest and I had a hell of a lot of fun doing it




and with a current radio advert encouraging voting for the finalists proclaiming that the judges have seen the good, the bad, and the weird... i feel content that i made the impression i intended...

this must look bad...

it looks like a nightmare down there just below.

look, forget it, head over to Go Home Production's website since he seems to have got it embedded and playing ok...

as i was saying...

always enlightening to see someone else, particularly someone who's work i admire, using youtube to find samples and using acid as his weapon of choice, this is exactly how i roll.....

www.gohomeproductions.co.uk

how i roll....

always enlightening to see someone else, particularly someone who's work i admire, using youtube to find samples and using acid as his weapon of choice, this is exactly how i roll.....

http://www.gohomeproductions.co.uk/

premiere

it has been an unbelievably busy and rather productive few days for me.

i've been working on new music for a new little project that is likely to take over my life and become the only thing i care about if i can ever ween myself off the addiction to reading comics that i seem to have picked up again (but i guess there are worse addictions to be afflicted with).

so, yes, making music, reading comics, finishing my first ever music video (which is why you're here, right) as well as writing (starting, middling and indeed finishing) the first short story that i have probably written since i was a kid, i've not quite decided what to do with it just yet, it feels far too momentous an occasion for me to just put it up as a blog post.

oh, and that's not including all the live music i have seen, i have witnessed The Television Personalities, Milk Kan, Akira The Don, Kele and Underworld all doing there respective things. So of course i'm already working on an article, even tho the Enfield Advertiser seems to be getting ridiculously behind again.

and all this obtuse over achieving and busy business has only been since about 12.20 pm thursday!! it's already looking to be another busy week this week too, tho possibly (almost defientley) not quite as productive.

but lets get round to that video i promised you, the video for my new new spoken word cover version of the xx's vcr, which supersedes the version that i actually attempted singing on!!

enough waffle.

video, now!



now, perhaps a little more waffle??

Hunchbakk - vcr (the xx spoken word cover version)

made on a budget of absolutely nothing at all

Directed, Edited, Filmed and Concept by Hunchbakk
Additional Filming by Ian Byford

filmed on location in my Dad's back room.

thank you

exxplore

i just finished making my first full length music video, i probably should do afew more to increase my prescence on Youtube, but i don't want to videos just for the sake of it.

i've had ideas for a couple of my earlier remixes but they were ideas that i would like to see done right, instead of cobbled together using windows video editor thingy and a number of its dodgy video effects, but to be honext, you do need to work with what you've got.

so in the very not too far off distant future i shall be unveiling my video for my cover of The XX's VCR.

and not only is it a new video, it is also a new version of the song that i have done in a spoken word style since my girlfriend insisted it would sound better than my singing.

the original sung version i actually uploaded to my blog in february, but since i have been using soundcloud instead of fileden i am presuming that it has now disapeared into the ether.

i'm still unsure which version  the song i prefer, i don't think that my voice sounds quite as terrible as she says it does on VCR, i'm well aware that i don't have a great singing voice, but i didn't think i needed to.


but before i get round to uploading that vid, can i just take a minute to stake my claim as the first person to cover the XX, as far as i am aware nobody else had covered the band when i uploaded my version of VCR in february, as they grew in popularity i knew it would only be a matter of time so i'm glad i got in there quick.

i didn't quite expect Shakira to go charging in and claiming Islands for herself tho, she got in on the act back in may (3 months behind me, keep up Shakira) and brought her cover with her along with her hypnotic hip-wiggling set to glastonbury last month.

sadly no dry humping of the onstage monitors in this song tho.......

orgiastic riot

it is a curious thing when certain interests and aspects of your life intertwine themselves together when before they were seemingly unconnected

my love of music and adoration (too strong??) of Akira The Don are probably apparent to even the casual observer, a fascination with masks probably less so, and since childhood i've been drawn to mythology in its many forms

and the whole lot came crashing together in a drama that has been unfolding on Akira's website...

to fill in the gaps: a pan mask was found and rescued in a break from band rehearsals, it turns out that the mask is actually the property of hotly tipped band, Crystal Fighters, and features in their latest music video and was to feature in their touring plans until it was lost...

a meeting time and place for a handover was planned, a ransom was discussed, and the story continues (in highly entertaining fashion)...

duzzee need dizzee?

you heard the new Dizzee Rascal/Armand Van Helden track yet?

apparently Dizzee has been playing it live since November last year but this week it hit the radio and has been gobbling up a fair bit of airplay already.

after his Calvin Harris collabo it appears Dizzee is looking to diversify his sound by working with producers outside of his usual grimey two-steppin comfort zone

its respectable that some artists choose to challenge themselves and their fans and expectations instead of sticking to the same formula but i can't help thinking that Bonkers would have been a huge choon for Armand Van Helden with or without Dizzee, its a warped dirty sounding electro beast of a track, not too dissimilar at all to Fake Blood's Mars, that i don't think Dizzee Rascals vocals add an awful lot to

anyways, its gonna be big, still a little early for an official video yet, so instead check out this rather good quality live version filmed in Leeds last year

Kaoss Theory

since i posted up that vid of Animal Collective last week i thought i'd treat you to one of my favourite youtube clips of the Kaoss pad in work, courtesy of Beardyman and his duck.

girls, girls, girls, girls, girls i do adore

i'm sure everyone and there gran (if she is particularly internet savvy and follows internet hype and music blogs) knows about Animal Collective these days, and if you don't, why not? especialy since i heard a rumour that there latest album Merriweather Post Pavillion actualy includes vaguely singable real songs, i can neither confirm nor deny this, but i do know that My Girls is an absolute storming track made up of bits of sunshine...

and, if you look closely at the vid, made up of Kaoss pad also!!

joy all round, much celebration for the Kaoss Pad

now all i need to do is find you video evidence without relying on YouTube since Google got a lil precious about a lil thing called Copyright, and other seemingly non-important things like Royalties that matter little to people living in the real world

hello Vimeo