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I Dont Love Anyone is probably my favourite B&S song from their 1996 debut, Tigermilk.
The lyrics are simple yet ambiguous and can be interpreted in a number of ways.

1. The writer is constantly asked who they love, and feels frustrated that he is asked this question. He is happy that he doesnt love anyone.
2. The writer doesnt love anyone and is feeling upset about it...They wish they did
   

There are probs loads more interpretations..its such a brilliant song!!!
Belle and Sebastian-I Don't Love Anyone
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Episode 5.01 - Because You Left
Episode 5.02 - The Lie
Episode 5.03 - Jughead
Episode 5.04 - The Little Prince
Episode 5.05 - This Place is Death
Episode 5.06 - The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham

thanks to DarkUfo as usal.
I am most interested in "The Little Prince", could this be Aaron? and obv "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham", which will surely explore Lockes return to mainland and possibly kill him off for the rest of the season :s nothing can really be predicted as no-one has a clue as to the format of the episodes!

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What do they have over you?

Another great installment from Heroes Season 3. In my opinion the best, and most interesting part of this episode was the storyline and character development of Daphne. Previously, in her Hiro/Ando interactions we had seen a fun, almost harmless "villain", but she could well have been disposable. Over the last 2 episodes we have seen her humane side, her reluctance to work for Pinehearst and a mystery developing over what hold they have over her. She is fast becoming a brilliant character, more complex and far less annoying than for example Maya (introduced in season 2). I like the love interest story with Parkman as well, although I will be pleased to see him back in the actiony type plots. Parkmans love interests have gone from a cheating wife, to gay dad with Mohinder, to Daphne, so it is time he had some luck in that department!! I just hope she isnt killed off.

The Hiro/Ando storyline was also very pleasing. Ando was never seriously going to be dead, and the explanation was pretty good. This was the first time in ages that Masi Oka's Hiro hasnt annoyed me with his constant doubting of Ando. The scenes in Africa were hilarious, "Mr Africa Isaac" and the whole painting scenario! Here is a good collection of all Uluru's (Mr African Isaac) paintings. The 4 villians at the end with the Pinehearst Logo were Arthur, Knox, Flint and an unkown?

I found it interseting that Arthur wants Sylar, but an unreformed Sylar, not what Angela is creating at the Company, but Sylar with the hunger, I guess to do Arthurs evil bidding? Arthurs power seems to be a cross between Peter's absorbing of abilities, with Sylar's "hunger", killing and taking them away. Peter's abilities are gone (for now) but he is very much alive. Can't wait for more on Arthurs backstory! Adam's death was actually quite anticlimatic, I guess Arthur is unkillable now then? Unless more Vortex creators are introduced? Mohinder is another being created by Mr Petrelli, presumably for his scientific knowledge, that the company seemed to want so much. Is it just me or does the company appear to be in complete disarray? How did Daphne and flint just bypass supposedly the most secure level in the whole company!! I also wondered this week why Sylar was kept alive by the company at the end of season 1? Were Bob and Angela close? Or did Bob envisage using Sylar for the companies benefit?

Eric Doyle is fucking scary. His power is ridiculously good, although I doubt we'll see alot of him in the future, unless of course he is on the Pinehearst recruit list. The dynamic between Claire, Meredith and sandra has been consistently excellent and was again with the psychotic Doyle's shooting game. Anyone notice Meredith begging to be saved when the gun pointed to her? I'm not sure how much we can trust her, she is loyal to Claire yes, but apart from that her motives are yet to be revealed. As good as Doyle's power may be, he isn't the brightest Level5 villain out there, Sandra fired blanks twice before shooting Claire. Surely he would have guessed something was up?

The next episode looks brilliant, here are a few previews and sneak peeks
Promo#1

Promo #2

Promo #3


Sneak Peek #1-4 can be viewed here
sneak peek #5 here

I warn you not to go exploring on the above site, as there are LOTS of spoilers coming out Greg Gurnberg (Parkman) has just done a pretty spoilerish interview with Digital Spy.
Here are a few tidbits for the next episode:

• Someone will die (i have a good idea, but not 100%)
• Elle is back and teams up with Claire to go to Pinehearst. Hottest double act ever?
• Mohinder makes some sort of deal with Arthur
• Daphne is sent to kill Matt, as she has not recruited him
• Sylar is sent to Pinehearst by Angela
  
• Episode 8 will see Hiro following Arthur in his last days before his "death". Real life Linderman and Peter with curtains will be in this episode.
  
• Sylars past will also be explored (ep8)
  
• Thompson i.e. HRG's superioir in s1 will also appear. (ep8)
  
• prhomo pics of ep 8 (unspoilery) here

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Vampire Weekend have become an addiction. When a tout offered me a ticket for £40 I was tempted....but managed to get a balcony ticket for £25, almost twice face value, but worth every penny. There is something very special about this band, they have an energy unrivaled in the indie scene at the moment, both on record and live. This was the 4th time I'd seen them this year, and the best, but I wish it had been more. I can't wait for new material from them. This was the first time they had played in Sheffield and they played by far the largest of the "indie" venues in Sheff. I wouldn't be surprise if the next time they come, they were big enough to play the Arena.
setlist:
Mansard Roof
Campus
Cape Code Kwassa Kwassa
I Stand Corrected
white sky (new song)
Bryn
Ladies Of Cambridge
A-Punk
One (Blake’s Got A New Face)
M79
The Kid’s Don’t Stand A Chance
new song
Oxford Comma

Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac Cover)
Walcott

A-Punk will be re-released in November i think...

Vampire Weekend-A-Punk

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Brilliant, forgot how much of a legend Skinner is. The setlist was perfect, the gig was amazing. Could Well Be In was probably my favourite song of the night, possibly due to the memories it brings me (randomly) of a family holiday in Italy in 2004 i think, when I really got into the Streets. All i listened to those 2 weeks was A Grand Dont Come For Free, The Eminem Show and Justified! Good times.
Here are a couple of reviews of the gig, firstly from the Guardian, secondly from my good friend Sean, which has been published on the leedsmusicscene website.

The Guardian's
can be read here

Seans
""Do you think your weekend could get better?" Mike Skinner asks the crowd as opening track (also the opener, title track and latest single from his new album) Everything Is Borrowed comes to a close, and he is greeted with euphoric response from the crowd packed into the new (though you wouldn't know it from the state of the floor) Academy in Leeds.

Personally, I'm still sceptical about the venue. Not so much as a gig venue, the sound is great, though they seem to sell far too many tickets and as a consequence it's a bit crowded. I'm more concerned about how it will cope as a club, especially if they pack that many people into it. Anyway, tonight is not about the venue as it quickly becomes obvious that wherever Mike Skinner is onstage, whether it be a tiny club or the main stage at a festival (memories of Leeds Festival in 2006), all eyes are going to be on him.

Following the opener, Skinner and backing band kick straight into Don't Mug Yourself and it's instantly apparent that this is going to be a sweaty night to say the least. With everyone clearly really up for it, Skinner rattles through an hour a bit of his back catalogue, drawing heavily from debut album Original Pirate Material, and indeed, it's the older tracks that get the best reception. The likes of Has It Come To This, Let's Push Things Forward and Could Be Well In are of course present, but the inclusion of album tracks such as Turn The Page, It's Too Late and Same Old Thing is great.

Other highlights included On The Edge Of A Cliff, from the latest album, Weak Become Heroes and, the only track to be played off 2006's The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living, Never Went To Church which ended with a rendition of Daddy's Gone by Glasvegas from Skinner's backing vocalist Kevin Mark Trail. There's also the mandatory "Go Low" during Has It Come To This, whereby everyone crouches as the music slows down, then jumps up as it kicks in again, this time accompanied by Skinner shouting out the chorus from Hot Chip's Over & Over. The main set is closed with a spine-tingling mass sing-along to Blinded By The Lights.

The encore encompasses single's Dry Your Eyes and Heaven For The Weather and closes in rapturous fashion with Fit But You Know It, followed by the chorus of Who Knows Who, a track Skinner recently recorded with Muse.

Skinner puts pretty much any indie frontman I've seen in a long while to shame with the way he can play off and manipulate the crowd. The heavy emphasis on his first album, despite it being the tour for his 4th, is hardly a bad thing as with the live band, these tracks themselves are almost reinvented. The choice not to play singles Prangin' Out and When You Wasn't Famous shows Skinner's recognition of public opinion that his 3rd was by far his worst album, and as I agree with this opinion I'm not complaining. I'm not sure the gig was actually a sell out, which possibly helped the venue. Do I think my weekend could get much better? Well, if you've got 1500 people and Mike Skinner in a room, it's pretty much a fact it's going to."

the setlist was...
Everything Is Borrowed
Don't Mug Yourself
Let's Push Things Forward + Out Of Space
The Escapist
Same Old Thing/Too Much Brandy/Sharp Darts
It's Too Late
Could Be Well In
Never Went To Church + Daddy's Gone
On The Edge Of A Cliff
Has It Come To This + Over & Over
Weak Become Heroes
Blinded By The Lights
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Turn The Page
Dry Your Eyes
Heaven For The Weather
Fit But You Know It + Who Knows Who?

The Streets-Heaven for the Weather
The Streets-Everything is Borrowed
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I need to calm down.

loads of screencaps on darkufo
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Basement Jaxx at their best.
Basement Jaxx-Jump N' Shout
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I promise, i'm on it

Paris is a brilliant, beautiful blend of brilliant electro and simplistic yet poignant lyrics. I am surprised Friendly Fires haven't completely engulfed the Radio 1 Playlist yet (although Fearne Cotton had this as her record of the week this week). This song was originally released in December 2007, I bet this will break them into the top 20. I can see the Klaxons similarity, except FF are alot more subtle, alot less mental and quite a bit better. Buy their debut now
Its only £5.98!!
Here are a couple of lovely long remixes, expect many many more to come.

Friendly Fires-Paris (Justin Kohncke Remix)
Friendly Fires-Paris (Aeroplane Remix)
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Another very strong showing for Heroes, the character development has been excellent this season imo and we have even more insight into who will be Heroes/Villains come the end of the season. FUCKING HELL ANDO IS DEAD AND HIRO KILLED HIM!!! well....there has to be a twist here (Hiro does have a rather useful power in this scenario...), Hiro wouldn't kill Ando! it's just not in his nature...I am glad that Adam is back, he is a great character, and hopefully he will get alot of scenes in episode 6. Peter trying to kill Angela was a brilliant scene, and a great Petrelli family showdown (we will surely see alot more in family fighting soon...), Sylar defended her! Also, the Vortex villian was another great insight into how "killers" are not necessarily bad people in the show, and are just unable to control their powers (like Ted in season 1-radioactive man-killed his wife). It was great that Sylar saved Claire and the whole dynamic between them 3 was also utstadning. Does Claire know he's her uncle yet? The carousle scene was another good 'un, loving noah's attempt to destroy Sylar (come on we knew it wasnt going to happen), but it will be interesting to see if they wil still be partners once they return to the company... Mohinder is going even crazier, with his victims alive, strung up on the wall, now including Maya...she is looking pretty fine these days, but lets be honest she should have been killed off a while ago...Nathan and Tracy are standardly going to be his next victims! One of the big "shocks" of the episode wa the return of Arthur Petrelli (and Maury Parkman! who had been giving Nathan and Daphne all those Linderman visions). Wonder what Arthurs power is!
Pinehearst and "the company" will now surely battle it out with heroes and villians supposedly on both sides..
PINEHEARST
HEROES: Hiro, Daphne, Parkman (if recruited)
VILLAINS: Maury, Adam, Mohinder (if recruited), Arthur Petrelli maybe, Knox

THE COMPANY
HEROES:Peter, Nathan, Sylar, Noah, Claire, Claires mum,
VILLAINS: Angela(?), Tracy (?)

Elle is returning soon, cant wait!

trailer for epi 6
#1

#2

sneak peek!


a few spoilers for the next episode, i have unfortunately read some major ones :(

• a villian dies
• we find out Arthurs power
• we find out how claire is special/different
• claire and sandra go after meredith...
  

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"Live Forever" is a song by British rock group Oasis, written by the band's guitarist and chief songwriter Noel Gallagher. It was released as the third single from their debut album Definitely Maybe on 8 August 1994, just prior to that album's release.

Gallagher wrote the song in 1991, before he joined Oasis. Inspired by The Rolling Stones' "Shine a Light," "Live Forever" features a basic song structure and lyrics with an optimistic outlook that contrasted with the attitude of the grunge bands popular at the time. The song was the first Oasis single to enter the top ten in the United Kingdom, and garnered critical acclaim.

Loads more here

I am about to listen to the new album right now. I think I might continue this feature for a while actually, I have around 30 more songs I have thought of I can use, I will just have to be more disciplined with it.

Oasis-Live Forever

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this has now undeniably been the best run of 4 episodes heroes has ever had....ah im so glad its gone good again. another brilliant episode! sylar has gone even higher in my estimation! zachary quinto is a brilliant actor, and future sylar was great. im really glad we learnt more about sylar's original power, and the "hunger" involved with it, and saw ted (of season 1)'s stoledn power (of radioactivity) again! future claire is mental, future world is mental! why is she woking with daphne and knox of all people? daphne and matt are together! how random! oh and future peter gwtting killed off was pretty good, about time there was only one peter...mohinder is completely fucked in the future! Sylar with young Noah! who is the mother? what is he doing in the bennett house? what happened to HRG? the showdown in the bennett household was brilliant, daphne/knox/claire(who was pretty useless) against peter and sylar and mini-noah lol. the special effects were wicked when sylar blew...then of course peter went kindof mad on his new president brother. peter is gonna be dangerous this seaosn on heroes for sure...
in the present e saw mohinders condition developing alot of adverse reactions, i wish they killed him off lol! ando and hiro are now working for angela petrelli or what? that conversation was very odd, how can anyone trust anything she says? pretty wicked that they digged up adam though! he is pretty much the only good thing to come out of season 2. who is "watching and manipulating" hiro and ando as angela says? linderman? or is she just bullshitting? niki/tracy/barbara(!) is just craziness now, and they all (well 2/3) seem to be on it for nathan...
i think we are starting to get a good idea of who are the villians and who are the heroes, but what with it being tv, there are bound to be twists and turns along the way...imo the heroes will be:
heroes: nathan, parkman (surely!!), daphne, ando, maya, tracy,
villains: peter(until maybe the last episode of this arc..and hell realise the error of his ways...), mohinder, sylar (under angela's guidance), angela, adam, hiro (:o),
others i am undecided on...
trailer for epi 6

check that shocked expression on angela's face! its no great secret that her surprise is at a certain arthur petrelli's return...
here is the odi's little tidbit on the next episode...
1) We'll learn more about Nathan's ability, and he'll be taking Tracy home to meet mom.
2) Nathan sets off on a mission that leads him to discover the shocking secret of another Hero.
3) Claire learns what her father is capable of when it comes to serving the Company, and she ain't the least bit happy about it.
4) Claire and Sylar join forces to fight the Vortex Villain (Stephen Canfield)
5) Arhtur Petrelli appears and is working with another Heroes father.

the vortex is supposedly very very evil...
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after inital disappointment, it was a grower. best hip-hop album of the year so far? after recently listening to the awful ear torture that is jme's "famous", kano is pretty much all the uk grime scene has. i actually thought jme had big potential to make a great album...but its shit...as is skepta's...kano is so much better than any other uk grime mc atm, dizzee isnt really grime anymore...
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Dublin O2 (February 20)
Belfast Odyssey Arena (21)
London O2 Arena (23, 24)
Birmingham LG Arena (26)
Cardiff Arena (28)
Sheffield Arena (March 2)
Nottingham Arena (3)
Aberdeen AECC Arena (5)
Glasgow SECC (6)
Newcastle Arena (7)
Manchester MEN Arena (9)
I pretty much definitely can't go coz I will most likely be away and don't have the money to get a ticket anyways :( ah well i still love them
The Killers-Everything Will Be Alright
The Killers-Tranquilize feat. Lou Reed
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Check out the paint editing on the picture!!
Santogold and Mr Hudson both confirmed as tour support for thr UK glow in the dark tour, maybe another will be added (Estelle?!) , its certainly not Rihanna/Lupe/N*E*R*D, but it's still pretty awesome.
Santogold-Lights Out
Santogold-L.E.S. Artistes
Santogold-Creator
Mr Hudson & The Library-Cover Girl
Mr Hudson & The Library-Everything Happens To Me
Mr Hudson & The Library-Ask The Dj
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I'm very late on this one, but better late than never for sure with this, a Santogold/Diplo mixtape. Diplo produced "My Superman" off her debut, and did a similar thing with M.I.A. back in 2004. This is pretty special, Diplo is one of the best producers around at the moment, Santogold is one of the best rapper/singers around at the moment, making a brilliant mixtape. This is partially remixes off her album, covers, new tracks and remixes of other artists. It's hard to pick out individual tracks because the whole alum blends together so well but here are a few highlights...

Diplo & Santogold-Late Night (Unstoppable Mix)
Diplo & Santogold-I'm a Lady (Diplo Mix feat. Amanda Blank)
Diplo & Santogold-Get It Up (Radioclit mix feat. M.I.A. and Gorilla Zoe)
Diplo & Santogold-Creator(Mumdance Mix ft Jammer, Badness, Chronik Rage, Slikman and Tempz)

and because the i'm a lady remix sort of covers it...
LL Cool J-I Need love
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Lol at the pixelated smiley...this is the sort of song I would have liked about 5 years ago lol...but it is actually really good! Although I haven't liked many of Ne-yo's previous efforts, this song is a winner, and he is undoubtedly a talented singer/songwriter in the R and B spectrum...He has writeen for Rihanna, Beyonce, Mario, Britney etc etc and is aparently working on the new Michael Jackson album, as well as writing for Usher, Chris Brown and Leona Lewis...he might just challenge for Usher's crown as the King of r&b soon...

Ne-Yo-Miss Independant
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Another brilliant episode, probably the best season 3 so far...
Angela Petrelli is so brilliant, what the hell is going on with her?! so now she is feeding sylar with random employees of the company?! The teaming up of Sylar and HRG is genius though, they make such a brilliant entertaining team. Syalr killed this episode, was quality when him and Noah were outside the bank and Sylar went all policeman haha, and then saved the day, but we were reminded of his evil side! I wish the German hadn't died so soon he was cool, and Jesse's power is pretty cool. Knox is standardly going to come back...along with loads more crazy level 5ers. Im glad present peter is no longer trapped, in season 2 that sort of storyline lasted 5 episdoes + so was good it only lasted 2/3. Future Peter is weird, what is he doing in the present? I am liking the Jiro storyline now, BECUASE THE HAITIAN IS IN IT, what a legend. Wonder who Daphne is working for, i bet its Petrelli doing some double crossiing or could be Linderman? and Claires real mum is great, loving the new style family dynamic there and the rivalry with Mrs Bennett. Nice to see Micah back, Tracy is definately not Nikki then...? It is a weird storyline for sure, maybe this random doctor will have answers. Nathan and Tracy are standardly gonna get together....Also, no annoying Mohinder=bonusss! Also, what is going on with Parkman?! can he adopt powers or is he just exploring his own?

Trailer for episode 4


Lol at Sylar! I know a couple of spoilers for this episode....

• Adam is back!
• Linderman is back (again)
• Molly is back
• Claire goes after a level 5 villain
• future claire is in the episode somewhere...
• Tracy and Nathan kiss

sneak peeks will be added when available...
apologies for the jitteryness

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