Sorry this is in English, BUT funnily enough it's the only language that I speak!Anyway now thats over, to the actual blog...
I'm Lee, I'm 18, I'm a Journalism Student studying just outside of Greater London, and this is my weekly music blog for possibly the rest of my professional working life! So anyway whats this bloggy thingy about music, all about?
Once a week I will talk about a new music artist/band or group that I think deserves a bit more publicity/promoting in the world and whose musical talent is genuine. I will also talk about new music of the week for already established acts that everyone wants to know about anyway. For this first post I won't include this as I just want to get the blog out there asap! For January, I will be mainly talking about Bands I think will be making a big impact during 2008 on the UK scene.
Of course my music taste will be strung more along the British side of things, but that doesn't mean that I'll only do British artists. If you live in any other country and you know an artist that deserves to be recognised, then let me know!
Time for the first artist of 2008...
One Night Only - Yorkshire's answer to Wakefield's 'The Cribs'
Originating from Helmsley in North Yorkshire 'One Night Only' are a five peice indie band from Helmsley, North Yorkshire. Their debut album 'Started A Fire' will be released on 4th Feb 2008 on Vertigo Records. They will also release their second single 'Just For Tonight' on 21st January 2008 that coinsides with their second and biggest Headline Tour to date. Last year they toured with the likes of The Pigeon Detectives and The Maccabees.
Joe Wiley coined the song 'Just For Tonight' as her track of the week on her Radio 1 show in early December and many other djs have followed suit in their recognition for the band. So whats the story? How did five lads from the Yorkshire dales end up together and what are their ambitions.
Some of the band members only started to learn playing their intruments when they were 14-15, just bangin out noise in their garages and bedrooms. When they finally found a sound they liked they had no lyrics or singing talent to go with it. The answer to their success was to be found with a shaggy haired George Craig. He joined the band amidst the struggles with sound and direction and pursuaded the band that he should sing and play guitar and kick out the guitarist and drummer and bring in a new keyboardist to make way for his new vision. He's wrote many of the bands songs that will appear on their debut album, including both of their singles.
'Just For Tonight' screams out with all the emotional ambition of the young generation of Britain "No one knows where they take us/but we’ll search till we grow old" However, also like their fellow Stiff Records band 'The Enemy' they exclaim of how everything could be so much better.
"All the paths they lead/To a little standing place", George Craig echos the ambitions of a thousand bands who all want to be the Glastonbury headliners one day. When the Arctic Monkeys were brought upon our lives it brought about a mass change in the way we at how British rock music will be written in the future, more substance, but also much more fun. The classics of The Jam, and the Specials will never be forgotten, but they will always be looked upon as some kind of music industry con. Music lovers these days don't just want to listen to the endless drones of every day life, They want to listen to it with having as much fun and showing their parents what they should have been doing 25 years ago.
Songs likes 'Away From Here', 'I Predict a Riot' and 'I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor' are pure songs written by individuals with no other goal in their life at that time but to pick up a guitar and have a fucking blast!
One Night Only want to do exactly the same thing, but I feel maybe they've come onto the music scene a tad too late.
2008 will be a testing year for the British Music Industry. The release of Radiohead's seventh studio album 'In Rainbows' for 1p on itunes late last year, has shaken the boots of those men with the buttons and forced them to dig deeper into the relms of Myspace.
Although i feel One Night Only may be a touch late with their sound, their direction is fresh and their tunes sharp.
Just listen to the end of the verses of 'Just For Tonight', "And if you stay for the weekend/We’d leave without a trace". The world of music is not always directed by 4 decade, chart topping superstars like Kylie or Madonna. In 5,000 years time robohomosapiens will still be bangin out MC Hammer, even if he did have the charisma of a pig of the bank balance of a tramp. One Night Only don't care if they last 5 minutes or 5 years, they just care if they make it at all, and for that simple reason, they deserve to.
If a simple, but sophisticated shaggy haired Yorkshire tyke like George Craig is at the head of your band, then be prepared for a hell of a 2008, the year of the underdogs?
Putting aside any criticism, who cares if they lack purpose. If Amy Winehouse can sell millions of records just because she likes a line here or there. If artists can go on to win awards and sell like cake at christmas even though they have to cancel concerts because they are 'un fit' to perform, we need more people like One Night Only on our iPods.
http://www.onenightonlyonline.com
http://www.myspace.com/onenightonlyonline
Picture & Video courtesy of One Night Only
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