So what in the holy hell is going on... #2

Evening chaps, so now things are underway again, I thought it would be a good idea to take a look at the scene and see where we all stand.

Firstly, what the hell is going on with the people of Britain at the present time. Really, Glasvegas, why should anyone bother. Anyone can play a gig wearing black in total darkness with some coloured smoked out lighting and make it look good. The tipping of the iceberg for me, is the drummer, who looks like my mother and stands when she drums, what the hell is that???

Now moving onto some better news, Oasis are firmly back in the business, and they've just announced their biggest shows to date next summer, and these surely will be the Gigs of the 00s. Oasis, Wembley Stadium, supported by Kasabian and The Enemy. I said the day after Glastonbury, next year Oasis to headline, supported by Kasabian and The Enemy, now that may not be happening on the Pyramid, but at the helm of everything English, Wembley Stadium, this is the motherload! Possibly the most exciting gig that I've ever looked forward to.

Moving onto more of an electronic feel, which I'm going to make more prominent in this blog. I know I'm kind of late on the bandwagon for Fidget House and the scene is kinda moving on now, with Switch and Crookers going to a bit deeper, especially with the pioneering of Club-step in the past few months. However, after I've played some of the stuff last uni year and this year, it's only been in the last few months that the masses have really started to take to it. Crookers remix of Day 'n' Night has clearly helped with it's popularity in Malia etc. It's like 2006 when Bodyrox took the mainstream by storm and hammered home the commercial electro house beats that were mainly underground prior. Then of course Justice took it one step further and incorprated Dance-punk with Electro and Indie on 4/4 beats to produce one the most iconic albums this decade. I feel the electro scene at the moment, and particularly the tech-house movement over the pond that's steadiy producing waves in Europe makes the industry the strongest it's been since the dawn of Daft Punk and The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method and Prodigy took Norman Cook's conventions and produced some of the greatest Big-beat music ever.

There's a huge market at the moment for the remix artist, but slowly but surely the producer's are coming back to town. Deadmau5 is helping with that, with transforming the Progressive circuit practically overnight, his #11 placing on the chart for me is the only true reflection of the progression of music in the past year. Trance will probably carry on to 'reign supreme' for a few more years to come (In the words of Mike Fucking Skinner: "oh yay, oh yay"), but let it be known that Joel will have his day, and when he does, I will be there to fucking see it!

That's pretty much all I have to say for now, apart from check out a rather tasty young fellow in Surkin, if you haven't already. His 'Next of Kin' EP is by the power of ra, HOT!

Mr. Lee... out!

So what in the holy hell is going on...

Hi there.

So.

In January I started a blog here, with the intention of posting on it regularly, and it started to become quite a little hobby of mine, until the summer set in, I got into the party mood, then University began again, and Mr. Lee, didn't do no blogs no more...

Well, I'd just like to say that I'm am now back, but with a whole new zesting passion to write and a several new mediums to promote the blog, but first, for all you people that are new to this blog, lets just re-fresh and re-introduce.


I'm Lee, 19, and a Journalism Student at UCA in Farnham. I'm in my second year, specialising in Radio & TV Journalism. I co-host a podcast that I produce in the radio studio at my university, with a course mate that we started at the end of last year and are starting up again early November (EarsToTheSkies). The podcast has had some attention from a Radio DJ working at Life 103.6 FM that airs over Central/North London and the Web, who wants us to roll together a 5-minute segment each week to feature on his 4-5pm Sunday Showcase Session. I'm quite proud about that :D.
Then on the side I run a night and DJ at my university's union once a month-ish called Liquid Lives, I'm going to start asking guest DJs to play sets from the start of next year, which will hopefully make the night bigger and better! I write for a website called SonicDice, writing album/single reviews, going along to gigs and reviewing them aswell, so that takes up a wee bit of time.

Then along with all that, I have to fit in my university work, assignments, reading and research, so you can tell I'm pretty busy at the moment. However, I'm now going to endevour and try to post on this blog three times a week: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and by the start of January, work towards going completely independant from Blogger, with monies paying for my own site. That is the plan anyway.

I'm always interested in the idea of guest writers and contributers, whatever your idea, pitch it to me, anyone with an idea is creative!

Right, well this is going to be the first post, then on Wednesday I'll have another of these sorts of posts letting you know what's been going on, but on the music industry side etc, then on Friday I'm going to talk about Award ceremonies, reflecting on last month's Mercury, the upcoming DJ 100, and outline my shortlists for albums of the year, dance and rock. Then starting next month, will be the launch of the blog once again, so get ready, I am coming!