Music When The Lights Go Out

Is it cruel or kind not to speak my mind
And to lie to you rather than hurt you?
Well Ill confess all of of my sins
after several large gins
but still Ill hide from you
hide whats inside from you

And the alarm bells ring
When you say your heart still sings
When you're with me
Oh Won't you please forgive me

But I no longer hear the music
Oh no no no no no

And all the memories of the pubs
And the clubs and the drugs and the tubs
We shared together
Will stay with me forever

But all the highs and the lows
And the tos and the fros
They left me dizzy
Oh wont you please forgive me
I no longer hear the music
Oh no no no no

I no longer hear the music when the lights go out
Love goes cold in the shades of doubt
The strange fate in my mind is all too clear
Music when the lights come on
The girl I thought I knew is gone
And with her my heart it disappeared...

Oh i no longer hear the music

Mr Pete Doherty and Mr Carl Barat wrote this song, a lovely tune indeed, a classic. It has been dedicated to me a few times, played with sentiment, and it has made me cry.

Music When The Lights Go Out - Pete Doherty live on Newsnight



Ill miss you.

The Horrors live at el Salon 21

I dont know if it was them or the place that has this really horrible sound, i mean they had to stop the concert like 3 times to try to fix it! They couldnt, they lost me, i left after they played Sea Within A Sea.

So yeah, i arrived late, drunk and high again! hahaha i was at this Fishers place, and like i got drunk on these Perla Negra things (i hate them now), haha it was like pedimos el carrito? and im like whats el carrito? and then they come with this carrito full of these Perla Negra drinks, 40 of them. So in the way to the venue i decided i really had the need to smoke a little (when you get in its harder to smoke) so im high and drunk and i wanted to drink more. The concert started and i was already drunk enough to dance no matter what, but the sound was terrible enough to make it impossible for me to forget about it and keep on dancing, i was angry. I left before it was over but i dont think i missed much, but yeah they had a good attitude, the singer connects the dots and plays his roll very well, but that wasnt enough, i spent most of the time just drinking and chatting.

I have two theories: One, the sound equipment of the place must be old and the owners dont give a fuck about it and fuck fans up and bands too, who wants to play there and sound horrible!? Two, they didnt buy the right equipment for that venue. I dont know but i had fun and it was not thanks to the band, i didnt really cared they were on stage after like two or three songs.

They kind of have the same attitude live too.

Who Can Say - The Horrors

Bat For Lashes

Mystisicity, occultism, magic, fairies, fur and gold.

Natasha Khan, the girl singer and leader of this band of very talented feminine magicians. Bat For Lashes can be a band for windy nights, i like to listen to them when im outside and i can feel the air running trough my body, feel how it shapes the moment, and give tune to the wind with the nice voice that appears like casting spells to make the stars form the night.

Trophy - Bat For Lashes London live.



I like fur and gold.

Marilyn Manson

He was a huge hit in the head for parents back then in the 90s, when kids wanted to buy this weird album of this Antichrist guy dressing black latex and wearing lots of make up. For the kids it was just some nonsense rebellion against nothing, but it looked fun. And for me was nothing really, i didnt care about him until he came up with this Eat Me Drink Me album. My roomy being slightly a fan of Manson, bought tickets to one of his concerts here at el Salon 21 (its funny how people here scream even though they dont understand what the artists say), we thought it could make us both have fun and forget about life so we could become Dark and Wild for that night... and well we really did it, we did all this very professional Gothic makeup and dressed fit for the night, i was unrecognizable! I think this Gothic scene style gets really sexy, if you dont go too far, you could end up looking really good.

So he came back with this pornographic video featuring this girl from Across The Universe (how different she could be huh?), so shes going out with Marylin and shes something like 18-19 and hes like what? 40? go girl! hahaha i like the song.

Heart-Shaped Glasses - Marylin Manson

The Cure

Yesterdays night i had this weird video-like experience. Never happened to you that you put your iPod on and then inside your head you have the music of the video you are just witnessing with your eyes? Yesterday i was arriving home late and after having a couple martinis i didnt feel like going up to bed, so... i decided to walk around. Lucky i had my iPod with me. So i take off my heels and hide my purse around the gym and i start to travel around the building like a zombie. Inside my head i could see this weird artsy video of a girl just walking around places, i was looking down and i could see my legs and the different styles of the floor depending on the area (i didnt know floors have very interesting and nice textures before! haha marble!). I started to walk on rhythm unconsciously, making me go faster. So im into it, im walking around fast, going upstairs, different areas, the pool, the gym, the saloons, and then i feel somebodys looking at me, i look up to my side and i find the eyes of the guard from the entrance looking at me hahaha and i stop, take off my headphones and say:

Pandy: Buenas noches...

Guard: Buenas señorita, se va a enfermar...

Pandy: Si, solo estaba... caminando un poco.

Guard: Esta bien, no se le vayan a olvidar sus cosas.

Pandy: No.. gracias.

It was such an awkward moment, i picked up my things and went up home.

So the song that started everything was indeed... A Forest, my most favorite The Cures song. I love that dark feeling they created with the effects and futuristic keyboards. I think this was their best era, and well look at Robert Smith, he was a dark romantic.

A Forest - The Cure live in Japan



Dont you think Robert Smiths old enough to stop wearing all that make up?

HIM

Or His Infernal Majesty.

HIM is a band that some could put on them the label "guilty pleasure" because nowadays it gives the impression of being one of those emo bands. Being honest i had to listen to them secretly because my friends back then would bother me. But now i dont care, nobody should hide something they like, i encourage people to admit all their guilty pleasures, not just scream them to the world, but claim them good, and support them, because these guilty pleasures are indeed good! This band makes good music, all the band members play wonderfully and Ville Valo is sexy.

Look at the response of the crowd before them, they have this great vibe and all of them dance and jump, it must feel like a great energy in front of you when the audiences go crazy.

Ville Valo is like this weird bohemian/romantic/goth lover with a great voice, he usually talks about love in his lyrics, but in a very depressing way that sometimes could make you relate and feel identified.

I love the piano line on this track.

Join Me - HIM live at Rock am Ring 2001

The Horrors

And they came out with the best album of this year so far.

Being honest, i didnt like them at all, it was fun to have this crazy band dressing like Halloween and going crazy, but their music was crap, it was horrible as their name suggested. So they became a little famous on that one, i dont know why? i dont even know who took the decision/had the idea to put on sale such horrible record.

But this time they came back and they sound like they know how to make music. I was indeed impressed, ive got the album just a couple of days and i cant stop listening to it. They decided to morph into this combination of My Bloody Valentine, Johnny Thunders/The Ramones, Pink Floyd and... Portishead, yeah they had to sound a little like them, after all i heard a guy from Portisheads line up produced the album, it is called Primary Colors, well he did a great job on this one.

I cant post a live version because i dont think theres a video with proper quality right now, but we have the nice music video they made for this 8 minute song. Its brilliant!

Sea Within A Sea - The Horrors



So they play at el Salon 21 in about 2 weeks, and im definitely going even though ill have to listen to the horrible songs from the first album, the new ones are worth seeing live.

Children Of The Revolution!

So.. im back from my flu quarantine! and im healthy! yay!

Anyway so.. this is a follow up vid to the one my blogger friend Jossy showed me of this song, its not the best version i know, but it reminds me of a really good time i had back then in 05, 06? Well you remember the live 8 right?

Elont John played the London stage for the live 8 benefit concert, he played indeed this song and he called Pete Doherty on stage to sing it with him, it was kinda controversial because he looks like he was on heroin or something and he didnt really sing the song, he was much like shouting, and even if people say he did fuck up, which he probably did, i think it was cool, like he has always been this outlaw punk rock kid, what else did you expect? haha

I went to this day party, it was a live 8 party indeed, a great garden that was used for a party a night before, it had this dinner tables with flowers and all that but it was all dirty with food and you know what happens in parties, so it was weird, i remember that there was this computer and everybody had to sign their names to the live 8 website for helping the cause, and they had parts of the concert put to us real time, so thats when i saw this video.

Pete Doherty & Sir Elton John live at Londons live 8 stage



Thanks Jossy!