Embarrassingly I’ve only got around to catching these guys a few weeks ago, they were really good and deserving of the top spot in the old school album charts.

And here’s the final clip for the week. I hoped you’ve enjoyed this week’s more visual Who the Bloody Hell Are They. I thought I’d leave you this week with everyone’s favourite heavy rockers, Cog, and the clip for their latest single ‘Bird of Feather’.

http://www.cog.com.au
http://www.myspace.com/cogrockmusic

Phase 2, part 2: Bertie Blackman and the clip for her new single, the rather infectious ‘Fast Bitch’. Who’s the fast bitch? Bertie, or someone else? I refuse to believe BB’s a bitch!

http://www.myspace.com/bertieblackman

Thus begins Plan B – posting film clips to mask the fact that we’re not uploading new blogs. First off the rank: Happenstance.

http://www.myspace.com/happenstanceband

CakeHole – ‘Stab You’ (mp3)

Before I get into this little writeup, I just wanted to say we might be a little scant on the postings this week. It’s busy days ahead, but please bear with us and we’ll be back to the usual programming in no time. Hell, we might just throw up a bunch of YouTube vids to pass the time.

It’s one of those songs that you hope is meant to be ironically bad. CakeHole is a bit of a mystery band: the vocals are immediately obvious as Jess Origliasso from The Veronicas, but the other characters I’m not too sure of. I think one of them may be Azaria, singer of The Follow (and Jess’ new beau) but the other dude… no idea. Any clues readers?

The aesthetic is amateur electronic J-pop, but with lyrics like “I will stab you here / don’t ask me why / I will stab you with / Stab you with my wife” I can only assume – and hope – that CakeHole are supposed to be tongue-in-cheek bad. Honestly, who would write crap like that and mean it to be serious? The problem, though, seems to lie in Jess’ incongruent vocal melody that doesn’t lock in with the music. This ain’t no Veronicas pop tune, honey.

In the end, it’s fairly vacuous but innocuous electronic dribblings that won’t amount to much. But somehow it’s irritatingly memorable.

http://www.myspace.com/cakeholemole

Ricki-Lee – ‘Can’t Sing A Different Song (Supermelody Remix)’

Yeah, yeah, so we’ve copped a bit of flack in the past for journeying into pop territory by posting one or two songs from former Aussie Idol contestant Ricki-Lee. Well, when a remix of one of her songs arrives in my inbox that’s this whacky and it’s been done by ex-Architecture in Helsinki member James Cecil (who goes by the pseudonym Supermelody)… then we have a duty, nah an obligation to the Australian music-loving folk of cyberspace, to post this!

Taking lead from Missy Elliot, this remix of ‘Can’t Sing A Different Song’ contains a rather awkward, non-syncopated beat, and a bridge that completely shifts the style of the song. Ricki-Lee’s never sounded so cool.

http://www.myspace.com/rickileeofficial

Plug-In City – ‘Blank Photo’

Modular’s newest wunder-kids, Plug-In City, bring us something, uhh, new… ‘Blank Photo’. I guess this is what Robert Palmer would sound like if they’d cryogenically frozen him, brought him into the 21st century and set him to work writing New Wave tunes. Just a lot blander. There’s a air of Joy Division we don’t care-edness and that ostenisbly cool exterior bands like Van She and The Lost Valentinos were perfecting in 2006. This sounds like Plug-In City missed the boat. They need to bring the rave synths back, pronto, and drop the ‘Old Man Sam’ bass.

http://www.myspace.com/plugincity