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BBC Lancashire Introducing with Sean Mcginty… 28th August 2008

27 Sep 2008, 20:14

On the show...

Maupa stop by the BBC open centre to talk about their latest activities. The band - who take their name from the Polish word for 'monkey' - also discuss their involvement on Jamie Holman's course at Blackburn Media College. Jamie, head of the college's media department, is also in the studio tonight to give us info about the college record label On Song records and the opportunities they provide to aspiring musicians.

Terry from 10 X Better music is another man with experience and huge insight into the music industry. He joins the discussion and puts forward his thoughts, especially with regard to band promotion and plugging. All in all, there's a lot of good advice for fledgling musical talents to listen to tonight.

We play a package of Leeds and Reading live tracks from the BBC Introducing stage including The Maybes?, The Joy Formidable, We Are Scientists, Attack! Attack!, Biffy Clyro and Tripwires.


What's Top of the Pops?

Lady GaGa feat. Akon & Colby O'Donis - PlayJust Dance



Katy Perry still reigns supreme at number one on the UK chart, so it’s over to Canada this week where Perry capitulated after nine weeks at the top of the Hot 100 to Lady GaGa. Lady GaGa’s real name is Stefani Gabriella Germanotta and she’s decided to put on some lightning-bolt eye makeup and make her own career after serving time as a songwriter for the likes of Pussycat Dolls and Britney Spears. Her mantra? Just Dance. Does it matter that you can’t remember how your shirt got inside out, that you can’t remember the name of the club you’re in and that you can’t control your “playboy mouth”? Not if you’re body-popping along to the mechanoid beat it doesn’t.

Even though she claims she “can’t see straight anymore”, things are alright now that Lady GaGa is bustin’ her moves to this electronica bilge. The video features the Lady laying into the grooves at a lo-fi robo-disco houseparty with a bunch of other bedraggled ravers and wasters. Amongst the guests is producer Akon and upcoming R&B smoothie Colby O’Donis, though the most interesting of these strung-out synth freaks has got to be the dude crashed out on the toilet wearing a fluffy wolf head. This looks like a real drag of a party; it needs a giant mascot to shake things up.

There also appears to be someone who’s got a toy drum on their shoulders where their face should be. Should we be concerned? Hey, relax... “just dance”. Lady GaGa clearly isn’t interested in her guests and gets on with roughing up an inflatable whale in the backyard paddling pool. Interestingly enough, GaGa recently performed this track at this year’s Miss Universe finals in Vietnam. Who the hell decided that having the plastic humpback-humping Lady blast out her “half-psychotic synth-hypnotic” sounds would be the ideal half-time entertainment at a South East Asian beauty pageant?

We knew that Canadians liked fetishistic action and giant-headed fluffy things, but who knew that the way to score a hit on their charts was to blend ‘em all together in a bad video for a tech-heavy dance track? Ah well, I guess they can only take so much Rush and Bryan Adams. In the absence of a new number one in the UK, looking across the Atlantic it’s Lady GaGa, Colby O’Donis and her fellow anti-social anthropomorphic freaks who are Top of the Pops...


The Bryan Awards...

This week, legendary pop icon Neil Diamond picks up the "The Bryan Award for Being Diamond by Name and Diamond by Nature" after offering fans in Columbus, Ohio a full refund and a heartfelt personalised apology when laryngitis interfered with the concert.


This Week's Playlist...


High Contrast - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Elbow - PlayThe Bones of You
The Futureheads - Walking Backwards
The Young Knives - Up All Night
Beth Ditto's Big Christmas Dinner Party - The Gallows Are Too Angry In My Opinion
Gallows - In the Belly of a Shark
Goldblade - Jukebox Generation
Weezer - PlayTroublemaker
Maupa - PlayBig Pig
We Are Scientists - PlayImpatience
Maupa- PlayWhat A Mess
The Joy Formidable - PlayAustere
Maupa - PlayToy Trains
Blood Red Shoes - PlayThis Is Not For You
The Maybes? -
The Joy Formidable -
We Are Scientists -
Attack! Attack! -
Biffy Clyro -
Tripwires -
Oasis - PlayThe Shock of the Lightning
Gone til Winter - Nameless Cry

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