Shellsessions: Izzy Thomas

Izzy Thomas

Welcome to Dubturtle's Shellsessions. This is where we profile an exciting new artist for you to get your teeth into.

We introduce to you today: Izzy Thomas. An extremely talented Acoustic rock artist from Leeds, England.

This is her.

Izzy has a powerful, edgy sound, and Dubturtle loves her very much.  Here she is doing what she does best:

You can follow what Izzy is up to, and generally revel in her awesomeness, on the good ol' Facebook.

                                         IZZY THOMAS ON FACEBOOK

Thank you for reading, and tell your friends about this wonderful lady.

Lets all raise a glass to Izzy Thomas.

 

New Radiohead Stuff

hot off the press.

Radiohead have a brand new album "THE KING OF LIMBS" and its out today!!  like, as in right now!

Buy it here: http://www.thekingoflimbs.com/ 

And watch the video for new song "Lotus Flower" which is the video you see up there.

Mesmerizing stuff.

Thom Yorke et al, Dubturtle worships you.

BRITS Predictions: Were We Right?

Best Male:  DT Said: PLAN B     Actual Winner: PLAN B  


Best Female: DT Said: CHERYL COLE  Actual Winner: LAURA MARLING (glad we were wrong here, we love Laura here at Dubturtle)


British Breakthrough Act: DT Said: Mumford & Sons  Actual Winner: Tinie Tempah


British Group: DT Said: Take That   Actual Winner: Take That


British Single: DT Said: Plan B She Said   Actual Winner: Tinie Tempah Pass Out
(I dont know why I said Plan B in the end, when I said Tinie would win this one on my radio show..ah well..


British Album:  DT Said: Take That Progress   Actual Winner: Mumford & Sons  Sigh No More
(pleasantly surprised here, love the Mumford album.)

International Male: DT Said: Eminem   Actual Winner:  Cee Lo
(another pleasant surprise, they must've got rid of the BRITS Rulebook that says Eminem must win..)

International Female:  DT Said: Rihanna   Actual Winner:  Rihanna
(after the year she's had, who else couldve won tbh.)

International Group: DT Said:  Arcade Fire   Actual Winner: Arcade Fire
(YES!!)

International Album: DT Said: Arcade Fire  The Suburbs   Actual Winner: Arcade Fire  The Suburbs
(YES!!!!!!!!!!)

International Breakthrough: DT Said: The National  Actual Winner:  Bieber
(and not forgetting Mike!  BRITS viewers will know what I mean..)

So all in all, a great mix of surprise winners.  Who should've won, actually won  in the end.

and now to our Performance Predictions.. half right, half wrong. we were expecting Predictable-ness..we didnt get it..

Take That opened with Kidz.  we got that right.


Plan B hit medley.  we got that right, though we said he'd do Stay Too Long - and he didnt. sadly.


Rihanna hit medley.  we got that right.


Tinie Tempah.  we said Pass Out  but he ended up doing quite a few.


Adele.  we said Rolling In The Deep, because its a CHOON and its her single.  She ended up surprising everyone with an extremely stripped Piano-and-Vocal performance, with tears at the end.

Mumford & Sons.  we said The Cave.  they ended up doing an album track "Timshel"  another stripped down, introspective performance.  Which is a break from the normal Mumford-esque Jugband hoedown stompfest.


Cee Lo.  we said Forget You.  and he did.  and Paloma Faith joined him. and it was fun, and awesome.  Dubturtle has some form of wierd crush on Paloma..we dont know why..


Arcade Fire. we said We Used To Wait.   they ended up doing Ready To Start, which is in all honesty a better one.  and they were AMAZING.  The Fire has arrived.


Evaluation: Great host, unpredictable winners, unpredictable performances, nothing went wrong, slick.
Nothing like the BRITS of yore.  The move to the 02 was a huge success.  James Corden needs to stay.  All in all, a great watch  and a great way to celebrate the awesomenessity of British Music.  even if Justin Bieber did win an award...

BRITs 2011. Preds&Perfs

British Male Solo Artist

Mark Ronson Sony Music
Paul Weller Universal Music
Plan B Warner Music
Robert Plant Universal Music
Tinie Tempah EMI Music

British Female Solo Artist

Cheryl Cole Universal Music
Ellie Goulding Universal Music
Laura Marling EMI Music
Paloma Faith Sony Music
Rumer Warner Music

British Breakthrough Act

Ellie Goulding Universal Music
Mumford & Sons Universal Music
Rumer Warner Music
Tinie Tempah EMI Music
The XX XL Beggars

British Group

Biffy Clyro Warner Music
Gorillaz EMI Music
Mumford & Sons Universal Music
Take That Universal Music
The XX XL Beggars

British Single

Alexandra Burke ft Pitbull All Night Long Sony Music
Cheryl Cole Parachute Universal Music
Florence & The Machine You’ve Got The Love Universal Music
Matt Cardle When We Collide Sony Music
Olly Murs Please Don’t Let Me Go Sony Music
Plan B She Said Warner Music
Scouting For Girls This Ain’t A Love Song Sony Music
Taio Cruz Dynamite Universal Music
Tinie Tempah Pass Out EMI Music
The Wanted All Time Low Universal Music

MasterCard British Album of the Year

Mumford & Sons Sigh No More Universal Music
Plan B The Defamation of Strickland Banks Warner Music
Take That Progress Universal Music
Tinie Tempah Disc-Overy EMI Music
The XX XX XL Beggars

International Male Solo Artist

Bruce Springsteen Sony Music
Cee Lo Green Warner Music
David Guetta EMI Music
Eminem Universal Music
Kanye West Universal Music

International Female Solo Artist

Alicia Keys Sony Music
Katy Perry EMI Music
Kylie Minogue EMI Music
Rihanna Universal Music
Robyn Universal Music

International Breakthrough Act

Bruno Mars Warner Music
Glee Cast Sony Music
Justin Bieber Universal Music
The National XL Beggars
The Temper Trap Infectious

International Group

Arcade Fire Universal Music
Black Eyed Peas Universal Music
Kings of Leon Sony Music
The Script Sony Music
Vampire Weekend XL Beggars

International Album

Arcade Fire The Suburbs Universal Music
Cee Lo Green The Lady Killer Warner Music
Eminem Recovery Universal Music
Katy Perry Teenage Dream EMI Music
Kings of Leon Come Around Sundown Sony Music

Performers and Predicted performances:
Take That: i thought The Flood but their new single is Kidz so maybe both?
Plan B: probably a She Said/Stay Too Long medley
Rihanna: she's the one that I think will have a BRITS-style surprise something.  she's had like 100 hits in 2010 she maybe all of them? LOL
Tinie Tempah: has to be Pass Out, what a choon.
Adele: Rolling In The Deep, with dancers.
Mumford & Son: The Cave
Cee Lo: oh i wonder...
Arcade Fire: We Used To Wait.  Cant wait for this.  AAH!!

Dubturtles Star of the Night?: ARCADE FIRE. squee.

Grammys and that

I'm such a dedicated blogger.  I stayed up last night to watch the Grammys online. 
I live in England.
Up till about 5am.  Ugh.


Basically, it wasnt a bad show at all.    Lady Gaga, just like her single, didnt live up to the hype.
I think the problem here is us. Its our fault.  Maybe we expect too much of this girl?
Maybe she is just hype after all...


Muse rocked!  They deserve all the plaudits they get!
Justin Bieber and Jaden Smith also surprised me.  We should hate these guys.  And generally I do,
but They're kids!  and they owned that stage!  That has to be respected whatever genre you're into.


Mumford And Sons. Avett Brothers. Bob Dylan.  ALL ON THE SAME STAGE.
SQUEE!!!!


Eminem and Dre was amazing, as to be expected.

I cant remember anything else, probably because I was up at 4am and not really aware of anything, so Im pretty impressed I remembered this much to be honest.




Here is the Mumford, Avett and Dylan clip as courtesy of DailyMotion:



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PJ Tops

..as in PG Tips.. yeah..

anyway..  Legendary English songstress PJ Harvey is to be given the top gong at this years NME Awards.

She will be presented with the Teenage Cancer Trust Outstanding Contribution to Music award at the Ceremony, held on the 23rd of February.

And so she should!
She is amazing after all.  and so is her new album Let England Shake which is in all good music stores now.

Here is a picture of her.

om nom nom.

Shellsessions: Muddy Suzuki

Muddy Suzuki

Welcome to Dubturtle's Shellsessions. This is where we profile an exciting new band for you to get your teeth into.

We introduce to you today: Muddy Suzuki. A crazily good, crazy music man.

Real name being Damo Waters.   This guy has drummed for 3 of my favourite acts.

The Electric Soft Parade. Field Music. Thomas White.

And now he's doing musicy thing on his ownsome.  And its AWESOME!!  Dubturtle approves.

In his own words?

English eccentric pop/rock-smithery, with a side order of psychedelia, lashings of nonsense, and prog for pudding.

That blurb alone should be enough to satisfy your happy glands, but if you want to hear his stuff for yourself you can do at these various sites:

HIS BANDCAMP  HIS MYSPACE  HIS SOUNDCLOUD  HIS FACEBOOK

You get the picture.

DUBTURTLE RECOMMENDS:- GEARSTICK CABARET

Lets all drink to Muddy Suzuki !