Downloadable: Hot Chip & Bonnie Prince Billy

Yes, it's a bit like that Sherry that Harveys made for making mixed drinks with - it doesn't feel like it should work.

The difference is that Hot Chip and Bonnie Prince Billy does work, unlike the mixing sherry which even the guys under the bridge wouldn't touch.

RCRD LBL are offering Billy-doing-vocals for Chip I Feel Bonnie. Enjoy, but don't put lemonade in your sherry.

Hot Chip: honesty in advertising

Hot Chip are doing a MySpace show in New York tonight. At least their press team are honest:

Hot Chip and the not so secret MySpace show

If only MySpace could be so upfront about how a gig advertised on the fourth-or-fifth largest social networking website in the world can't really be secret.

Streaming now: Hot Chip

Drowned In Sound have an exclusive on a Joris Voorn remix of Hot Chip's One Night Stand for you to enjoy. (Actually, given they're using Soundcloud and it's an embeddable player, it's not exclusive at all, really, but it's fair to listen through DiS, isn't it?)

Al Doyle is happy to make this clear

Hot Chip's Al Doyle seems to have started his own corrections and clarifications column:

"A news article has appeared, quoting me as saying that LCD Soundsystem is over, or that they have split up.

"I would like to clarify that LCD have not disbanded, nor could the entity be disbanded in the sense that it has always had a revolving cast of players – it would be like saying that The Fall had disbanded, or Prince has split up.

"LCD Soundsystem is James Murphy, and he's allowed to take time off, do other things, and come back, or not come back. And he doesn't have to tell you or anyone else about it.

"I didn't know if anything was going on with LCD next year, which is the truth, and that's all I should have said, but I gabbled on a bit because that's the way I am...

"Anyway, I should probably stop doing interviews after this, which is already my second chance. But the main point to take away is that more LCD music is in the pipeline, which is surely good news for everybody."

Also, Doyle is very, very sorry about what he said about Murphy's mother and only meant he could do that sideways with that thing in a metaphorical way and with the way the credit crunch is going, you know, he really could do with the extra work, Mr. Murphy...

Hot Chip: Cheap as chips

In a give-us-your-details-get-an-mp3 trade off, EMI are offering a free Hot Chip track for download.

Chips for free

EMI is offering a deal: you give them some information, they give you a new Hot Chip track for free. Of course, you could choose to give EMI a bunch of useless information, and they'd never know. Which might be wise as the privacy statement seems to boil down to "we won't give your name to anyone else, except if we think they could make use of it."

Shrigley's friends make time for music

The lyrics-without-music book Worried Noodles is set to get some music after all, as a stellar team of pop people provide musical settings for David Shrigley's words:

Christopher Francis - ‘One’
Grizzly Bear – ‘Blackcurant Jam’
R. Stevie Moore – ‘Live In Fear’
Phil Elvrum & Nick Krgovich - ‘Watcha Doin’'
Scarlett’s Well - ‘Maybe’
Psapp – ‘Sad Song’
Aidan Moffat & The Best Of’s - ‘Your Hands Are Cold’
Yacht – ‘I Saw You’
Simon Bookish – ‘Prince Of Wales’
Deerhoof – ‘You, Dog’
Hank – ‘Baby’s Bible’
Marriot 1262 (TV On The Radio Portland Chapter) - ‘Sweet, Sweet, Sweet Potato’
David Byrne – ‘For You’
James Chadwick – The Wooden Floor’
Islands - ‘Joy’
Cotton Candy – ‘A Sentimental Song’
Franz Ferdinand - ‘No’
Alig Fodder – ‘The Hole’
Cibelle – ‘Elaine’
Dirty Projectors – ‘Come Forward’
The Curtains - ‘Show Me The Way Things Work’
Max Tundra – ‘A Truce’
Munch Munch – ‘A Squirrel’
Liars – ‘Panic Button’
Tussle (ft. David Shrigley) - ‘A Clash Of Heads’
Trans Am – ‘The Film’
John Shankie – ‘A Song’
Scout Niblett – ‘The Bell’
Final Fantasy - ‘Joys’
Mt. Eerie – ‘A Sentimental Song’
The Dead Science - ‘Once I Found A Diamond’
Lord Cut Glass - ‘Maybe’
Per Francine – ‘Another Song’
Hot Chip - ‘No’
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - ‘The Pretty Girl’
Mitch Friedman - ‘Awesome’
Pyrolator & Stoya - ‘Elaine’
Les Georges Leningrad - ‘Manager And Coordinater Of Prostitutes’

Glastonbury blog round-up

Felix Martin out of Hot Chip doesn't like Glastonbury very much, he tells the Guardian's music blog:

Do illegal raves still happen? Of course. Are they any good? I don't know. Probably not, but there's certainly potential for fun. What are the alternatives? The legitimate festivals with corporate sponsors, professional promoters and big fences. Glastonbury is far and away the best of a drab bunch, with a rich history of music, drugs and pissing off the locals. But even Glastonbury is threatening to morph into a kind of musical version of the Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival. Mums and dads with prams and spliffs and mud, all there together - it looks all wrong, and I want those horrible, emaciated teenagers to come back, the ones who threatened everyone with flame-throwers made from aerosol cans and lighters, and charged people a fiver to get through gaps in the fence.

You can organise security, you can organise drainage systems, you can organise some of your profits to go to charitable causes - and Glastonbury does all these things in an admirable fashion. However, I'm not so convinced that you can organise having a good time. Free and improvised parties leave open the possibility that something unexpected and good might happen to you. And while there remains the tiny, glimmering suggestion that someone, somewhere in England might actually be having a good time, there will always be those that are out to stop them.

He's got a point. Although Glastonbury would probably argue - with some fairness - that it's not they who have got so middle classed, middle aged, middel England; it's merely followed rock music's path to the place where it now resides, helping sell the Daily Mail through CD giveaways and exclusive interviews rather than helping sell the Daily Mail through outraged editorials and calls for something to be done.

As if to not merely underline Martin's point, but to make notes in the margin and highlight it in dayglo orange, the Guardian Festival Vulture is currently interviewing Harry Enfield.

Novello no va

The annual insult to the memory of Ivor Novello, The Ivors songwriting awards, has announced its shortlist. That the committee have a cloth ear or a desire to flatter has been hinted at in previous years, but with nominations for Madonna's sorry Sorry and Rudebox - yes, Robbie Williams' Rudebox - in international hit of the year surely undermines the very point of the prizes. Why not just have a category called "Best effort by a famous person we'd like to come to the ceremony" and have done with? The whole thing stinks more than a GM-TV phone-in. The only good bits of Rudebox are the twenty-year old samples from Boops, and their appearance in the farrago only cheapens them.

We've never quite understood why a prize is given to the best "contemporary" song - does that mean the other prizes are for the best old-fashioned song? Still, it's the only award which has a decent shortlist - wherever you stand on Winehouse's reading of it, Rehab is a hell of a song and Over and Over probably sounds more like 2006 than anything else on the list. So it'll probably wind up going to Yeah Yeah.

The nominations in full, with the usual link to leap if you'd rather:

BEST SONG MUSICALLY & LYRICALLY

Elusive
Writer: Scott Matthews
Performed By: Scott Matthews
UK Publisher: Universal Music Publishing

Sophia
Writer: Nerina Pallot
Performed By: Nerina Pallot
UK Publisher: Chrysalis Music Ltd

When The Sun Goes Down
Writer: Alex Turner
Performed By: Arctic Monkeys
UK Publisher: EMI Music Publishing


BEST CONTEMPORARY SONG

Over and Over
Writers: Joseph Goddard / Alexis Taylor / Felix Martin
Performed By: Hot Chip
UK Publisher: Warner Chappell Music

Rehab
Writer: Amy Winehouse
Performed By: Amy Winehouse
UK Publisher: EMI Music Publishing

Yeah Yeah
Writers: Nick Bridges / Jon Pearn / Nathan Thomas / Luciana Caporaso / Nick Clow
Performed By: Bodyrox Ft Luciana
UK Publisher: Notting Hill Music / Universal Music Publishing / EMI Music Publishing

BEST ORIGINAL FILM SCORE

Casino Royale
Composer: David Arnold
UK Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing

Ice Age The Meltdown
Composer: John Powell
UK Publisher: EMI Music Publishing

Severance
Composer: Christian Henson
UK Publisher: Air-Edel Associates Ltd


BEST TELEVISION SOUNDTRACK

Broadcast: Hotel Babylon
Composer: John Lunn / Jim Williams
UK Publisher: Bucks Music Group

Broadcast: Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole In My Heart
Composer: Alex Heffes
UK Publisher: EMI Music Publishing

Broadcast: The Virgin Queen
Composer: Martin Phipps
UK Publisher: BDi Music Limited


PRS MOST PERFORMED WORK

I Don’t Feel Like Dancin'
Writers: Sir Elton John / Scott Hoffman / Jason Sellards
Performed By: Scissor Sisters
UK Publisher: HST Management Ltd / Universal Music Publishing / EMI Music Publishing

Put Your Records On
Writers: Corinne Bailey Rae / John Beck / Steve Chrisanthou
Performed By: Corinne Bailey Rae
UK Publisher: Global Talent Publishing / Good Groove Songs

Sorry
Writers: Madonna / Stuart Price
Performed By: Madonna
UK Publisher: Warner Chappell Music


INTERNATIONAL HIT OF THE YEAR

I Don’t Feel Like Dancin'
Writer/s: Sir Elton John / Scott Hoffman / Jason Sellards
Performed By: Scissor Sisters
UK Publisher: HST Management Ltd / Universal Music Publishing / EMI Music Publishing

Rudebox
Writers: Robbie Williams / Danny Spencer / Kelvin Andrews / Sly Dunbar / Robbie Shakespeare / William “Earl” Collins / Bill Laswell / Edmund “Carl Jr” Aiken
Performed By: Robbie Williams
UK Publisher: BMG Music Publishing / Chrysalis Music Ltd / Universal Music Publishing / Warner Chappell Music

Sorry
Writers: Madonna / Stuart Price
Performed By: Madonna
UK Publisher: Warner Chappell Music

Chip double dip

The long running (indeed, almost venerable) DJ Kicks series is preparing its latest offering. This time, it's Hot Chip doing the remix work, rebuilding New Order, Etta James, Joe Jackson, Wookie, Black Devil Disco Club and (naturally) a spot of themselves into something glitzy and new.

It's due on the 21st May, but Amazon will take your money now.