Video – LGN XYZ

Yelle – Ba$$in

We went to Vancouver last year – yeah, check us out – and saw two gigs there. One we kind of arranged the holiday around was Tegan & Sara doing The Con X at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Another that we were delighted to coincide with was Yelle at the Imperial.

Because Yelle puts on an incredible show. Whether it’s us being slightly concened about the moving floor as a packed room jumped in unison at the Old Blue Last, or grinning our faces off downstairs at Electrowerkz, or throwing shapes at Oslo and Village Underground, she/they are one of our faves. Love her and them and her and them.

The Imperial seemed a bit disconcertingly posh going in, but we needn’t have worried – it was a jumparound dancefest and Yelle were incredible. Can’t wait to see them again.

Faire des ronds avec ton LGN XYZ.

Tegan & Sara – Now I’m All Messed Up

There’s a bunch of moments on the Let’s Eat Grandma album that are massively Tegan & Sara. Which is no bad thing, obviously.

Shan’t witter on. This song’s very good. Makes us cry a bit. One of the better ones on one of the newer albums, and they did a lovely acousticy version on the Con X tour. Love.

Go if you want, to LGN XYZ.

Let’s Eat Grandma – It’s Not Just Me

SOPHIE on production duties with your man from the Horrors, so it says on a website we just glanced at and that’s the sort of diligent fact-checking you’re going to get here.

We’d never heard of Let’s Eat Grandma before Hot Pink, the SOPHIE connection bringing us in. That track is a fucking belter, not entirely dissimilar to slamming one of the Vroom Vroom tracks into a softer pop song.

This one is a softer pop song, but bloody lovely and our current fave. Current, because we’ve only given the album a couple listens and we’re liable to give it a lot more. Very good it is. And always good to have more bands to make us jealous that we never had friends at school or otherwise that wanted to be in a band with us. Sob.

Don’t fail to believe at LGN XYZ.

SOPHIE – Immaterial

Yes, we’re brazenly going ‘Material Girl‘ to Immaterial. Deal with it.

We went to the SOPHIE show at Heaven earlier in the year and (whisper it, WHISPER IT) didn’t love some of it. Sorry sorry sorry. Maybe we were overhyped.

But we did love the audience being a glorious post-gender futurescape, and we did massively love this unbelieveable banger slamming into the latter part of the set with a shining bit of text lighting up in syllables (IM-MA-TE-RI-AL in white, GIRL in blue, BOY in pink, natch natch natch). And fuck does it go off.

Kind of bop of the year this, and insane it doesn’t (yet) have a music video. So you’ll just have to enjoy the above (and look up footage from the gig because the graphics are ace).

Always the same and, never the same, LGN XYZ.

Madonna – Burning Up

Give us 80s Madonna.

Oh, hello there. So we reached 16 daily posts before completely neglecting this for weeks, which isn’t bad now is it?

Anyway, let’s continue.

Today, your Saturday 7th July 2017, is hot as anything in London town. It’s also Pride. And there’s also some boring football bollocks going on. Ignoring the latter, this song and artist seemed a good pick.

Although, TBH, the timing and weather is coincidental because we knew we were going to use the ’80s Madonna’ connection. Look, shut up, we’re getting back into the swing of this to complete week 3. ENJOY THE VIDEO.

Come on, let go at LGN XYZ.

Bis – Action And Drama

Lois Maffeo features on Detour, a song and single off of Bis’ second album. It’s a good ol’ song, but always felt to us the odd one out on Social Dancing, and so it wouldn’t be a representative intro.

This would, though. Action And Drama was another single off that album, and as well as being an absolute fucking smash in and of itself, it has the B-Side of Like Robots which is one of our absolute favourite ever songs in the world ever ever ever. It’s amazing.

We love Bis. Love love love love love Bis. This was one of the first albums we bought, and loved, and got massively obsessed over the band being everything. Intro to pop, intro to punk, intro to DIY, intro to drum machines, intro to feminism, intro to riot grrrl, intro to the world.

We’ll be getting fresh at LGN XYZ.

Lois Maffeo & Brendan Canty – You Love Your Wounds

We think – think – we may – may – have first heard of Gravy Train!!!! through a free mp3 of Hella Nervous that used to be on the Kill Rock Stars website. Kill Rock Stars is a record label, and back in the distant past it was quite a cool thing to have a wee selection of free mp3s like they had. Lots of awesome stuff.

Including quite literally this actual song. The lyrics of the opening verse are wonderful, and the whole things really very good.

We’ll be honest – unlikely to be played at any LGN XYZ. But this blog thing isn’t just about songs we’d play there. “Isn’t it? What the fuck’s the point of it, then?” SHUT UP. It’s also just songs we like and that. We’re more than just a disco, jeez.

Look at us, we’re lying on an LGN XYZ full of roses.

Gravy Train!!!! – Club Situation

Julie Ruin begat Le Tigre and we saw Le Tigre a few times, including (we think!) in Manchester where Gravy Train!!!! were the support (“That’s not a direct link!” THEY SUPPORTED KATHLEEN HANNA DIRECTLY, FUCK OFF.) They were brilliant, with an added bonus of making the trendy men stood by us look uncomfortable.

This is one of their few videos, from off of their third album, (we think third? We’re not going to look it up, so you’re just going to have to accept it or do your own research, guy,) where they start sounding a bit more polished. Which could’ve been for the worse if they didn’t keep up the bangers.

Reader, they kept up the bangers.

And in this vid, the gang visit Vogue Fabrics or something.

We wanna dance with you, uh-huh, at LGN XYZ.

Julie Ruin – The Punk Singer

We (first?) saw Lykke Li at the ICA. It was an odd one, remember the room being extremely black and the crowd quite sparse and it feeling a bit ‘industry’ because there wasn’t much dancing to some proper bangers.

Anyway, the ICA is also where we first saw The Punk Singer – the documentary about Kathleen Hanna – as part of… some sort of festival or thing. Sorry; memory. We spent pretty much the entire film in tears and then went outside to sit in St James’ Park and cry some more. So, why not the titular song of that?

We got the Julie Ruin album way back a million years ago (not when it came out but after Le Tigre, so like… 2000 maybe?) It’s a mixed bag, but there’s a handful of properly brilliant tunes on there. This is one of them. Also, one of the very few songs we can make a decent fist of playing on guitar.

We got the L through the window, you got the GN XYZ.

Lykke Li – Little Bit

So keep me guessing, a little bit. It’s a lyrics link. A lyrink.

Odd thing with the video for this that it’s not on YouTube in any official capacity; the one that comes up on Google video search is someone uploaded it in dodgy quality, and then there’s this nicer version on a fakey Lykke Li channel.

A simple vid, but quite unusual – the multilayered transparency is quite a nice thing. Not sure we’d seen this before, but have listened to it lots. Youth Novels is ten years old now, tcha. And we really need to catch up on her new one.

Lots of insight in these posts, isn’t there? Lots of insight.

But how we move from A to B to L to G to N to X to Y to Z.