Duffy's new video

[pitch]

Did anyone catch the new video to 'Mercy' on C4 last night. Definitely one for all you Northern Soul folk to embrace or scorn..... some 'top' dancing ending in flames. I'd post up a link, but there isn't one yet. Retro is the new New.

[mike sondek]

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I'd post up a link, but I'm incompetent.

[45 Whiskers]

What a toss video. theres only 3 guys dancing along to it (i know one of them and he'll be getting an earful from me when i next see him!) and no soulie worth their salt would dance in that style to that rhythm...

Confused Of Deptford.

[mike sondek]

Hasn't Sam Brown already tried to make a career out of peddling this kind of bottle-blonde retro soul-lite, failed & had to resort to singing for Jools Holland's big band?

Oh & Carmel (McOurt) did it better about 20 years ago.

[Saint Jude]

Did anyone catch the new video to 'Mercy' on C4 last night. Definitely one for all you Northern Soul folk to embrace or scorn..... some 'top' dancing ending in flames. I'd post up a link, but there isn't one yet. Retro is the new New.

You mean this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE2orthS3TQ&feature=user

[pitch]

You mean this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE2orthS3TQ&feature=user

That's the one - obviously just posted up! Thanks for the link

Have to say if I leave my cynical old bastard hat at the door, I kind of like the song and the video - they both stay with you. BTW - I count at least 10 dancers in the wide views.... anyway, I rather like the effect of only a few people in such a large space.

[Felonious]

Self styled soulies have a problem with cameras due to a traumatic experience at The Casino when cameras were allowed in. In those days of course the cameras were rather large and bulky, hand cranked and mounted on prams or dollies. They also required every light in the place to be turned on and every Klieg in the Lee Lighting warehouse to be sent up north. The ensuing heat combined with volatile talc set everyone's polyester Spencers on fire.

Every div who's arrived on the scenes since than feels obliged to condemn any intrusion" by the real world into their fiedfom. They of course having had a personal invite from Russ Winstanley to join the underground and absolutely no way were they influenced by the sight of Wigan's Chosen Few performing Footsee on TOTP.

If the Duffy single was available on vinyl I'd be playing it this Saturday at the Woodsie Social Club at Blacktrackin'. Actually it is so down to HMV at Lunch time.

[BlackRegent]

Its all subjective I know, but to my ears that is a very poor song

[Lady J]

Can't really decide whether I like it. It's cute enough, but it's overlong, and just a bit too 'tidy' for me. If it'd come out of nowhere it might be a bit more interesting, but it seems a too calculated to fit the current scene and a certain type of music fan. She certainly doesn't display much of a real passion for the music she's imitating.

[ashra]

that little rap bit is almost as stomach churning as madonna / robbie williams (glad I can't hear it properly)

I'm sure I saw a thing about her on S4C news last summer when I was in Wales - I seem to remember there was a mega lo budget video of her wandering about the fields of Llyn with her boyfriend looking pretty windswept. Miles cooler than ersatz Northern rubbish

[SirSlim]

They of course having had a personal invite from Russ Winstanley to join the underground and absolutely no way were they influenced by the sight of Wigan's Chosen Few performing Footsee on TOTP.

[Ian Townsend]

Health & Safety!!!

That's all i'm sayin'

Any fool know that if your trousers catch fire you Stop, Drop and Roll.

F'idiots.

[babycart]

Are there any black British women soul singers who are getting backing from their record company like Amy, Joss, Natasha Bedingfield and the rest?
i can only think of Corinne Bailey Rae, and she's been quiet for a bit.
Jamelia has no record deal and one of the country's great soul voices, Mica Paris, seems to have given it up as a bad job and is presenting daytime TV instead.

[Lord Thames]

I can't hear the name Duffy without thinking of the really old one from Please Sir!, unfortunately.

[folkishienne]

Sadly it looks like she's being steered down the commercial toilet... It's a shame, I quite like her voice but the backing band, video and general way she's being packaged is all very plastic

[jakartajive]

If The Man really believes this is the kind of track that has folk doing back-drops and spins and the like whilst lobbing down the talc He is deluded. No groove, no soul, no guts ANS she still comes on to my ears at least as someone who learned to sing from Mariah 'Satan' Carey records.

YES to Babycart's comments on why the hell there aren't more black British women getting a shove when this kind of soul-lite pap can get so much money behind it.

Oh, and is it just me, or does anyone else find the whole northern dance thing just ever so slightly insularly homo-erotic. Where are the GIRLS for Chrissakes! All those well-groomed mod boys spinning wheels around each other. I may of course just be jealous that I could never begin to dance that well, but I satill think it's slightly fishy meself.

[folkishienne]

Oh, and is it just me, or does anyone else find the whole northern dance thing just ever so slightly insularly homo-erotic. Where are the GIRLS for Chrissakes! All those well-groomed mod boys spinning wheels around each other. I may of course just be jealous that I could never begin to dance that well, but I satill think it's slightly fishy meself.

It's a conspiracy, they mean to turn you H

[babycart]

[QUOTE=jakartajive;208164] All those well-groomed mod boys spinning wheels around each other. QUOTE]

You've obviously not been to the sort of all-nighters I've been to.

[Old School Tramp]

I reckon they have nicked the ol' feet o' flames off the master!

Errr...I kinda like the track, pop music innit?...I'm sure Mark Ronson will do a remix..& it'll be dope!

[son of stan]

Oh, and is it just me, or does anyone else find the whole northern dance thing just ever so slightly insularly homo-erotic. Where are the GIRLS for Chrissakes! All those well-groomed mod boys spinning wheels around each other. I may of course just be jealous that I could never begin to dance that well, but I satill think it's slightly fishy meself.

Yeah, the big old preening nancy boys. Need a spell in the army and dose of Black Sabbath.... etc, etc....

[Slim Jim]

http://music.guardian.co.uk/live/sto...242672,00.html

Doesn't seem likely she'll stick to her musical guns if it doesn't lead to hits - 3rd place in a regional Pop Idol contest - Jesus!!!!

[mike sondek]

Straight men can't dance, straight women can, it's another one of those quirky things that point towards God havin' a laugh.

[Col Wolfe]

Yeah, the big old preening nancy boys. Need a spell in the army and dose of Black Sabbath.... etc, etc....

shit vid - all been done before, mutter, grumble...

also (!), the organ is way too squeaky

[Col Wolfe]

Straight men can't dance, straight women can, it's another one of those quirky things that point towards God havin' a laugh.

you've never been to a northern soul night either?

[babycart]

Straight men can't dance, straight women can, it's another one of those quirky things that point towards God havin' a laugh.

What does 'straight' mean?

Bonobocart.

[TOWNY]

It's great pop music, i like it I won't buy it and i probably won't like it when i've had it rammed into my ears constantly which is inevitable imo music loving teachers at the school i work are already whispering to me about her thinking they are cool

I think the video is pretty shit and the dancers are shit (i don't believe it's that much of a dying art, there are some incredible dancers around !)- just a really weak, derivative low to mid budget blandfest.

but i would rather this stuff was topping charts to be honest

[e3sa934]

i can only think of Corinne Bailey Rae, and she's been quiet for a bit.

I should imagine she'll pop up on the Mark Ronson tour, supplying guest vocals on some numbers (as she did on the last tour - well the Leeds date anyway)

[folkishienne]

but i would rather this stuff was topping charts to be honest

Yep

[aiff]

Radio has gone right down the pan at the moment. Particulary daytime Radio1.
This is by far one of the better things out there at the moment.

Congrats to Bernard Butler.

[Monobrow]

Are there any black British women soul singers who are getting backing from their record company like Amy, Joss, Natasha Bedingfield and the rest?

Eska has a great voice - she recently sang on the Elektrons album which I think was massively overlooked, think she's done stuff with Bugs in the Attic too....