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The Sound Of Music
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![]() It turns out that Ray was cavorting around his back garden in homage to the home-made video for A Million Ways to be Cruel by OK Go which featured the band bopping around their own back garden to the track. They’re actually very good at it. Unlike Fatboy Slim’s Praise You, which looks like an amateur work of cinema verité but is actually the carefully-crafted production of Spike Jonze, this was actually the lads in the band in their actual back garden as choreographed by one of their sisters and filmed on a borrowed camcorder. The whole thing took less than $10 to do - cost of the disc and a pint for the sister. The band slipped it on to the internet and it became the most downloaded video ever, with over three million hits by November 2005 when people just stopped counting. Or rather when people stopped paying attention to the computer which was doing the counting. Anyways, much as I enjoy the sight of Ray D’Arcy acting the eejit, it was the music that caught my attention. As is customary on such occasions, the song bounced around in my head for a few days until I caved in and bought the CD. The album Oh No, is actually their second release and was recorded in Malmö Sweden in late 2004 and produced by Tore Johansson who has also worked with The Cardigans which is presumably why a Chicago-based band ended up in Sweden! ![]() I love that the band have a sense of humour. Lead singer Damian J. Kulash was arrested after a concert in Orlando Florida on 13 March 2006. Rather than trying to hush the matter up, the band posted details of the incident on their website under the banner headline “The J stands for Jaibird”. Then a few days later, they obtained a picture of the guy’s mugshot from the booking and posted that also! |