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Loops, beatboxing, sudden unexpected insights into childhood—it’s all here in Beardyman’s 20 minute comedy-music journey.
Taking leftfield song ideas from the public, the experimental musician traverses a bewildering range of styles as he produces songs on the fly for a live audience—like a boss.
You may’ve thought the theme tunes that come at the beginning of news programmes all are just prerecorded, but you are so wrong.
Because look, here are the grafters behind the News At Ten (and Newsnight) theme tracks who play the song live every damn night—now that’s dedication to a craft.
This guy doesn’t look like your average Katy Perry fan, but then this isn’t really your average Katy Perry track.
It’s more like a mashup of many, many musical styles, from Iron Maiden type scream-rock to MJ to Frank Sinatra crooning. Epic.
From its classical, upright beginnings playing Bach to the Seinfeld theme tune, Collective Cadenza explore the history of the bass.
And what a versatile instrument it is, used in jazz, rock, pop and funk it helped found many, many genres and musical styles. All hail the bass!
“Get thar arse in t’car lass.?”—and so it goes, Friday with a Yorkshire accent is blimmin’ marvellous.
Stick a flat cap atop Ms Black’s noggin and send that car for a joyride round t’Dales and she’d be a fully fledged Yorkshire citizen.
Frontman Jonny Donohoe and guitarist Paddy Gervers make up the band of the title, and together they’ve created this upbeat song about the perils of UKIP.
It features rejoicing at Maggie Thatcher’s funeral and lyrics about soup, so all the topical news stories are covered then in this cheery melody.
Richard Branson, shame on ye. The self-made ker-squillionaire and ex-hippy flower child has been acting like a hypocrite selling tickets to SeaWorld through his business Virgin Holidays—and he says he’s a fan of the orcas and the animals of the underwater kingdom.
Yet he’s happy to make a profit from people gawking at these poor creatures in captivity whose lives are no doubt miserable.
It was 2000AD and we all got swept up with the times and thought nu metal was the greatest thing since grunge.
Skip forward 14 years (has it really been that long?) and three piece female group The Lounge Kittens have rejigged this rap-rock classic into a three-part harmony with piano accompaniment.
