LONDON – ELECTRO – POP

Hi strange world.

// January 25th, 2010 // No Comments » // Fashion, Inspiration

Hi Bimlets : )

I was sent a couple of awesome little thingies today that I thought you lot would like.

UNO.

Dear Karin Andersson (of Fever Ray/The Knife), you’re weird.

This is Karin accepting an award in Sweden. I just want to warn you, this is really, really bizarre.

Big ups to the Swedes in the front row having a giggle at it.

DOS.

Aw! I just love dem little birdies! Rock out.

It’s a sound-scape installation by artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at the Barbican from Feb 27th until May 23rd. Oh, random and engaging nuggets of creativity, how I adore you.

Hello, little dude!

TRES.

Man. I can’t even TELL you how much I need these leggings to be hugging my thighs right now. They’ve been on the radar for a while now. I want my legs in them BAD.

“Dear Alexander McQueen. Please can I have your delicious leggings as a gift? I will maybe write you a song or at least dedicate a song in the set to the glory that is, said delicious leggings. Yours with lust, Rebecca”

FOUR. Oh, hang on. I was doing a Spanish thing, wasn’t I? QUATRO.

I FINALLY bought myself a mic today. Woot. It’s all shiny and nice. And means when I turn up to stinky little venues, I don’t have to use their funny old mic that smells like todge. (For the record, I love stinky little venues – they rock socks. I just hate mics that smell like an ass.)

Love you Bimlets, we love chatting on Facebook, so come over and say Hi : )

xxxxx

GENRE?

// January 21st, 2010 // 6 Comments » // Music, Uncategorized

I often think about things while brushing my teeth. It’s a good place to think. And you can’t really get sidetracked or do anything else apart from hover over the sink.

So. Last night I was thinking. How I tend to think is like a conversation. One side from Rebecca’s omniscient brain-narrator, and the other from Rebecca’s brain.

Narrator: So if someone held a gun to your head and made you say what genre Bim are, or else you get it, what would you say…
Brain: Err.. err. (panic) Um. ‘Alternative electro-acoustic pop’?
Narrator: Jesus, are you serious? That’s terrible.
Brain: Damn. You’re right. Um. How about just ‘pop’ then?
Narrator: You’re dead. Sorry.
Brain: Balls. Ok. I’ll have a think for next time.

It’s always hard to define yourself. So I guess I’m putting it out there – what do you think we are?

i think the Asteroids have got it right. “Danish Space Rock.”

Can’t really beat that.

The best I could come up with was London Love Pop. And that sounds like a brothel.

One Sentient Muffin

// January 11th, 2010 // 3 Comments » // Uncategorized

I love these book covers, by indie publishing blokies, Sing Statistics. They’re a collab of illustrators and designers and I can’t get enough of this awesomely Brechtian (sorry – drama child) way of spoiling everything and setting up expectations by giving you the facts right there on a very nicely designed and quite beautiful plate.

I’ve been thinking about what the Bim cover might say…

1 boy
1 girl
17 instruments
1m cups of tea
8 pannels of acoustic treatment
6 pirates
An encounter with some Greeks

…What do you think Bimlets?

Hey, it’s stopped snowing let’s all go out and play dancing on ice* : )

xx

*Shoreditch High Street is inadvertently the UKs largest public ice rink right now.

One Girl. One Bass. One beating heart.

// January 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // Inspiration, Live Music, Music

I just found out about Scanners, on an epic MySpace trawl while recovering from migraine of the year.

Migraine has significantly retreated since watching this vid by the band.

Girls with basses are literally the coolest people to walk the planet. Reminds me of why, at 14, I decided to grow my hair out from the tiny blonde bob I used to have after having a dream about D’arcy Wretsky leaving Smashing Pumpkins and being asked to stand in for her. Ah, dreams.

Sarah from Scanners happens to be one of those said cool bass girls. And even better: her song’s sexy and wonderful.

I reckon you’ll listen to this one more than once.

Tomorrow we’re having an epic band practice, ready for the swamp of gigs that we are intending to play over the next couple of months. Once again, if you want us to play at your venue, just drop us an email.

Happy weekend, beauts x x x

Christmas Lights In My Trousers.

// January 4th, 2010 // No Comments » // Inspiration, Music, Online Fun

Happy new beard little Bimlets.

Hope you all had maximumly awesome and fun holidays. I’m sorry we couldn’t give you a Christmas treat. I wanted to film a live version of a new song from the album as a tasty teaser but the main problems were:

1. Tim left his piano in London

2. All pianos in local vicinity were passionately out of tune

3. We were too busy eating mince pies and recording new vox

But I continue to endeavor to delight you with yummie snippets at some point before the album is released. : )

It was a marathon.
Both Tim’s and my family live in the West Country, so I decided to house a temporary recording studio in the attic room Chez Mama and Papa Rosier, so we could carry on recording and wear paper christmas hats and hug the cat all at the same time. Everyone’s happy.

Now.

Today I remembered Efterklang. I’ve heard of Efterklang lots. But I have never given them lots of time to be listened to.

So I listened to them.

Then I found this…

And I fell in love with them.

Reminds me of school, when I first saw a crazy uppy-downy-inside-outy MC Escher picture. Also kind of reminds me of Yellow Submarine and Alice In Wonderland and other awesome, beautiful works of bizarre art.

And then i found this comment on the vid. Says it all. And then some:

“This song makes me feel like Christmas Lights are flickering on and off really fast in my trousers.”

Love to you birdies xxxxx