The new Banned of St Trinian's video has been posted on Facebook - watch it here (it doesn't allow embedding - boo!). "We Got The Beat" is a song originally released by the all-female group The Go-Go's in 1980.
The Banned of St Trinian's cover is produced by Xenomania and was released last year on the St Trinian's 2soundtrack (buy it on iTunes). You can find this and other videos on the recently released DVD of the St. Trinian's 2 film.
Banned of St Trinian's - We Got The Beat
Written by Charlotte Caffey.
Produced by Xenomania.
Mixed by Tim Powell.
Guitars by Nick Coler, Jason Resch.
Bass by Nick Coler.
Drums by Florrie Arnold, Nick Coler, Tim Powell.
Engineered by Dan Aslet, Toby Scott, Morgan Mackintosh.
The Banned of St Trinian's are: Daisy Tonge (Eco Warrior), Harriet Bamford (Geek), Jessica Agombar (Rude Girl) and Jess Bell (Emo).
ALEX GARDNER's "I'm Not Mad" debuted in the UK Singles Chart this week at number 44.
As Chart Rigger puts it, "'I'm Not Mad' will go down as another sadly lost gem that was touted in the blogosphere — and one that truly deserved the hype! — but overlooked by the general record-buying/music downloading public".
Someone went through the trouble of transcribing every single word of the articles that were published on the latest issue of the PET SHOP BOYS fanclub magazine Literally:
MIRANDA COOPER is in the latest issue of Red Magazine talking about new singer/songwriter Emeli Sandé. Miranda says: «She's part of an exciting new generation of producers and writers, and I am always hearing great things about her.» Emeli Sandé wrote Chipmunk's "Diamond Rings" and also appears on Wiley's "Never Be Your Woman".
New Xenomania protégée BROOKE X has been finishing her debut album, so it won't be long until there's new music out there. Meanwhile, here's the top 3 Brooke X tweets from the past week:
-- "If I like my record anymore I'd marry it, have lots of song babies together and live happily ever after in the rock and roll hall of fame." -- "Holy shit, we are KILLING this album! I'm on aural pleasure overload!" -- "I've just heard the sound of love, and it's on my goddamn album."
Through some intensive Twitter investigation, Popjustice discovered that there is a GIRLS ALOUD cover of The Go-Go's' "Our Lips Are Sealed" hidden somewhere in the Xenomania vaults.
MINI VIVAtalk about the pressure of working with/for Xenomania:
«There’s always that little bit of pressure because they’re well known for the Girls Aloud stuff and it’s always in the top ten. We just wanna have the same success if you know what I mean. We just wanna do well for them and we want people to love ‘em [the songs] as much as they love Girls Aloud songs.»
"Jump Off" by the BANNED OF ST TRINIAN'S has been remixed and re-recorded by Almighty and J.K. The track has been released as a download, CD-R and is now on the compilation Almighty: Definitive Collection: Volume 8. Listen to clips and buy it here.
Alex Gardner and his guitarist Tommy are on the road on a radio tour. They are going to be on the road until next Monday and going through Manchester, Stockport, Birmingham and Liverpool (stations include The Pulse, Rock FM, Wish FM, Key 103, Real Radio North West, Juice 107.6, Imagine FM, Radio City in Liverpool, Signal One and BRMB in Birmingham).
A girl auditioned on American Idol with "Something Kinda Ooooh" by Girls Aloud. After she finished singing, Simon Cowell said, sarcastically, «One of the most meaningful lyrics ever written», to which fellow judge Victoria "Posh" Beckham replied: «Better than zigazig-ah?». Watch the audition video here. At one point you can even see Cowell singing along to the lyrics ("ooh").
The lovely Florrie Arnold (drummer in Xenomania's house band JFK + singer + songwriter, etc.) has set up a website. Soon you'll be able to watch videos with drumming lessons from Florrie. For now there's a few pictures and funny out-takes and bloopers filmed by Xenomania's sound engineer Toby Scott. You can also find Florrie on Facebook and YouTube.
Fred Falke said in an interview that he really enjoys collaborating with Xenomania: «I really enjoy my time spent with at Xenomania, a writer and production team based in Kent, England. I get to work in a team of brilliant people, with them for Mini Viva recently was a wonderful experience.»
Former Xenomania singer/songwriter Carla Marie Williams has set up a joint venture production/management company called BigMouthEntertainment. They are about to launch their first act, a new female collective called RD (aka Ruff Diamondz). With Xenomania, Carla-Marie co-wrote several Girls Aloud songs (including "The Promise" and "Sexy! No No No..."), Alesha Dixon's "The Boy Does Nothing", Mini Viva's "Left My Heart In Tokyo", Sarah Harding's "Too Bad" and many others. She also sang with Neil Tennant on Pet Shop Boys' "The way it used to be".
Mini Viva will be DJing at two upcoming nights in the UK: The Nightingale in Birmingham on 13th March and a TBC venue in Leicester on 22nd February. Keep checking their MySpace for the confirmed Leicester venue.
Gabriella Cilmi's "Hearts Don't Lie", the only Xenomania-produced track on her new album, has leaked in full. The Beat Review has reviewed the song: «It kind of redeemed her identity back after that gruesome 'On A Mission' (...). 'Hearts Don't Lie' doesn't escape the 1980's sound Gabby's trying to achieve. Although it doesn't sound anything like 'On A Mission', 'HDL' is more of a soul-dance-jazz fusion.»
Girls Aloud's "The Promise" is nominated for "Best BRITs performance from the last 30 years". You can vote here.
"Jump Off" by the Banned of St. Trinian's has been remixed by Almighty. Click here to listen to the previews and buy the remixes. "Jump Off" is one of the eight Xenomania tracks on the St. Trinian's II soundtrack.
NiteVisions are beingtipped as "ones to watch" for 2010. Here's what CityLife says about them:
«Calling NiteVisions ‘the Duran Duran Juniors’ isn’t merely an aesthetic and musical comparison – for members Andy and James Taylor are the sons of (respectively) New Romantics Andy and Roger Taylor. In their former guise as The Electric City, they even had Simon Le Bon’s nephew on drums. With sharp suits, a great look and killer hooks, stardom seems to have been hardwired into the pair’s DNA: you can’t help but think they came out of the womb holding hairspray and pouting (possibly thinking: ‘This is like the Girls On Film video’).
«Britain’s premier hit-factory Xenomania (Girls Aloud, Mini Viva) are currently helping the duo straddle the shiny high-wire of genius pop: the retro-nouveau disco-pop of Fire, for instance, blitzes forth like a more high-energy Cut Copy, and is so ridiculously danceable, it makes you wonder if at Xenomania’s Kent HQ, they’re putting amyl nitrate into their Glade Plug-Ins. Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos has declared himself a fan. You will be too.»
The soundtrack to the film St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold is released today. It features eight songs produced by Xenomania: five by the Banned of St Trinian's and three by Girls Aloud member Sarah Harding.
1. Banned of St Trinian's - St Trinian's Theme 2. Sarah Harding - Too Bad 3. Banned of St Trinian's - Up And Away 4. The Saturdays - Lose Control 5. Banned of St Trinian's - We Got The Beat 6. Florence + The Machine - Kiss With A Fist 7. Sarah Harding - Make It Easy 8. Noisettes - Saturday Night 9. Banned of St Trinian's - I Can Get What I Want 10. Girls Can't Catch - Keep Your Head Up 11. Sarah Harding - Boys Keep Swinging 12. Dragonette - You're A Disaster 13. Banned of St Trinian's - Jump Off 14. Girls Aloud - I Predict A Riot (live) 15. Cast of St Trinian's - St Trinian's Theme
"Too Bad" is one of the three songs recorded by Girls Aloud's Sarah Harding for the St. Trinian's 2 film. The song is produced by Xenomania and written by Miranda Cooper, Brian Higgins, Carla Marie Williams, Eliza Dodd-Noble, Florrie Arnold and Fred Falke.
Sarah has also recorded a cover of David Bowie's "Boys Keep Swinging" and a new song titled "Make It Easy". The St. Trinian's 2 soundtrack includes other Xenomania tracks recorded by the Banned of St Trinian's and will be released on Monday, 14th December. Pre-order: HMV, Play.com.
This is the official video for the Banned of St Trinian's song "Up and Away", available to download on iTunes. The soundtrack will be released on December 14th.
The Banned of St Trinian's are Daisy Tonge (Eco Warrior), Harriet Bamford (Geek), Jessica Agombar (Rude Girl) and Jess Bell (Emo). "Up and Away" was written by Miranda Cooper, Brian Higgins, Giselle Sommerville, Nick Coler and Jon Shave.
The soundtrack of the St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold film will be released on December 14th. It features eight songs produced by Xenomania: five by the Banned of St Trinian's and three by Girls Aloud member Sarah Harding. Banned of St Trinian's single "Up and Away is now available to download on iTunes.
Amazon has clips of each song on the soundtrack - click here to listen. Throughout the week, Popjustice has also selected four songs from the soundtrack as Song Of The Day. Here's what they say (click the song titles for 30 second clips):
-- Banned Of St Trinian's - Up & Away 'Banned Of St Trinian's' are basically a sort of Xenomania house band who've contributed a handful of tracks to the new St Trinian's soundtrack album. 'Up & Away' is one of the best Banned Of St Trinian's contributions - it might not have the polish or finishing touches one requires in a big chart record but the song itself sounds like a bit of a hit. Except it's been pissed away on this soundtrack album so it probably never will be a hit. But that somehow makes its existence here all the more exciting.
-- Banned Of St Trinian's - Jump Off Here's another track from the new St Trinian's soundtrack, a Xenomania-authored raveular pop tune which contains the line "we can make our own kind of voodoo or we can spend the night in like you do" and for that reason alone should be burned to disc, vacuum sealed in some sort of outsized Thermos flask then fired into space as an example to other civilisations of how we make pop music on Planet Earth.
-- Banned Of St Trinian's - I Can Get What I Want It's quite 'What Will The Neighbours Say?'-era Girls Aloud-ish in feel and it has precisely three amazing bits in it. That's three more than most songs, readers.
-- Sarah Harding - Too Bad The surprisingly brilliant 'Too Bad' is the best of three Sarah Harding solo tracks on the 'St Trinian's 2: The Legend Of Fritton's Gold' soundtrack. It starts off like Julian Lennon's 'Too Late For Goodbyes' then lets rip into a massive arms-aloft Dannii Minogue-style chorus, has a big sort of rapped bit in the middle, and even makes time for a little nod towards Westworld's 'Sonic Boom Boy'. If we may humbly suggest a placement for 'Too Bad' in your Girls Aloud playlists, slotting the track somewhere in between 'Close To Love' and 'Girl Overboard' would probably do nicely.
Popjustice also points out that some of the songs on the soundtrack sound «a bit like the first draft of a Girls Aloud album»: «most of the songs sound like they would benefit from a bit more magic dust - but it's a pretty great soundtrack album, is far better than it really needs to be and is, we imagine, about 100 times better than the film».
They add: «In a year without a Girls Aloud album it's a better Girls Aloud album than the Cheryl Cole album».
The Banned of St Trinian's is a fictional group created for the new St. Trinian's film, with songs produced by Xenomania.
In the film, they act as the official School Band, and are made up of a mixture of tribes: Jess (rude girl) with the killer heels to match her killer vocals, Beth (emo) rocks up the stage, Daisy (eco) takes accapella to a new level and Harriet (geek) uses her super-brainpower for some wicked harmonies.
You can watch an introduction video with a few sound clips on the St. Trinian's website. Their single "Up & Away" will be released as a digital download on November 30th. The soundtrack arrives on December 14th. Besides the Banned of St Trinian's, Xenomania have also produced three songs recorded by Sarah Harding.
Members of the Banned of St Trinian's: Daisy Tonge (Eco Warrior) Harriet Bamford (Geek) Jessica Agombar (Rude Girl) Jess Bell (Emo)
The soundtrack to the film St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold will have new songs produced by Xenomania. Sarah Harding, who stars in the film, has recorded three exclusive tracks with the team: "Too Bad", "Make It Easy" and "Boys Keep Swinging" (a David Bowie cover?).
The rest of the album includes other original Xenomania tracks recorded by the Banned of St Trinian's. The film will be in cinemas from December 18th and the soundtrack will be in shops on December 14th (pre-order it here). This is the tracklist:
1. Banned of St Trinian's - St Trinian's Theme 2. Sarah Harding - Too Bad 3. Banned of St Trinian's - Up And Away 4. The Saturdays - Lose Control 5. Banned of St Trinian's - We Got The Beat 6. Florence + The Machine - Kiss With A Fist 7. Sarah Harding - Make It Easy 8. Noisettes - Saturday Night 9. Banned of St Trinian's - I Can Get What I Want 10. Girls Can't Catch - Keep Your Head Up 11. Sarah Harding - Boys Keep Swinging 12. Dragonette - You're A Disaster 13. Banned of St Trinian's - Jump Off 14. Girls Aloud - I Predict A Riot (live) 15. Cast of St Trinian's - St Trinian's Theme
The first St Trinian's soundtrack, released in 2007, included three songs produced by Xenomania: "Sanctuary", recorded by Gabriella Cilmi, and Girls Aloud's "Theme To St. Trinian's" and "On My Way To Satisfaction".
Xenomania is a songwriting and production house based in Kent, England. It was founded by songwriter and producer Brian Higgins.
Since 1996, Xenomania have written, produced and remixed tracks for a string of successful artists including Girls Aloud, Pet Shop Boys, Sugababes, Dannii and Kylie Minogue, Saint Etienne, Cher, Gabriella Cilmi and many others.
