At the Club Republik in Second Life tonight there is a special Bootie SL – Amanda Shinji is DJing from 3am UK / 7am SL then live link up with Bootie in San Francisco as usual with Keela Latte hosting and – with a special twist: the Second Life club is being shown live on the screens at Bootie SF!

I’m going along to wave some HELLO MUM! and TUNE! signs and have designed a tshirt specially…hope to see you there?

Apols for the late notice but was out on the razz with Lee Spoons, Robb, Ian Fondue and lady Naomi and Jez CMP…was planning to let you know before this. I iz slightly drunk…;-)

Can’t think of a clever thematic linking device apart from there is no mention of the World Cup or football in this po….DOH! Have an unrelated yet topical Chris Brown MAD cartoon mashup instead…

I should be so getting sick of Lady Gaga mashups by now, but no not yet. I was getting ready to hate Pomatic’s Thieves Like Romance Lady Gaga vs New Order mashup (well so few people do New Order justice, much abused in the mash world but rarely bettered) and was surprised to find out that’s it’s a total POP CHOON (Ian Act of Dog and Jeb 50 Pound Note please report to the front desk! beep!) mashing Thieves Like Us and Bad Romance to great effect.

In fact it’s part of a whole album ‘The Fame Monster Mash Hitz’ (title could be slightly better, C- see me!) and it’s pretty good – nothing here crossing genres or experimental like the last post but with tunes like Just Summer – Bananarama vs Lady Gaga (Cruel Summer vs Just Dance) it’s less about cred envelope-pushing and just recognising a good dancefloor-friendly totally pop mashup – which I remind you is quite hard to pull off well especially pure A vs B. And these two do that well – good summer pop mashups.

Unwanted Whisper by The Kleptones

Kleptones are off to several festies this year, including i_beta festival in the Netherlands and Glastonbury – and afore thee went they left us with a nice present, Unwanted Whisper a reversal mashup of their infamous Bootie track ‘Careless Or Dead’ – rather than using the George Michael instrumental this uses the acapella, and vice versa for the Jon Bon Jovi. Strange to hear this combo reversed, but it also works but in a less immediate way than Careless.

Had a great time at Bootie London – as you can get a taste of what it was like by ThriftshopXL’s video above…not only can you see Kleptones rocking the VideoTones video for ‘Welcome Back’ at 4:09 (ButchAuntie aka Pete mixed in 4 of the Videotones videos, not shown is me pogoing up and down at the front saying ‘that’s my video’ like a 3 year old child – it was a trip to see them up there – thanks Eric Kleptone & Pete! BorisB’s excellent video for This Songs Smells was used for the mash/moshtastic encore, and Mad Groove & Brad’s video for MKY da HVN were shown) you can also see me dancing like a spaz at 2:31…sigh. I hoped all evidence of that had been destroyed…;-)

The event was packed – people queuing for 90 minutes outside…and was a big success!

Thankfully no-one has video of me dashing behind the decks for Mad Groove and dancing next to Eric Kleptone like a loon and re-enacting the words from Network…;-)

Eric Kleptone, Payroll, Berlin DJs, DJ Morgoth and A&D rocked the place, as did ButchAuntie and ThiftshopXL on the visuals…was a mad night. Great to see A&D, Eric Kleptone PomDeter who came from Aberdeen, Lee Spoons, Robb, Jez CMP, MattCatt, Ian Fondue, and to finally meet Pete ButchAuntie, more of the Bootie Berlin gang and Sugamotor from France.

Only downside was a rather over-zealous security staff at Cargo, nearly getting dragged off the stage by my neck even after Mr Kleptone vouching for me repeatedly – and I wasn’t the only one to have problems. But glad to hear via @BootieMashup future Bootie London events won’t be at Cargo so that’s been sorted

Going to upload my rather shaky iPod footage sometime soon which I’ll post here…mostly of the stage as it was rather dark!

Known about this for a long while but finally got a flyer etc: Bootie London! A one-off, with The Kleptones, A&D, the Bootie Berlin Mashia and DJ Payroll DJing at Cargo on the 9th April…I’ll be there, definitely. And am planning to meet up with A&D beforehand too. It’s interesting cos last time they were here I asked them if there would ever be a Bootie London – and got a coy response…and now they indeed return with a special Bootie London.

And it looks like most, if not all of the UK Mashuperati will be there…

I’ve been keeping tabs on the whole NirGaGa Saga, where DJ Lobsterdust‘s Nirvana vs Lady Gaga got a Cease and Desist recently from EMI, as well as Bootie for putting it on their Best of Bootie 2009 CD.

I’ll let DJ Lobsterdust describe the timeline in his own words:

september – Nirgaga (Nirvana vs. Lady Gaga) gets posted. GYBOers give it the thumbs down. several online blogs declare it is the worst mashup I’ve ever done. I move on.

a few months later Nirgaga gets played at bootie, the (drunk) punters love it. A+D declare Nirgaga is now a bootie anthem.

early December – the track is featured on the Best Of Bootie 2009 CD. The CD goes viral and gets mentioned in countless mainsteam outlets.

late December – Twitter & Youtube go gaga over the mashup, MTV and the Wall Street Journal mention Nirgaga on their websites. Twitterati claim it’s one of the greatest mashups ever, youtubers demand I be burned alive for making it.

early January – EMI sends me (and also A+D) a Cease and Desist letter, we pull the plug on Nirgaga. The saga ends (for now).

And most interestingly, EFF have now taken an interest – one of the first mashups to do that, if not the first. That is a very good sign.

Anyone who reads/listens to Radio Clash knows my hatred of EMI – long standing due to a C&D I got from them in 2004 for using an official acapella they released (how stupid is that?)…

I have to say (cos I tell it like it is, yes I know but it’s a package deal don’t look like that) the mash itself is merely OK, not a fave of mine for the reason that ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ has been mashed to death since it’s release, from Call It What You Want to Tin man and Smells Like Teen Booty and about 9,000 more of the suckers…’Smells…’ will go with most tracks and sadly has been (and I hate Lady Gaga) but if the likes of EFF want to fight EMI over it, I’d more than get behind that.

P.S. I wasn’t one of the GYBO thumbs down people Lobsterdust was talking about though, I like most people hadn’t heard the track until A&D started raving about it Certainly as a mash it polarises opinion, which is a good thing – like the comments I get on the video I did for Earworm’s Radiohead vs Kanye mash, some people think certain acts are inviolate and should not be tarred with the pop brush – here’s some funny examples from NirGaGa’s YouTube page:

this is the worst that someone could do to a great song, fuck ugly lady gaga and her stupid talentless songs!!! The guy who made this should be burried alive

THIS IS MUSICAL BLASPHEMY!!!!

This is the worst thing I’ve ever heard. This should be removed on principal alone!!!

AWFULLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can’t believe someone would do this to a great Nirvana song!!!!!

But don’t hold back, say what you think – did you like it? LOL.

For that Lobsterdust I salute you – it’s hard to get a true marmite reaction – and I have to say there are quite a few positive responses too…it does seem to be a total love/hate track. Certainly EMI seem to be in the latter category
Oh and EMI would hate for you to click on this link.