ATP by Matt Groening Tweetathon

So some of you might know, I went to the ATP last weekend and did hour by hour on-site tweets. It wasn't easy, I don't talk to myself all the time that much but it was pretty interesting to have to busy myself all the time so I had things to tell. If you missed it, we had two cool guest tweets and here's the highlights of my past weekend with pictures. Follow us (or me, basically) at @supersweet!

We're geeks and early at #ATP - 5:50 PM May 7th

Just bumped into liars, they thought I was my own double! Can't wait to see th tonight, it's been 3 years! This will be epic! - 5:52 PM May 7th

Wow! Projector work at broadcast @atpfestival is amazing! I'm in trance! - 6:18 PM May 7th

Our neighbours next door mean business! Next up: cold cave! - 7:36 PM May 7th

Are cold cave serious? This is literally what I'm seeing at the @atpfestival right now. Literally!! - 8:00 PM May 7th

It's iggy o'clock!! - 9:03 PM May 7th

Spotted a girl wearing Sretsis make my heart melt jeans, she looks amazing!!- 9:15 PM May 7th

Arghhoooooooo..... I wanna be your dog #atp cuz your light show is the brightest ever!! - 9:27 PM May 7th

I have two hours of napping before the fresh&onlys and liars! How un rock and roll of me. - 9:55 PM May 7th

Ok round two for friday @atpfestival Woah nice hair shonen knife girls!! - 12:44 AM May 8th

Love this girls dress a lot. Second row for liars @atpfestival now. I'm a geek but can't wait! - 2:14 AM May 8th

It's official: liars are best band in the world - I will die doing everything to get the rest of the world to agree with me. Manipulative! - 2:25 AM May 8th

But seriously, they were even better than the last time I saw them and I didn't think that was possible ever! - 2:35 AM May 8th

Right I've never had a monologue for this long with and to myself before. Let's do more updates tomorrow. Night night #ATP! - 2:42 AM May 8th 

Ok I'm up! Who's at @atpfestival and awake and wants to meet up text me now. Today is a hang day. But give an hour to wash my hair first! - 11:32 AM May 8th

Top is such a man today! - 1:46 PM May 8th

Breakfast #atp how glamorous! - 2:18 PM May 8th

Love the colour and frills of this girls coat! Next up: last songs of boredoms! - 2:42 PM May 8th

I think the next question to our next freebie should be how many instrument hitting tweeps you see at boredoms - 3:12 PM May 8th

I have so much respect for boredoms now! Another best band to play @atpfestival! it was so pretty looking at cymbols flipping up/down too! - 3:16 PM May 8th 

We want... But oh so expensive! - 4:53 PM May 8th

Coffee with the lovely Debbie from @CreateSpark. Now: deerhunter time! - 4:57 PM May 8th

Why aren't your feet cold? - 5:27 PM May 8th

Matt groening is drawing for you right now #ATP!! = 5:51 PM May 8th

Bumped into this girl. She has a gorgeous orange jumper that shr apparently got for almost nothing in Taunton!! - 6:41 PM May 8th

This is Julian from Liars. Konono no 1 just about made me cry, and the boredoms earlier really did make me cry. Absolutely amazing. Choltida such a bitch cause she Is making me cry right now, cause I am an old man and ugly. - 7:37 PM May 8th

Watching residents... Not sure if I'm enjoying it yet... - 8:23 PM May 8th

Apparently liars are making us a toothbrush! Sending pat the lovely intern to collect it from their chalet tonight!! - 9:08 PM May 8th

Look! Tiny bunny at @atpfestival!! - 10:32 PM May 8th

That blond guy who sticks fingers at thee oh sees shouting I've heard them all before can go fuck yourself. Who begs you to be here? - 10:32 PM May 8th 

Getting ready for xx, we are right in the front for once! Ooh... Groupies! - 11:16 PM May 8th

Watching xx with matt groening, woah!! - 12:34 AM May 9th

Amazing light show at xx #ATP! - 12:46 AM May 9th

Because we were staring at his arse so much, we actually got given this teddy bear. Who's got peter pan now hey? - 2:02 AM May 9th

So pandabear was a bit of a let down... I'm going to bed now... Zzzz... - 2:11 AM May 9th

Pot noodles for breakfast anyone? Well it's kind of lunch now. Last day @atpfestival, can't wait to see Daniel Johnston! - 12:19 PM May 9th

Interviewing our band of the month later today. Look out for another guest tweet! - 12:50 PM May 9th

Cinema time! - 1:23 PM May 9th

Toy story! He won't stop staring! - 1:52 PM May 9th

Daniel Johnston is about to make me cry right now ;( - 6:50 PM May 9th

Oh my god Daniel Johnston is doing the soundcheck by himself right now! A private show!! I think I'm star struck!!! - 7:13 PM May 9th

Guest tweet from sierra CocoRosie: hey we are here #ATP, we're looking forward to playing tonight, let's dance! - 7:21 PM May 9th

It's j spaceman performing ladies and gentlemen... Yo! - 8:13 PM May 9th

Let's try again. Were seriously super close now!! See? - 8:36 PM May 9th

Just danced with bianca and sierra from CocoRosie! - 9:38 PM May 9th

Can someone please teleport me from a to b? It's too cold to walk! - 10:30 PM May 9th

Raincoats talk too much I'm leaving! - 11:34 PM May 9th

Seriously, I like bands that talk and joke around but I'm not really here for a standup show... Gaagh! Really annoyed now! - 11:43 PM May 9th

These are the shiniest dms I've seen ever! - about 24 hours ago

My #ATP ends with frustration, don't know whose fault it is, joanna newsom playing too long and too quietly or raincoats talking too much? - about 24 hours ago

Let's hope our band of month nymphs close it nicely! I'm digging the chaos pads work at xx right now though! - about 24 hours ago

And may I add that they're doing 100 times better a job than george harrisons son's band the new #2. and he had four of them! - about 24 hours ago

I'm impressed! Am loving everything about the xx show right now! - about 24 hours ago

Aww... Last day @atpfestival has really done it for @pitterpatterpat. We're waiting for cocorosie... Eagerly, as you see! - about 23 hours ago

Come on coco, we're waiting #ATP! - about 23 hours ago

Alright! That was a high level of satisfaction!! Thank you CocoRosie you were amazing!! Well done @atpfestival! Nighty night!! - about 22 hours ago

End of ss #ATP tweet-reports. Can we call these tweetports?! - about 22 hours ago

SS @ SXSW in SIX Mins!

Dead dirty and inescapable from the bearded to-the-brim residents, Austins pied piper music heritage led greedy fans, industry hippies and SUPERSWEET's Gemma Dempster for March's SXSW Music Conference 2010.

Raking in the wonderfully pissy hoards of queuing freeloaders for the daily parties, or the elitist who darken SXSW badge-only events at night; we snaked through both realms, grasping every morsel of fresh and tarnished bands for our bite-size video review.

The highlights? Stalking Adam Green down a pastoral suburban street to commandeer footage of his underwear; rolling down a barbed wire hill to secretly break in for a Surfer Blood show; catching Woody Harrelson slurping eyes at Hole's Love, and bumping into a surprisingly short Sean Lennon. The result? A shamefully gimmicky video called SXSW in SIX Minutes, gah, now we didn't want to gloat too much did we?

SXSW in SIX Minutes Line Up: Adam Green, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Chew Lips, Hole, Liars, Local Natives, Marina and the Diamonds, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Phantogram, Pivot, School of Seven Bells, Soko, Stricken City, Thurston Moore, and Warpaint

Footage: Gemma Dempster

Good Shoes, Good Shoes, oh, and more Good Shoes.

Yes, Good Shoes are our BAND OF THE MONTH, but sometimes, I think our best intentions can fall into the OTT category. Though we've reached our limit of a GS's natural high it doesn't mean you can't frivolously get excited over our month of worship:

Scrapbook gig review aka: The Groupie Report

Good Shoes Interview....The Band Meets Mystic SS (we read Will's palm!)

Win Limited Edition Good Shoes Poster! (There's only 1000 of them. EVER)

Professionalism: Isaac Howlett

Isaac Howlett is SUPERSWEET's loyal writer since our analogue days, he had a long chain of gigs before Christmas to review: Datarock, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Modest Mouse, A Place to Bury Strangers and the Raveonettes. Not a bad job after all, is it?

But we only started to notice his Facebook where he was posting things pre- and post-gigs. Here's some example...

Isaac Howlett has just left for Shepherd's Bush Empire to see the mighty Modest Mouse. He's called Isaac too.
December 14 at 7:17pm

Isaac Howlett Preparing 2get my ears torn off by A Place To Bury Strangers @ Camden Barfly 4 Supersweet.org
December 15 at 10:10pm via Text Message

Isaac Howlett Loudest band in NYC destroy Camden.
December 16 at 4:23am

And don't these pictures by Elinor Jones confirm things?
But dear folks, that's not all...

Isaac Howlett Possibly the hottest woman ever to play guitar.
December 18 at 9:28pm via Text Message

Isaac Howlett Her from Raveonettes, not me! I take 2nd place.
December 18 at 9:29pm via Text Message
But like all great fairy tales, it has a happy ending for all!

Isaac Howlett has finished all his SUPERSWEET reviews, time to go Christmas shopping!
December 22 at 1:48pm

Some Pretty Circus Seal

After hours of enduring the pissing rain and gusty wind that almost froze my spinal bone, I stumbled upon this graffiti just off Carnaby Street.
A circus seal getting ready for the show, isn't it? Vanity, O Vanity! Thanks to the rain, this is the most fucked-up snapshot I could manage.

For those you haven't got it, this is a new work by BANKSY, an pseudo-anonymous, Bristol-born street artist. I did an article about him a while ago. I'm soon going back for a proper look at the seal.

BANKSY I <3 YOU XXX

BLOOD RED SHOES: Who (and where) are ya?

At the CroBar CroBar, CroBar...

Blood Red Shoes are back and looking shit-hot, readily giving away freebie single 'Colours Fade' (available from bloodredshoes.co.uk), and even putting on a intimate show last night at The Cro Bar. Sounds all rather too good to be true right?

Firstly, what a sausage-fest Cro Bar was, if it wasn't the odd penis in your back, then it was someones neat Jack Daniels dribbling down your shoulder at the tiny bloody tiny venue. But of course, it's a great sign for Blood Red Shoes to easily fill a venue after their much deserved break, and what a way to return. Their new songs still are too fresh to really get a much-loved feel for them, but the memorable 'Light Up' and Placebo-esque, 'Colours Fade' were thick with dirty angered electric guitar from red-lipped lady Laura-Mary Carter and shuddering percussional whacks by the guiltless Steven Ansell, and just from those tracks I seriously can't wait to hear the record.

Nevertheless, it was an interesting show, from the loud bellows of "TURN UP THE VOCALS" to my own desperate shouts "Where are you? I can't see you?", and BRS kept the conversation going with cheeky requests for some whisky to the audience, and from a silent crowd response Laura aptly declared "Who Are You?" to the wishful thinker.And after many tri-hard jumping attempts, I did managed to glimpse Steven's blonde curls and Laura's newly dyed hair through the a pyramid of sweaty armpits, just to make sure I was in fact watching the right band.

So the tour junkies are back and what sounds like a much heavy record. So pull out the earplugs and get ready to destroy your remaining strips of ear-drum for Blood Red Shoes' thrashing t-shirt tearing return.

The SS Workout "SWEAT WITH PYRAMIDDD/STARFUCKER"

Formly known as seducers of the cosmic variety, Starfuckers they have transformed (as of two month ago) to a less arrogant spell-check inducing title Pyramiddd. So at Camden's Flowerpot venue, after delays all round, (thank you "medical emergency" on Northern line), I bopped to the US wonders on their first ever tour in the UK.

A lot like Daft Punk on steroids, the lazer popping, sweat band wearing act were just so darn athletic, all I wanted to do was strip, don my trusty sports-bra and spandex leggings combo and start a workout there an' then (ugh, if only I didn't have that little remaining self-respect left). But Pyramiddd really have some serious moves to get in shape to, so I got my tinkering brain to work and compiled wicked workout inspired by Pyramiddd's energetic show. NOW, GET YOUR SWEAT ON!

"The Schizophrenic" (WARM UP):
Find your inner calm....then listen to the voices in your head...now you are ready!

"The Keyboard Thrust"
Get those digits in keyboard playing form, stick your arms out moving up and down, then in a repressed sexual motion, move your pelvis in and out at the same time. Repeat 8x

"The Assaulting Air Guitar"
Hold your imaginary guitar, now swing left to right like you've never swung before! But remember not to go all the way round, that's just showing off...Repeat 10x

"The Distorted Yelp"
For those who don't have a voice-altering microphone, smack both hands over your mouth and scream, shout or sing. The result? To sound like a kitty being thrown at the electronic fan.Yes please. Repeat 6x

"The Pouncing Power-Walk"
Not just running on the spot, your arms have a to flail about out-of-time with your legs in a power-walking pose, then, if you are feeling super ballsy, pounce on fellows in the street and stare them out until they join in too!

"The Cyndi Lauper" (WARM DOWN)
Breathe, Stretch your ears, point your left arm to the sky, and shriek "Girls Just Want To Have Fun". Then sway side to side, left foot touching right, and then vice versa. Warning: You will experience a teenage flashback in the process...



Now go get physical and check out their last remaining gigs!

25th Nov 2009 - Dingwalls w/Filthy Dukes
26th Nov 2009 - Notting Hill Arts Club

Do Good Shoes have No Hope...No Future?

THE UNOFFICIAL REVIEW: Good Shoes, No Hope, No Future.

It’s always a strange and wonderful experience watching SUPERSWEET’s much loved bands "mature", grow facial hair and in the case of Good Shoes’ Rhys Jones drop some weighty bullocks and develop a deepened vocal charm that old and new fans cannot refuse. We love Good Shoes that much we even have a mention in their album cover credits for the ominously titled new album, No Hope, No Future, so in return couldn’t wait to give our unofficial review of the album, Why? (All together now) Because that’s ‘The Way My Heart Beats’!

With one swift bite, Good Shoes have gobbled up their past Think Before You Speak success, and given a hearty well-needed vomit to bring about the sobering promise of their new album, and its blooming marvelous. Each track convulses in ways you simply can’t expect, from the metronome tickling track ‘I Know’, pushing all minor keys as thunderous as an intensely melodic tornado, to the despairing ‘Everything You Do’ transforming Rhys' voice into a bluesy serenading conjurer of wise words.

Now, before you make a mess tearing your ears off your head wondering if the Good Shoes sound has disappeared, have no fear, the four-piece still keep intact their “music to dance to” legacy, but coated with unbelievable skill. ‘Do You Remember’, ‘Times Change’ and ‘1000 Miles An Hour’ maintain the catchy guitar and vocal appeal Good Shoes fans’ desire, but overhauled with resonating layers and quirks to keep you salivating throughout.

Wonderfully warped with skillful maturity, Good Shoes Oh-My-God outdo themselves with the following killer tracks, from the electronic guitar frenzied solos in ‘Our Loving Mother in A Pink Diamond' to the ironic and promiscuous lyrical drips in ‘Under Control’. Much like the horny beast in ‘Under Control’, “always hungry/and never satisfied”, SS will always keep lusting for the wising of the Morden haters, even if they all grow up without us...

No Hope, No Future will (finger-crossed) be released January 18th next year.

Tracklisting:
The Way My Heart Beats
Everything You Do
I Know
Under Control
Do You Remember
Our Loving Mother In A Pink Diamond
Times Change
1000 Miles An Hour
Then She Walks Away
City By The Sea

Good Shoes live!

I've been meaning to talk about this since last week but things got a little crazy and now my lovely friends Good Shoes are on tour. Some of you will have already seen them!

Gemma will do a preview of the new album No Hope, No Future for you some time this week. We've all heard it, exclusively for the SS office, we all love it so much that we make it a daily ritual to listen to it first thing in the morning everyday.

Last week, I stalked them all the way to their rehearsal space to watch them live (my only chance this year as I'll be away by the time they play ULU on Dec 12th). My favourite is 'City By the Sea', I didn't seem to hear Steve's cute guitar lines on the record but much more live, and as brilliant as it is, 'Under Control' will always make me laugh at how disgusting Rhys is. 'I Know' is also a really nice change and a more grown up approach for them, weirdly, it doesn't sound like Rhys at all.
Here's a few of my crappy iPhone pictures. Krittiya took better ones, maybe we'll air them later once she's developed her films...
Sharing mic is a very in thing right now, and so is Haggerston rehearsal space, according to them here. In case you don't know... We love them so much we've made them our Jury of the Month this month!

Passion Pit Get Photographic!

Fancy yourself a bit snappy happy, a whirl with the trusty portable, even set your sights to be a music photographer?

This Winter, Passion Pit are cheekily getting paying gig goers to take pictures of the band, and those who prove their worth will receive an exclusive photo album of the winning pictures (selected by the band!) Just in case you don’t feel special enough, the band will be giving away especially made creative limited edition screen prints, oooh arty!

So click away at the sweaty electro-rockers, with your own camera or the freebie Passion Pit camera (available on tour) and upload your masterpieces to http://www.passionpitmusic.com/passionpics. Maybe SS will enter...and win, will you take up the challenge?!

Where the Wild Things Are

I just came back from watching Where the Wild Things Are by Spike Jonze. I don't remember liking anything this much in a really long time, my heart was racing with joy and excitement. It's got a really quirky take on the way of looking at things with the purest bits of your heart, not your eyes and brain. And does it have the best visuals anyone's seen in a really long time. Let's not forget also the really atmospheric soundtrack by Karen O (and the Kids) and Carter Burwell.

My personal favourite scene? When Max is riding the ship along the waves of his blue blanket, my heart breaks.

Don't want to glove up? Check out our Birth Control Playlist!

While a usual day in the office does leave us all feeling like we want to cry from exhaustion, we do have our crazy moments, especially with our resident poet is set loose on the long list of random messages we receive. Yes, you’ve probably guessed this is going to go in a sexual direction, but don’t worry I wouldn’t lower the tone by talking about those frequent emails about how to engorge your member, this time it’s about music that puts you off the baby-making, for the pro-choice fans out there, the ultimate ‘BIRTH-CONTROL’ playlist. I’ve narrowed it down to ten contraceptive-inducing tracks that aim to prevent those little swimmers procreating the world. Listen to these if you don’t want bay-bies! (Warning: Not 100% Effective).

1. Adam Ant: Sex Apart from the blatant sex reference, this song is a bit of a mood killer. When you are getting down to business, only to have the new-romantic prince Adam Ant, blare out “S-EEXX” at you and the erotically visual lyrics “My body is an ocean of twisted white debris”, (about to explode?). Wow, definitely a turn on. My favourite part is the backing vocals whispering “virginity's no crime”, yet why does it sound like a threat to pillage young teens?

2. Jeff Buckley: Halleluiah So many of you may disagree with me and say “woah, it’s a beautiful cover”, which it is just that, but while bumping uglies? Apart from making one of you cry, and it’s really not gender specific, the over-whelming flood of tears usually isn’t helped by the unrequited love reminded by dear Jeff, yeah, great anti-sex song.

3. Liars: Broken Witch With the brilliant jutting percussion infusions with scratching guitar, this song almost sounds like a sacrificial dance for death of unborn babies, it’s menstruation time! Using lyrics “WE ARE THE ARMY YOU SEE THROUGH THE RED HAZE OF BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD”, I discovered Liars’ intention of this song as the perfect birth-control, by welcoming the “blooood” before you even get started with the making of the love! Hurrah!

4. Robots In Disguise: Sex Has Made Me Stupid When I listened to this track by the electro-Mighty Boosh girls, I’m sure that they are singing about raping a man, or so inebriated to know what’s going on. With lyrics like “Another act of aggression/I want you on the floor/Get down go”, after professing how sex has made you stupid, no amount of domination will get a partner going if you are just too stupid to do it.

5. Plan B: Charmaine Ok given that this British Eminem is clever when he recounts his narratives in some ways, getting horizontal while a man (other than your partner) is talking to you about his lovemaking is never sexy, especially when he retorts “Whilst kissing, yeah, she’s doing me properly”. This horny rap-star easily sucks the romance out of the situation, with his slang-terms and cheesy bass line, but its pinnacle moment is as Plan B finds out "blud, that girl’s fourteen!", easily scaring your lover away from climax, all in frightful wonderment about your actual age.

6. Flight of the Conchords: Business Time I don’t care that it’s a meant to be a comedic track, the duo brilliantly beat reality of couples sex into your mind switching off any romantic notions you may endeavour. This time listening to this song will get you both into giggles and definitely more of a fun birth-control track!

7. Metronomy: You Could Easily Have Me A slightly off-putting number, Metronomy's title immediately brands any partner as a bone-jumping nymphomaniac and when the music kicks in, the assaulting electronics blare in the background disrupting any of your passionate rhythms. This track could scare off prospective babies, yet possibly not the most effective birth-control for teenagers who are happy to listen to screaming electro and drown out thoughts of parents listening outside the door.

8. Talking Heads: Making Flippy Floppy Wow I love you Talking Heads. With a title (twisted for my benefit) about summoning male impotence, this is one way enjoy sex for a fleeting un-climaxing moment. While some of you may curse the badgering interpretation of this song, you just have to see the lyrics “Nothing strikes your fancy/Nothing turns you on”, reminding any listener ready to get porkin’ the ultimate pressure of actually knowing what will turn your lover on. Ha!

9. Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart I think I’ve nailed it with this one, (woo pun time!), with the ominous title a tricky and literal way to stop pregnancy, the harsh lyrics of melancholic betrayal soon become etched on your mind about how love, relationships and sex can all fail: “Do you cry out in your sleep/All my failings expose?/Get a taste in my mouth/As desperation takes hold”. But, don’t let me sway you, if you enjoy hate-sex and up-the-duff repercussions keep listening to Ian Curtis’ fertile voice.

10. The Raveonettes: Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed) Of course our Band of The Month gets a feature in this contraceptive playlist! Unless you are a Whoopi Goldberg fan of her definitions of rape, the real kind being “rape-rape”, you probably won’t want to get down and dirty to the bittersweet threats of this Raveonettes song if you have any doubt that your partner might not be willing. Plus, if you are doing the old “rape-rape”, Raveonettes (and society) will hunt you down!

Behind the Scenes: BESTIVAL

Whoa! SUPERSWEET’s been all over the place this last weekend, with the Ed whirling herself off to fashion central in NY, I’ve been destroying my eardrums and browning my face like a crème brulee in the lovely Isle of Wight. While you may chortle at its lack of glamour, SUPERSWEET’s covered the island’s much hailed Bestival welcoming anyone with a colourful identity crisis for the space themed costume parties...and keep those eyes peeled for the in-depth review of the festival on SUPERSWEET! For now, here are some snippets of the musical mayhem I got up to!

After ploughing through what costumes to decorate myself with, I decided with the loveable red jumpsuit wearing Mork aka Mork and Mindy! However bumping into a male Mork only realised how poor my delightfully homemade costume was, well I suppose you can decide... I did get cheered in the costume catwalk and hugged by a sweaty Chewbacca look-i-like!

While running around searching for the Hidden Disco in the forestry labyrinth, I began to doubt my journalistic skills until I ran to new-wave soul band Hockey, bear hugging them for their fab interview earlier and snapping a cheeky photo of beauties; vocalist Benjamin Grubin and bassist Jeremy Reynolds. Feeling I’d proven my journalism worth, we cheered Happy Birthday to Jeremy; yet with a quick turn I swiftly lost myself in the woods and failed as a simple festival goer, missing Cagedbaby at the Hidden Disco!

Hockey wasn’t the only band we managed to get chatting too; in the upcoming review we’ve recapped horror stories from Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, Chew Lips and their sexual party tricks and Casiokids rocked up for a late night acrobatic finale with the lead singer face painted in the style of a space cat (or as the band pointed out repeatedly, definitely a mouse). In the press tent we overheard a band accidentally slipping a racial slur, and while struggling up the hill home I spotted lead singer of The Big Pink, Robbie Furze wearing a cropped fur gilet and white sunglasses looking rather pleased with himself.

Anyone have any stories to share with SUPERSWEET? Comment below, we want to hear your adventures too, you could even get a mention the article...only if you make us laugh into incontinence of course!