Mystery Jets: Serotonin

Okay, bit of a delayed reaction but how good is the Mystery Jets new album, Serotonin?! The title track is an amazing balance of melancholic electronica paired with the band's typically thought-provoking lyrics.

Have a feeling I'm going to annoy the housemates with repeated playing of this and joyful prancing around my room and stamping my feet. It makes me want to go and see them live again.

Ray-Ban Colorize at Selfridges

I have a larger-than-average nose and when I wear Ray-Bans I tend to look like something from a joke shop. Was this enough to keep me away from their launch party? Hell no. I went, I wore, I conquered. I (and most of my friends) got the money shot of Winehouse. Selfridges hosted an exhibition of 10 guitars 'colorized' for Ray-Ban by contemporary music and design talent.


In between casually stalking 'Blamy' (Blake Wood and Amy Winehouse), avoiding burly bodyguards and shoving Jelly Belly into my gob, I watched Esser perform and heard Mystery Jets DJ.

Sight of the night? Coming out of the loo and catching Amy stumbling around rich mum's favourite flowery concession, Cath Kidston. Incredible.

The Ray-Ban exhibition runs in Selfridges' Ultralounge from now until the 22nd March.

Glasvegas' guitar and glasses (below)

Amygate

Gorgeous Jo Wood

(r)Amy (just seen, far right) makes herself strangely at home in Cath Kidston.

Mystery Jets DJ

Calvin Harris: 'get away from the bar, tell your girlfriend...'

(r)Hadouken! s James et moi

Amazing Baby, Little Boots and Mystery Jets at Shepherd's Bush Empire

I went to see a great line-up last Friday and finally got the chance to see Little Boots (a.k.a Victoria Hesketh) perform to, erm, boot.

After Amazing Baby had warmed-up the young crowd, Little Boots made her entrance and the sparks really began to fly. Many Kylie comparisons have been drawn and yes, vocally the similarities are there. Performance-wise (although her renditions stirred) there is still some work to be done before her success reaches the Australian Popstrel’s peak standard. The potential is there and goodness knows we need a fresh face to shake things up a bit. I remember reading an interview in the Observer Magazine with Little Boots and being impressed with her apparent assertiveness and her unwillingness to ‘only sing songs about love.’ Magic and unicorns are more inspirational to the artist and this fresh outlook combined with songs like ‘Stuck on Repeat’ (la la la, la la la la la…la la la la la la la la, I just can’t get you…) and the brilliant ‘Mathematics’ are sure to catapult her to infinity and well beyond.

I have listened to Mystery Jets’ last album ‘Twenty One’ so many times-my favourite tracks are ‘Young Love’ (for which Laura Marling made a special appearance), the anthemic ‘Flakes’ and the rousing ‘2 Doors Down.’ All of these were performed with true aplomb and there wasn’t a single song I felt I could miss by going to the toilet or the bar. This is one of the major litmus tests of a good gig in my opinion.

Amazing Baby

Little Boots takes a break after her performance to watch the Mystery Jets

Mystery Jets