Tell Me Something New: Florrie

Florrie is 22 year old Bristol born singer/songwriter/musician Florence Arnold. Despite offers from major labels in the UK and the US, Florrie remains independent and releases her music on her own label, retaining creative control over her work in the process - more power to her I say! She is also the in-house drummer for the Kent based production team Xenomania and has played on records by Kylie Minogue, Girls Aloud and the Pet Shop Boys.        

She released her second EP, "Experiments" last month. The lead single "Begging Me" can be viewed here:

Florrie - Begging Me (Video)

However my favourite track on the EP is a track called "I Took A Little Something". There is now a video for this on Dolce & Gabbana's Official You Tube channel. The music/model is Florrie, the clothes are all D&G and it's shot in Paris so it's all tres chic!

Florrie - I Took A Little Something (D&G Promotional Video)

Finally, further information about Florrie can be found on her official website here:

Florrie Official Website   

Macca!

After The Beatles - and either side of Wings - Paul McCartney released two solo albums, both recorded at home and written, produced, played and sung entirely by Paul. The first, "McCartney", was released in 1970, the second, appropriately entitled "McCartney II" was released in 1980. I have copies of both on vinyl. I'm too young to remember the release of the first album but the second is etched firmly into my early teenage brain!

Fast forward to 2011 and both of these albums have been remastered and come with loads of extra features depending on which version you buy! In the case of "McCartney II" there is a single disc edition which replicates the original album, a two disc edition which contains eight bonus tracks and a rather fabulous 3CD + DVD "Deluxe Edition" housed in a 128 page booklet (although this retails for rather more than the £3.99 my original vinyl album cost me!) Tracklisting for this rather splendid little item is as follows:-

Disc One

1. Coming Up

2. Temporary Secretary
3. On The Way
4. Waterfalls
5. Nobody Knows
6. Front Parlour
7. Summer's Day Song
8. Frozen Jap
9. Bogey Music
10. Darkroom
11. One Of These Days

Disc Two

1. Blue Sway (With Richard Niles Orchestration)
2. Coming Up (Live at Glasgow, 1979)
3. Check My Machine (edit)
4. Bogey Wobble
5. Secret Friend (Full Length Version)
6. Mr H Atom / You Know I'll Get You Baby
7. Wonderful Christmastime (Edited Version)
8. All You Horse Riders / Blue Sway

Disc Three

1. Coming Up (Full Length Version)
2. Front Parlour (Full Length Version)
3. Frozen Jap (Full Length Version)
4. Darkroom (Full Length Version)
5. Check My Machine (Full length Version)
6. Wonderful Christmastime (Full length Version)
7. Summer's Day Song (Original without vocals)
8. Waterfalls (DJ Edit)

DVD

1. Meet Paul McCartney
2. Coming Up Music Video
3. Waterfalls Music Video
4. Wonderful Christmastime Music Video
5. Coming Up (Live at Concert for the People of Kampuchea, 1979)
6. Coming Up (taken from a rehearsal session at Lower Gate Farm, Sussex, 1979)
7. Making the Coming Up Music Video
8. Blue Sway    

"McCartney" follows a similar pattern with a single disc edition, a two disc edition with bonus tracks and a 2CD/DVD collection, again with a 128 page booklet.

Further details on all of this, along with a video trailer for each of the albums can be found on Paul's Official site here:

Paul McCartney Official Site