The Underground of Happiness

The great Melt Yourself Down were seen in the wild last week kicking out some jams on Jools Holland . For a band making their debut on the goggle box they made quite an impression - vocalist Kushal Gaya threatened to take out a cameraman with one of his scissor kicks a couple of times. You can check back on the performance of first single 'We are enough' here. It's also featured on their debut s/t album which is a must hear and comes out on June 17. Melt Yourself Down by Melt Yourself Down

My musical tv highlight of last weekend? No, not the Eurovision (Jedward's somersaults were impressive), but Warpaint on Later with Jools Holland . I must say I wasn't fully convinced by their debut album on this side of the world, The fool , which came out last year. It certainly had some great moments, of which Elephants was one of the best. I haven't seen the band live though and they look like they could be a different proposition in the flesh. The rhythm section look like they really mean it, for one thing. By the way, Brian Wilson was on the same show. I love the man but I just don't think he should sing in public any more. I find myself slightly on edge watching him, as if he might fall off the stool any minute. Other than that, he and band (same one as played in Cork some years ago, made up of most of The Wondermints I believe) played a stirring version of Good Vibrations . However, the highlight was a shot of Warpaint dancing along to it, oblivious to the c...