I am Dj-ing once again this Friday February 28th, although this is my first time solo at a proper night club.
The club in question is <a href="http://www.funcitynights.com/">Fun City</a>, at The Verge, 247 Kentish Town Road, London NW1 8PB. Printable flyers are available from their website <a href="http://www.funcitynights.com/">here.</a>
I am "on" midnight to 1am.
I shall try my utmost not to play every song on the TATU album. Their delicious pop songs would be enough, but the inner CD tray of this album (the UK version, anyway) has a close-up photo of their white socks. This alone meant I had to buy it, frankly. More pop groups should wear white socks.
White Socks Are Top Of The Pops. I always knew it was possible.
The many discussions on "TATU – Right Or Wrong" are rendered somewhat academic in my eyes by the simple fact they and their string-pullers are Extremely Russian. All bets are off. Rumours of terrible exploitation behind the scenes have never affected my enjoyment of girl groups before: I'm a Supremes fan. Plus anything that gets scatty accidental-shoplifter Richard Madeley in a self-righteous moralistic strop has a special place in my heart <i>de facto</i>.
Arguably the most shocking thing about TATU is the standard of the English translation on their <a href="http://www.tatu.ru/eng/news.shtml">official Russian website</a>. You'd have thought with all that international success and number one hits in every parallel universe, they could afford to hire a translator whose grasp of English wasn't a step below those of a "funny foreigner" character from a TV sitcom of a time outworn.
Then again, I'm not sure what a better translated version of this recent statement from their producer (taken from the above link) could possibly <i>be</i>:
<i>"Being a psychiatrist, I have serious suspicions that the British Channel 4 presenter Richard Madeley tends to have pedophilia… It is possible that Richard Madeley could be cured."</i>
How could you not love any band that says such things?
It's the <i>"tends</i> to have" that gets me.
Meanwhile, the UK Top Of The Pops apparently censored the girls kissing… by cutting to a <i>straight</i> couple in the <i>studio audience</i> kissing. Presumably BBC1 were trying to outdo the group with some incredulity-soliciting of their own make. You'd have thought they did more than enough of that already, being a channel that happily commissions "This Week" with Andrew Neil.
The one defining comment on TATU has to be the one Ms Lena Katina (the red-haired one) recently made, on hearing another such kiss had been cut out of their performance on the US Jay Leno show:
<i>"It is Fuck!"</i>
Foreign countries are foreign countries. They do things differently there. To each other, mainly.
