Rose Elinor Dougall - New tune/album

Hey Ben, have you still got those b-sides/rarities from a few months back? I lost them when my computer melted ?

Also does anyone have a turtle called Life Is Great she recorded with The Young Playthings a few years ago? It's brilliant, like a halfway point between The Pipettes and her solo stuff

Yea, I do. I'll get the b's up when I get home tonight. Ive never even heard of Life Is Great, will see what I can find.

A scholar and a gent, cheers sir

Turtled.

Its everything I have thats not on the record. There are no repeat tracks, some live sessions, but there are alternate takes/demos and shit like that, so there are 2-3 versions of some songs, but they're all different (i.e. I Know I'll Never has 3 very distinct versions). The folder "Non-album tracks" are all b-sides from her singles/EPs + a few one offs from compilations. The Bedroom Demos was a free EP when you bought her CD from Rough Trade, but I added her old Myspace demos to it (which a lot of the Bedroom Demos are from) that weren't on the EP so my version is expanded by like 3-4 tracks. Its all tagged and shit as its directly from my main folder.

I could not find that Young Playthings track, but Ill have a looksie on my UK iTunes acct and if I can grab it there, Ill do so as I need it myself.

That's really awesome man, cheers.

I didn't have much luck with itunes myself, but I'll keep an eye out of it. It's a b-side on a single called Yr So Fit For Me if I remember rightly

edit: Also, have you heard latest Mark Ronson album (don't blame you if you haven't )? But she sings on three tracks on there and they're all pretty swell

yea I have the Ronson tracks. "The Night Last Night" is great. The other two Im not big on.

rose cannot be denied

turtleed that Life Is Great tune to the Rose thread in the Turtle.

Amazing, I listened the arse off this song a few summers back, great to hear it again. Total don

She was on the panel on Steve Lamacq's show on 6music reviewing the first half of the year last Thursday, she gave Darwin Deez in particular a proper slagging off, both professionally and personally She comes across as a reet don herself tbh.

Are we still saying don?

I ended up just getting the track on Amazon. I didnt even realize I had a promo code for $5 in free downloads for a movie purchase I made a few months ago. It expires this Friday (the code) so it was good timing. It was the only place I could find it.

Ahh, cheers for those there, Ben m8.

Got some Gwenno stuff if anyone wants? Stop giggling at the back, she's good!

Haha, her U & I Ep is genuinely very good aye. It's all I've heard though, would happily have a butchers at any other stuff

It's funny to think that second Pipettes lineup actually had three really good songwriters in it and no-one really had a clue, they could have gone on to dominate the world!

I have a lot of her stuff. Its patchy, but I like a few of her demos.

I'll up 'em. Got 12 other tunes, mostly ripped from her MySpace

You see The Pipettes have finally recorded the lost classic, I'm Gonna Be Your Dream? But changed it to Santa's On His Way, their xmas single

FFS

The Pipettes are dead to me, that Spaceman shit was the last straw, and isn't there only 2 of them now or something? I'm intrigued by this Christmas single now though, I've not heard the original so possibly I won't be as offended by it's desecration

There's some pretty nice tunes in with that Gwenno stuff by the way, cheers for that mate

Its Gwenno and some dyke looking chick now. I didnt mind a few songs on that record though. Its not completely awful.

That's her sister

You know what, i've grown to love that second record. No, really! It's pure pop, notthing like the debut, and the space one IS rubbish, but there's so many great melodies within.

Weirdly though, the best track from the period was tossed away as a b-side, Over Heels, which in a fair world would be No.1 for 6 months.

I'll up that, and I'm Gonna Be Your Dream. Though the mp3 of that is live, so pretty rough. Much better than the christmas version, mind

Over Heels surprised me, that's the kind of sound I was dreading them doing but it's actually really decent, sounds a bit like if that Gwenno EP was done in a big shiny studio, cheers for that. I see it's a b-side and all, I'll definitely give the album a few spins in that case

That live track had big potential too you're right, I'm, er, undecided on the Christmas version though sounds like the kind of thing you hear walking around Matalan