Post by That Skipping Rope. on May 1, 2006 17:12:47 GMT -5
Lily already confirmed on her MySpace that this is the second single, and that Sophie Muller will most likely direct. This is my favorite song of hers, and I'm THRILLED this is going to be next.
Here's the MySpace blog confirming the "Smile" release.
I'm so amped for her album!
Here's the MySpace blog confirming the "Smile" release.
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Rehearsals , million plays , my poor laptop
Current mood: chipper
Alright people ,
So let me tell you a little about my week , firstly thank you to myspace for featuring me as an artist , its great except I spend a minimum of an hour and a half approving friend requests in the morning now , still I'm not complaining or owt . Cheers Tom .
So Monday , LDN got released in a good little independent record shop near you , HOW BLOODY EXCITING is that ? Well very exciting , even if they did think me a bit of a twat in Rough Trade when I marched half my friends down there to buy a copy , actually I even bought a copy myself , felt pretty cool " Hey , have you got that 7" called LDN , by Lily Allen " , " Yes Lily , here it is , it's been flying off the shelves , now get out of our shop " HA ha . After embarrasing my self sufficiently there I went to my first rehearsal ( for my show this week at YoYo ) at The Premises , they went pretty well actually , which was a huge relief as I have been sh*tting myself about these gigs for ages , anyway I went to get a cup of tea , and this guy stopped me in the hall , " Are you Lily Allen?" cue me reaching for a pen ready to sign an autograph (joke) " er , yeah, why ?" , " " I play in Babyshambles , we really like your stuff man , you should do a show with us sometime ......." I'm thinking about wheter he's just keeping me distracted while the other bandmembers go and thief all my brand new shiny equipment , maybe I'm being paranoid " thanks that's really sweet man , I'll be in touch, oh by the way , how did you know it was me ? " I said thinking he must have recognised me from one of the various pieces in the recent press, or my myspace . " I saw your name on the board , and put two and two together. " I ran to reception and ask for a key to my rehearsal room and lock up while on my mission for tea. I went to TRASH at night time , and ended up in bed reasonably early .
Tuesday was rehearsal day again , getting better , and did a phone interview for Timeout .
Wedenesday more rehearsals , this time my Dad came down to watch and gave me my birthday presesnt , a beautiful gold bracelet , he can't make it for my actual birthday so we had a drink then instead . Then my friend Jamie and I went to an EXTREMELY posh restaurant for dinner and HE spent alot of money on the food that I ate . Then we went out drinking and I got banned from this club for behaving badly : ( .
Thursday i was very hungover and slept pretty much all day , then went fro a bit of a half hearted rehearsal in the evening , came home to watch The Apprentice but my f**king skybox is f**ked and failed to record it , spent 45 minutes on the phone to the morons at Sky and demanded they send me a dvd of the episode in question , they told me where to go , and because I was still feeling weak , I went . Which brings me to Friday , oh what a day , I went to meet Sophie Muller ( a brilliant video director) to talk about her maybedoing my video for "Smile" ( my next single) and then I went shopping in town , actually Selfridges , I bought 4 dresses , as I have some important photo shoots coming up and I might even be able to get the record company to pick up the bill , he he . so that was nice , then I went to buy an I-pod HiFi from the mac shop on regents street , which I have to say is brilliant , it's louder than those Harmann Kardon speakers , and doesent have a huge sub woofer thing that resembles a jellyfish , anyway as you can imagine this Hi Fi is quite heavy and armed with two selfridges bags and this big box at rush hour in soho on a friday IS NOT FUN , f**k I don't have any ciggarettes and there are no taxis , and I don't have cash to pay for a taxi , panic sets in , I hid in a backstreet till half six sitting on my box clutching my bags , desperate to be at home , finally I plucked up the courage to get back on the main road and hail a taxi , got him to pull over at a cash point and a shop to buy fags and everything was alright again . Then I get home and HURRAH my mixtapes have arrived from the , well I don't know, the people who print mixtapes . Get in another cab off to rehearsals and then go to 93 feet east to see Jack penate play , which was brilliant , really really good , I also saw my ex ex boyfriend , who " smile " is about , and that was a bit of a shock , but other than that fine , then we went to my friend James leaving party at Sketch , which was lovely , and off to bed.
Well saturday was intertesting to say the least , I asked my little brother ( Alfie) , by the way it's alfie who made me take the song down , cause he doesn't like it , anyway I asked him to help me spray my mixtape covers in exchange for money , and apart from the fact that he got his mate to do most of it, he wouldn't finish off his bit , so I could start packing the paint away etc , anyway I threatened him with not paying, He went mental and he tried to grab the mixtapes and throw them in the fire , I grabbed them and ran upstairs to put them in my room and , your not ready for what happened next , he opened the front door and threw my laptop into the street , yup my poor laptop , into the street , I cried and cried , and went to meet my friends Seb Simon and Austin for a burger , which cheered me up . So kids , it doesnt matter how many friends or plays you get on Myspace , little brothers are still sh*ts . by the way I hit a million plays today . yay . Next week is lily week( my 21st and my first gig ) so you should get an interesting blog at the end of it .
Rehearsals , million plays , my poor laptop
Current mood: chipper
Alright people ,
So let me tell you a little about my week , firstly thank you to myspace for featuring me as an artist , its great except I spend a minimum of an hour and a half approving friend requests in the morning now , still I'm not complaining or owt . Cheers Tom .
So Monday , LDN got released in a good little independent record shop near you , HOW BLOODY EXCITING is that ? Well very exciting , even if they did think me a bit of a twat in Rough Trade when I marched half my friends down there to buy a copy , actually I even bought a copy myself , felt pretty cool " Hey , have you got that 7" called LDN , by Lily Allen " , " Yes Lily , here it is , it's been flying off the shelves , now get out of our shop " HA ha . After embarrasing my self sufficiently there I went to my first rehearsal ( for my show this week at YoYo ) at The Premises , they went pretty well actually , which was a huge relief as I have been sh*tting myself about these gigs for ages , anyway I went to get a cup of tea , and this guy stopped me in the hall , " Are you Lily Allen?" cue me reaching for a pen ready to sign an autograph (joke) " er , yeah, why ?" , " " I play in Babyshambles , we really like your stuff man , you should do a show with us sometime ......." I'm thinking about wheter he's just keeping me distracted while the other bandmembers go and thief all my brand new shiny equipment , maybe I'm being paranoid " thanks that's really sweet man , I'll be in touch, oh by the way , how did you know it was me ? " I said thinking he must have recognised me from one of the various pieces in the recent press, or my myspace . " I saw your name on the board , and put two and two together. " I ran to reception and ask for a key to my rehearsal room and lock up while on my mission for tea. I went to TRASH at night time , and ended up in bed reasonably early .
Tuesday was rehearsal day again , getting better , and did a phone interview for Timeout .
Wedenesday more rehearsals , this time my Dad came down to watch and gave me my birthday presesnt , a beautiful gold bracelet , he can't make it for my actual birthday so we had a drink then instead . Then my friend Jamie and I went to an EXTREMELY posh restaurant for dinner and HE spent alot of money on the food that I ate . Then we went out drinking and I got banned from this club for behaving badly : ( .
Thursday i was very hungover and slept pretty much all day , then went fro a bit of a half hearted rehearsal in the evening , came home to watch The Apprentice but my f**king skybox is f**ked and failed to record it , spent 45 minutes on the phone to the morons at Sky and demanded they send me a dvd of the episode in question , they told me where to go , and because I was still feeling weak , I went . Which brings me to Friday , oh what a day , I went to meet Sophie Muller ( a brilliant video director) to talk about her maybedoing my video for "Smile" ( my next single) and then I went shopping in town , actually Selfridges , I bought 4 dresses , as I have some important photo shoots coming up and I might even be able to get the record company to pick up the bill , he he . so that was nice , then I went to buy an I-pod HiFi from the mac shop on regents street , which I have to say is brilliant , it's louder than those Harmann Kardon speakers , and doesent have a huge sub woofer thing that resembles a jellyfish , anyway as you can imagine this Hi Fi is quite heavy and armed with two selfridges bags and this big box at rush hour in soho on a friday IS NOT FUN , f**k I don't have any ciggarettes and there are no taxis , and I don't have cash to pay for a taxi , panic sets in , I hid in a backstreet till half six sitting on my box clutching my bags , desperate to be at home , finally I plucked up the courage to get back on the main road and hail a taxi , got him to pull over at a cash point and a shop to buy fags and everything was alright again . Then I get home and HURRAH my mixtapes have arrived from the , well I don't know, the people who print mixtapes . Get in another cab off to rehearsals and then go to 93 feet east to see Jack penate play , which was brilliant , really really good , I also saw my ex ex boyfriend , who " smile " is about , and that was a bit of a shock , but other than that fine , then we went to my friend James leaving party at Sketch , which was lovely , and off to bed.
Well saturday was intertesting to say the least , I asked my little brother ( Alfie) , by the way it's alfie who made me take the song down , cause he doesn't like it , anyway I asked him to help me spray my mixtape covers in exchange for money , and apart from the fact that he got his mate to do most of it, he wouldn't finish off his bit , so I could start packing the paint away etc , anyway I threatened him with not paying, He went mental and he tried to grab the mixtapes and throw them in the fire , I grabbed them and ran upstairs to put them in my room and , your not ready for what happened next , he opened the front door and threw my laptop into the street , yup my poor laptop , into the street , I cried and cried , and went to meet my friends Seb Simon and Austin for a burger , which cheered me up . So kids , it doesnt matter how many friends or plays you get on Myspace , little brothers are still sh*ts . by the way I hit a million plays today . yay . Next week is lily week( my 21st and my first gig ) so you should get an interesting blog at the end of it .
I'm so amped for her album!
;D
