Do I have it in me? I believe it is in there

"Hey Mr DJ, put your knickers on"..?

Time for a selection of the "newer" choons that have caught my ear again, dear chums!

Before we go there however, it's worth noting that we're currently in the midst of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year - traditionally celebrated by "raising a noise" and blowing a horn. There are a few "horns" in this video featuring Tel Aviv's finest and house fave Uriel Yekutiel that I wouldn't mind blowing...

Dana International - Saida Sultana (featuring Uriel Ukutiel and friends) [ARISA]

Shanah Tovah!

Onwards and upwards... Let's start with the "big releases" [since their reunion and forthcoming album is all over the news, it's inevitable] from ABBA, shall we?

ABBA - I Still Have Faith In You

ABBA - Don't Shut Me Down

The portent for the album is very promising, indeed - of these two "teasers", however, I prefer the second of the pair...

By complete contrast, here's the latest from everyone's favourite spunky Croatian pluckers - doing battle with Bon Jovi and winning:

2CELLOS - Livin' On A Prayer

Speaking about "winning battles"... We haven't heard much from [another house fave here at Dolores Delargo Towers] Señorita Monica Naranjo in a while, but here she is, paying tribute to smashing a song originally recorded by none other than Kim Wilde...

Monica Naranjo - ¡Hoy No! (Never Trust a Stranger)

The next video is included here not because I particularly like the song, the music nor the singer's voice, but merely because of the excessive amount of ripe flesh Mr Mendes likes to show off - and who are we to argue? Watch it with the sound down, and it's rather good...

Shawn Mendes, Tainy - Summer Of Love

[The review in the Guardian made me hoot, as well: "In the UK, it has only been a summer of love if your passion is lateral flow tests or overpaying for a holiday cottage in Cornwall – but clearly, Shawn’s had a better couple of months. Here he boasts about drinking tequila, staying in bed all day and shagging so much it “felt like we were 18” again, which, given he’s still only 23, isn’t actually that impressive."]

As highlighted recently by Mr Device, I do like the new one by "Our Sophie" and her hubby's band The Feeling (from the soundtrack to the forthcoming Everybody’s Talking About Jamie film):

Sophie Ellis-Bextor And The Feeling - While We're Still Young

And finally... "Little Miss Weekend-without-an E" and his latest banger!

The Weeknd - Take My Breath

As usual, let me know what you think, dear reader.

Kosher meat

No idea what this is all about, but it certainly looks like a buffet I wouldn't mind sampling!

Sapir Saban & Arisa

It is (of course) the latest fantabulosa promo video for "Arisa" gay club in Tel Aviv.

[Note to self: must book Tel Aviv for next holiday...]

For we saw his star in the east

It's almost New Year, and it seems there's a new delivery for Uriel Yekutiel, amongst the madness that usually passes for an advert for Tel Aviv gay nightspot Arisa...

ARISA - Fifth anniversary party

Nice ball play, however.

Pop-tart-tastic-ness

There has been another shockingly long gap between my posts showcasing the "newer music" that has caught my ear. For that, I apologise (as if anyone is champing at the bit - I wish I had that many fans...)

Enough of the bullshit, on with the show.

Fist up, inevitably, are a couple of stalwarts. Madonna's Ghosttown is a remarkably beautiful song - her voice hasn't sounded better in years, in my opinion. The video, too, is excellent. She is the renowned mistress of promotion. So why was this not a smash hit? It never even reached inside the Top 100 in the UK...

Madonna - Ghosttown

"Our Willy" - Will Young - is another brilliant artist who has never really managed to recapture the brief, heady days of his initial success, despite releasing several utterly fabulous singles in recent years. He is a trillion times better than such current world-beating dross as Sam Smith or Ed Sheeran! I was chuffed to bits when his latest album 85 Percent [read a fab interview in The Guardian with Will about the album] overtook both those whiners to hit the top of the charts a couple of weeks ago - and from it, this:

Will Young - Like a River

Speaking of comebacks, whoever thought these two would ever dare show their faces again? All "grown up" now, the former-irritating-yoof-chanters Daphne And Celeste have made a surprise return (in a collaboration with a hipster art-pop weirdo by the name of Max Tundra) - and it is surprisingly good!

Daphne & Celeste - And I Alone

A discovery of the faboo Henry (again) at Barbarella's Galaxy (he who scours the underbelly of (mainly) European pop, so you don't have to), here's a lady by the name of Therese and her ever-so-camp Missing Disco. Love this!

Therese - Missing Disco

Our favourite houseboys Kazaky are in demand (not only by my lustful groin), it seems - they've teamed up with top Ukrainian band The Hardkiss on this rather magnificent number:

The HardKiss ft. Kazaky - Strange Moves

Speaking of team-ups, house fave Welsh wannabee-pop-sensation Bright Light Bright Light has as a very special guest on his new single... none other than the diva-goddess herself, Miss Ana Matronic!

Bright Light Bright Light & Ana Matronic - Good Luck

Another familiar artist with a new choon out is the complete oddball Garek - with a sleazy'n'kinky video, to boot:

Garek - My Animal

Those sexy harmonising gay students from Oxford Out of the Blue have released another saucy promo for one of their fundraising efforts (remember Hips Don't Lie last year?). [To donate to their cause, Helen & Douglas House hospice, visit their website]. This time around, they've decided to wiggle their tushes to Lady Marmalade. "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?" Yes please...

Out of the Blue - Lady Marmalade

Another underrated fave artist here at Dolores Delargo Towers is the lovely Miss Róisín Murphy (she of the original extraordinary dressing-up ideas that gradually, bit-by-bit, were subsumed - like Grace Jones' before her - by the Mother Monster GaGa who claimed them as her own invention). After her brief experimentation with the wonders of Italian torch songs, she's back in her own little world again, we're pleased to say:

Róisín Murphy - Exploitation

And finally...Thank Heavens! Uriel Yekutiel is back - continuing his sterling work in adding a load of much-needed camp to the benighted Middle East, he's popped up in yet another promo for Tel Aviv nightspot ARISA, "performing" Sarit Hadad's Circus:

ARISA feat. Sarit Hadad

As ever, enjoy! And let me know what you think...

Get used to it

Just because...

Featuring the eternal house fave here at Dolores Delargo Towers, Tel Aviv's premier drag superstar Uriel Yekutiel, here's another fantabulosa video promo for local club night Arisa - featuring a song by someone called Margalit "Harris" (I got that name courtesy of Google Translate, so it is likely to be inaccurate; there is indeed no information on an artiste of this name "out there") [2019 UPDATE: her surname is Tzan'ani]. The message of the song is basically "This is not Europe, it's Israel, it's the Middle East, it's a mess - get used to it."

Enjoy!

ARISA - אריסה עם מרגלית צנעני [This is not Europe]

Needless to say, I love it.

Camp? Moi..?

The old, old story

A very difficult morning. I have had to force myself up and out of bed, and back to the joys of work...

To brighten the situation up, here's the fantabulosa house fave here at Dolores Delargo Towers Uriel Yekutiel, entering into a bitch-fight dance competition with another drag wannabee over a hunky stud (the old, old story...)!

If this doesn't cheer you up, nothing will!

ARISA - Omer Adam - Tel Aviv Pride 2013

The whole shebang is to advertise the opening gambit for the international Gay Pride season - Tel Aviv Pride on 7th June 2013.

The music is by Israeli pop sensation Omer Adam.

You're so fuckin' special

We are well overdue another dip into some of the newer musical highlights that have hoved into my consciousness recently...

As the sparkle-dust has settled after the Diamond Jubilee celebrations last weekend, so another glittering season begins - the countdown to World Pride in London in a month's time! We've begun our preparations in earnest, and it should be spectacular (but more of that nearer the time!). Let's kick off with this snazzy little number [I have no idea what the music is, btw 2019 update - the music is Blue Jeans (Smims & Belle Remix) by Lana Del Ray] featuring a favourite stud-muffin Eliad Cohen and his chums in one of his by now notorious club ads, hailing the opening of Tel Aviv Pride on 8th June. Whew!

ARISA - Opening Event of TLV Pride 2012

Thanks to a heads-up from the lovely Mike over at Pop Trash Addicts, here's the new single and video from Mr Cosmo Jarvis (of Gay Pirates fame). Wandering round what looks like Bournemouth [it's actually Torbay] - in some very revealing tights indeed - the single is called Love This. And I do:

There's nothing to beat a bit of gay nude wrestling on a Sunday, is there? And that's just what the fantabulosa Irrepressibles serve up for our delectation, to accompany their super-cool new single Arrow:

The Irrepressibles - Arrow

Now, breathe.

The next song may be a bit of a departure for me, musically - but some tunes just have a habit of getting into one's head and just refuse to get out again. This is indeed the case with the Karen Carpenter-soundy-likey Rumer (remarkably not from down-home USA but a Pakistan-born British singer) with her cover of an obscure Jimmy Webb song about an even more obscure 60s singer songwriter:

Rumer - P.F. Sloan

Back to the campness! It's got pogo-ing monks. It has Muscle Marys. It even has a cameo appearance from Terence Stamp! It's the new single from Hot Chip! All together now: "Do I look like a rapper?"

Hot Chip - Night and Day

Another epic video accompanies the newest single from the lovely out-gay Sam Sparro. It's a catchy, moody song (as we should expect), but I can't wait to hear some remixes...

Sam Sparro - Wish I Never Met You

She has a reputation for being a weirdo, without doubt, and so it was inevitable that Miss Macy Gray would turn her inimitable attention to that "anthem of the outsider", Radiohead's classic Creep. This is taken from her forthcoming album Covered, in which she tackles songs by among others Eurythmics, Arcade Fire and Metallica(!)...

Macy Gray and David Choi - Creep

To finish, it's our favourite Big Willy! Mr Will Young's new single has taken him along a slightly more funky route than usual, with great results. Let's hope this will get him back into the top of the charts where he belongs - fabulously camp video, too!

Will Young - I Just Want A Lover

As always, enjoy! And let me know your thoughts...

Freilichin Purim

I am a little late in wishing my Jewish friends out there festive greetings on the celebration of their Purim holiday last week.

To make up for this, who better to spread the love than our favourite Israeli drag queen, the fantabulosa Uriel Yekutiel and the gorgeous Eliad Cohen in this fantastic video (in which they are joined by a "woman" who looks remarkably like Dana International)?

ARISA - Stalos and Oren Chen - God

Shalom!

Smash hits...

This week, let's open my selection of recent tracks that have tickled my fancy with a bit of a comeback! Described in QX magazine as "sounding like Daft Punk after being molested by Devo" (although I think it sounds more like Yazz after being molested by Cerrone myself), here is the very overdue and very welcome return of The Supermen Lovers (of Starlight fame, way back in 2001 - scary!), with a track from their new EP The Foundation Disco...

The Supermen Lovers - Keep The Funk Alive

In complete contrast, here's a new band with a sound that is a bit reminiscent of the B-52s or maybe early Blondie. It's The Handcuffs:

The Handcuffs - Can't Get the Girl (Without the Good Stuff, Baby)

Whether the world needed it or not, this year's answer to Aqua has probably arrived in the shape of the improbably-named Ze!, with a paean to her hair... Silly, but fun:

ZE! - Haircut

With her trademark brand of smut and filth (and we love her for it, of course!), here is the latest from the fierce Amanda Lepore, who implores us to Turn Me Over... Oh puh-lease!

Amanda Lepore - Turn Me Over

Saving the very best till last - I adore this collaboration between Israeli demi-drag darling Uriel Yekutiel and the incredibly hunky Eliad Cohen, featuring vocals by popular Moroccan Jewish singer Zehava Ben. Apparently a promotion for a Tel Aviv club night called Arisa, this is the fantabulosa Telephone d'Amour...

Zehava Ben - Le Téléphone d'Amour

Enjoy!