Demos available
We have been doing some refurnishing on the blog. Hope you enjoy!
There are also some new uploads on the mp3 page – unreleased outtakes and demos (and some remixes) from Personal Stereo and This Is What You Get. Download for free!
Tag: blue monday
Under the radar
We are working on a video for ‘Cigarette Burns’ – shot by Erik Hannemann (he is the one behind the ‘Blue Monday’, ‘Six Seven Times’ and ‘Kebab Shop’ videos as well).
Pictures from the soon to be finished video above – shot in black and white in our rehearsal studio.
It will be nice.
And you can now find us on Twitter – user name Flunk. Click here.
Found this on the web – a sweet piece from a blog called Hecklerspray. Read it here.
New remixes, old songs
Here is a brand new remix of ‘Morning Star’ track ‘Blind My Mind’. It’s one of the band’s favourite songs.
Listen to the mix at Kohibs MySpace page – he is one of the guys who did a remix of ‘Morning Star’ as Parliavox a couple of years ago.
And here’s another: An electro mix of ‘Blue Monday’!
Listen to Blue Monday (dkay Remix):
MP3:
And now, the news…
Hope summer’s treating you well!
Just a few words from us – first of all Flunk are artist of the month on Auralgasms.com.
Click the picture above to access their radio.
The Nancy Drew movie featuring our Blue Monday version (it’s also on the soundtrack) premiered in the US in June, on Friday August 10 it’s in the theatres in Norway.
Just realised how the song is used in the movie. Here’s from a review in Newsweek/msnbc.com:
Nancy’s ditched the hybrid and is back in a retro-cool 1959 blue roadster. She also wears outfits cut from vintage Butterick patterns. Yet she does Internet research, listens to Flunk on her iPod and attends ultrahip Hollywood High.
The review in The Domonion Post (New Zealand) is finding the scene slightly annoying:
Even the anachronisms are out of whack in Nancy’s world. This kid drives a beautifully restored Nash Metropolitan, opines that “nothing sounds like vinyl”, and then downloads Flunk’s 2002 Blue Monday remake on to her oft-seen iPod: Product placement is always irritating, but it’s not usually completely nonsensical.
It’s world wide!
The Personal Stereo album is now available world wide. Since our label Beatservice use indie distributors in the various countries there will be shops that don’t have the album in store. But if requested, they should have easy access to our album.
Meanwhile, here’s a link to the official site for the forthcoming Nancy Drew movie featuring our Blue Monday version.
And you can still listen to Personal Stereo on our website!
More movie ecstasy
Seems our Blue Monday cover is up for more soundtrack action. This time it will feature in the movie based on the Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting etc) novel Ecstasy. They’re not going to shoot until June, but according to the producers we’re on.
Nancy Drew movie
A version of our Blue Monday cover will appear in the forthcoming Nancy Drew movie.
In the US the movie will premiere on June 15. The movie is directed by Andrew Fleming, and Emma Roberts is doing the Nancy Drew part.
Belgrade gig
(Click on photos for high resolution version)
Flunk played live in Belgrade last weekend. Good fun, even did a radio show on Sunday.
Here are pictures from the show. Support band was the very amusing Swedish singer/songwriter Karl-Jonas Winqvist and his band. MySpace site here. He’s also in a band called First Flower Power – in fact the band all looked like the cast of brilliant Swedish director Lukas Moodysson‘s hippie movie Tilsammans (Together).
Other news? Well, we’re working on the album. Hopefully it’s finished by christmas. And it will – if all goes as planned – be out on April 30th next year. It’s going to be called Common Sense.
And oh, apparently See Thru You (off the For Sleepyheads Only album) appeared in a love scene in an episode of the ABC series Brothers & Sisters (Sally Field, Rachael Griffiths, Calista Flockhart…) this week. According to our best friend in the US, Beth Sereni.
And Blue Monday will be featured in the upcoming Nancy Drew movie, to be released next year.
Remember to check out our MySpace site.