Top 5 All Time Favourite Movie Dance Routines

After watching Napoleon Dynamite yesterday I got to thinking about movie dance routines. I love them. I mean, what's not to like? They make a good movie a classic movie... so here are my Top 5 All Time Favourite Movie Dance Routines (this time in reverse order)...

#5 Starsky and Hutch
Well, it should be the Starsky and Hutch routine, and it would have been higher placed, but I couldn't find a good enough copy on youtube, so I'm replacing it with the Monica and Ross routine from Friends and it's staying in at #5. (This one's a favourite in our house!)



#4 American Pie 3
There are some quality moves in here that are worth noting, and a good dance off is always worthwhile!



#3 Napoleon Dynamite
Third place goes to Napoleon for going it solo.



#2 Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion
It's one of the best, and to be honest, could well have been choreographed by myself.



#1 Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Because this is just about the best 80's movie ever. It really is. Go buy it. (This one's for you Michelle.)

Top 5 All Time Favourite Swindon Live Bands

I'm sorry, but this is going to be short and sweet. Just had a long drive back down from up north in dense fog...

Ok, this will need updating at a later date I think. I also request the help from any of you Swindoners out there... do you remember any of these? (I think Buswell is the only band still running) Were you in any of them? Do you have any old recordings?

So, Top 5 All Time Favourite Swindon Live Bands (again, I can only include ones I've seen!)

#1 Buswell
#2 Beaver
#3 Sweater
#4 Choice Blend
#5 King Prawn (can I count this band if only the drummer was from Swindon?)

Anyway... will find out links and give you some background information tomorrow :o)

Top 5 All Time Favourite Live Bands

I don't know if you've spotted it, but the NaBloPoMo box on the left hand side indicates that I'm taking part in National Blog Posting Month. As I don't work weekends (unless there's a set to build) then I will have to find something else to post about. Inspired by my last mention of Nizlopi (and the fact that I've just rewatched High Fidelity)I thought I'd list my Top 5 All Time Favourite Live Bands (that I've seen live, or it just wouldn't count!)

#1 Foo Fighters
As I said before, you just can't beat Dave. I've been a fan since Monkey Wrench (and they just keep getting better... have you heard the new album?) but didn't get to see them live until the Isle of Wight Festival 2006. As expected they rocked out, but that show was topped 2 weeks later with their Hyde Park show. Oh My Word. I went with my pal Julie and we danced like we have never danced before. I keep expecting a video of us to pop up on youtube as more than one chap found us highly amusing and decided to video us. They played all my favourites... Stacked Actors (of which this blog is named after), The One, Cold Day IN The Sun, Times Like These... etc etc. Mr P and I then managed to catch them on our summer cycling holiday to Scotland when they played as part of the Fringe Festival. The highlight of the night was The Pretender and now I am just so excited (again) to be seieng them (again) in under 2 weeks! Dave and the chaps just know how to rock. They will charm you and then rock you like you've never been charmed and rocked before.

#2 Nizlopi
As you can see from the previous post, these guys are a must seen duo. My cheeks hurt from smiling all night at the wonderful, goose bump inducing music.

#3 Tenacious D
Vancouver, February 2007, a gig straight after which Mr P proposed :o) JB and KG know how to put on a show! I would probably liken it to the Rocky Horror Picture Show, had I ever seen it. Amazing live vocals and guitar work, and you can't get much better than the devil rocking out on stage... unless he's played by Dave Grohl (which he wasn't this time). If you grew up watching musicals around your grandparents house (which I did) then this is the live band for you. Pure entertainment :o)

#4 Take That
Don't judge me. You just can't knock a band that manage to create an amazing show with amazing dances when they are hitting 40. You've also got to give them credit for managing to make the entire Millenium Stadium scream like 14 year olds girls (when the audience was mostly women in their 20's & 30's.) I did warn you this list is comprised of bands I've seen!

#5 Rage Against The Machine (followed by The Prodigy, Reading '96)
This was a top show as it was my first taste of a music festival. I remember my mum taking me to school to pick up my GCSE results and then dropping me at the train station for a weekend of fun and frolics. RATM were on the Friday night, right before The Prodigy) and me and my boyfriend at the time were super excited. We'd gone with a load of his friends from college and they'd gone along to see Ian Brown (of Stone Roses) on the Sunday, where as for us, Friday was the night. I remember feeling incrediby sick with excitement waiting for them to come on. I was sixteen and in the biggest metal crowd I could imagine, as close to the front as I dared. They did not disapoint and I recall my neck aching for days afterwards. Rock and roll baby! To add to the sweetness, the college friends who had spent the rest of the weekend mocking Zach De La Rocha's political ranting, came back early from Ian Brown on the Sunday as he was so badly out of tune. What a shame.