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Bleu in the UK and The Kickstarter Campaign Bleu will tour in the UK in October 2010 - read more here or here on Facebook. First confirmed date: 23/10/2010 London, The Borderline. His kickstarter campaign to promote (or better to collect money to promote) his new album "Four" is still running for one month. The aim (8000$) was reached within 12 hours! Now it's at 27.000$ and rising! Oranjuly A new band on the horizon - Oranjuly . Their self titled debut album is on sale now. Listen to the songs on their official site . I won't mention Jellyfish now ... although it would be right ... but I won't.

So, here's sampler no. eight. hope you all like it. Some more to go! 01 Jay Clifford - Know When To Walk Away 02 Coldplay - Life In Technicolor II 03 Nada Surf - Blankest Year 04 Goldfrapp - Fly Me Away 05 Ben Folds Five - Army 06 Neil Diamond - Delirious Love 07 Badly Drawn Boy - You Were Right 08 Nik Kershaw - What Do You Think Of It So Far¿ 09 Ron Sexsmith - Cheap Hotel 10 Owsley - Class Clown 11 The Polyphonic Spree - Light & Day 12 Josh Rouse - Sad Eyes 13 Gomez - Hamoa Beach 14 Kt Tunstall - Another Place To Fall 15 Cary Brothers - Ride 16 Howie Day - Collide 17 Feist - I Feel It All 18 Brendan Benson - Trouble With You (Demo) 19 Ben Folds - Songs Of Love

01 - Spoon - The Book I Write 02 - New Radicals - Mother We Just Can't Get Enough 03 - Badly Drawn Boy - A Peak You Reach 04 - Coldplay - I Ran Away 05 - Chairlift - Bruises 06 - Gomez - Girlshapedlovedrug 07 - Aimee Mann - Pavlov's Bell 08 - Del Amitri - Here And Now 09 - Colin Hay - Waiting For My Real Life To Begin 10 - Nik Kershaw - Fiction 11 - Ben Folds - Landed (Strings Version) 12 - Blue – Jayhawks 13 - Mike Viola - The Strawberry Blonde 14 - David Mead - Rainy Weather Friend 15 - Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey 16 - Howie Day - Brace Yourself 17 - Imogen Heap - Hide And Seek 18 - Jason Falkner - Lost Myself

01 Nik Kershaw - Somebody Loves You 02 Nada Surf - Always Love 03 Travis - How Many Hearts 04 Ryan Adams - When The Stars Go Blue 05 Ben Kweller - Nothing Happening 06 Ben Folds - Cologne 07 Crowded House - Lost Island 08 Brendan Benson - Alternative To Love 09 Leo (Bleu) - Sukaz Are Born Every Minute 10 Beck - Lost Cause 11 Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time-Bank Holiday Monday 12 Aimee Mann - Momentum 13 Nada Surf - Whose Authority 14 Nik Kershaw - Die Laughing 15 Neil Finn - She Will Have Her Way 16 Michael Penn - High Time 17 Jude Cole - Raining On The Moon 18 Uncle Devil Show - I Had A Drink About You Last Night 19 Goldfrapp - Monster Love

01 Travis - Selfish Jean 02 Badly Drawn Boy - Born Again 03 Brendan Benson - Cold Hands Warm Heart 04 Aimee Mann - Wise Up 05 Keith Caputo - New York City 06 Nik Kershaw - Already 07 Sufjan Stevens - Chicago 08 Michael Penn - Walter Reed 09 Jon Brion - Here We Go 10 Gomez - Don't Make Me Laugh 11 Jason Falkner - The Knew 12 Ron Sexsmith - Not About To Lose 13 Stephen Duffy - In Iverna Gardens 14 Hotel Lights - Down 15 Colin Hay - Overkill (Acoustic Version) 16 Josh Rouse - God Please Let Me Go Back 17 The Dbs - World To Cry 18 Badly Drawn Boy - Welcome To The Overground 19 Jason Falkner - Goodnight Sweet Night

01 Jim Boggia - So Full 02 Ben Folds - Gone 03 Beck - Everybodys Gotta Learn Sometimes 04 Jason Falkner - Start Over Again 05 Jon Brion - Gotta Start Somewhere 06 David Bowie - Thursday's Child 07 Crowded House - Pineapple Head 08 Ron Sexsmith - Hard Bargain 09 Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill 10 Nik Kershaw - One Day 11 David Mead - Make It Right 12 Ben Kweller - Penny On A Train Track 13 Ben Folds Five - Don't Change Your Plans 14 Aimee Mann - 31 Today 15 New Radicals - Flowers 16 Calexico - Bisbee Blue 17 Coldplay - Warning Sign 18 Crash Test Dummies - My Own Sunrise 19 Del Amitri - Don't Come Home Too Soon

You can now preorder the new CD of Bleu called Four (scheduled for autumn 2010). But that's not just it! Let the man himself explain HERE . To sum it up, if you spend money for promoting this CD you can get - the CD (not very surprising) - also with an autograph - unreleased stuff - a handwritten 'Thank You' card - tickets to his show - he will COOK for you - a video chat - a birthday song written by him - a house concert (in the USA) - producing a song with him - even for his next CD (and choose a song title!) - and finally: his big "Thank you" So people - you know what you have to do!

Here you have number three: PowerPopSquare - Sampler Vol. 3 : 01 Stephen Duffy - Home 02 Stephen Duffy - Don't feed the rats 03 Jason Falkner - In your eyes 04 Hotel Lights - Chemical clouds 05 Ben Folds - Learn To Live With What You Are 06 Coldplay - Yes 07 Aimee Mann - That's how i knew this story would break my heart 08 Del Amitri - Last Cheap Shot At The Dream 09 Travis - Chinese blues 10 Ben Lee - Whatever It Is 11 Bleu - We'll Do It All Again 12 The Nines - Dance just for me 13 Badly Drawn Boy - Something To Talk About 14 Nik Kershaw - All About You 15 Ryan Adams - New York, New York 16 Pelle Carlberg - Riverbank 17 Ron Sexsmith - All In Good Time 18 Jason Falkner - Say it's true 19 Tears for Fears - Size Of Sorrow And again - the amazon link:

So I found a legal way to post at least song clips of the sampler - and here is volume two: PowerPopSquare - Sampler Vol. 2 : 01 Coldplay - Don't Panic 02 David Mead - Wherever You Are 03 Bleu - Somebody Else 04 Owsley - Coming Up Roses 05 Stephen Duffy - The kite & the sky 06 Jason Falkner - Author Unknown 07 Travis - Don't be shy 08 Lloyd Cole - What's Wrong With This Picture 09 Hotel Lights - Let Me Be the One 10 The Shins - Caring Is Creepy 11 The Nines - Drama Queen 12 Ron Sexsmith - Brandy Alexander 13 Jason Falkner - Clumsy grace 14 Travis - Colder 15 Ron Sexsmith - Hands Of Time 16 Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time - This morning 17 Hotel Lights - Norina 18 The Nines - Darkening Sky 19 The Shins - Australia 20 Coldplay - Amsterdam 21 Ben Folds Five - Lullabye Here is the amazon link to the songs:

So, something new to this blog: Some time ago I started to create my own PowerPopSquare mixtapes - til today there exist thirteen sampler. If you like this, please respond, so I'll post further ones. And if you have any easier or better way to post links to the songs in a legal way, please tell me! Here it is - PowerPopSquare - Sampler Vol. 1 : 01 Stephen Duffy - Another Time 02 Ben Folds - Annie Waits 03 Bleu - Come n Go 04 Ben Lee - Catch My Disease 05 Owsley - Sentimental Favorite 06 Stephen Duffy - 17 07 Jason Falkner - Feeling no pain 08 Travis - New Amsterdam 09 The Shins - New Slang 10 The Nines - Take What You Want 11 Ron Sexsmith - Happiness 12 Jim Boggia - Shine 13 Jason Falkner - Honey 14 Hotel Lights - Amelia Bright 15 Coldplay - Strawberry Swing 16 Bleu - No Such Thing As Love 17 The Shins - Phantom Limb 18 Ron Sexsmith - Brighter Still 19 Coldplay - A Spell A Rebel Yell 20 Ben Folds - Golden Slumbers 21 Hotel Lights - The Waves The easier way is this (unfortun...