NZ's own pop trainwreck has left the station...
So you've heard of Yulia, right? The Hayley Westenra-like popera singer who moved here from Russia a few years back? Right. Well, today I proofed an article that's in the upcoming February issue of Real Groove about her recent antics, which intrigued me... check this out.



It's her on Good Morning, performing her new single Love Siege. I have only three words for it... W. T. F?! The best part is, in the article her manager/fiance claims it was deliberate and fully choreographed, inspired by Beyonce and Kylie videos. Err... I've seen plenty of Beyonce and Kylie videos, and I can't say I ever saw one that featured a guy standing on a practise guitar amp while a former popera singer wearing face paint fondled his knees and struggled to hit notes any Idol contestant would nail with ease.

The article I won't spoil further for you here, but it's well worth the magazine's cover price alone, trust me. Read this first though - the press release her manager put out earlier this month announcing their engagement is bizarre enough in itself, and a good primer for the full-on weirdness that is the Real Groove interview.

In other news... I'm reading The Tipping Point, which is quite interesting, and I'm enjoying it more than Gladwell's other well-known book, Blink. We've started writing new material in the band, the lack of a permanent practise space means it's taking a little longer to have ready than we'd have liked, but it'll be good to have some new material when they are ready, for Camp A Low Hum hopefully. Speaking of which, I was checking out the website for Camp yesterday, and holy crap. If there was something like that when I was 17, it'd have been the best four days of my life, haha! Could still be, but I'm less easy to impress and a little more grown up now (a little).

And on that note, I'm going to practise setting up my tent.