After taking to Twitter to ask what covers they should perform, The Magic Gang have shared their first in this new self-isolation series, unveiling an actually very fab cover of Wham!’s ‘Club Tropicana’!
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Best Covers: HONNE ‘Just the two of us’
Since the release in 2018 of their second album, the pair had been discreet. We find them now with a cover tribute to the late soulman. Hours after learning of the death of Bill Withers, HONNE released a cover of one of the soulman’s classics, explaining that this was one of the first songs they had recorded together.
Best Covers: Blossoms ‘Paperback Writer‘
Blossoms have shared their cover of The Beatles’ ‘Paperback Writer‘ from self-isolation following on from their recent version of Frank Ocean’s ‘Lost’.
The five-piece filmed the harmonious cover from their individual homes and the result is incredibly special. The Stockport band’s take on the 1966 classic from The Fab Four is up there as the finest cover we’ve been treated to over the last few weeks as artists try to keep busy.
Best Covers: Echo & The Bunnymen ‘People Are Strange’
Carrying on the theme of Echo & The Bunnymen providing tracks for Vampire related media and their propensity for delivering incredible covers, this take on The Doors single from 1967 suggests that McCulloch could easily have stood in for Jim Morrison on the band’s 2002 reformation, a part filled byThe Doorss Ian Astbury. This cover gained the band further cult status by association with movie fans and remains a classic late 80s cut. Revel in the fuzzy VHS quality of the MTV clip.
Best Covers: Snoop Dogg “Red Right Hand”
For five seasons now, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ track “Red Right Hand” has served as the theme song for the UK period crime drama Peaky Blinders. PJ Harvey, Laura Marling, Iggy Pop and Jarvis Cocker, and more have also covered the song for the show. And now, Snoop Dogg has too.
“By the order of the Peaky Blinders, this is ‘Red Right Hand,’ by Snoop Shelby,” Snoop Dogg says in the video for his cover before tipping his era-appropriate flat cap to the camera. Listen to Snoop’s take on the shadowy, half-spoken song and compare it to the original below.
Best Covers: Desire ‘Bizarre Love Triangle’
Desire have shared a crisp, joyous cover of New Order’s ‘Bizarre Love Triangle’. The group are signed to Italians Do It Better, and will support Chromatics on their epic European tour this summer. Grappling with New Order’s lovelorn lyricism, their clinical, ice cold take on ‘Bizarre Love Triangle’ is a neat update on the classic single.
Best Covers: Gengahr ‘everything i wanted’
UK band, Gengahr are currently in the country for a couple of shows in Sydney and Melbourne. While they’re visiting, they’ve stopped in at triple j for Like a Version. Giving us a rendition of Billie Eilish’s ‘everything i wanted’, they’ve put a massive indie rock twist on the 2019 tune.
