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A theme song for Pirate Bay courtesy of Montt Mardie

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

News about Pirate Bay is big in the states. Imagine what it must be like to live in Sweden where there’s even talk of Pirate Bay political party. So if anything Montt Mardie’s ever done has a chance to go viral it’s this song – the new theme for Pirate Bay which is prominently placed on the home page.

The song/video “We’re All The Pirate Bay” is simple like any good theme song. But it’s also simple for a reason – Montt Mardie is encouraging the people of the world to remix/redo the video/song to prove a point about file sharing and Pirate Bay in particular. No matter what you think about file sharing and the Pirate Bay, for a certain type and caliber of artist these services are hugely effective in getting their music to the masses. Lots more info here.

We’re All The Pirate Bay

Montt Mardie – “We’re All the Pirate Bay”

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Montt Mardie – B-Side to the “Modesty Blaise” single (Ruffa Lane)

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

I’m a big fan of Montt Mardie. But since he’s been signed to the English label Ruffa Lane I haven’t been writing as much about him since the BBC and NME and countless blogs have confirmed what I originally wrote about him years ago. And that is that he is a pop phenomena that could, with the right help, ascend the charts. His new single is called “Modesty Blaise”, but that’s been written about elsewhere so I asked to write about and link to the b-side “Come On Eileen”.

If there’s one thing I know about Montt Mardie (from his music, blog postings, and all around persona) is that he feels things very deeply. In the song “Come On Eileen” he doesn’t so much sing about his troubles as he does moan about them. It’s just this the over the top emotionalism and wearing his feelings on his sleeve that I love about Montt Mardie.


(single cover art)

Come On Eileen

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