Ed Sheeran, Lego House

Ed Sheeran is a extremely young artist from England.
Sheeran started to give his first footsteps in the music world around 2005, when he released his first EP, The Orange Room EP.
Besides this one, he released another 9 EPs - Ed Sheeran (2009), Want Some? (2007), You Need Me (2009), Loose Change (2010), Songs I Wrote With Amy (2010) - written with the singer Amy Wadge, Live At The Bedford (2010), One Take (2011), iTunes Festival: London 2011 (2011), being the last one released in September 2011 under the name The Thank You EP.

In February 2010, Ed Sheeran bought a ticket to Los Angeles with no contacts - only a poetry night. He played on "open mics" all over the city until he was discovered by Jamie Foxx. By the end of that year, his fan-base over the internet started to grow.

In January 2011, he released his EP No.5 Collaborations which was a collaboration with different artists like Devlin and Wiley, becoming the 2nd in the iTunes chart without any promotion or label, selling over 7.000 copies on the first week.

In April he went to the TV Show Later... with Jolls Holland - performing The A Team. Six months later, that same song was released as a digital download in the UK, being also used as debut single from his first album +, released under the label Atlantic Records, in September 2011.

The A Team reached the #3, selling over 58.000 copies on the first week and he was "(...) congratulated on being the highest-selling and highest-charting debut single of 2011."

+ was released on 9 September 2011, reaching the first week more than 102.000 copies. Media interest on this album came specially from The A Team and You Need Me, I Don't Need You  - reaching respectively the number 3 and 4 on the UK Single Chart.

Lego House debut on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show and is officially released as a single on November 13.

The official video for Lego House was released on Youtube on October 20, featuring the extremely similar British actor Rupert Grint, known for his role as Ron Weasley on Harry Potter series.
The story of this video is about an obsessive fan, played by Rupert Grint. That fan is suffering a mental breakdown, ending with Sheeran and Grint meeting when Grint was forcibly removed  from the music venue, where Sheeran was going to play.

"I'm out of touch
I'm out of love
I'll bring you up
When you're getting down
And out of all these things i've done
I think i love you better now"

themed week // Tom Felton, Hawaii

Tom Felton - better known for his character Draco Malfoy on Harry Potter series.
Tom started his career very soon, around his 8 years old he started filming in commercials and with 10 years he filmed his first movie "The Borrowers" which was very well received by the critics.
With 12 years old he filmed the movie that would bring him fame - Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone.

A few years ago and occasionally, Tom started to put some songs he wrote on his youtube account. A few years later, he finally published his songs on a small publishing house named Six Strings Productions.
He has released two EP's - If You Could Be Anywhere and Hawaii - find here.

The song I choose is his recent Hawaii.

"I fall into a dream and I wish that I could be
In Hawaii
and kicking back is where you'll find me
And somewhere underneath a palm tree
On the island of Hawaii"

So Tom Felton is my last choice for this special themed week related with Singer Actors.

The Weird Sisters, Do The Hippogriff

This song appears on Harry Potter and the Globet of Fire, the fourth of eight (last book has been filmed in two parts).
Every time I see this video, I really laugh and enjoy this part.
The other day I decided to search more about The Weird Sisters, the name of the band in HP's books that they kept on the movie, although they don't have any female artist on this band.
So I discovered that they are real artists, playing undercover to Harry Potter's movie.

• Jarvis Cocker (of Pulp) as Myron Wagtail – vocals
• Jonny Greenwood (of Radiohead) as Kirley Duke – lead guitar
• Jason Buckle (of All Seeing I) as Heathcote Barbary – rhythm guitar
• Steve Mackey (of Pulp) as Donaghan Tremlett – bass
• Steven Claydon (of Add N to (X)) as Gideon Crumb – keyboards and bagpipes
• Phil Selway (of Radiohead) as Orsino Thruston – drums

I am absolutely fascinated, their three songs are amazing and they all appear at the movie.
So as a HUGE Harry Potter fan I suggest you this movie, and all the others. It's a pretty nice story where friendship and the fight against bad it's brutal.

Find more about The Weird Sisters here


Hope you like and rock the song!


Soundtrack music week ends on Sunday!


Love,
P