God it's been weeks since we last bigged up Matthew Willis in the Daily and given that I'm still labouring under the pretense that this guy's solo career is going to take off big time sometime soon (please, God of pop, let it be so, just for me), and given that he's got a new single out this very morning, I thought I'd use the trusty Sometime It's A YouTube Of The Day slot to big him up some more. And besides, there's a new reason for doing some bigging, of the up kind, because the new single is a cover version of The Primitives' 1987 classic 'Crash'. Now, I should explain, the original of this is one of my very very favourite records ever. That's ever. Needless to say, it always fills me with concern when I hear one of my favourite pop stars of today is covering one of my favourite tracks of yesteryear, because the covers are invariably a bit rubbish when compared to the original and, as a result, my love for said pop star - however genuine - is always knocked a little. It's the reason I pretend McFly never release cover versions (except for their live version of 'Pinball Wizard, which is a classic). But, despite that concern, and my deep love of the original, I really like this cover. Some BBC blog I saw criticised it for being too like the original, but when the original was so good personally I think that's a good strategy, and as a result my love for all things Willis is untarnished. And hurrah for that. So, consider Matt freshly bigged up and, if you haven't heard it already, go check the cover for yourself. This YouTube page is, by the way, clearly completely unofficial, it being accompanied by a slide show of photos of our favourite former Busted boy, rather than the official video. But given that the official video guest stars Mr Bean (this cover coming from the soundtrack to the latest Bean movie) and given that said Rowan Atkinson creation was only ever amusing for the twenty-three minutes of the original one off programme (though his cover version of 'I Want To Be Elected' was a bit funny, I suppose) I think the slide show is probably the better option. And I would send you to his MySpace but [a] we've tipped it before and [b] it's one of those major label artist MySpaces where all the tracks in the preview player are sixty second snippets, which always makes me cross, and I don't want to be cross with Matt, so let's not go there. Instead, go here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAOvocolFTg