I’m delighted that the various media networks are “across” everything. I remember when football would just be on telly or cricket on the radio. Can’t they hear how irritating the word is? I’m waiting for the jackpot, “so” and “across.” “So, we’re across the … etc. etc.”
Hat positive
I too was late for the hairstyles thread so in honour of H.P. Saucecraft’s borrowed phrase show us yer “Top” hats on!
Band Hierarchy – Who calls thew shots
The war on Drugs as far as i know is a band and not just Adam Granduciel even though I admit he is most influential on their albums. Listening to the new one it struck me that only he appears on the cover and on the inside cover – there is a small concession on then lyric sheet where a photo of thew whole band appears. Have the other members of the band allowed him to assume this leader position and are the okay wirth it? Is it an ego trip on his part? Not a bad album by the way.
Train and railroad songs
Inspired by the other marvellous thread about Road songs, and since I’ve recently started working in the UK rail industry, let’s here your train and railroad songs.
I’ll start the ball rolling with The Stones in all their glory belting out All Down the Line on the 1972 Exile tour. And feel free to load up plenty of Johnny Cash if you wish.
Shovel the coal, let’s rattle and roll!
An earworm from yesterday…
I went to the Hilden Brewery Festival yesterday (Lisburn, NI) – my annual trip to the world of ‘new music’. I heard lots of interesting people, but bought onlky one disc – from this chap, Joshua Burnside, a singer/songwriter who was performing in an terrificly warm, fuzzy electric trio format.
This was his opening song, and it stood out, ‘Holllogram’ [sic], from his latest album. Video of live solo performance.
Hairstyles Of The Rich And Famous
Whose barnet is this, then, if you’re so clever?
http://i.imgur.com/5kBT0BC.jpg
Road songs
I’ve got the Test Match on the telly (mute), my favourite playlist on the Bose and a glass of very good South African Shiraz Mourvèdre on the go. There’s a huge Brill in the fridge, which Mrs. B will do later, with Italian tomatoes and capers, and this just came up. I bloody love this song. So, good people of the Afterworld, favourite songs with ‘road’ in the title please.
Go.
Afterword CD Swap – last chance for blind reviews
Swoppers – it’s your last chance to post your blind reviews. Convinced that bleeptronica track must be Elton John’s alter-ego? It’s oooh the missing link between Whitesnake and The White Stripes – yes must be White Lines. Get posting as @kid-dynamite is going to drop all the track listings at the end of the month. Those where all reviews are in he’s been doing as we go, but the gate comes down on 31 Aug! Been fun eh.
I hate them
I bow to no man or woman in my dislike of, shiver shiver, Mumford & Sons but this is actually very good (apart from the silly shorts). Maybe they should get Elvis on a permanent basis…? Any other examples of an act you hate recording something that,you know, ain’t half bad?
Adios
Could I be disconnected please, whoever does it? I don’t want to post anymore.
Sanity! Sweet sweet sanity!
Kim Carnes – She’s Got…
…more than just Bette Davis Eyes.
Like this sinuous earworm.
The State
Loads of pre-publicity about this, surprised it hasn’t yet gauged a post here, but I sort of can guess why, the spirit for vicious trollfests being o so last year for the current AWer. I have just watched the 4 episodes back to back. I thought it in turn stunning and terrifying, believable and unbelievable, best TV of the year, despite the supposed sensitivities. I can thus fully expect it will not have necessarily appealed to some of our media guardians, small g. So I looked: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4807862/CHRISTOPHER-STEVENS-reviews-Channel-4-s-State.html Am i alone in finding way more offence in the “review” than the programme could possibly offer? Or was that the point?
Narcos S03 – next month.
Hmm. The first two seasons were the best long-form TV I’ve ever seen. Best everything, from a screenplay that never got too clever or too dumb, performances that unfailingly hit the character bang in the middle of the note, Oscar-quality cinematography and editing (the newsreel clips added to, not distracted from, the realism – an amazing feat), and utterly convincing violence (the way I like my violence). So I’m hoping that S03 won’t harsh my mellow. But I’m guessing it probably will.
If you’re going to San Francisco…
..forget the flowers in your hair, just mind your step.
Since it’s the Summer Of Hate, the Grauniad reports that hundreds of San Franciscans plan to prepare Crissy Field – the picturesque beach in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge where right wing protest group Patriot Prayer will gather – with a generous carpeting of excrement.
They should put some acid in the water while they’re at it.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/24/san-francisco-dog-poo-protest-patriot-prayer-rally
Christmas 2017.
Advent calendars now on sale at Cheshire oaks shopping centre.
I fucking despair.
We’ll have to watch these guys. Sounds like a hostile takeover bid for the Afterword
A male dominated Mumsnet? That’s this place isn’t it?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/41024387/group-of-men-form-dads-version-of-mumsnet
Is Tom of Finland the new Moomintroll?
This year Finland celebrates 100 years of independence from Sweden and in honour of this, there is a three day festival of Finnish culture here in Stockholm. Lots of fine artists such as the marvelous Iiris Viljanen who you will remember made it onto Locust’s Best of 2016 list.
The big attraction for the younger audience however will be pop star Alma who is enormously popular over there on the other side of the Baltic. The song I’ve posted is very catchy. Watch out Signe! You have competition.
There will also be a performance of scenes from a new show about Tom of Finland. Famed for his gay erotica, it has now been suggested that he is now as famous as Finland’s other great export, Tove Jansson’s Moomintroll. One magazine picked up on this and produced an hilarious image of two podgy moomins cruising in leatherware.
My jazz neighbour tells me that Finland has some of the most exciting young jazz acts in Europe.
Aki Kaurismäki, Lordi, Maria Kalaniemi, Tove Jansson, Värttinä, Heavisaurus, Kimmo Pojhonen, Vasas Flora & Fauna: these are a few of my favourite Finns.
Have you any? Or do you draw a blank after Moominmamma, Sniff, » Continue Reading.
First Line(s) Synopsis
Last week, the future Mrs Japanese and I decided to play a game to whittle away the time during a long car journey. We decided to explain the first lines in a song as a brief synopsis, without using any of the actual lyrics.
These should be easy to guess, and additions are encouraged.
1. A gentleman addresses a married woman belonging to a fruit drink manufacturing business.
2. Set in the north of England, a jealous impresario recalls the moment he was first aquainted with a front-of-house employee at Revolution Bar. Sixty months later, things aren’t so promising.
3. A Rayleigh lies, temporarily out of action, upon the Moors, overlooking the city below. Our lonely narrator longs for a romantic liaison.
4. Two men meet in a pub which is far from empty. The latter of the two gentlemen is privately educated and a wine conniseur. He yearns for a career in the criminal underworld.
5. Between the hours of sunset and sunrise, two lovers are entwined in an intimate embrace. Anxious, the girl is keen to know if her feelings will be reciprocated the following day.
6. Our lusty narrator is equally impressed with the fashions of » Continue Reading.
FYI £9 money back if you spend £55 on an Amazon gift card.
It worked for me a few days ago.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/b?ie=UTF8&node=11301518031&ref=uk_gc_vc_promo_b55g9
Sorry, another list (best albums of the 60s)
However, this one brings up a lot of albums I have never heard. I think I only own (exactly) a quarter.
http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-albums-of-the-1960s/
paging musos – All in a Chord
This started as I pulled up in the car park this morning. Most interesting – the ‘scream’ chord this week.
First episode was July 26th, so get listening/get_iPlayering quick!
Anybody Gots Ten Large?
I desperately need ten thousand dollars right now. If every Afterworder contributed, ooh, say, five hundred dollars each – well within your means – I could afford to buy this reel-to-reel tape of a completely heretofore unknown Van Morrison album from ’75. Think how happy it would make me! Every contributor to this bold new crowdsourcing initiative would receive an authentic laser-printed picture of me holding the tape and looking happy, suitable for framing – a constant reminder of the Power Of Charitable Good Works and your own personal worth as a human being.
Once you’ve done that, have a look around the site and see what else you could have scored for your meagre five hundred – nothing to match that inner glow of satisfaction at having helped an Afterworder out!
They’re Justified, and they’re Ancient, and they just parked their Ice Cream Van on Bold Street…
Well it’s 23/8/2017 and as promised The KLF aka The JAMS aka The K Foundation aka K2 Plant Hire and whatever – are back back back. I’m not on the scene but apparently Drummond and Cauty pulled up in – yes – an Ice Cream Van on Bold Street, Liverpool about an hour ago. If you’ve not ‘across’ this story, basically 400 ‘volunteers’ have each paid £100 each to participate in a 3 day happening which starts now. It’s been pretty clear there will be no musical performance, this absolutely isn’t a KLF reunion gig and it certainly isn’t a music festival. I don’t know what the F**K is going on and nobody knows for sure.
The first event – by all accounts, is basically a book signing – although they’re rubber stamping books rather than signing and, amusingly, participants have been warned that anyone bringing any other memorabilia to be signed will have it confiscated and destroyed. (How about that Roger Waters and Ringo?) Tomorrow, those paying volunteers will be given ‘jobs’ to do followed by participating in various interventions and rites around various locations in Liverpool over the next 3 days. Apparently strong swimmers, guitarists and make-up » Continue Reading.
Just because it’s a wonderful song
I can’t get the video to work!!!
https://youtu.be/4M7gKZqgHn4