Today’s blog is about The Dairy Studios in Brixton.
https://willyoumeetmeonclareisland.wordpress.com/2023/01/20/the-studios-of-london-dairy-studios/
Musings on the byways of popular culture
Today’s blog is about The Dairy Studios in Brixton.
https://willyoumeetmeonclareisland.wordpress.com/2023/01/20/the-studios-of-london-dairy-studios/
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Marvellous, as per.
I was at The Divine Comedy supporting Tori Amos, London Palladium, 30th April 1994, with the keyboard player, Fingers, from the band I played bass in. TDC were always divisive – I thought they were fantastic, Fingers thought they were a joke.
I remember it well because I was made redundant that lunchtime, spent the afternoon browsing the local record shops, and got changed in the Gents at the railway station.
Excellent! Thanks @fentonsteve
Goes without saying, but flipping marvellous (again).
Divine Comdey’s National Express is one of these songs that guarantees a smile. Perfect pop? Damn close.
What a sniffy review that was:
“What a filthy, disgusting, revolting, nauseating little record … This is mock-pop. This is the work of an ‘artist’ who thinks himself superior to his art form and despises his audience.”
Yer man Steven Wells from the NM-so called-E has cloth ears
Cheers. Yes, I remember him as a complete knobber.
I see no merit in that song. ‘When your arse is the size of a small country’. A very unpleasant lyric. Does not reflect well on the writer.
Also it suggests that you can get food and drink on National Express coaches, which is not true. On this kind of misinformation people could starve to death.
Excellent as ever. Good nerd count. Thanks!
@Twang you are my nerd inspiration, sir.
Really enjoyed that @niallb. Alabama 3 have been a favourite band of mine for many years and have chatted with Rob before and after many gigs. Totally approachable and same off stage as on.
Can’t believe they only made £300,000 from woke up. Would have though it was much higher than that given the number of episodes, the number of years it has been on tv etc.
Exit on Cold harbour lane might be their best album.
Also interesting that SFA recorded there too.
How many more left Niall?
Maybe do a second volume from New York?
Thanks @SteveT. Ref WUTM income, HBO paid to license the song so, unless they agreed to pay repeat fees, (usually not,) the band would get no more money from the TV. Once it was on a soundtrack, that may have changed. So, their income after the show would have come from people buying it as a result of hearing it on the show.
Ref how many to go – 20+ but I found two new ones during this week’s research 🤩
I’ve written well over 200,000 words, which is about 3 books worth. Next would be the rest of the U.K and Ireland but a publisher would need to pay for expenses.
After that? Of course, the States!
Really enjoyed the Doves stuff @niallb
Of course , I was a big fan before they made it…
Used to see them at the Southern pub and they always always always had sound problems and “technological” issues. Became a bit of a thing. Still love the way they sound a bit shonky. And , tbh, didn’t realise they were quite so successful!
Thanks @niallb
Thanks @Freddy-Steady. Doves were a band I knew absolutely nothing about but really enjoyed researching. I love it when that happens.
I picked up the Where We’re Calling From DVD in a chazza, which features their 2002 live set from the Eden Project. It’s fantastic. Their studio albums somehow never captured it.
I picked up on Doves from a track on a Word CD from the first album. I played them the other day funnily enough. Really good band, a bit different than most of the land fill indy of the time.
I think they had a good run of albums and made some excellent music. I guess the dance music background shows in the stomping rhythm section on things like Pounding and Black and White Town. I agree, not like your indie landfill, much more accomplished.
Great read as always Niall. A brief fact about Doves- the building that they recorded one song for their third album on the banks of Loch Ness was owned by TV naturalist Terry Nutkins (this feels a bit like a Bob Holiness/Baker Street rumour, but it is true).