Musings on the byways of popular culture
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Like Kraftwerk? Like steel drums? Then you’ll love Pan Machine.
Available now from all good record shops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6nCs0xZj7M
https://www.omswaggermusic.com/releases/ebony-steel-band-pan-machine-lp
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This lot played the Cambridge Junction Fiver (five acs for five quid) on Friday.
Shades of AW-faves the Silver Seas. I like.
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Nicked from the Steve Hoffman forums & FNAC listing:
12″ reissues: Blue Monday 11/15/2019 Confusion 11/22/2019 Thieves Like Us 11/29/2019 Murder 12/06/2019
Release date: 24/1/2020 (1LP/2CD/2DVD) Power, Corruption & Lies (for CD and LP) (2019 remaster) 01. Age of Consent 02. We All Stand 03. The Village 04. 5 8 6 05. Your Silent Face 06. Ultraviolence 07. Ecstacy 08. Leave Me Alone
Power Corruption & Lies – Extras (CD) Writing Session Recordings 01. Age Of Consent * 02. The Village * 03. 5 8 6 * 04. Your Silent Face * 05. Ecstacy * 06. Leave Me Alone *
John Peel Session 07. Turn The Heater On 08. We All Stand 09. Too Late 10. 5 8 6
John Peel Session Outtake 11. Too Late (instrumental rough mix) *
New York Session Outtake 12. Thieves Like Us (New York demo #1) *
Writing Session Recordings 13. Thieves Like Us * 14. Murder * 15. Blue Monday * 16. Blue Monday *
*Previously unreleased
New Order – Power, Corruption & Lies DVD DVD 1
Live Shows The Hacienda, Manchester, 1982 In A Lonely Place Ultraviolence Denial The Village We All Stand Senses Chosen Time 5 8 6 Temptation Everything’s » Continue Reading.
12/10/2019
The Kinks are The Village Green Preservation Society played at 3:33pm “in glorious mono” from 180g vinyl on a top-flight hi-fi in the Courtyard Café, Papworth Everard. ‘Support’ from various LPs randomly-selected from a box of LPs.
Home-roasted coffee, loose-leaf tea, locally-sourced cakes, full bar including microbrewery ales.
2-5pm, free entry. Well-behaved kids and dogs welcome.
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There’s not enough Heidi Allen talk around these parts if you ask me.
She’s in the news again today. I can finally vote for her.
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First three albums remastered in 2019 by Calum Malcolm on 180g vinyl. Out 22nd Nov.
Still no High on vinyl, though.
I’ll probably/possibly skip these as I have the Linn originals (and the double vinyl of Peace At Last from the other year).
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Did any of you lovely people happen to get_iPlayer the Reading+Leeds Festival set by Billie Eilish?
The numpty who calls himself my father left it too late, and only managed to grab Blossoms’ set an hour before it went offline.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b007xt4m/reading-and-leeds-festival
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Professor Green does the weather. Ed Sheeran and Macca on Blue Peter. The Darkness vs Feeder on Bargain Hunt.
And so on.
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Interesting Radio 4 doc. on Saturday. Worth 30 mins of your time.
“Bruce Springsteen is turning 70; rock’s gods are getting on. It’s not clear who’s there with electric guitars to replace them. Younger acts are failing are to make hit singles. Veteran rock journalist Mark Coles believes rock music has lost its ability to surprise and innovate. Record label boss Vanessa Higgins describes how the writing of hit songs no longer favours the rock format. Music critic Michael Hann blames the high costs of making rock as part of the reason for its decline. But Chris Woltman, manager of the band Twenty One Pilots, believes bands have adapted rock for a new generation of fans and industry veteran Sat Bisla details how rock is making headway in non-traditional markets like India and Indonesia. With Neal Razzell.”
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I always had a soft spot for ‘the budget Television’.
He was 75. I suppose the New Wavers are now going to start dropping like flies.
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29/09/2019
Back To Black played from half-speed mastered vinyl on a top-flight hi-fi in the Courtyard Café, Papworth Everard. ‘Support’ from The Ronettes, Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, and The Specials.
Home-roasted coffee, loose-leaf tea, locally-sourced cakes, full bar including microbrewery ales.
3-5pm, free entry. Well-behaved kids and dogs welcome.
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Fantastic series on R4 last week presented by Neil MacGregor called As Others See Us.
“in which he hears what five countries think of modern Britain and its ambitions beyond EU membership.”
Spoiler alert: they think we’re idiots.
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Offspring the Elder (16) and I are off to the Reading Festival tomorrow to catch Pip Blom (me), Billie Eilish (both) and 21 Pilots (her).
I haven’t been to Reading for 21 years. Is there anything else on the lineup I should catch?
If anyone fancies a pint/cuppa, get in touch.
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Some Miles Showell half speed masters you may have missed. I love the ones I already have except, perhaps, Disraeli Gears. It’s going to be an expensive autumn for me.
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Tinderbox, Peepshow, Superstition & The Rapture (all released last December). Peepshow is my fave SATB album. The Rapture’s the only one I don’t much like. Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters (released in April). Or available on CD in your local chazza for 99p. Blind Faith – Blind Faith (released in April). Genesis – Seconds Out (released in June). Everything But The Girl – Amplified Heart (released in July). Dusty Springfield – Dusty In Memphis (released 20 Sep). Now we’re talking! Scott Walker – Scott 4 (released 20 Sep). None more AW. Fabs – Abbey Road 50th (released 27 Sep). The Specials – The Specials (double 45rpm, released 11 Oct).
Plus another Ikea Kallax to store them all in…
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I appear to have something in my eye
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Peter Murphy, son of Northampton, uber-goth, Maxell tape exponent and former drug hoover, has a dicky ticker
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Prompted by Leicester’s brilliant trio of Soul II Soul, Edie Brickell & Primal Scream all using the same drum loop, here are three all using the same bass riff. How many others can you think of?
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After two seconds, according to the ECJ.
I present two more cases for the prosecution, m’lud:
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Old Town Road has topped 17 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100
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BBC Radio 4’s series The Voices of… is back.
Alison Goldfrapp last week and Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner yesterday.
All episodes available for download.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08slys1/episodes/downloads
Here’s a nice story about my chums stepping in to replace Lykke Li.
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At work yesterday I needed to order some diodes. I should have ordered SK56CHV6G but I copied the line above in a spreadsheet and got a pack of LL4148 instead. What* am I like, eh?
This morning, gathered round the office kettle, I had a long discussion with two colleagues about the relative merits of Precision, Jazz and Musicman bass guitars.
This evening, I’m meeting our new cat-sitter.
What tedium have you been involved in recently?
(*) Dull, that’s what.
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What does it sound like?:
“In June 2017, New Order returned to the stage at Manchester’s Old Granada Studios where Joy Division made their television debut on Tony Wilson’s So It Goes programme in 1978… For the celebrated show, New Order “deconstructed, rethought and rebuilt” a wealth of material from throughout their career: familiar and obscure, old and new… The show and performance was created in collaboration with visual artist Liam Gillick and orchestrated by composer-arranger Joe Duddell, the live show was performed by the band with a 12-strong synthesiser ensemble from the Royal Northern College of Music.”
So, let’s get that title out of the way first:
No = New Order 12k = 12 keyboards (from Royal Northern College of Music, on stage with the group) Lg = Liam Gillick (put together the visuals and stage concept) 17Mif = Manchester International Festival 2017
Obvious, really, innit? So, what do we get?
A live album of little-performed album tracks and b-sides to complement the NOMC15 live ‘hits’ album from the Music Complete tour.
Kicking off with “Times Change”, a little-loved track from the original lineup’s least-loved album, Republic, performed as an instrumental. This is perhaps wise as Barney’s attempt » Continue Reading.
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I tried to post this in the Blogger Takeover but the YT link didn’t work (it’s a YT playlist).
Have a listen. I think they’re great but quite unusual.
I spent a day at Easter engineering a live-in-the-round session for local prog-folk act Tape Runs Out. I can’t think of any other act with a hammered dulcimer. They’ve put GoPro camera footage over the music and posted it online for your listening and viewing pleasure. Blink and you’ll miss me drinking tea and listening (footage of me plugging in mics is too dull).
{Update: the playlist didn’t work, so here’s track #1, I’ll post the others in comments.}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hol31cblyP4&list=PLjZN_n5TZFczR58QPhleAUcak4HHGhb5m&index=2&t=0s
