Conductor Chaz has an enjoyable gallup through that AW fave topic: “which songs would have been on the next Beatles album if they hadn’t split up?”
It was broadcast last weekend, so watch out for a repeat.
Musings on the byways of popular culture
Conductor Chaz has an enjoyable gallup through that AW fave topic: “which songs would have been on the next Beatles album if they hadn’t split up?”
It was broadcast last weekend, so watch out for a repeat.
Long and interesting (to me, so dull to everyone else) article on vinyl pressing capacity over at SDE.
This year’s wallet-emptying “celebrations” will take place across two Record Store Day “Drops” on Saturday 12th June and Saturday 17th July.
Downloadable list on the page linked.
I was a bit underwhelmed by it all last year. I liked being able to pre-order and not having to queue but with no events in store and an allocated slot to collect, it felt a bit like a drug deal. Or what I imagine a drug deal would be like. And going online afterwards to buy the left-over stock before the flippers was good.
https://recordstoreday.co.uk/news/posts/2021/official-record-store-day-uk-releases-revealed/
On iPlayer now, BBC 2 Wednesday 23:30
The statement below from CFF. The status of other festivals in the link.
“We are sorry to share the news this summer’s Festival will not be going ahead. Despite the government roadmap out of lockdown, there is still a lot of uncertainty for festivals and whether they can safely take place. Questions over everything from whether artists will be able to travel internationally to whether we would need to enforce social distancing and masks-wearing for everyone on site. It’s a lot to plan for without knowing for sure whether the event will even be allowed to happen. We’ve held out hope until the last possible moment, but summer is fast approaching and we can’t hold off a decision any longer. So, with regret, we are setting our sights on 2022. If you are a ticket holder, you should have already received an email notifying you of your options for a full refund. If you did not receive the email, please reach us on tickets@cambridgelive.org.uk. If we don’t hear from you, your booking will be rolled forward to 2022 at 2020 prices by default. Thanks to all our fans for the patience and loyalty they have shown as we try to » Continue Reading.
This docco was on last weekend. I’ve only seen half of it, but well worth a watch. Repeated this Friday 19th, 11pm-1am on Freeview channel 11.
I’ve just finished Dylan Jones’ book covering 1975-1985 (has it been reviewed on here?) and it was excellent. At 650+ pages, it could easily have been longer.
I remember Covent Garden at the end of the 70s – rubbish in the streets, tube station closed at weekends, prostitutes and dealers going about their trade. I was a bit too young, and badly dressed, to attend the Blitz club.
Almost everyone who went there went on to be something in the arts. There was a lot more to the early 80s than monophonic wasp-in-a-jar synths.
Word alumnus Laura Barton is back on the wireless tomorrow with a new series of her excellent music docs.
That is all.
I’ve just had a dullgasm.
I’ve never met him, but think I would like Miles Showell. What a nerd!
Curve released their debut, the Blindfold EP, 4th March 1991.
I was on ‘revision leave’ from university and took a mid-morning stroll into town from my mum’s house. As I entered the record shop, Dave signalled to me from behind the counter. “I’ve got something I think you’ll like” and stuck it on the record player. I slapped my fiver on the counter before the vocals had started.
My pal and I hung out with them for the afternoon when they played the Cambridge Junction (he won tickets on the local radio station). They were all lovely. There was an Indie Disco in the venue after the gig, the whole band came out front, I can remember guitarist Debbie and I bouncing around the dancefloor to NIN’s Head Like A Hole.
Years later, Debbie was working in London record shops. I was in the Notting Hill MVE with my German friend, as I approached the counter she asked “Hello Steve, how’s Cambridge?” and we had a catchup.
The silent man from Stuttgart waited until we were outside the shop and uttered one word: “How?”
Spotify in CD-quality. Is the future nearly here?
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/22/22295273/spotify-hifi-announced-lossless-streaming-hd-quality
“My hands were cold and, as I was shaking out the box, suddenly the ring was just gone.” “The team had to pull out a huge pile of rubbish and shove it all behind them and check it over and over again.” “The team was said to be close to giving up when after 20 minutes, plant operator Jordan Cooper, 22, spotted it in a puddle of mud” “It was like looking for a needle in a haystack as there was a huge mound” “It was lying in a puddle of mud and was all scruffy.” “The guy was ecstatic when we handed back his ring”
Take the Backstreets to avoid the Highway Patrolman
The Waterboys Glasto 86 set was once released on CD but the label never gave Mike Scott any dosh so he disowned it.
100 Greatest Bootlegs blog has reconstructed the whole set.
And BBC Radio 6 Music has recently rebroadcast some of it:
https://100greatestbootlegs.blogspot.com/2021/01/150-waterboys-glastonbury-festival-1986.html
Someone’s made up an imaginary back-story for their “unreleased” album of KLF-like Chill Out-like ambient techno. Complete with faked gig posters, ticket stubs, NME reviews.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find the evil hands of Drummond & Caulty are behind the curtain.
From their website:
Who were The NRG, were they the kings of Ambient? Did they even exist? Did they really delete all their back catalogue? How did they become so successful in the USA?
So many questions…
Welcome to the ultimate tribute site for The NRG, the one stop shop for all things dedicated to the kings of Stadium Ambient™”
Forgive the Crass (is that an AW whack?), but watching the blonde windbag’s briefing this evening has made me hopping mad.
When can we have a grown up in charge?
Cherry Red’s next box set is Shake The Foundations: Militant Punk and the Post-Punk Dancefloor 1978-1984. Compiled by Bill Brewster, author of Last Night A DJ Saved My Life. Out 26th March.
Sold!
Annoyingly, the Cherry Red website is currently offline for maintenance.
Paging Moose
World Party back catalogue coming to 180gm vinyl, CD & digital {CDs are digital, you twit}.
Private Revolution: Feb 26th Goodbye Jumbo: Mar 26th Bang!: Apr 30th Dumbing Up: May 28th
No news on Egyptology yet.
I’d really like to go again one day.
I’m not going for Sunday lunch at the Fripp’s house. I wouldn’t know where to look.
“The never-before-seen movie featuring Aretha Franklin recording the most successful gospel album of all time, Amazing Grace. Crafted from footage originally captured in 1972.”
Was on the telly on Jan 2nd, apparently.
*Fires up get_iplayer*
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000qzvh/amazing-grace
Beat the bulge with your favourite bug-eyed drug fiend.