Musings on the byways of popular culture
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Finally, after 30 years, the Kevin Rowland album nobody wanted (wants) gets the reissue treatment. I rather like it but store it with the sleeve reversed.
Don’t click on the link if you value your eyes. Once seen, never unseen.
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Pop’s most fabulous mother of five has fallen off her bicycle.
Paging @paul-wad
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This might appeal to many of the overgrown teenagers on the AW, including me.
“I had a look at myself when I started to get into my 50s and I knew something was missing,” he says. “I suddenly realised I was getting a little bit depressed.”
“Within minutes I’d got on the dancefloor myself then and something just clicked and I realised, I’m in my happiest days again, I’m dancing to Northern.”
Soul Boy will be broadcast on BBC One at 19:30 BST on 27 May
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-52502198
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Scroll half-way down the page for a Shelfie.
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Did you spend the 90s at gigs in Camden watching Linoleum, Kenickie, World Of Leather, David Devant And His Spirit Wife, Earl Brutus, Rialto and Menswe@r?
Cherry Red once again extract cold hard cash from my hands.
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I’ve just served 10 years time with my current employer and they’ve given me £250 to spend on (or put towards to) a special gift to myself. I have to hand in a receipt (via an expense claim) to get the dosh, so I can’t go to my local drug dealer/lady of leisure, or up in a balloon and throw fivers onto the plebs below.
Any ideas? Box sets? A better Fiio? Some decent in-ear cans?
I’m a bit stumped as I can easily spend a lot more (new car/bike) or a lot less (records… lots of records).
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Did the young Pachelbel have a Hornby O Gauge model railway?
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Canadian artist Jane Siberry (think kd lang without the success) is making her entire discography free to download during the lunar phase, ending 22nd April. Lossless is an option. Sorry I’m a bit late, but you still have 48 hours.
I once saw her fill the Royal Festival Hall and it was amazing. I then went to the front of the stage and bought as many CDs as I could carry.
If you’re not sure where to start, 1983’s No Borders Here to 1995’s jazzy Maria is an excellent run by anyone’s standards.
https://magic-the-dog.com/collections/siberry-music/siberry-music
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Or, rather, ‘Most popular by Spotify stream’.
Not 1971.
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Series 3 (1950s, 60s & 70s) of my fave BBC Radio 4 doc starts today.
“Clarke Peters continues his compelling history of Black music in Europe.”
Previous 6 episodes available to listen online. Cough {get_iPlayer} cough.
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Organisers said the safety of festival-goers, artists, staff and crew was their “top priority” and the event had become “too difficult to plan, prepare and deliver”.
Anyone who has already booked tickets will be given the choice of a refund or the chance to hold onto their tickets for the 2021 festival.
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Bandcamp are today* waiving their fees so that the artists get all the money from sales. You can buy downloads, or CDs & vinyl (which come with free instant downloads in the format of your choice) and even t-shirts, coasters, mouse mats, and so on.
If you are of the jazz persuasion, I can recommend youngsters the Kansas Smitty’s house band. (https://kansassmittys.bandcamp.com/). They are also playing a live streaming gig at 5pm every day: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxCy6D_qKAEFunK0YEMG2Lg and look for ‘Live at 5’.
Cambridge folky-influenced indie-pop band Model Village (https://modelvillage.bandcamp.com/), for whom I do live sound and engineer their recordings, are doing a name-your-price today (they all have day jobs). My favourite is second album You Chose These Woes (https://modelvillage.bandcamp.com/album/you-chose-these-woes)
Fill your boots and support the artists.
(*) Until 12 midnight PST, whatever that is in old money
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Since I can’t do the usual Sunday afternoon vinyl afternoons in the local cafe, I’m thinking of doing it by podcast or Youtube live or something similar. There are quite a few disabled living in the village who don’t get out on a Sunday at the best of times.
I’ve only ever downloaded podcasts or contributed to AW pods while Twang did the heavy lifting.
I am familiar with recording hardware and editing software like Audacity. But where do I start with the rest of it?
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My fat fingers just produced this:
Abbary Road
Swedish glam/disco take on the Fab Four.
Over to the AW hive mind.
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I am very dull, as I readily admit. But there’s always worse to find, if you try hard enough.
I have just been ISO9001 audited at work, by a man from the British Standards Institute.
Honestly, he was enough to make me look like the life and soul of the party.
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12/03/2020
Come All Ye presents The Folk Cabaret. Every second Thursday of the month at The Blue Moon, Norfolk Street, Cambridge. A folk-roots night with a house band, guest artists (this month: Polly Paulusma and Annie Dressner; Kelly and Woolley) and a quiz. Live music 8pm-10pm. + weird’n’wonderful folk / world records until 11pm Free entry!
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Nothing to get me out of bed this year (as previous years).
Roxy Music -The Steven Wilson Stereo Mix 2LP probably comes closest.
I might pick up the Kraftwerk 1 & 2 if I see them around later.
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I’m sure we all heard the news on Radio 1 Newsbeat…
The Big Moon* have been announced as Record Store Day UK ambassadors for 2020.
(*) ask your nearest teenager
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/newsbeat-51652574/the-big-moon-record-shopping-is-like-a-religion
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Avoiding the obvious “in the charity shop rack” gag, I bet nobody guessed this. Crikey, no wonder she’s been quiet of late.
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29/02/2020
I’m having a gig on Saturday, in a small Cambridge club, to celebrate/commiserate turning 50 on Monday. Three bands: Pink Lemonade (all-girl pop-punk trio), The Pony Collaboration (indie pop) and Violet Woods (Nuggets-style garage-psyche). Following a few drop-outs, there are a handful of spaces. If any AfterWorders in the Cambridge area fancy coming along, PM me for details.
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29/03/2020
Abbey Read, Let It Bleed and Bridge Over Troubled Water played from remastered vinyl on a top-flight hi-fi in the Courtyard Café, Papworth Everard.
Home-roasted coffee, loose-leaf tea, locally-sourced cakes, full bar including microbrewery ales.
3-5pm, free entry. Well-behaved kids and dogs welcome.
