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.
Musings on the byways of popular culture
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.
Dr Dre in hospital after brain aneurysm
Radio 4 are teaming up with 6 Music this weekend. Crikey. Anyhow…
These five short shows, presented by Phill Jupitus, were broadcast on lunchtime Radio 4 last week.
He should be an Afterworder.
My pal Holly went to San Francisco last year and was shocked at the level of homelessness.
She wrote the song there, recorded it in her garden shed, and her film-maker sister made the video on the mean streets of Norwich.
Is it dusty in here?
Well, the latest series started with a cracker.
The nicest people in pop are having a fire sale to get them through a spot of bother. See this from their FB page:
That’s right you forgot to buy your Fonda Christmas stocking fillers! We’ll even gift wrap, label and send to your friends! Fonda have been slapped with a massive bill just one month before Christmas and as such are trying to raise funds in order to pay it. No pity purchases please ( well maybe) T shirts, CDs and vinyl available, if you don’t own the full collection now is the time to rectify that, if you do why not buy something for a friend. Super Christmas reductions, CDs £5, T shirts £10 and vinyl £15, Tattoos £3 there might even be some posters kicking about, please note this includes postage prices (unless you live in walking distance and I’ll pop them round) I think you’ll agree this is a real bargain. If you’d like to buy a number of items please PM me and I’m sure we could arrange even more of a discount. Remember it’s not long now!
Their website is temporarily nixed, but you can see everything over on their Bandcamp page.
I’ve been » Continue Reading.
Radio 1 will be playing the safe ‘haggard’ edit.
Want to hear the original lyrics? Listen to Radio 2. Radio 2!
Not sure? Take your chances on Radio 6 Music.
Beeb 2, 9:30pm Saturday.
I heard the interview on tonight’s Front Row.
A new podcast, presented by Maxine Peake. Episode 1 was good, Ep. 2 is out today.
I don’t suppose I’ll learn much – I’ve read the books – but it was a good soundtrack to this week’s gardening.
50 classic gigs (well, a handful and a load of dross from the usual suspects) get a re-airing at 2 or 3am, introduced by Jo Whiley.
33 are listed so far. The Bill Withers set is fantastic.
get_iPlayer is your friend.
Tonight on Sky Arts (Freeview channel 11 of the idiot latern).
I’m one of those who prefer the Style Council to the Jam. I always thought he came across as a bit, well, thick.
9.00 New. Long Hot Summers: the Story of the Style Council a Documentary about Paul Weller’s post-Jam band. 10.30 Paul Weller: May Love Travel with You A set at London’s Royal Festival Hall. 11.30 The Story of the Jam: about the Young Idea A profile of the band.
Wonder, 70, had a kidney transplant in December 2019, but said today: “I feel great, my voice feels great. I tell my daughter Aisha, ‘I’m going to be five years younger than you’ … I feel about 40 right now.”
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/13/stevie-wonder-new-songs-music
How to clean LPs to U.S. Navy levels of cleanliness.
Time to spare? Why not read the 85-page PDF download.
https://thevinylpress.com/precision-aqueous-cleaning-of-vinyl-records/
33 mins in
Leaving aside (a) every day is Album Day in my house (b) I always listen to albums, tomorrow is National Album Day. This year’s theme is the 1980s.
Loads of albums are being pressed on – sigh – coloured vinyl to mark the occasion.
Some journos, including the Hep, have picked their favourites:
https://www.nationalalbumday.co.uk/news/music-critics-share-their-favourite-albums-of-the-1980s/
Listeners to Radio 2’s Gary Davies show have chosen the Ultimate 80s album. Spoiler alert: it’s The Joshua Tree, apparently.
The sales potential has been ramped up this year. I’m going to miss sitting in my local cafe for the day with a stack of vinyl and a record player
What does it sound like?:
TFF’s second album, Songs From The Big Chair, had seen them conquer the world (and soundtrack my paper rounds of 1985). Following an exhausting year-long world tour, they holed up in multiple expensive studios with various producers including Langer and Winstanley, all of which were scrapped in favour of producing themselves with engineer Dave Bascombe.
By the time of the release of the third album they’d spent three years indoors, blown a million quid on studio fees, and driven themselves bonkers in the process of recording and mixing. Never ones to crack a joke, the strain was showing. I remember reading interviews at the time where they were taking home DAT tapes and struggling to choose the best mix, never easy when you have 100 channels of overdubs to tweak.
I first heard this in my student digs on a badly-dubbed tape and the complex Talking-Heads-meets-Sgt.-Pepper arrangements didn’t really make sense. The next time was on CD, loud in a car speeding down the M20 to Dover, and everything fell into place. I vowed to buy it as soon as I found a record shop.
This box collects together the album (freshly remastered at » Continue Reading.
Forthcoming (March 2021) from Intervention Records, mastered by Ryan K. Smith (the new Steve Hoffman), expanded to a double LP.