I’m usually viewing the site on an iPad and to be honest I’m not over enamoured of the “mobile” version of the site. Just me or anyone else finding it a bit “meh”?
Jeff Lynne at the Grammys
While we were away, ELO (or ‘Jeff Lynne’s ELO’) played at this year’s Grammy Awards show. For some reason the Grammys love their mashup collaborations so for Mr Blue Sky Jeff was joined by tiny guitar botherer Ed Sheeran. Note Sir Paul McCartney providing awkward comedy gold at 1:04, as well as gratuitous footage of Taylor Swift doing what Taylor Swift does at award shows, i.e. dancing conspicuously in the front row.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvyHFsRtgsE
Thames Valley Mingle – 6th March 2015
The small but perfectly formed collective will meet next on Friday 6th March at Blue’s Smokehouse BBQ gaff in Bracknell. All welcome although vegetarians may have a problem with finding something to eat.
Be there or be somewhere else etc
7.30 ish
Laters
2015 – the choice is yours (no, not the election)
I’m talking about proposed London Mingle
I did suggest on the Mingle thread about using one of those polls, but have now decided that you can just vote here and state preferred date and venue and I’ll count them up and we’ll have come to a decision by the end of next week (February 27th).
So make your choices on:
1) I propose dates of either March 20th or March 27th (both Fridays)
2) A poll on aard-stryder’s suggestion of The Betjeman Arms (http://www.geronimo-inns.co.uk/london-the-betjemank) at Kings Cross / St Pancras stations against the old location of The King & The Queen in Foley Street.
For myself I can do both dates but lean towards the 28th and fancy the new Venue.
If we get enough takers I’ll sort out a booking with the venue
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcScfIy1prhFLZRo4sKJYz0eexgyeS0007201zfBZafGsFscmS3HVx9MCw
Jimmy Page In The New Mojo
A billion-word piece on the making of ‘Physical Graffiti’, which as we all know is the greatest piece of living art ever created by anyone ever. The usual sycophantic bollocks, which purports also to look at the ‘craziness’ surrounding its making. Strangely enough there is no mention of JP’s 14 yo FPO.
What’s wrong with this picture?
If this works, here’s a screen grab of last week’s Midsomer Murders*. It’s from a folk gig in Lower Crosby village hall, a venue with an audience capacity of about 50.
Just out of shot are a pair of 18″ subs, below the stacked pair of Marshall 4×12 cabs pictured. And that’s per side, on a stage about 15 feet wide. Don’t these TV people know anything?
* My wife watches it. And I was on sedatives following a surgical procedure. Otherwise I’d have left the room, obviously.
Fortitude
I’ve been watching this with the GLW as it’s broadcast on Thursday one week, and recording it to watch on Saturday on the alternate week as I work every second Thursday night. Last Thursday I struggled to give it my attention. It seemed so promising in the trailers. Gambon, Ecclestone, Grabol, chilly Scandi setting-all good, yes? Err, no. Grabol is wooden acting in English, Gambon’s obviously in it for the cheque, and Ecclestone’s only sort of in it. Most of the other male characters hard to tell apart (all beardy and dressed alike), and slow doesn’t begin to describe the storyline. I’ll give it one more chance on Saturday but if it doesn’t pick up, well it’s adios. Anyone else got a view?
Get It Up For Love
Because it’s Friday. Thanks to Jonny Trunk for this song. My hero.
www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/crate-diggers-jonny-trunk/
Philip Pickett sentenced
This is grim. Philip Pickett has been jailed for 11 years for ‘exceptionally serious’ sexual assaults on pupils at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where he was a tutor. He’s a wonderful musician, though clearly a dreadful human being, and his collaboration with Richard Thompson, The Bones of All Men, is a favourite of mine.
Ethan Johns
Last month’s Society Of Sound download was a live set by Ethan Johns. An artist that I had not come across before but I really enjoyed the download and so went looking for more…
His latest album “The Reckoning” is rather fine, from which this track “Talking Talking Blues” is from,
BTW, he’s the son of legendary producer Glyn Johns (Led Zep, The ‘Oo etc)
Lost in Face or 2015 A Face Odyssey?
I can’t help seeing the last few months in cinematic terms.
The gleaming, new, state-of-the-art Mothership lands on Planet Kitten and soon Space Family Afterword are all safely installed on board, ready to blast off into the galaxy. To boldly thread where none have threaded before.
There is a tearful moment as some of the castaways make the decision to remain behind. They’ve been fraternising with the local extra-terrestials and want to make a go of it on the new planet. One colourful chap in a purple turban carrying a plates of pakoras will be particularly missed.
A droid, KF D2, is temporarily left behind to clean the mess up in what is now a rather eerie ghost town. There are empty beer bottles everywhere and some very unusual stains in some of the living quarters.
In generations to come, the ruins of the Afterword colony will become a holy place for the primitive Booker tribe who inhabit the planet and who will ponder over the advanced civilisation that built such wondrous structures.
So which movie or book do our recent adventures remind you of?
100 years of Solitude? Bleak House? Scream? I know what you did last Xmas?
Hur Hur, I have just invented a joke
What do you call a skinhead granny?
Head shear Nan.
Geddit? Brilliant isn’t it? Anymore music based jokes for the weekend. I know it will be difficult to keep up the high level I just set, but don’t be scared, I won’t laugh at you (see what I did there)
Consecutive Compendium of Culture – Diving deep into the diversities of your discographies, dvds, daubings, etc
Reposting the contributions to the first four threads of ‘CCC’ on this lovely new site, in the order in which they were posted. More additions welcome.
Please offer up any cultural artefacts with tenuous connection to the letter ‘D’.
Here’s Datblygu with Drug Addict (Rauschgiftsuchtige) to kick us off. Why? Because it’s excellent, gives us a Double D model*, and it mentions the great New York art music goddess herself. ____ The Damned – Disco Man The Dangerous Brothers World Of Danger All That Glitters – Death in Vegas Depth Charge – Shaolin Buddha Finger Devo – Jocko Homo (original version) Dream Academy – Life In A Northern Town Deep Purple – Fireball Nothing Personal – Dust Junkys The Dead Kennedys – Holiday in Cambodia Ian Dury – Sweet Gene Vincent Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy, the – Television, The Drug Of The Nation [full… Led Zeppelin – Dazed and Confused Desmond Dekker & The Aces – “Israelites” Davey Graham – Medley: She Moved Thru’ the Bizarre/Blue Raga (He had it all but foolishly squandered it with Heroin, because he believed the ridiculous (prevalent at the time) notion that it would make him play better.) DR. FEELGOOD – Roxette Dead or » Continue Reading.
Movie Star Exchange Programme
While it’s nothing new for actors to have to acquire an accent for a role, the trend for transatlantic thesperanto seems to have reached epidemic proportions lately. As a line of limo drivers at Heathrow hold up boards for the likes of Gillian Anderson and Maggie Gyllenhaal, taxiing on the runway is a Los Angeles-bound jet chockka with major characters from the U.S. Networks’ top shows, picking the Britishness from their teeth. Meanwhile lovable Cockney geezer David Tennant is disorientated, living the same life with different names and accents in totally different locations. The real film stars – Clint, Arnie, Caine, The Stath – never bother with this accent rubbish: “In 100 years time the U.S.S.R. will be ancient history. People will just assume Red Ocober is some feast day for ginger Scotsmen”, Canary protests upon being asked to pronounce “vessel” with a “w”. The Australians I get. You’ve done Neighbours, maybe something else a bit ‘”edgy” on channel 9 – now the only way is down (Panto in the U.K.) or else make your fortune in America. While I welcome this Bondai Beach bonanza for the speech coaches, I question the wisdom of the Brit/U.S. Exchange programme. I can’t » Continue Reading.
Consecutive Compendium of Culture – continuing the catalogue of classics.
Reposting the contributions to the first four threads of ‘CCC’ on this lovely new site, in the order in which they were posted. More additions welcome.
Just two weeks further into the year of combing your collections of chanson, country, crooning, crunk, cinema, canvas creations and it was the turn for anything beginning with the letter ‘C’. We’d only just begun.
The Carpenters “We’ve Only Just Begun” Carmel – More More More Charlie Rich – Mohair Sam The Cure – Love Cats Camel – Lady Fantasy For Richard – Caravan (John Peel’s session) Coogan….wonderful The Alan Partridge Air Bass Dance Chagall Cezanne Christopher Brookmyre….great Scottish writer, looking forward to his new book “Dead Girl Walking” Goldfrapp – ‘Clay’ A railway poster from the 1930s by ‘Cassandre’ (Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron). One of the great designers of the Art Deco period. Cassandre was also famous for his designs for Dubonnet and transatlantic passenger shipping lines. CABARET VOLTAIRE – SENSORIA Curve – Ten Little Girls Rush-“Clockwork Angels”-(In the binary world of Rush fans the steampunk concept Clockwork Angels from 2012 was their finest work, maybe since Moving Pictures, maybe ever. Okay then, ever!) robert calvert ejection 1974 Red Right Hand – Nick Cave » Continue Reading.
Consecutive Compendium of Culture – Biweekly bestowing of beautiful beats, b-movies, ballets, boogie woogie, brushstrokes and even blues…
Reposting the contributions to first four threads of ‘CCC’ on this lovely new site, in the order in which they were posted. More additions welcome.
I started ‘B’ by going Back to Basics with Billy Bragg and la la la la la means : the Saturday BOY (with bonus banter and badinage)
Billy Bragg, “The Saturday Boy” Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead (live) Use Me – Bill Withers (1972) Bennett, Tony….no one, not even Nancy’s dad ,comes close. Beatles? Can’t post videos right now but a song called Strawberry Fields is pretty good Blur – Song 2 Jorge Ben – Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma) B-52’s – Planet Claire Dierks Bentley – Drunk On A Plane Franco Battiato – Cuccurucucu The Bangles – Eternal Flame (La Flama Enterna) Big Bill Broonzy – Backwater Blues The Bad Plus – Lost Of Love Luther Vandross – A House Is Not A Home (Burt Bacharach) Biff Bang Pow, The Creation Brogues Guardian Guide. The Beatles While My Guitar Gently Weeps Too Nice to Talk To – The Beat THE BEATINGS-Bad Feeling Brush strokes – Opening & Closing titles. Beastie Boys – Shambala-Bodhisattva Vow Francis Bacon and Melvyn Bragg Go on a Pub Crawl » Continue Reading.
Consecutive Compendium of Culture – Announcing an alphabetic adventure
Following last year’s Image Resolution, I felt inclined to start 2015 with similar ambition, As there are 52 weeks in the year and 26 letters in the alphabet, I launched (on KFD’s Facebook group) a thread a fortnight, inviting comments about artists, acts, albums, authors, actors, in fact artistry of any sort with the common link of the first letter. For those non-Fbers who might be interested, to get my first post off, I will repost the contributions to first four threads on this lovely new site, in the order in which they were posted. More additions welcome.
Here goes with ‘A’: ABC – All Of My Heart (Where else to start) AC/DC-It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘N’ Roll) – the very essence of ROCK in both Bon and Brian-fronted guises. New Album in 2014 was very much a case of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” – a little of the sparkle gone, but an aural treat all the same. Jackson 5 ABC Herb Alpert and The Tijuna Brass – Spanish Flea Abba – The Day Before You Came (They have to be here) Associates Breakfast (Unique Version) Cultural Importance? So much » Continue Reading.
What is the equivalent of “Track” in the new place?
This was handy in getting a quick overview of whether there were new comments added to threads you had contributed to.
thanks
Tricot
Japanese schoolgirl band having a lot of fun with guitars.
Joyous and difficult to resist.
NWOBHM the best track ever
No more discussion needed.
Steve Earle streaming now
Just saw this posted on Facebook:
If you need to fill the time between Eastenders. A live Steve Earle session is taking place here at 8pm http://www.skypelivestudio.com/live-stream.html
A Gratuitous YouTube Post
This popped up on my ongoing personal randomiser a little while back.
Harmony singing at it’s finest.
Edit
moved to “Snagging List”
Unsung Heroes of 70’s Soul
Recently got Gene Page’s first 2 LPs, after long loving All Our Dreams Coming True – it’s great and particularly this track, in the vein and just as joyous.
Any other favourite’s by the not so well known??
Better Call Saul Better Than Expected
Three episodes in, and BCS, the sidebar prequel to Breaking Bad has become my tuesday night must-see show. Unlike other spin-offs – um, Tucker’s Luck, Joanie Loves Chachi – the quality’s there, and I’m eager to see how Jim becomes Saul Goodman. Lovely use of long-shots, especially in episode two when our hero was waiting for a pay phone call. My post-BB methadone, incidentally came in the form of Dexter, Misfits and Utopia (which also did a very good long-shot, though they tended to culminate in people being shot in the head). Anyone else enjoying BCS?
