Snarky Puppy came to NZ last month playing that album – We Like It Here. My second time seeing them and they were phenomenal. Tight as a drum, of course. My favourite new discovery is the Spanish Snarky Puppy, Patax

Hi all, long time no see. I was led here searching for info on a gig I attended long ago – The Specials/The Selecter/Dexy’s at Loughborough Uni, which I had written about here. Anyway, I recalled the Word […]

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He’s very good and his choice of material, from Davy to Dylan, was impeccable. Curiously, he’s the only artist I’ve ever seen at the Green Note who didn’t have any merch to sell. If he’d had an album for sale, […]

Pagan ritualists Heilung in Auckland Jansch/Renbourn disciple Dariush Kanani at the Green Note Rickie Lee Jones at Union Chapel George Boomsma at the Green Note Aussie folkie Rainee Blake playing Joni […]

Just listened to a fascinating ‘My Cultural Life’ (BBC Sounds) with Thelma Schoonmaker, where she talks about her and Marty’s love for the P&P films. Also an astonishing first hand account of being under the stage […]

Ordered, thanks

Thursday 25th

The high-pitched ka-mate ka-mates at the end of that movie clip are a world away from the chest-thumping throat-slitting war dance of the modern era.

My chosen Miles Davis recording would be ‘On Green Dolphin Street’. It’s the Kind Of Blue quintet with Bill Evans on piano. I had the tune for many years as the first track on the ‘Someday My Prince Will Come’ […]

I had to search it, Clegg right?

Paging Dr. Freud!

I’d take Miles, cos in taking Mr. D I’d also get Coltrane, Bill Evans, Herbie, Wayne, Ron and Tony, Joe Z, Chick and Jarrett, McLaughlin and Cobham, Holland and DeJohnette, Marcus Miller, Cyndi Lauper and Scritti […]

Just a great song – here, with a full band

It says here: Named after the Roman goddess of love, the Mound of Venus is a fleshy area found at the base of the thumb on the palm. It represents our desires, passions, sensuality, and emotional nature. The size, […]

Don Juan could have been the natural follow-up to The Hissing Of Summer Lawns. In fact, the exotic instrumentation of tracks like ‘The Tenth World’ and ‘Dreamland’ have their origins on Hissing. Dreamland was […]

Good list, thanks. For Ry, I would have chosen his solo on Lipstick Sunset. The perfect solo. How about Manny Charlton? Woke Up This Morning or This Flight Tonight And I know there’s not much love for TTB on […]

Porter, good call. Always loved his work with Dr John, especially the Desitively Bonaroo album. Tower of Power took the JB template and funked it up to the max.

Nice bit of slapping there. Which brings us neatly to Mr Thunderthumb himself, Mark King. No Level 42 here, though. This was MK’s only contribution to Nik Kershaw’s album The Riddle. You’ve probably never heard […]

No such list complete without some ‘Nard