29/12/2019
Who’s Afraid of the Art of Noise?, A Secret Wish, Slave to the Rhythm and Welcome to the Pleasuredome played from first pressing 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.
Balls. Yet again I’m close to the A14 one of my visits to the mother land but yet not quite close enough.
A Secret Wish is one of those few albums from ver 80’s that still sounds immense in a good way.
One day… it’s always 3pm on the last Sunday of the month, just get yourself co-ordinated. Beware the new A14 restricted junctions and get off at St. Ives or end up on a 20-mile detour to Brampton Hut.
End of Jan will be Britpop, Feb is going to be 1986 (Hounds of Love*/So/Graceland).
(*) Yes, I do know it came out in 1985. But… civilians.
Four of the greatest records ever made. Assuming STTR is the original UK vinyl version and not the inferior iterations that appeared in other territories (and indeed on vinly in the US)
In the US the running order of the Art of Noise album is different. Not worse, just different.
And some Pleasuredomes feature the Annihilation Two Tribes (yay!) and Disneyland or Happy Hi (boo!). I assume that you will be giving people copies of Gogol’s Dead Souls and Homer’s Odyssey to read during Frankie’s scallydelic opus.
I rely on Mr Fenton to do the right thing. And that includes sneakily substituting Wishful Thinking for A Secret Wish.
Of course, originals all the way. The Grace Jones is s/h but I’m only playing the final track/single version (unless I need to clear the room). If they really misbehave, I’ll play the Das Psych-oh! Rangers EP.
Conincidentally, The Giddy Carousel of Pop podcast this week covers many of these. I don’t really know what is festive about The Power Of Love, either, apart from the video.
The video was part of a transparently cynical attempt to cap off Frankie’s year with the Christmas number one. And they’d have done it too without those meddling (Ethiopian) kids.
Would like to participate one time, but I am about 3000 miles away.
Genuine question. Do people sit in silence listening with actual interest or is it just background music to the usual chit-chat?
Not silence, I’m not that draconian, but it is foreground (not background) music.
It’s a room about 50 feet long by 20 feet wide and I use floorstanding speakers driven by a 250W per channel amplifier. If you’re at the near the speakers, chat is not really possible. Even at the other end of the room, up by the counter, ordering is as much by hand signals as anything.
I’m usually to be found chatting with customers for future requests, or what gigs we’ve been to recently.
….yesterday the folks were disturbed by some old geezer chuntering about “orgasm has become a most mystified state of feeling.” Most embarrassing.
Ok that’s good
Why does it hurt when the heart misses a beat?