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The Presleys – Poor in America

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My pal Brian Houston is astoundingly prolific. I mentioned on the podcast that he has several albums in diverse styles in the can at present, and this is a video for the one that he’s decided comes out next – this time credited to ‘The Presleys’ (a tongue in cheek, I suspect – Brian was often called ‘the Belfast Elvis’ when he first caused a sensation on the Belfast bar scene in the early 90s): an album called ‘Embrace’, with proceeds going to a US homeless charity. I’ll post a link to purchase the album as soon as one is available. Let’s rock!

It’s not everyday that…

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…you meet someone who saw Elvis Presley at the Louisiana Hayride. My friend Kyle, a former music retailer, scenester and one of the alternative candidates to Terri Hooley as ‘godfather of punk’ in Northern Ireland, operates an Airbnb place. He occasionally has interesting guests. A while ago it was someone from free-jazz pioneers AMM, this week it’s a nice fellow from Shrieveport who can make the above claim (he was aged 4 at the time). The next gig he saw was 13 years later, also in Shrieveport – Jimi Hendrix. That’s a rather impressive sequence, isn’t it?

Feel free to take the post heading ‘ ‘It’s not everyday that…’ – and fill in your own interesting encounters. 🙂