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Quote: from Crazy Horse on 8:04 pm on Dec. 19, 2004[br]The Wedding Present – ‘Sticky’
Gedge has reformed his band – they’ve released so many albums that I didn’t have any – and I’m picking thru their back catalogue.
Interstate5 is a great new single with an album to follow in the New Year – anyone catch their short set on the Peel Tribute on R1 last Thursday?<br>Suddenly 2005 seems brighter!<br>
<br>Yep Crazy Horse, heard the session and bought a copy of "I’m From Further North Than You", which should become the Weddoes’ first Top 40 hit for a decade this weekend. Can’t wait to see them live in four weeks’ time.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
All these posts I’ve done without telling you what I’ve got on at the moment.
My current listening is "Skywriting" by The Field Mice, my favourite ever album and newly available on CD for the first time. When originally released in 1990, Melody Maker described it as "The Go-Betweens meets Kraftwerk", and I can’t really improve on that. Jangly guitars and imaginative experimentation abound, with all musical styles from New Order pop to country and western to sample collages, all shot through with the most lovelorn lyrics you’ll ever encounter.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)
(Edited by graysonscolumn at 1:06 am on Feb. 6, 2005)
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
I listen to this site a lot at the minute
Hiya,
Tonight I am mostly listening to albums by Mancunian dream-pop merchants THE MONTGOLFIER BROTHERS, whom myself and Prufrock and some of his mates (hi to all!) saw playing a gig at the Briton’s Protection last night.
Imagine, if you will, the intricate guitar work of composers such as Carulli, the kind of key changes and oscillating chords which characterised Satie’s great series of piano works such as the Gymnopedies, the pastoral indie-pop instrumental workouts of early Durutti Column, and the none more heartfelt lyrics of love and loss – and commensurate vocal delivery – associated with The Field Mice or Trembling Blue Stars. Absolutely lovely.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
This week I am mostly listening to "Hot Piece of Grass" by HAYSEED DIXIE, a riot of bluegrass interpretations of popular (mostly rock /metal) tunes. The band’s current single is their interpretation of Green Day’s "Holiday", rendered, as is usually the case, in the style of the breakneck banjo-heavy incidental music which used to accompany all the chase scenes in The Dukes of Hazzard.
It’s not all rawk covers, though. You may have seen them re-interpreting "Roses" by Outkast on Top of the Pops a few weeks ago. This is also present here, along with a disappointingly obvious selection in "Duelling Banjos".
They were superb live when I saw them in Wolverhampton last week, and I heartily recommend you catch them in the last few days of their tour before heading back home. Yee-haw!
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
GH.
I sympathise with you, so I am listening to Status Quo’s Down Down, Deeper and down, followed by Wet Wet Wet Followed by OK Fred by Errol DUNKly.
Met a pal for lunch yesterday and we both had a rant at how s**t
the radio music was on the way in as neither of us have cd players in our new cars yet.Then went to dinner at another friend’s house and the same thing. Wall to wall s**t
music. THEN (!) finally, just before i arrived there, a song came on that I’ve heard a few times before now, by a band called the Arctic Monkeys. And then Zane Lowe announced they’d be on live later. And I thought I’d still be at this dinner.So I left and they were on a bit late and came on ten minutes from home so I took the long way around Norfolk’s road network to hear it and was HUGELY impressed by the Arctic Monkeys live set and this is after only hearing one track, but there was not a naff song on the set list and I enjoyed every second of it. And probably sped a bit whilst dancing around in the driver’s seat. But never mind…
I reckon they’ll be huge, the support for them in the last few weeks has been quite scary but as far as TRF is concerned, you heard it here first. :biggrin:
Arctic Monkeys have been bigged up on Planet Sound (C4 Teletext pages 351-60) for a few months now, but I haven’t invested any time or money in them yet. What are they like?
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
I love Mcfly and I am listening to their album "Room on the 3rd Floor" I also love the new coldplay song "Fix You"
Quote: from graysonscolumn on 11:05 am on Oct. 5, 2005[br]Arctic Monkeys have been bigged up on Planet Sound (C4 Teletext pages 351-60) for a few months now, but I haven’t invested any time or money in them yet. What are they like?
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)
<br>Come to think of it I should be able to answer my own question shortly, given that I’ve just learned they’ve been confirmed for the new series of Later With Jools Holland.
Can’t say every last act on the program ever meets with my approval (get thee to Hades, Jamiroquai!), but last series it gave me the divine Mali duo AMADOU AND MARIAM (produced by Manu Chao – what more do you want, world music fans?!?!), and the Canadian nutjobs ARCADE FIRE, so for those nuggets alone I expect I’ll be tuning in.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
(Edited by graysonscolumn at 4:35 pm on Oct. 6, 2005)
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Most recent acquisitions are by American progsters Echolyn and also Discipline. Great stuff if you like the long epic tracks. Mei by Echolyn is a single track album of 50+ mins! Just about lasts my whole train journey into London!
Arctic Monkeys sound great live GC, lively and confident, and if it gives you any inclination as to the type of audience they command I believe that the label that signed Franz Ferdinand (good second album btw) paid their record fee to sign them.
Maybe a cross between FF and The Strokes? Lyrically very clever and sharp with catchy guitars.
(Edited by Zoz at 9:37 pm on Oct. 7, 2005)
Slightly sadly I am subjected to Radio 2 at work, and although acceptable background listening, the core playlist seems to revolve around the same four or five records repeated every 90 minutes.
As such, I know the Kate Bush record very well, and yes it gets a thumbs-up from me (although I am generally partial to mad female solo artists).
Katie Melua has a record out with desperately forced lyrics which serves mainly to showcase her desperately dull voice. Miss.
The Depeche Mode single is a grower though, although it sounds awfully like the stuff Martin Gore produced for his Counterfeit2 collection of covers.
(For the record they are also very into the Gibb/Streisand ballad which will no doubt have the mums, grandmas and gay blokes swooning the world over, but is not my cup of tea…)
I’m not the only one in the anti Melua camp then.
Personally from the start I’ve wanted someone to bundle her into a box and post her out to some far-flung country that nobody has ever heard of and that certainly does not have a radio station with internet broadcasting capacity.
From what I coud tell of her trying to be part of an episode of Never Mind The Buzzcocks, she’s an airheaded individual to boot.
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