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also found out on Saturday that Southwell had it’s very own folk festival at the weekend with some really good bands playing.
…whom between them will be playing all yer folk favourites; "The Ballad of Southwell Fludde", "Hayley Turner’s Lament", "Hey Nonny Ho, Brush Hurdling We Will Go", and "The Daye That Quixall Crossett Came to Towne".
Bluegrass bands are of course forbidden from playing at the venue, unless they re-brand themselves for the day as BlueFibresand bands.
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
The Cocteau Twins – once tartly described by Caitlin Moran on her short-lived Naked City telly show as purveyors of “sepia tinted songs about kittens dying”. Silly sod.
To this day MTV2 still plays the video to “Aikea-Guinea” at least once a month as part of its very late night 120 Minutes strand, as well as later piece Evangeline pretty often as well. Spectral delights both.
One of Little Brother Column’s main claims to fame is doorstepping them as they prepared for a gig at the Manchester Academy on their “Four-Calendar Cafe” tour some 15 years ago, and ending up playing football in the hall with the band, their crew, and support act Seefeel. He hates football with a barely contained passion, but his principles conveniently deserted him for the afternoon…
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Heh-heh, he didn’t mention Tate by name afterwards, so I’ve no idea. Seefeel were numerically outnumbered, but younger and a bit tastier around the pitch, by all accounts.
I’m slightly puzzled by the mention of "Theft…" as the Cocteaus’ swansong – there was another studio album after "Four-Calendar Cafe" (1993) in the shape of "Milk and Kisses" (1996), wasn’t there? Or was that not the point?
Either way, I feel strangely compelled to stick on "Iceblink Luck", "Ella Megalast Burls Forever" and "Tishbite" in quick succession when I get home now… Mrs Column will despair.
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Understood!
Shame Liz Fraser can’t be coaxed out of her gingerbread house and into the recording studio more often nowadays – I did enjoy her guest vocal on Massive Attack’s "Teardrop", for one.
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
There’s a lot of hype at the moment about Dennis Wilson’s "Pacific Ocean Blue-Legacy Edition".
For once, believe the hype. It’s sublime
Coldplay are utter, utter mince, but apparently Martin didn’t "storm out" of the interview – I think he merely contemplated his navel for a few minutes, before resuming.
PS. "Clocks" is good for about the first 17 seconds, and then it descends into their standard, vapid, dreary bollix.
I rather like Coldplay; it’s U2 that I find totally boring. Thought Coldplay were brilliant at Glastonbury the other year.
this sounds interesting; there was a comparison with Aton Heart Mother [still one of my favourite albums] on a site that I couldn’t get into..there’s so much amazing music coming from America at the moment…when I track down some Espers stuff from the only remaining independent record shop in Nottingham [and possibly the world] I’ll enquiire about this one.
Most rock music (and especially "inde") is deeply derivative, boring souless, dreary drivel which is a whole superstore of the complete emperors new clothes
have just remebered that I did take parachutes back to the shop [in the days when you could do that sort of thing] because I thought it was the most boring album ever [and, believe me I’ve got some dire stuff in my cd colection]…it’s just that I though Coldplay were suffering from Emperors New Clothes in reverse in that it wasn’t de rigueur to like them….
Actually Moehat, Coldplay are one band i can endure to an extent. They are cleverly atmospheric. Its boringly fashionable to knock them i suspect but tahts what most rock music is about isnt it? Image blah blah
Couldnt abide U2. Dislike most rock music but their droning depressing drivel was more than i could bear
I find Bono more pretentious than Chris Martin…I would, however like to see U2 live just to see what all the fuss is about [if I could afford to see them live, that is]..but to me they’ve never done a really good song since Sunday Bloody Sunday which is probably one of my fave songs of all time and have now got to go and listen to it before I take the dog for a walk…..
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