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Fats Domino actually Grimes, stop misbehavin’
Fats Waller
Thanks for the clip. He could play a bit, couldn’t he!
He certainly could, along with Art Tatum the pre-eminent jazz/stride pianist of the 1930s which is tantamount to saying ‘ever’
Here’s a couple of his piano solos which demonstrate his dexterity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=713tnEiAm04
Happyness; Bit Weezer like but very jolly. Lauren Laverne playing some good stuff today on 6.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsgXbSUMzR4
For those who might not realise that there is an actual song hidden in the current advert. Perhaps it might be one of the offshoots of rap infiltrating mainstream but it almost seems to be a sin to be described as melodic these days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcEs_BQddGM
Explodes from the new Kasabian; playing it on a loop at the moment.Bowie ~ Word On A Wing
In this age of grand illusion you walked into my life out of my dreams…
Ray Davies is 70 today!
This one made me look at some women in a new light..
lola
I can’t believe that I’ve arranged a trp to Newmarket when it’s Glastonbury; hope the B&B have got a telly
They are bound to have, Moe
My son will be going there again as he loves it, think this will be his fourth time.I only managed to catch part of the last day about 20 years ago, nearly everyone was going home but got in free and was worth it just to see the site and have a good wander around.
I think I went to the very first one but left before it started [decided to go home]. Haven’t been back although my friends band used to play there and say I could go with them. Talk about missed opportunities. It’s still on my bucket list, though, but couldn’t face camping at my age.
Ah yes, the first one would have been called the Pilton Pop Festival, think Bolan played there to a small gathering- but I’ve not googled to check.
At our age now glamping would be the only way
I can’t remember much about it other than I hitched there from Cornwall, met up with some friends from Birmingham but decided to leave. I was walking one way and hundreds of people were walking the other. I hadn’t got a ticket but my friends said they could get me one. I was at a wedding today with some old uni friends and we were saying that we couldn’t remember either having baths of washing any clothes in those days; I’m sure we must have done [perhaps too busy drinking and getting stoned
].Talented, sexy,compassionate and off the scale loveliness. No, I’m not talking about Corm.
This is Ms Kate Bush ~ Army Dreamers.
Moe, if you can be in the Newton Abbot region on 20th July then there may be a mini meet-up at a mobbed out small racecourse opposite Tesco’s
Great set from Ferry at Glasto last night, and as it was on BBC4 – no need to stand in a field to see it.
By Alice Vincent…
Bryan Ferry looks good for 69. This fact hadn’t escaped the middle-aged crowd at West Holts Stage, Glastonbury on Saturday night. ‘Do you think he’s handsome? Suave?’ a man quizzed his female friends. ‘His girlfriend’s 27,’ someone else mused. A Welshman, meanwhile, just muttered gruffly, ‘smooth *******’, and said what the rest of us were thinking.
Ferry had slung on a brocade floral blazer and undid his bow tie during his second song, Slave to Love, with the flick of a hand before embarking upon a feverish 90-minute set of the best songs from nearly 45 years of pop. He silenced the crowd from behind a keyboard with a simple, slow More Than This. He sent them potty by sliding into the snaking verses of Love Is a Drug. Then Ferry finished a long encore by crooning Jealous Guy, probably inspiring envy in every male in the audience in the process.
The Roxy Music frontman kept up appearances with his talent, too. Impressively, he can still master a microphone, effortlessly creating those infectious sliding vowels of his most famous choruses. Whipping out a mouth organ, he made the notoriously troublesome instrument chime along with his saxophonist, and seemed pretty pleased with himself about it too.
Most of Ferry’s crowd had been in place, with folding chairs and boxes of wine, since Goldfrapp’s set an hour before. The British band are known for delivering operatic disco to an impeccable standard on stage, but frontwoman Alison Goldfrapp’s eerily beautiful vocals took a while to gain gravitas. People hung around, almost waiting for something to happen during their more reflective songs. One woman entertained herself by putting glitter in a wary man’s beard.
But with the sunset came the bold drums, euphoric synths and familiar anthem choruses of Goldfrapp’s hits, Strict Machine and White Horse, and an enthralled crowd with them. It’s just a shame it was so long coming.Can’t get to Newton Abbott this month but hoping to get to Exeter in the Autumn when I visit my friend in Dartmouth. Just catching up with Kasabian and Arcade Fire at Glastonbury. Only on iplayer for a few days and doesn’t seem to be on BBC3 [which I’m sure it was last year] although there is a two hour special on BBC4 on Friday night.
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