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That Music List continues. Edition #247 includes music from Prolapse, Ladytron, Wire, Yumi Yumi, Heavy Axe, Cootie Catcher, My Lo-Fi Heart, Gina Birch, The Montgolfier Brothers, Win, Delicate Vomit, Sock Puppets, ABC, Christy Moore, Mighty Mighty and more.
(Salty, Drone – my apologies, currently on holiday but a reply to you both will follow soon)
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Hi GC, very long time no speak. Great to see Win make the list. They were so unlucky. Still listen to their album from time to time, on top of the many remixes of You’ve Got The Power.
That Music List continues, even whilst I’m away on holiday with limited WiFi. Edition #248 includes music from The Just Joans, Cornershop, House Of All, Souad Massi, Holy ****, Gossip, The Real Tuesday Weld, Keith Seatman, Horsegirl, A Witness, Cocteau Twins, Robber Robber, Neko Case, Tompot Blenny and more.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
That Music List continues. Edition #249 includes music from Lung Leg, Laetitia Sadier, Marie Davidson, Carla J Easton, Wesley Gonzalez, Monograph, Florence Adooni, Folk Implosion, The Siddeleys, Spratleys, The Last Poets, Marina Zispin, Colleen and more.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Hi GC, very long time no speak. Great to see Win make the list. They were so unlucky. Still listen to their album from time to time, on top of the many remixes of You’ve Got The Power.
A pleasure to read you, too, VtC! Trust all is well with you and yours. Life experience tells us not to take absolutely everything we see as gospel; and the charts of the 1980s and 1990s, replete as they were with real or imagined sharp practices, sales rigging and (in poor Win’s case) mistaken cases of regional hyping, are good examples of that.
I can quite believe that the north west of the first near quarter century of my existence would have been viewed with similar suspicion by Gallup chart compilers from time to time. Piccadilly Radio would have carried considerable clout in the 1980s and helped propel certain songs it got right behind to strong regional sales. I can only assume the rest of the nation failed to get similarly behind tracks by the likes of Floy Joy, Fra Lippo Lippi, The Bernhardts, etc., exposing that incongruity.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Your website is ab fab, a true labour of love
You’re very kind, Drone, many thanks! Since reactivating the blog I’ve noticed that it’s requiring a lot more work and effort to secure a lot fewer visits these days; but other, far more gifted, music bloggers that I’m in touch with say the same thing also. They and I share the same pathological urge to write, write, write no matter the audience size, however, so I’m a long way off being sufficiently discouraged to retreat into another hiatus.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
You are quite correct in surmising that the Sarah Records roster was generally favourable to my ears, though not all of them. I was never a great fan of Amelia’s vocals, though I liked the more recent stuff she did as The Catenary Wires. As a Belfast resident sadly many bands still give us a swerve and I tend to reserve visits to Dublin and across the Irish Sea to those must-see acts.
The Sugargliders are one of the Sarah bands that I have explored as they morphed into The Steinbecks (well worth getting to know). They in turn led to the introduction to a number of Aussie Indie bands through exposure to the Popboomerang and Lost & Lonesome labels, including, most notably the wonderful Lucksmiths.
Yep, I don’t think too many Sarah acts toured Ireland back in the day, presumably with the exception of Dublin signing The Harvest Ministers. Also hailing from Dublin, Brian is the Sarah act that never was, depending on whether you believe the legend that frontman Ken Sweeney turned down a phone offer to record for Sarah on the assumption it was a prank call.
I have a few Steinbecks tracks but still prefer the plenty-from-little ingenuity of the Meadows brothers’ Sugargliders incarnation, to the tune of owning all six of their Sarah 7″s, the Marineville-released single which preceded those, and the International Pop 7″ EP to which they also contributed a track.
Plenty of Lucksmiths in this household, too, and my brother and I were in the audience for their last ever English gig (and penultimate UK one) back in July 2009. London Scala the venue, support from Allo, Darlin’ and Daniel Kitson, the last-named their most dedicated and obsessed fan. IIRC Daniel split the sets from the two musical acts with a stand-up set with more poop gags than you might expect from such a cerebral performer.
Tali White of the Lucksmiths is a cousin of Sugargliders/Steinbecks siblings Josh and Joel Meadows, I understand. Small world!
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Some super-duper names on your lists
I do hope Delicate Vomit and Prolapse go on tour together: an apt combo
That Music List continues. Edition #250 includes music from Adriano Celentano, Grand National, The Four Seasons, Dagmar Zuniga, Tic Tac Toe, Seazoo, Amsterdam, Twisted Teens, Malajube, Golden Starlet, Oracle Sisters, Ebo Taylor, The Golden Dawn and more.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
That Music List continues. Edition #251 includes music from Boards of Canada, The Anchoress, Colour Me Wednesday, Spacemoth, The Fourth Act, Aberdeen, The Itch, Credit to the Nation, Lionrock, Studio Kosmische, Quadrophonia, Pictish Trail, Picasio and more.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
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