The thread on if you know anyone famous has made me think of bizarre encounters that us mere mortals sometimes have with the famous. Now I have had the odd bumping into moment - Graham Coxon in a gallery, Robert Wyatt at Royal Festival Hall etc... But what I mean is something very unexpected that makes a good yarn or pub story, and I have not had one of those. However, my parents once had a holiday...
eMusic : #100 The Friends Of Rachel Worth – The Go-Betweens #99 Realistes – Comet Gain #98 The ‘59 Sound – The Gaslight Anthem #97 Berlinette – Ellen Allien #96 For The Birds – The Frames #95 The Doldrums – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti #94 Album – Girls #93 Aha Shake Heartbreak – Kings of Leon #92 Aerial – Kate Bush #91 Rook –...
The Oconee County Democratic Committee met once again this evening, and it is basically the same set of folks lamenting our lack of candidates for the same set of offices time and time again. Who would like to run against semi-permanently entrenched incumbents State Representative Bob Smith or Congressman Paul Broun? We will help you run, canvass, campaign and host events for your campaign. Many interesting...
Yesterday I stumbled upon a rather good BBC Four documentary about British progressive rock on Vimeo. Watch or grab it before it's gone. Aside from the groups most everyone knows (or maybe dreads by reputation) - Yes, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Genesis, ELP - other lesser-known bands get much more than a nod as well, including two of my favorites, Soft Machine and egg (bonus music geek points for...
Norway's King of Beard has stepped in to record the centennial edition of Fact's superb mix series, apparently going the "influences" route; who'd have thought Hall & Oates would be among them? Also, here's another reminder for his gig with Prins Thomas, Horse Meat Disco and others at London's Corsica Studios on the 28th of this month. Get your infos here . 1. Joe Byrd & The Field...
There's that wonderful illness that incapacitates you from all responsibilities and just leaves you to lay in bed thinking about the most interesting things with just enough strength to pick up the books at your bedside which are conveniently piled there for you. (At an extreme, Robert Wyatt described recovering from the fall that left him paraplegic as an experience like this. I'm not so stoic, but...
Flabbergasted - and absolutely delighted of course - to be mentioned in Simon Reynolds' Guardian blog about the place of facial hair in noughties music culture: Until recently there was even a UK music zine called Beard whose cover stars tended to be mutton-chopped minstrels such as Alasdair Roberts and Robert Wyatt. The magazine's founders, Stewart Smith and Neil Jacques, developed "an admiration...
A series of oblique angles on the past musical decade, beginning with how an entire generation of hipsters wore their musical preferences on their faces Standing on a subway platform waiting for the L train, I saw a group of young men with that slightly scruffy, indeterminately hip look that screams "Williamsburg". I was struck by the fact that every one of them had a beard. Later that same...
"Mr Joy", the opening song of this 1968 album by Norwegian vocalist Krog, still sounds startlingly contemporary, like a newwave folk-jazz project referencing Robert Wyatt and early John Martyn. It'sco-written by AnnettePeacock; Jan Garbarekplays tenor sax and ArildAnderson's dextrousdouble bass-pluckingrecalls Richard Davis'swork on Astral Weeks.Acouple of tracks, withKrog's voice distressedthrough...
Robert Wyatt – Box Set Out 12/8 on Domino Box Set collects the singular artist’s full collection of releases: Rock Bottom (1974), Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard (1975), Nothing Can Stop Us (1981), Old Rottenhat (1985), Dondestan Revisited (1991/1998), Shleep (1997) , EPs (1998), Cuckooland (2003), Robert Wyatt & Friends, Theatre Royal Drury Lane 8th September 1974 [...]
We’re still linked to prog, however tenuously, for here is Ultramarine. Lovely is an odd word to use, but really, how else to describe a ‘pastoral electronica’ or ‘ambient house’ band, consisting of Paul Hammond and Ian Cooper from (natch) Canterbury, that merged with folk (and prog by extension) by having Robert Wyatt sing for [...]
My good friend Geoff will provide an interesting and engaging stroll this Saturday morning, and I will attend as well. Woven brightly, Daniel J. Matthews, Jr. To: oconee@yahoogroups.com From: ppriest@charter.net Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:02:18 -0400 Subject: [oconee] Don't miss upcoming strolls! Watkinsville' s founding will be the subject of this week's "Saturday Stroll." Geoff Seila, who...
150 - Band of Horses Everything All the Time 149 - Ray Lamontagne Trouble 148 - Franz FerdinandFranz Ferdinand 147 - The Acorn Glory Hope Mountain 146 - Richard Thompson Front Parlour Blues 145 - Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days 144 - Robert Wyatt Comicopera 143 - Leonard Cohen Ten New Songs 142 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell 141 - Rahel Unthank and the Winterset The Bairns 140 - Espers...
The five seconds of silence that precede the music on any ECM album may be the most important statement a record company could make. The pause is a recognition that music exists within silence; only by acknowledging it can a listener become wholly involved. Manfred Eicher is the author of that silence, and of the silence that appears to surround all the recordings produced on his remarkable label....
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