Uneasy does it ZU / DR SLAGGLEBERRY / DRUNKENSTEIN, 4TH OCTOBER 2009, OXFORD WHEATSHEAF Tiresomely convoluted songs? Cursory nods to Faith No More overshadowed by gothy bluster and Chili Peppers style slap bass? A theatrical frontman who looks like the Bee Gees' Robin Gibb, who has a distressing penchant for a maniacal laugh that Dr Evil would think too contrived, and who reads some of his lyrics...
Prompted by Rob Fitzpatrick saying that he'd been on an unrelenting Gibb-binge, I've been listening to the Gibb Brothers' 1969 magnum opus Odessa tonight. For those who don't use the reductive shorthand that says that Macca = The Frog Chorus, Abba = daft clothes and The Bee Gees = Kenny Everett, it is well worth immersing yourself in. Not that I'm dissing their disco years either, as, Angus Deayton's...
In a survey of 50,000 people carried out by the Science Museum in London , the invention of the X-Ray Machine came out on top of the pile ahead of the discoveries of Penicillin and DNA Helix. Your Thursday questions are: - Who married a Texas librarian today in 1977? Which member of the Bee Gees (right) survived a train crash that killed 49 people today in 1967? Who was born today in 1931 - Ike or...
Loch Lomond Night Bats (Hush) [FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION] If local chamber-folk outfit Loch Lomond can be accused of anything, it’s being too nice. The band’s songs, which take singer Ritchie Young’s quivering voice—one that often switches from a deep register to an androgynous falsetto in the same verse—and surround it with layers of baroque instrumentation, have [...]...
Mule and Phish weren’t the only bands performing on Halloween as there was plenty of action all over the country from our favorite bands. We’ll have extended takes on most of these shows over the next few days, but for now let’s take a look at what went down on October 31st… Umphrey’s McGee Day of the Dead IV, Las Tortugas Set I: JaJunk* > 2 × 2 > Q*bert...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stephen Wiltshire was diagnosed as autistic at aged three, did not speak until five but as an adult sells his art for thousands of British pounds.
Filed under: Potent Quotables "[ Oasis ] remind us of ourselves, but on a more physically violent level." -- Barry Gibb In a recent interview , the singer admitted that like Noel and Liam Gallagher , he and his bandmates have been through their share of fights. The difference? The Bee Gees brothers are still on speaking terms. Next Quote
ROBIN and BARRY GIBB have compared the BEE GEES to troubled OASIS siblings NOEL and LIAM GALLAGHER - calling the Britpop brothers a "more physically violent" version...
Born: 9 April, 1926, in New York. Died: 25 October, 2009, in Norwalk, Connecticutt, aged 83.DEE Anthony managed the careers of musicians such as Peter Frampton and Joe Cocker with a blunt, streetwise style that made him a rock power broker in the 1970s.In a four-decade career that began in the 1950s, Anthony had a varied portfolio, working, at various times, with Tony Bennett, Jethro Tull, the J Geils...
Born: 9 April, 1926, in New York. Died: 25 October, 2009, in Norwalk, Connecticutt, aged 83.DEE Anthony managed the careers of musicians such as Peter Frampton and Joe Cocker with a blunt, streetwise style that made him a rock power broker in the 1970s.In a four-decade career that began in the 1950s, Anthony had a varied portfolio, working, at various times, with Tony Bennett, Jethro Tull, the J Geils...
ROBIN and Barry Gibb are so overpoweringly familiar that just sitting opposite them feels odd. Robin, now 59 and still pencil-thin, is the sharper, the more protective of the two. Robin’s the one you can imagine having an actual stand-up fight in defence of the Bee Gees’ good name, while Barry, 63, seems rather more [...]
Fever, shivers, delirium: being sick makes you a rock'n'roll animal, if only for a week or so "Everybody's got the fever," murmured Elvis, and Peggy Lee before him. They didn't seem to think it was a bad thing; in fact, it was "a lovely way to burn". Later, when the Bee Gees caught Night Fever, they didn't want it to go away. They were "prayin' for this moment to last"....
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