The XPN All About The Music Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Galen Ayers and Kirsty Newton are Siskin an indie-pop band from the UK whose self-titled debut album was released in August. While Galen's dad is Kevin Ayers, who was one of the founders of the legendary British psychedelic band The Soft Machine, these girls musically aim more towards the sunny bright pop of Cali than the dark Brit-Rock essences of Canterbury
Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Playlist The Human League - Reproduction David Sylvian - Alchemy Kevin Ayers - Joy of a Toy Hawkwind - Take Me to Your Leader Cloudland Blue Quartet - Songs on Myspace Various - Oh! Canada Girls Aloud - Out of Control Mike Taylor Quartet - Pendulum A long lie - till 7:45... Some work at the PC including trying (unsuccessfully) to spice up the design of the CBQ Myspace page... Rather frustratingly,...
Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Playlist Cloudland Blue Quartet – Acoustic Soundingfall Kevin Ayers – Yes We Have No Mananas Kevin Ayers – Shooting at the Moon Soft Cell – Heat : The Remixes Bigelf – Cheat the Gallows Bach – Goldberg Variations Bach – Orchestral Suites The Osmonds – Best Of Rheostatics – Whale Music Concert Up early and some internet prep and work for the upcoming...
Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Playlist Deep Purple – Live in Europe Bigelf – Cheat the Gallows Nick Buzz – Circo Be Bop Deluxe – Dratic Plastic Groundhogs – Thank Christ for the Bomb Kevin Ayers – Joy of a Toy Kevin Ayers – Yes We Have No Mananas Kevin Ayers – Shooting At the moon Kevin Ayers – Confessions of Dr Dream Be Bop Deluxe – Sunburst Finish To Fopp again at lunchtime...
Eine Kleine Nichtmusik (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
I was listening to Radio Scotland tonight before I went out, and there is a programme called "Get It On" where listeners suggest records to fit a theme. Tonight's theme was unusual collaborations, such as Tom Jones and Art Of Noise, or Aerosmith and RunDMC. Here is the best one they played: and here are a few they didn't (I was heading off out so didn't text them in as suggestions) Dweezil...
Outlineonline (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
Kevin Ayers – The Confessions Of Dr. Dream And Other Stories (1974) Kevin Ayers remains one of the great undiscovered heroes of the 60’s underground scene. Steadfastly ignoring prevailing trends, rarely recording or performing in later years, he is almost the dictionary definition of a cult artist. He had served his apprenticeship with Canterbury pioneers Soft Machine, but had ultimately...
Troubled Diva (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
If I'm going to get through a month's worth of daily postings, then Fridays are going to be the toughest gigs of the week. For traditionally, Friday evenings fall into four tightly packed sections, with scant room for a fifth: 1. The frantic weekend packing session. Undies to sort, shirts and shoes to put out, CDs and papers to pack, laptops to stow, bins to put out: in nearly nine years of splitting...
SwissToni's Place (Free subscription) | 21/08/2009
- Earworms of the Week > " Master of Puppets " - Metallica > " The Trooper " - Iron Maiden I like rock music. I like running to rock music. It probably won't come as much surprise to learn, then, that as my mileage has increased in the run-up to the Half Marathon, I've been listening to lots and lots of heavy metal on a playlist a I plod my weary way around the place. I've...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 19/08/2009
Photo: Myung-Gu/WireImage Weezer managed to stun the masses with word on their October 27th album will be titled Raditude. It’s like radical, with an attitude. Since 50 percent of their previous releases have been self-titled and color-coded, it’s a welcome change of pace — and as far as our dictionary tells us, a brand new word. As Kanye [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 16/08/2009
1969. Standing like afractured doubled-sidedmirror in between thepsychedelia of The SoftMachine and the crankyjazz-fusion of Third wasthis, the Canterburygroup's second album,one of those "transitional"moments thatmake life so pleasantlybendy.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 14/08/2009
Despite a reputation second only to Pink Floyd, Soft Machine struggled to make much of an impression outside of a small cognoscenti, until they became a full-blown jazz-rock combo in the 1970s.
Julian Cope presents Head Heritage (Free subscription) | 01/08/2009
On the stroke of midnight of July 26th, at the Black Sheep festival ‘NI DIOS, NI AMO’, newest Black Sheep Spaceship Mark, just back from Cuba, unfurled his revolutionary flag for this photo opportunity. Pictured back left-to-right: Big Nige, Acoustika, Holy McGrail, Fat Paul (obscured), Hebbs, Christophe F, Common Era. Left-to-right front: Spaceship, Julian H., Michael O’Sullivan.Hey...
Stardom - Is This How It Should Be? (Free subscription) | 18/07/2009
Exciting, imaginative, beautiful new album from Barbagallo - Floppy Disk. Wonderful with elements of Kevin Ayers, early Soft Machine. Engaging melody, esoteric elements within a framework of beautifully crafted songs. http://ping.fm/8VdnN Nobody told me it would be like this. HealeyIsland.
Penwith Radio Blog (Free subscription) | 18/07/2009
Exciting, imaginative, beautiful new album from Barbagallo - Floppy Disk. Wonderful with elements of Kevin Ayers, early Soft Machine. Engaging melody, esoteric elements within a framework of beautifully crafted songs. http://ping.fm/8VdnN
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Hugh Hopper, bassist for prog-rock pioneers Soft Machine, passed away last Sunday in Kent, England after a battle with leukemia. He was 64. Hopper was influential in melding different styles of playing, most notably in what would become known as fusion jazz and progressive rock. Initially, he started out as the road manager for Soft Machine before being recruited for full...
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