Listen again to a mixture of music and chat on 6Music, a classical treat, a lecture on Mary Woolstonecraft and the swansong of Archers stalwart Norman Painting Guy Garvey's Finest Hour (Sunday, 6Music) is always a pleasure; a fine combination of good music and companionable chat. "Debonair and distinctive on 6Music" booms one of the jingles, in the voice of a very pukka gent from the 1950s,...
I was chatting to the local indie record store owner, who is always looking for interesting ways to display his wares and prompt the odd purchase. A lot of the punters are somewhat sheepish, impressionable youngsters clutching their first Led Zeppelin, Roy Harper, Stooges, Floyd etc album and it struck me that it might be worthwhile having a display showing 'How to buy' a particular genre, era or...
via Mitchell Stirling @ Acclaimed Music Forum Uncut Magazine - Top 50 Albums of 2009 1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion 2. Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years 3. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca 4. Bob Dylan – Together Through Life 5. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers 6. XX – The XX 7. Wilco – Wilco (The Album) 8. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest...
During the Troubles there were few good places to eat because Belfast wasn't safe at night; today good cafes and restaurants are cropping up fast - though…
On November 25, 1976, the five members of The Band -- Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, and Robbie Robertson - played their last concert together. It was billed as The Last Waltz . The Thanksgiving Day show (all 5,000 tickleholders were given a full sit-down turkey dinner before the show) was held at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom and was filmed by Martin Scorsese. Besides...
I find myself becoming mildly obsessed with this Pink Floyd song. It's extremely well known - probably their best-known song in fact, up there in best plank-spanking polls and so on - but flew way under my radar when it was first released in 1970; although the hippy living in the flat beneath mine back in Bristol had it on constant replay I was so not into the whole concept album thing back then, and...
Goat of the North Country - Bob Dylan Valley Goat - Frank Zappa Fat Bottomed Goats - Queen Goat - The Beatles Material Goat - Madonna My Goat - Temptations American Goat - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Factory Goat - Rolling Stones Stupid Goat - Neil Young California Goats - Beach Boys The Goats Want To Be With The Goats - Talking Heads Some Goats - Rolling Stones Goats Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi...
Call them 'twitchers' at your peril: how birdwatching has taken off in Britain. By Kate Kellaway Birdwatching – when it is non-birdwatchers you are talking to – produces an almost uniform reaction: amused condescension, as if the sheer harmlessness of the activity were dangerous or put it beyond the pale as a subject. It's the received idea of the "twitcher", the bird boffin...
There was an interesting article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal about Tom Petty: Rock God Or Mere Mortal? "As Tom Petty prepares to release a career-spanning anthology next week, an attempt to determine where he falls in the music pantheon." The basic premise is that though he sold a lot of records, maybe because he was prolific with the pop hook, he just seems to lack the "cool"...
Aaron Miller The Last Waltz - Done LIVE Sunday, November 22nd Club DeVille ( 900 Red River St ) 7pm, $5 with canned food donation for Cap Area Food bank, $10 otherwise [ info ] Martin Scorsese's classic The Last Waltz has been quite the muse for many, many, many a film-minded musician-artist-type person. Ever since this 35mm beauty debuted back in 1978. The universal appeal of this flick is not just...
At the tour’s request, we did not photograph the Swell Season. The photos are of the opening act Doveman. Since seeing the Swell Season ’s fantastic performance at Berklee Performance Center, I’ve told several friends that I haven’t seen “Once,” the film that launched the duo of Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová and their real-life romance. Each time,...
TWILIGHT ZONE Dr. John Babylon Atco : 1969 [Buy It] Back in my teens, if you had asked me to dream up the ideal musician, I would have imagined an unholy combination of Sly Stone, Randy Newman, and Roky Erickson, and I wouldn't have known that the thing I was dreaming already existed, and that it was named Dr. John. There's an occasion for this post, a birthday, and as a result it isn't a post where...
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Driving home from AWANA, we're listening to Van Morrison, and my daughter says, 'is this a black guy?' I laugh a little as Jackie Wilson segues into Beautiful Day, and she says, 'Now THIS guy is WHITE.' Take THAT, Bono.
Back in the day jazz pianist and composer Roger Kellaway served as Bobby Darin's Musical Director and recently he was Van Morrison's Musical Director in the recording of a live CD / DVD set, still to be released. Now you read our exclusive interview with Roger Kellaway http://www.rivetingriffs.com/roger_kellaway_2009.htm
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