Se muestran los artículos pertenecientes a Marzo de 2006.
01/03/2006
Jean-Marie Perier : Mes Annees 60
Jean-Marie Perier : Mes Annees 60Photographs from the golden age of French pop
Exposición en la galería Snap de Birmingham: http://www.snapgalleries.co.uk/perierexhibition.html
Aquí enlaces para ver la obra: http://www.snapgalleries.co.uk/jean-mariethumbnails.html
02/03/2006
Nuevo single de Belle & Sebastian
la portada se puede ver aquí: http://www.belleandsebastian.com/recordings.php?release=39 we can confirm that the 2nd single from "The Life Pursuit" will be "The Blues Are Still Blue". It’s going to be released in the UK on April 3rd. Once again we’re utilising the old 3-format thing. The CD comes backed by "The Life Pursuit" and "Mr Richard", which have both been getting aired at the live shows. The 7" has B&S’ version of "Whiskey In The Jar", and the DVD has the video of "The Blues..." (shot recently in LA) and "Roy Walker (Live At The Botanics)". Quite a lot of you are in that I would imagine, as it’s far more crowd-focused than the "Lazy Line.." one off "Funny Little Frog"
Recopilación de Saturday Looks Good To Me
Between the release of their three full-length records, Saturday Looks Good To Me has created a total of 12 EPs, 7-inches, singles, and tour CDs, all limited, sold-out and highly sought after by fans. Sound on Sound collects these impossible-to-find tracks, presenting 30 songs recorded from the band's inception in 2000 through its most recent sessions in 2005. The record moves in chronological fashion through five vocalists, including the band's earliest singers who had not yet been featured on full-length releases, and about 20 other musicians, in different combinations on most songs. In the disc's nearly 80-minute running time, evolution is evident, but each song delivers a very different take on rock pop perfection and Saturday Looks Good To Me's broad acceptance of pop music history, as Sound On Sound stuffs the best of the band's unavailable music into one amazing and somehow cohesive document.Una bonita canción
Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley) with the Watson Twins - "You are what you love" (incluida en "Rabbit Fur Coat")
"You are what you love”, el mejor corte del album, parece rescatado de cualquier vinilo de girl group de los 50 ó 60 (Ángel Ortiz en muzikalia.com)
You Are What You Love,”: “Every morning upon waking / To you I’m a symbol or a monument / Your rite of passage to fulfillment / But I’m not yours for the taking”.
De la hoja promocional: “Patsy, Petula, and Chrissie have an heiress apparent,” claimed Entertainment Weekly, while Elvis Costello was spurred to include the band on his Artist Choice compilation, going on to comment that Jenny’s “storytelling is remarkable
The Revelations
Trío de chicas detrás de las cuales se escuda Adam Howort (Captain Soul)
Su single de debut es bubblegum pop con guitarras. Lástima que sólo te puedas bajar un clip de 30" en su web: http://www.therevelations.co.uk/music.html aunque si te dejan bajarte una versión nada ruda de "Like a Hurricane" de Neil Young http://www.therevelations.co.uk/news.html
Pero bueno, voy a la caza del 7" que salió el año pasado en Fierce Panda. Veremos si hay suerte. La cara A es un hit.
Annika Magnberg, Sarah Vitorino and Louise Masters answered an ad in the NME looking for the 21st-century Ronettes. Namecheck Spector’s babes and the Supremes, add swirling organ and a touch of northern soul, and you’re in the land of pure, timeless girl pop. Hence the Revelations, who have had one single, You’re the Loser, on the indie label Fierce Panda
A new Swedish/Portuguese/English girl trio whose summery harmonies nod to The Ronnettes, The Supremes and Phil Spector’s classic Sixties wall of sound. Remember the name. (The Sun)
Tributo Ray Davies
¡Conseguido!
Soul Jazz Records Presents Tropicalia: a Brazilian Revolution in Sound
Además del disco, esto: http://www.barbican.org.uk/tropicalia
Tropicalia is one of the most significant cultural movements in Brazil encompassing music, film, visual art and theatre.
‘Tropicália’ is the first album to bring together all the key artists involved in the movement – Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Gal Costa and more.
The Tropicália movement was born in 1968, a momentous year around the world. In Brazil, army violence that killed three protesters in the opening months of 1968 failed to keep students from protesting the four-year-old repressive Brazilian military dictatorship. It was against this extraordinary backdrop that Tropicália arrived.
Mixing psychedelic rock, avant-garde musique concrete (tape loops, sound experiments), samba, funk and soul, Tropicália was so radical – and its social implications so politically profound - that its leading protagonists, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, were arrested, imprisoned and finally exiled in 1969.
Tropicália’s unique ideology mixed high art with mass culture. Tropicália created musical and cultural anarchy, a revolution in Brazilian sound with a legacy later to be international
03/03/2006
The Client nos regalan un lp
8 canciones nuevas, gratis: http://www.client-online.net/ (sección FREE music downloads)
The Rotherham Sessions is an 8-track collection of new demos recorded by Client during 2005. These songs are exclusive to client-online.net and are available now for free download.04/03/2006
Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era - 1976-1996 [BOX SET]
Disco 1:1. Vanishing Girl - The Dukes of Stratosphear
2. Help You Ann - The Lyres
3. The Real World - The Bangles
4. We're Living in Violent Times - The Barracudas
5. The Trains - Nashville Ramblers
6. Seven Years - Watermelon Men
7. Strangers When We Meet - The Smithereens
8. Wading Through a Ventilator - The Soft Boys
9. I Can't Hide - The Flamin' Groovies
10. The Girl from Baltimore - The Fleshtones
11. It's a Good Thing - That Petrol Emotion
12. She's Fine - Stems
13. All My Life - Point
14. Down at the Nightclub - The Creeps
15. (My Girl) Maryanne - The Spongetones
16. She Turns to Flowers - The Salvation Army
17. You Are My Friend - Rain Parade
18. Mr. Unreliable - Inmates
19. (I Thought) You Wanted to Know - Chris Stamey, The dB's
20. She Don't Know Why I'm Here [Single Version] - The Last
21. There Must Be a Better Life - Biff Bang Pow!
22. Slave Girl - Lime Spiders
23. I May Hate You Sometimes - The Posies
24. I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape - Times
25. It's About Time - The Pandoras
26. I Live for Buzz - Swingin' Neckbreakers
27. I Want You Back - Hoodoo Gurus
Disco 2:
1. This Damn Nation - The Godfathers
2. Tell Me When It's Over - Dream Syndicate
3. Whenever I'm Gone - The Prisoners
4. New Kind of Kick - The Cramps
5. And She Rides - The Long Ryders
6. Motorbike Beat - Revillos
7. Tears (Only Dry) - The Vipers
8. 25 O'Clock - The Dukes of Stratosphear
9. Don't Give It Up Now - The Lyres
10. If and When - Chris Stamey, The dB's
11. Pabst Blue Ribbon - The Untamed Youth
12. There She Goes - The La's
13. Kingsley J - Vibrasonic
14. I Can Never Tell - The Crawdaddys
15. Make Me Stay - Green Telescope
16. Everyday Things - The Plimsouls
17. I Wanna Destroy You - The Soft Boys
18. It's You - Mickey & the Milkshakes
19. Apology - The Posies
20. Lights Are Changing - The Bevis Frond
21. Ahead of My Time - Droogs
22. Welcome to My Love - Funseekers
23. Flowers in the Sky - Revolving Paint Dream
24. Metal Baby - Teenage Fanclub
Disco 3:
1. The Unguarded Moment - The Church
2. I Can't Pretend - The Barracudas
3. Out of the Unknown - Died Pretty
4. L.A. Explosion - The Last
5. I'll Cry Alone - The Flamin' Groovies
6. Sunspots - Julian Cope
7. Hindu Gods of Love - Lipstick Killers
8. Death and Angels - Green on Red
9. Barbed Wire Heart - Sinners
10. Pink Frost - The Chills
11. She Told Me Lies - Chesterfield Kings
12. Beauty and Sadness - The Smithereens
13. Test Drive - The Mummies
14. Busy Man [EP Version] - DMZ
15. Love Will Grow - Stems
16. She Goes Out With Everybody - The Spongetones
17. Hypnotized - The Plimsouls
18. No Apology - The Unclaimed
19. God Knows It's True - Teenage Fanclub
20. You Keep on Lyin' - Hoods
21. Don't Break Down - The Sting Rays
22. The World Has Changed - The Fleshtones
23. Baby What's Wrong - Cynics
24. Psycko (Themes from Psycho and Vertigo) - Laika & the Cosmonauts
25. My Name Is Tom - The Jigsaw Seen
Disco 4:
1. Gentle Tuesday - Primal Scream
2. With a Cantaloupe Girlfriend - The Three O'Clock
3. Like Wow -- Wipeout! - Hoodoo Gurus
4. Bad News Travels Fast - The Fuzztones
5. Plains of Nazca [Single Edit] - Sun Dial
6. Getting Out of Hand - The Bangs
7. Please Don't Tell My Baby - Mickey & the Milkshakes
8. One Half Hour Ago - Rain Parade
9. You're My Loving Way - The Aardvarks
10. Transfiguration - Screaming Trees
11. A Scandal in Bohemia - United States of Existence
12. Where the Wolf Bane Blooms - The Nomads
13. Cheated and Lied - The Vipers
14. Strawberries Are Growing in My Garden (And It's Wintertime) - The Dentists
15. Won't Need Yours - Tell-Tale Hearts
16. Weakness - Inspiral Carpets
17. You'll Know Why - Miracle Workers
18. Not My Memory - The Unknowns
19. Far Away - The Prisoners
20. Ain't That a Man - The Optic Nerve
21. Mink Dress - Plasticland
22. Tight Turn - Raybeats
23. One Way Ticket - The Nerves
24. Tracy Hide [Cover Version] - The Wondermints
07/03/2006
indiepop en YouTube.com
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=340CD91A7693292C
en la foto, la portada del single que abre el playlist indie
08/03/2006
2 avances de Color Filter gratis
en http://www.colorfilter-music.com/ hay 2 canciones nuevas gratis para bajarse. Ambientales y bonitasCamera Obscura en Junio
Curioso el título del single, "Lloyd, I’m ready to be heartbroken", sin duda un homenaje al "Are You Ready to be heartbroken" del primer LP de LLoyd Cole
Tras el exquisito aperitivo que fue el single "I love my Jean", donde mostraban una vez más su facilidad para componer melodías inolvidables, por fin podemos anunciar el retorno de CAMERA OBSCURA con un buen número de nuevas canciones que componen lo que será sin duda para todos el mejor disco del grupo hasta la fecha.
"Let’s get out of this country" -título del nuevo y tercer álbum del grupo de Glasgow- fue grabado en diversos estudios de Suecia (estudios donde han grabado y mezclado desde THE MAGIC NUMBERS hasta Neneh Cherry o Per Gessle de ROXETTE), y producido por Jari Haapalainen, productor de maravillas como THE CONCRETES o Ed Harcourt. En este disco, que saldrá por fin a la venta en junio, CAMERA OBSCURA apuesta por el pop clásico y atemporal teñido de country y de soul, con diez canciones impecables donde la preciosa voz de Tracyanne Campbell se deja envolver por preciosos arreglos de cuerda (para los cuales contaron con músicos que han acompañado en directo a Brian Wilson o a Arthur Lee & LOVE).
El primer single, que saldrá a la venta en mayo, será "Lloyd, I’m ready to be heartbroken": un tema de country soul con un ritmo irresistible y un final exultante, en el que Tracyanne se las arregla para cantar hasta seis estribillos sin que se resienta la estructura de la canción. Al revés, uno se queda con ganas de que lo vuelva a cantar una y otra vez y que la canción no acabe nunca.
60 segundos con Dan Tracey (TV Personalities)
El hombre habla sin tapujos de sus adicciones, de su vida como homeless y de su estancia en la cárcel en metro.co.uk.
Además confirma que Ed Ball es miembro oficial de nuevo de los TV P y que la chica es la dependienta de la tienda Reckless ("I'm back with Edward Ball from The Times. We went to school together and he's been my best friend for years. Then there is Victoria [Yeulet] who works in Reckless Records on Berwick Street in London. She's worked there for years. I used to go in for ages to see this other girl who worked there that I fancied but Victoria and I became friends. I was always a bit shy with her when we first met as she can be very imposing. But she's actually very cool. I was in there one day and said we were going back to the studio for the first time in 11 years. She said she could sing a bit, so we asked her along and she's been amazing")
What was prison like?
I did not pick up a guitar for years as I spent time being homeless or in hostels. I've been in prison four times now for things like shoplifting to feed my drug habit. I got transferred from Brixton to what I called The Good Ship Lollipop [floating HMP, The Weare]. It was the best thing that could have happened. Brixton was horrendous. I was not in a cell but in a cabin and could look out of the window over Weymouth Bay. The prison warders were pretty cool and there were computers. I found fan websites. At the same time, I got a letter from my friend, Xfm DJ Iain Baker, and he said he'd heard I was dead. I wrote back to him and he announced on the Web that I was alive and well.
We had heard the ‘Dan is dead' rumour.
I didn't actually see it myself but my sister had heard it. I don't know why anyone would write things like that. I was certainly at death's door a couple of times with the drugs but that's something I'm not proud of. When I showed the websites to the education people in the prison, one of the nuns brought me a guitar. I was supposed to give it back at lock-up in the evenings but they let me keep it in the cell with me. There was a guy in the next cell – an ex-mod – who had a four-track recording studio in his. I had the guitar and so we did some jamming together. When I'd first been given the guitar, I didn't want to pick it up. I kept a journal while I was in prison but I never really wrote seriously. People are saying that I wrote the album while I was in prison but I didn't. I didn't want to get into some kind of Johnny Cash-style thing. There was nothing to write about in that prison anyway. As I said, it was quite nice. I could have written songs about being in Brixton or Pentonville, which were much, much worse. I don't want to fall into writing that much personal stuff. Although, having said that, I have written All The Young Children On Crack. I wouldn't write songs about being homeless. There are loads of people who are homeless. I had no greater insight into it than them.
Were you recognised in prison?
A couple of times in Brixton and Pentonville – and there was one guy on the boat who recognised me. He sidled up after staring for ages and said: ‘Are you who I think you are?' The websites really boosted me, though. When Iain published I was alive, I started getting 30 letters a day. The officers couldn't believe I was so well-known. Thinking about it all really upsets me – not the fact that I went to prison but the fact it was drugs that pushed me. I cannot even imagine doing that kind of thing now. It's a really horrible spiral to fall into.
09/03/2006
Un ex Popsicle
Está canción no está mal. Pertenece a Andreas Mattsson y graba para el sello Hybris. El ex-popsicle y todavía miembro de Vanessa and the O's publicará un álbum solista llamado "The Lawlessness on the Ruling Classes"
10/03/2006
Evie Sands
pinchando en "listen" te puedes bajar en wma "It´s this I am": listen...
Texto del blog mp3 de poptones:
Evie Sands is brilliant. There I’ve said it. She is you know - from Beck and Beth Orton covering her song ‘It’s This I Am’ to Belle and Sebastian asking her to open up for them on their UK tours to being Dusty Springfield’s favourite singer and scoring ‘John and Mary’, the cult-classic movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow. Revola recently reissued her classic debut ‘Anyway That You Want Me’ and Poptones.co.uk can’t stop playing it. Why? They are all folk-rock-soul-stompers with nice orchestrated touches.
11/03/2006
Nueva portada para Lips That Taste Of Tears
Extended re-issue
This newly expanded and remastered edition of Lips That Taste Of Tears features 74 minutes of music and one bonus track. Stand-out songs include single The Rainbow, Letter Never Sent and Never Loved You More. The booklet features revised artwork, together with a detailed artist biography by American journalist Michael Hill.
01 All I Never Said
02 Headlights
03 Never Loved You More
04 The Rainbow
05 Made For Each Other
06 Letter Never Sent
07 I’m Tired I’ve Tried
08 You’ve Done Nothing Wrong Really
09 Old Photographs
10 Never Loved You More 2
11 Deserve
12 Cecila In Black & White
13 Tailspin
14 Farewell To Forever
15 Though I Still Want To Fall Into Your Arms
Nueva portada para Her Handwriting
This newly expanded and remastered edition of Her Handwriting features 74 minutes of music and three bonus tracks. The album made Melody Maker’s Top 25 albums of 1996, while lead single Abba On The Jukebox was voted 19 on the John Peel Festive 50 that same year. The booklet features all-new artwork, as well as a detailed artist biography by American journalist Michael Hill.
01 A Single Kiss
02 For This One
03 What Can I Say To Change Your Heart?
04 Abba On The Jukebox
05 The Far Too Simple Beauty
06 Less Than Love
07 Less Then Love (Reprise)
08 Do People Ever?
09 Last Summertime’s Obsession
10 London Story
11 Saffron Beautiful & Brown Eyed
12 Nobody But You
13 Two Octobers
14 To Keep Your Heart Whole
15 Abba On The Jukebox (7" Version)
16 She’s Always There
17 Less Than Love (Early Version)
13/03/2006
BANDWAGONESQUE
Parece que se pone de moda lo de que los grupos toquen al completo en vivo su lp mítico por excelencia ...
TEENAGE FANCLUB TO PERFORM BANDWAGONESQUE
Yes folks, believe your eyes. Teenage Fanclub have confirmed for Dont Look Back and will be performing their legendary album Bandwagonesque.
The show is at The Forum in London and is on July 24th 2006.
The album will be performed by the original line-up, including drummer Brendan O’Hare who played with the band 1989 – 1994’
Tickets priced £20 are onsale now at www.seetickets.com
Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited
¡Otro tributo a Gainsbourg!
con Franz Ferdinand, Jane Birkin, Marianne Faithfull, Placebo, Carla Bruni, Portishead, Jarvis Cocker, Kid Loco, Françoise Hardy, Keith Flint, Cat Power, Michaël Stipe, Tricky, The Kills, Gonzales,Feist, Dani, The Rakes….14/03/2006
2 recopilaciones 2 para Lambchop
COMPILATIONS TO BE RELEASED APRIL 2006: "The Decline of Country & Western Civilization (The Woodwind Years)" (Merge) and "The Decline of the Country & Western Civilization (1993-1999)" (CitySlang). Tracklist available soon.23/03/2006
Las revelaciones de Stuart Murdoch
Interesante la entrevista de Freire a Stuart Murdoch en el último Rock de Lux. Lo más sorprendente es que padece una enfermedad llamada síndrome de fatiga crónica (El síndrome de fatiga crónica es una afección que produce cansancio o agotamiento importante y prolongado (fatiga), que no se alivia con el descanso y no está causado en forma directa por otras afecciones. Para diagnosticar síndrome de fatiga crónica, el grado de cansancio debe ser lo suficientemente importante como para disminuir en un 50% la capacidad de realizar las actividades diarias. Se desconoce la causa precisa del síndrome de fatiga crónica (SFC). En estudios recientes se demostró que podría ser causado por la inflamación de vías en el sistema nervioso. El SFC se da con mayor frecuencia en mujeres de entre 30 y 50 años. En la actualidad no existe un tratamiento que haya demostrado ser efectivo para curar el SFC, y lo que se trata son los síntomas. Muchas personas con este trastorno experimentan depresión y otros problemas psicológicos que pueden mejorar con tratamiento.Se recomienda que los pacientes afectados por este síndrome tengan una vida social activa; también podría ser beneficioso realizar actividad física suave.)
Al parecer la primera vez que le dio el SFC fue cuando estaba en la universidad y antes de formar Belle & Sebastian. Tuvo una recaída en el 2000 después de la publicación de "Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant" debido al estrés que rodeó a la grabación y a sus posteriores malas críticas. Y se rumorea que algo tuvo que ver su ruptura con Isobel (de la que llega a decir en la entrevista que "no he escuchado nada de su nuevo material, NI TAMPOCO ENTRA EN MIS PLANES HACERLO...")
También reveladoras son sus manifestaciones en cuanto a religión, ya que confiesa acude regularmente a la iglesia y ayuda cada semana en el centro juvenil de la misma.
Musicalmente confirma que lo que más le atrae es combinar las melodías más bonitas del mundo con letras trágicas y llega a decir "casa una buena depresión con un buen estribillo y verás que buenos resultados obtendrás..." (ver el poplife de "Another Sunny Day")
The Tyde
Our new record, "Three’s Co." comes out in the UK on March 13th. It’s our third long player, recorded in Los Angeles in early 2004. It features special guests Conor Deasy (The Thrills) and Mickey Madden (Maroon 5) on vocals and bass, respectively. Look out for a 12" vinyl single featuring remixes from from James Figurine (DNTEL) and DJ Nobody
Tracklist:1. Do It Again Again
2. Brock Landers
3. Separate Cars
4. Too Many Kims
5. Glassbottom Lights
6. The Lamest Shows
7. Ltd. Appeal
8. County Line
9. Aloha Breeze
10. The Pilot
11. Don’t Need a Leash
Bonita portada de single
Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins - Rise Up With Fists
y bonito vídeo clip: http://www.musicomh.com/downloads/jenny-lewis-watson-twins_0206.htm
24/03/2006
El Buen gusto de Duffy
de su blog:
Enjoyed The Greatest by Cat Power & the new Belle & Sebastian album on the way over. Really loved Rabbit Fur Coat by Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins when I heard it on Saturday night.
Por lo que parece se avecina una avalancha de reediciones de su propio material: "I Love My Friends": Re - issue out now on Cooking Vinyl with all the tracks that should have been on the album as extras. The Word magazine feature by Caitlin Moran is in the issue published on the 9th of February. Fontana re issues with BBC session extras on the way. If you missed them "Duffy" has been re issued by Sony/BMG with extra tracks and stunning new artwork - "Astronauts +" was reissued by Sanctuary last year and "Music in Colors" is out too on EMI. I think you need them all - and i won’t make a new one until you do xxx
¡Super hit!
¡nuevo single de The Pipettes!
Watch the video here
7" White vinyl
A) Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me
B) Your Guitars Are Wasted On Me
7" Green vinyl
A) Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me
B) Judy (Acoustic Version)
CD Single
1) Your Kisses...
2) Dirty Mind (Acoustic Version)
25/03/2006
¡Betty Boo vive!
Pues si, la que fuera pop star a principios de los 90 con su hit -ironías de la vida -"Where are you baby"- ha regresado con un nuevo proyecto llamado WigWam junto a Alex James, otrora bajista de Blur. Naturalmente la canción de sus single de debut es totalmente intrascendente e irrelevante, como se presume en estos casos, pero al menos es divertida... Y ella sigue siendo guapa, aunque su belleza ya no es tan juvenil como antes
Curiosa versión
The Editors versionean el "French Disko" de Stereolab en su ep "Munich". Como era de esperar parecen Joy Division tocando una canción de Stereolab.Tom Verlaine
Tom Verlaine will release two albums simultaneously in Spring 2006."Around", a 16-song instrumental set and "Songs And Other Things", his first vocal album since The Wonder (1990) will be released on Thrill Jockey in late April.
The Best of Hefner
Tracklisting (with notes) 1. A Better Friend (original single version)
The first single recorded in a small 16 track studio in Greenwich. Only the second time the band played together. Released April 1997 on Boogle Wonderland.
2. Christian Girls (original single version)
The first of three versions of this song and the song which originally bought Hefner to the attention of Beggars Banquet.
3. Pull Yourself Together (didgeridoo version)
This version of Hefner's first single for Too Pure was previously only available on a free CD with the Melody Maker. A song made single of the week on Steve Lamacq's Radio 1 evening session.
4. The Sweetness Lies Within
Second single from Hefner's critically acclaimed debut album; 'Breaking God's Heart' which was placed above Robbie Williams in an NME end of year poll.
5. The Sad Witch
From Breaking God's Heart, this song remained a live favourite in the Hefner set, right up until their split.
6. Hello Kitten
Originally the b-side to Sweetness Lies Within the popularity of this song grew and grew until it was one of Hefner's most loved songs.
7. Lee Remick
Perhaps one of the most personal of Darren Hayman's songs, originally their second single this is the re-recorded version from the singles and b-sides compilation 'Boxing Hefner'.
8. The Hymn for the Cigarettes
The first single from what remains the fans favourite Hefner album The Fidelity Wars, this song reached number 3 in John Peel's Festive 50 1999
9. The Hymn for the Alcohol
This song, also from, 'Fidelity Wars' did even better getting to number 2 in the same Festive 50. This was the first recording to feature fourth Hefner member Jack Hayter.
10. I Took Her Love for Granted
The second single from 'Fidelity Wars' had a video which featured the band in nylon flesh coloured body stockings with sew on cocks.
11. Don't Flake out on Me
A personal favourite of Darren's, this song from Fidelity Wars showed a bigger poppier sound that the band were to push forward on their third album proper 'We Love the City'.
12. I Love Only You
The closing song on 'Fidelity Wars' features unlikely scratching, under guitar riffs stolen from Big Country.
13. Good Fruit
Hefner's most successful song it got to number 42 or something like that. First single from 'We Love the City'
14. The Greedy Ugly People
This second single from 'We Love the City' failed to keep the momentum going however and their brief dalliance with the big time was over.
15. Painting and Kissing
A song about how Darren met his now wife, this song features some of the synthesizers that were to take over on Hefner's final album.
16. The Greater London Radio
Written by Darren as he drove through London from Heathrow to his home at 7 in the morning. From We Love the City.
17. The Day That Thatcher Dies
An anthem for people of a certain age and a certain political persuasion. Darren's Dad's favourite song. From We Love the City.
18. Alan Bean
First single from the perplexing fourth album; 'Dead Media'. Underneath all the Joe Meek influenced chaos is one of Darren's more understated lyrics.
19. When the Angels Play Their Drum Machines
This is a different remixed version of the song that appears on Dead Media taken from Hefner's final release (in their lifetime); The Hefner Brain.
20. Home
This song, included at Darren's request is the last song from their last album, and is a bitter sweet goodbye from the band to the music industry.
All songs written by Darren Hayman (Derrière le Garage).
27/03/2006
Ron Sexsmith
Ron Sexsmith is set to release a brand new album entitled "Time Being" on May 15th. It will be the 8th full length album from the talented Canadian singer/songwriter following on the heels of 2004 years critically acclaimed "Retriever". March 20, 2006"Time Being" sees Ron Sexsmith being reunited with legendary producer Mitchell Froom (Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, The Corrs, Crowded House, Daniel Powter) who produced Ron's first three albums on Interscope in the nineties. The recording sessions took place late last year in Santa Monica with drummer Pete Thomas , bassist Davey Farragher and guitarist Val McCallum contributing.
Ron’s beguiling vocals and exquisite harmonies draw you in immediately to what is probably his finest album to date. The elegance and subtly understated way in which he draws you into his music is a masterclass in melody and the natural gentility and timelessness of effortless songwriting. This established and beloved songwriter is at the height of his powers.
Tracklisting:
1. Hands Of Time
2. Snow Angel
3. All In Good Time* SINGLE
4. Never Give Up
5. I Think We’re Lost
6. Reason For Our Love
7. Cold Hearted Wind
8. Jazz At The Bookstore
9. Ship Of Fools
10. The Grim Trucker
11. Some Dusty Things
12. And Now The Day Is Done
Más vale tarde que nunca
¡conseguido!
The Go-Betweens: Worlds Apart EP
Finding You
The City Of Light (The Go-Betweens vs Future Pilot AKA)
Sleeping Giant
Released by Lo-Max Records, 7th November 2005 as 7" vinyl and digital download.
Playing on Finding You and Sleeping Giant:
Robert Forster: vocals, guitars, piano, organ
Grant McLennan: vocals, guitars
Adele Pickvance: bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Glenn Thompson: drums, keyboards, guitar, backing vocals
with:
Dave Ruffy: keyboards, percussion on Finding You
Finding You produced and mixed by Mark Wallis and Dave Ruffy at Good Luck Studios, London, 2005.
The City Of Light recorded in Glasgow, 2005, with Sushil Dade.
Sleeping Giant recorded in Brisbane, 2004.
28/03/2006
Noticias varias sobre Tender Trap
extraidas de su web
NEW ALBUM!
Our new album, "6 Billion People" is at the pressing plant, and should be out in May/June, but we will be selling advance copies at our April shows. This 10 track CD will be released by Fortuna POP! (Europe) and Matinée Recordings (America).
The tracklisting for the album is:
6 Billion People
Talking Backwards
Inuit Beauty Queen
I Would Die For You
Applecore
Fahrenheit 451
Ampersand
(I Always Love You When I’m) Leaving You
Dreaming of Dreaming
Dead and Gone
On most of the album, Tender Trap are joined by Claudia Gonson (Magnetic Fields) on drums and backing vocals.
You can get a sneaky preview of four of the album tracks at http://www.indiepages.com/matinee/catalog/cd040.html.
GIGS!
In April, we will be playing our first gigs for over 2 years, both in London.
Thurs 13th April: How Does It Feel To Be Loved? @ The Windmill, Blenheim Gardens, Brixton. With Fosca and Strange Idols. Doors open 7.30pm. Advance tickets £5 from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/9462.
Saturday 15th April (afternoon): Fortuna POP! RoTa @ Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate. Free. Doors open 4pm. Entry first come first served. With Cannonball Jane and Simon Fanfarlo.
For the very first time we will have a real live drummer (Claudia Gonson) in place of our faithful old CD player. Apologies for only playing 18+ venues in London - we hope to expand our horizons both age-wise and location-wise soon!
DJ-ING!
On Friday 7th April, Amelia will be guest DJ-ing at How Does It Feel To Be Loved? at the Canterbury Arms, Canterbury Crescent, Brixton, London, SW9 7QD. £3 for members, £5 for non-members. Membership free from http://www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk.
The club runs 9pm-2am, and Amelia will be doing a 90 minute girl-based set, sometime between 10pm and midnight. Get your dancing shoes on.
London Gig Guide
No me había enterado, pero el amigo Watson ha abierto una web sobre calendario de actuaciones en Londres:
31/03/2006
Messthetics Greatest Hits - The Sounds of UK DIY 1977-80
Bob Stanley escribe una articulillo en The Guardian sobre The Sounds of UK DIY 1977-80 (¿ha dejado The Times? Parece que no: aquí hay una crítica suya sobre el nuevo lp de The Concretes http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22875-2073552,00.html)
En concreto en The Guardian escribe sobre una recopilación que se ha publicado sobre grupos ingleses de la etapa punk/nuevaolera bastante desconocidos -faltaría más- y que creo que es lo último que quedaba por reivindicar después de que la gente se haya vuelta loca sobre el sonido punk-funk inglés. Por tanto parece que el Stanley pretende convertirse en el adalid reivindicativo de bandas como Danny and the Dressmakers, the Thin Yoghurts, the Mud Hutters, Steve Treatment, Take It y demás nombres que dudo mucho que los conozcan en su casa a la hora de comer. Lo más divertido del artículo es lo que comenta de The Homosexuals ("and the Homosexuals who weren’t, but were often beaten up for their name anyway")...
El artículo se puede leer aquí: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1742844,00.html
Y en la web de sello descubro que hay hasta 8 cds de Messthetics... Lo que se publica ahora es una especie de grandes éxitos de esos 8 volumenes e incluye primeras grabaciones de Scritti Politti y diversas bandas que luego fueron el germen de Weekend, TV Personalities e incluso The Sound (hay alguna canción de Second Layer donde según leo estaba Adrian Bordland) El resto del catálogo del sello Hyped To Death está dedicado al power pop (bajo las series "Homework") y al punk USA ("Teenline"). Y los superventas del sello son The Shivers (powerpop) y, faltaría más, The Homosexuals.
Y en el grandes éxitos hay cosas como: Featuring two never-before heard tracks by the legendary Rejects (Bruno Wizard’s 1977 band before he formed the Homosexuals). With O Level (pre-Times), Reptile Ranch (pre-Weekend), Six Minute War (pre-400 Blows), Mud Hutters (pre-Spaceheads), and Danny & the Dressmakers (producer Graham Massey pre-808 State, Bjork, etc.)… Also the inimitable tunings of the Tronics, Scrotum Poles, Puritan Guitars, Dum Dum Dum, Reacta, Exhibit A, Slight Seconds, Instant Automatons, Anorexia, Steve Treatment, Take It, Thin Yoghurts, Royston, Walking Floors and the Digital
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