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Otro grupo de Glasgow con nombre compuesto-derivativo (de STRAWBERRY switchblade y de meat WHIPLASH), con sonido retro C86 y con los bababas más bonitos que uno ha escuchado desde The Shop Assistants. Su demo se puede bajar desde http://www.myspace.com/strawberrywhiplash

Atención especial a "Who´s in your dreams" (Y tienen una canción que ¡no llega al minuto!) 

Sounds Like shop assistants, jesus and mary chain, talulah gosh

"Are you scared to get happy?"

Sandra, Laz, Paul and Duncan are Strawberry Whiplash. Based in Glasgow, Scotland where everyone is in a pop band. It's in the blood, it's in the water and it's in the contract. Once described as a cross between Strawberry Switchblade and Meat Whiplash, go figure. I thought that all the good names had already been taken, but no, they just needed mixed up a bit.

Curiosa definición que da Ian Watson sobre lo que significa la palabra indie. Al parecer Word Magazine en su número de Septiembre realizó un artículo sobre el indie y sacaron "The Kids at the club" y al propio Watson, que contestó lo siguiente:

Eso si, parece claro que en el mainstream el "indie" es sinónimo de peinados a lo Pete Doherty y chicas Vogue... 

Andrew Collins de Word Magazine asked:

I'm currently writing a piece for Word about the death of Indie. (The word indie, as opposed to the concept.) Your record arrived just as I was launching into writing it, and it fits in. Clearly, the concept as it once was is not dead, as your club nights prove, but there is, I'm sure you'll admit, a degree of nostalgia about it all, for a better time, when indie meant independent and not a haircut in Toni & Guy, or VH2, or Razorlight and Keane. So I ask you this question, and I may quote you, if you don't mind: WAS DOES INDIE MEAN TO YOU?

And I replied:

It seems to me that the word indie is just going through what happened to the word metal. In the seventies, back when metal was invented, you just needed one word to cover your love for hairy, loud music - you liked Sabbath, Deep Purple, etc, etc, you liked metal. Simple. But as metal got more sophisticated, it started to break off into factions and so a whole load of sub genres were needed - speed metal, thrash meal, doom metal, black metal, and hair metal, for the more commercial wing.

If we accept that indie was created in the eighties, then the word's gone through a similar journey. When you talked about the Mary Chain, House Of Love, Primitives, etc, etc, you just needed one word - it was indie. But as indie's developed, it's also fractured - indie pop (which became indiepop), shoegazing, Britpop, indie rock (college rock like Pavement etc etc), post rock, and now, in a direct parallel to metal in the eighties, there's haircut indie - which is the modern brand, as championed by NME and often sponsored with no little irony by Shockwaves.

Indie as a word was always tied to the means of production and a set of DIY, punk values, so it's always suggested a sense of authenticity - this was music that didn't care about marketing or focus groups or street teams. It was just creativity. But haircut indie is all marketing, all the time, it seems. In the samw way that grunge went from being a genuine attempt to find an intelligent middle ground between punk and metal to being a catwalk term for looking a bit scruffy, then indie's gone from being an often middle class attempt to find an intelligent middle ground between pure pop and post punk to being a catwalk term for looking a bit scruffy. In both cases, as soon as the term went mainstream, it became meaningless.

I still use the word indie, but just as a primer. It essentially now means "non-aggressive guitar music". But really indie on its own is a useless word - it needs a prefix or a sense of context. For me, indiepop is now synonymous with what indie used to mean - that sense of DIY values, of wanting to exist outside of the mainstream, of having ideals and often a manifesto, a world of fanzines and seven inch singles and fan-based club nights, defiantly and gloriously insular, and thriving "without your permission", as Huggy Bear once put it. But indie itself is just a pointer. It's the pizza base of musical genres - it needs a topping, be it the sweetness of indie pop, the studied cool of indie rock, the classical ambition of post rock or whatever. If you think of a band that's just indie in this day and age - Snow Patrol for example - you've just got the pizza base. Pleasant enough but a bit doughy.

If you want the real definition of what the word indie means in 2006, though, don't go to the NME or Pitchfork or even the HDIF messageboard - take a look at a recent issue of Vogue. In it Mario Testino did a photo story on the bright young things of London, who were invariably skinny teenagers pretending to be Pete Doherty (which leads me to think that there's another sub genre happening right now - trustfund indie - but that's another story). They were all of a post-Libertines type - they hung out at Nambucca and White Heat, they were into The Holloways and The Paddingtons, they were slumming it for all they were worth (a small fortune, obviously). And right in the middle of one of the groups was a girl with the classic indie look - flick hair, I think she had a stripy t on (very much back in fashion), all of 14, had the look down perfectly. Her name? Indie. Which sums it all up really. When there's a girl calling herself indie in the latest issue of Vogue, you know that the word is all but over.

Curioso. No se como, pero me he encontrado con esto:

http://www.myspace.com/beethobear

http://beethobear.blogspot.com/ 

Male
33 years old
taipei,
Taiwan

 About me:
(blog): beethobear.blogspot.com (mail): daifafa@gmail.com

Who I'd like to meet:

"Concrete", primer álbum en directo de Pet Shop Boys, fue grabado durante su actuación en el Mermaid Theatre de Londres el pasado 8 de mayo y sale a la venta esta semana coincidiendo con la publicación del DVD "A life in pop", una película documental sobre la historia del dúo británico.

"Concrete" es un CD-doble grabado originalmente para la Radio 2 en el Mermaid Theatre en Londres con la BBC Concert Orchestra e incluye canciones que los Pet Shop Boys habían hecho anteriormente con arreglos de orquesta, entre ellas grandes éxitos como "Left to my own devices", "Rent" o "West end girls"; temas de su último álbum "Fundamental" como "The Sodom and Gomorrah show" y unas cuantas sorpresas, incluyendo una canción del musical "Closer To Heaven".

A lo largo del concierto los invitados se fueron sucediendo continuamente en el escenario, tal y como ha sido registrado en el disco, en el que aparecen Robbie Williams, Rufus Wainwright y Frances Barber, que ponen sus voces al servicio de la música de los Pet Shop Boys.

El DVD "A Life In Pop" es una versión ampliada del documental Pet Shop Boys del Channel 4 británico

Do It Again: A Tribute To Pet Sounds

01. Oldham Brothers - Wouldn't It Be Nice
02. Vic Chesnutt - You Still Believe In Me
03. Nobody And The Mystic Chords Of Memory With Farmer Dave - That's Not Me
04. Centro-Matic - Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
05. Micah P. Hinson - I'm Waiting for the Day
06. Raygun - Let's Go Away For A While
07. Dayna Kurtz - Sloop John B
08. Daniel Johnston - God Only Knows
09. Mazarin - I Know There's An Answer
10. Jody Wildgoose - Here Today
11. Patrick Wolf - I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
12. Architecture In Helsinki - Pet Sounds
13. The Wedding Present - Caroline No

El disco sorprendentemente tiene temas interesantes.

ADRIAN BORLAND - THE AMSTERDAM TAPES
[2006]

During the summer of 1992 Citizens member Victor Heeremans and Bart van Poppel recorded 14 songs with the late Adrian Borland on an 8-track recorder in Bart's home-studio in Amsterdam. They worked with programmed drums and bass because the recordings were intended as demos in the first place. After Play It Again Sam rejected to release this album, the tapes ended up on the shelf where they remained for about ten years.

But when Bart recenty transfered the analogue material to a digital format he discovered that these songs were just hidden treasures which only sounded a little back-dated because of the programmed stuff. He decided to replace the machines by a real rhythm-section and to add some guitars and other instruments like vibes, celeste and cello. Everybody who's involved including Robert Borland, Adrians father, is very enthusiastic about the project and right now the album has been finished.

Bonita canción -"Vacation Forever"- de pop indie de este grupo sueco en la onda de The Wake/Field Mice/Factory Records que descubrí a través de Tangents. Lástima que sea una demo y que myspace no te deje bajarla. http://www.myspace.com/boatclub

Acabo de conseguir una cucada de fanzine...

¡qué cosas te encuentras por ahí! Desconocía totalmente la existencia del mismo... Está fechado en 1993 

Pamfletti, a little zine produced in Glasgow as part of a collaboration between Pat Laureate (Vesuvius), the Pastels, Stereolab, and Bob Stanley (St. Etienne). Glasgow artist Lucy McKenzie (Violet, Ganger) also contributed. It's a great little zine

La primera canción de su nuevo lp es un hit. Tiene unos babababas geniales.

en general está bastante bien el disco:  L'Etreinte

El primero lo firman Stuart Staples y  Dave Boulter (ex Tindertsticks), pero participan en él gente como Jarvis, Robert Forster, Stuart Murdoch, Kurt Wagner (Lambchop), Bonnie Prince Billy etc etc. Se trata de un disco que recrea memorias de la niñez, cuentos, música infantil y navideña. Curioso, entretenido y, se nota, hecho con mucho amor y sentimiento.

El segundo es un disco benéfico titulado "Colours are brighter", editado por Rough Trade. Toda la info está aquí: http://www.coloursarebrighter.com/site/

Tracklisting:
1.  Four Tet featuring Princess Watermelon - Go Go Ninja Dinosaur
2.  Rasputina - A Skeleton Bang
3.  Franz Ferdinand - Jackie Jackson
4.  Snow Patrol - I am an Astronaut
5.  The Divine Comedy - Three Cheers For Pooh, Cottleston Pie, Piglet Ho
6.  The Kooks - The King & I
7.  Half Man Half Biscuit - David Wainwright's Feet
8.  The Barcelona Pavilion - Tidy Up Tidy Up
9.  Jonathan Richman - Our Dog is Getting Older Now
10.  Belle and Sebastian - The Monkeys are Breaking Out the Zoo
11. Ivor Cutler Trio - Mud
12. The Flaming Lips - The Big Ol' Bug Is The New Baby Now
13. Kathryn Williams - Night Baking

Slumberland Records se reactiva con la publicación de dos singles. Aparte aquí te puedes bajar un mp3 gratis de Tony Defranco: http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/extras

Tony DeFranco

Heartbeat, It's A Lovebeat

Melodramatic bubblegum with crazy phasing, pre-teen vocals and an immortal chorus. Amazing stuff.

Hay una web que recopila todas asi que el que quiera, que vaya a http://www.rocklist.net/

Esta de Uncut es la primera. Que sirva de aperitivo... (Belle & Sebastian puesto 49... ¡por lo menos salen!)

1. Bob Dylan – Modern Times
2. Scritti Politti – White Bread, Black Beer
3. Comets On Fire – Avatar
4. Joanna Newsom – Ys
5. Neil Young – Living With War
6. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
7. Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther
8. Hot Chip – The Warning
9. Sufjan Stevens – The Avalanche
10. Thom Yorke – The Eraser
11. Flaming Lips – At War With The Mystics
12. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – The Letting Go
13. Lindsey Buckingham – Under The Skin
14. Cat Power – The Greatest
15. Brightblack Morning Light – Brightblack Morning Light
16. The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Solders
17. Ali Farka Toure – Savane
18. CSS – Cansei De Ser Sexy
19. Beck – The Information
20. Burial – Burial
21. Vetiver – To Find Me Gone
22. Espers – Espers II
23. Ghostface Killah – Fishscale
24. Howlin’ Rain – Howlin’ Rain
25. Scott Walker – The Drift
26. TV On The Radio – Return To Cookie Mountain
27. Yo La Tengo – I’m Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
28. Tom Waits – Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers And Bastards
29. Oakley Hall – Second Guessing
30. Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
31. Mastodon – Blood Mountain
32. Johnny Cash – American V: A Hundred Highways
33. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
34. Granddaddy – Just Like The Fambly Cat
35. Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped
36. Scissor Sisters – Ta-Dah
37. Outkast – Idlewiled
38. Lilly Allen – Alright, Still
39. Lambchop – Damaged
40. Joan As Policewoman – Real Life
41. Jenny Lewis – Rabbit Fur Coat
42. Donald Fagen – Morph The Cat
43. Bruce Springsteen – We Shall Overcome
44. Kasabian – Empire
45. The Walkman – A Hundred Miles Off
46. Band Of Horses – Everything All The Time
47. Gnarls Barkley – St Elsewhere
48. Muse – Black Holes & Revelations
49. Belle & Sebastian – The Life Persuit
50. Drive-By Truckers – A Blessing And A Curse

Re Issues & Compilations

1. Various – Forever Changing: The Golden Age Of Elektra
2. Various – Tropicalla: A Brizillan Revolution In Sound
3. Karen Dalten – So Hard To Tell To Tell Who’s Going To Love You Best
4. The Byrds – There Is A Season
5. Jesus & Mary Chain – Psychocandy
6. Gram Parsons – The Complete Reprise Sessions
7. The Triffids – Born Sandy Devotional
8. Various – Anthems In Eden
9. R.E.M. – And I Feel Fine: The Best Of The Irs Years 1982-7
10. John Cale – Paris 1919
11. Pulp – Different Class
12. David Byrne & Brian Eno – My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
13. Dead Moon – Echoes Of The Past
14. Lambchop – I Hope Your Sitting Down
15. Broadcast – A Future Crayon
16. Wire – Pink Flag
17. Denim – Back In Denim
18. Faust – Faust IV
19. David Crosby – Voyge
20. The Cure – Head On The Door

"Fuck The Smiths; Fuck the Orange Juice; Felt, FELT FELT!"

(Stuard Murdoch)

http://felt.planetaclix.pt/default.htm

La web de Felt trae novedades y noticias interesantes.

Una de ellas es la referencia a un documental con un título genial:  "Lawrence of Belgravia" doc on hold: Paul Kelly's documentary on Lawrence, "Lawrence of Belgravia" is not ready yet, although it was planed to be premiered in the London Film Festival this autumn. Waiting......... .... .... is the keyword.

Hay links con fotos de la actuación de Go Kart Mozart en Suecia con un Lawrence realmente muy mayor y deteriorado (y eso que lleva gorra para taparse la calva). Claro que el hombre debe de andar por los 50... También hay un link a un vídeo clip de Apple Boutique que alguien ha colgado en youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNaPCUz9FS0 (está muy bien. Rodado en la playa de Brighton y con el Phil King luciendo look 80s: vaqueros blancos, cazadora cuero negra) y links de clips de Primal Scream, Denim y Felt, claro

Cherry Red ha reeditado "Back in Denim" http://www.cherryred.co.uk/other/other.php?display=BRUM3CD (sin extras ni nada)

..."A dance classic. Fantastic stuff." HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE LOVED on 'it's no fun'

Me gustan las dos canciones del single, sobre todo la cara A.

".....Sound like rackety John Peel favourites from 1983" TONY NAYLOR, THE GUARDIAN GUIDE

Pero sólo se puede conseguir el single pasando por caja:

You can download 'It's No Fun'/'Old Times' from 7 digital here www.indiestore.com/strangeidols

Se puede escuchar el hit (It´s No Fun") en http://www.myspace.com/strangeidols

..."curious combination of C86ish sub-swagger with the force of its Postcard forebears and an occasional sprinkling of Talking Headsy martial funk. It's thrillingly contemporary and blossomingly conscious stuff." PLAYLOUDER

Y se puede el vídeo clip en youtube

Jorge avisó de esta black session y está realmente bien. El sonido es bueno y hasta he encontrado un flyer de la misma.

Norman Blake is set to play top London indiepop club “How Does It Feel To Be Loved?” this Saturday (November 18).

The Teenage Fanclub songwriter previously DJ’ed at the club for their 3rd birthday bash last year.

He played records from a collection that includes an original vinyl pressing of The Stooges' “Raw Power”, records by Os Mutantes, Ennio Morricone, Pentagle, and “Bedsitter'” by Soft Cell, not forgetting to throw in a ton of classic northern soul.

We expect the Fannie’s playlist at The Phoenix this time around will be something similar, although there will be a few surprises.

“How Does It Feel To Be Loved?” is a twice a month extavanganza of northern soul, revelling in the lush sound of pop from The Supremes to Orange Juice and Dexys Midnight Runners.
(http://www.uncut.co.uk/news/teenage_fanclub/news/9048)

Además según un mensaje que mandó Ian Watson a la indie pop list "The HDIF comp is now available to buy in the US! We're being distributed by Darla"

"No pude evitarlo: cuando, el otro día , al entrar en CD-Drome Madrid, César me dijo que tenía el cedé del C-86, lo agarré con avidez. Después de tanta monserga y tanto tiempo calentándose la cabeza, a uno le hace ilusión un poco de revival. Estos sentimentalismos siempre funcionan conmigo, me es imposible evitar su influjo. Qué se le va a hacer. Veinte años del C86 y todo eso, Fue al llegar a casa cuando me di cuenta que, de las 48 canciones, las tenía prácticamente todas."

Lo que sí que estaría bien es un recopilatorio de algo que la gente ignora a menudo: los flexis de la época, porque sí, el vinilo duro era haber logrado LO MAS en aquella época, pero donde se fraguaba todo, el verdadero espíritu C86 se encontraba en los fanzines y en los flexis, de los que hubieron muchos y bien buenos. Eso sí que era indiepop.

Siguiendo lo dicho por paquita (experta en esta materia),la solución buena en esto creo que sería hacer un par de box sets, como se hizo con el nuggets, con un libro, con los flexis, con las maketas, fotos, textos, entrevistas y eso. Y que creo que lo veremos, además, ojo.

Por cierto, CD-Drome en Madrid ha agotado existencias del CD. Y en una semanita, según contaban ellos.

Mañana traen más copias a CD-Drome, al menos eso me acaban de decir ahora que está de moda...

¿Para cuándo la fiesta C86 en Madrid? 

Textos extraidos del blog de Karpov Shelby (antes conocido por David Mimo, del zine Mimo) 

Hi Everyone,

Yesterday we mastered our new album and ep.The album is entitled "The Last Holy Writer" and features 12 songs.It should be released in March 2007.I know this seems a fair way away but unfortunately the days of The Beatles and The Jam finishing albums in October for the Christmas market are long gone!
The album will be preceeded by an ep called "Exploring The Shadows" which will feature four songs none of which will be included on the album.The ep is very much a record in its own right rather than just a commercial to trailer the album!The lead song is called "Beautiful Blank".The two records together will let you in on what we've been up to since June:-)

Thank you for your time,
Take care.
Bobby,TBS, x

Vídeo clip nuevo de The Triffids: "Save What You Can”  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raDiVhYT0Ug&eurl=  

http://www.stevekeene.com/    

The Triffids - Save What You Can. Video by Braden King.
( Taken from Calenture, the second album to be released within the Domino Recordings Triffids Reissue Programme )

Filmed and painted in Brooklyn within Steve's studio in August 2006.

For further information on The Triffids Reissues and the band themselves, go to www.dominorecord.com/thetriffids or www.thetriffids.com

Calenture and In The Pines are released January 2007.

Además, para principios del 2007 está prevista la publicación del libro Save What You Can: The Day of The Triffids and the Long Night of David McComb de Bleddyn Butcher 

Pues si, la película/documental sobre la generación C86 que están preparando Paul Kelly (East Village, manager de Saint Etienne) y Bob Stanley, sigue su curso. Ya tienen página web: hungrybeat.com y sitio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/hungrybeat

"One of our current film projects is Hungry Beat - a documentary about the UK 80s underground music scene, from Postcard to the Stone Roses. It will include the labels, fanzines and groups who created a parallel world in a particularly bleak time for anyone who didn't vote Conservative and dig Phil Collins. When independent was a state of mind and not a genre. We are looking for any footage that people might have from the era, especially super8 film or video of gigs. Please get in touch! Hungry Beat will be completed in 2007"

Así mismo se edita ya esto:

The soundtrack to "What Have You Done Today Mervyn Day?" will be released on cd on November 27th

The album features 18 original and unreleased pieces of music that were recorded for the Paul Kelly / Saint Etienne film.

Actualización de la web http://www.expuesto.net/fblog/index.php?x=browse&category=

Sergio, ¡maestro!

Tu versión de Ofelia en el FIB ("la bella durmiente del FIB") es para quitarse el sombrero.

Se agradece la ampliación de la tématica. Hay fotos de arquitectura, TraceyAnn, ¡¡¡la juani!!! y de las nubes. Ya podemos tocar el cielo...

Pd: Esta vez no hay chicas con ojos verdes... La Juani los tiene marrones 

Acaban de abrir su tienda on line digital http://www.roughtradedigital.com

Lo mejor es que se pueden escuchar clips de los discos

Lo peor es que si compras una canción suelta te clavan 1,40 libras (el lp completo, 10 libras)