Glaswegian act Butcher Boy came to our attention in 2007, with the release of their first album "Profit in Your Poetry". It was a real treat, a excellently realised indie folk pop album, full of literate, heartfelt lyrics about wistful memories: it's tender, organically produced sound drew favourable comparisons in my own mind: "Think early Belle and Sebastian haunted by a real past, the precise poetic pop of the Smiths tinged with a heavy Glaswegian sensibility. Think the tunes of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions matched to the intimacy of Arab Strap, most of [...]
Από το Funen της Δανίας έρχονται οι σημερινοί μας καλεσμένοι, οι τέσσερις πιτσιρικάδες που συμμετέχουν στο πολύ πολύ καινούργιο [καλοκαίρι 2008] σχήμα των Balloon Magic . Ελάχιστες οι πληροφορίες, τα συγκροτήματα όμως που παραθέτουν ως επιρροές στο myspace σε βάζουν πολύ εύκολα στο [ηχητικό] κλίμα. Felt , Go Betweens , Galaxie 500 , Field Mice , The Chills .. κιθαριστικός μελωδικός pop ήχος δηλαδή από μια αρκετά μακρινή πλέον εποχή. Μια απλή ακρόαση βέβαια του υπέροχου Blue Dawn είναι αρκετή για να πειστείτε κι εσείς για όλα αυτά που οι [...]
Ok, I've been slacking. I admit. I flew to Spain last week Monday, posted once, and that was it. Silence on the Steven front. Eliza has been valiantly holding down the fort, but still. Pathetic, I know. Surely a trip would provide plenty of material for blogging, right? In my defence, I've been somewhat distracted. "By what", you ask? [...]
La lecture d'une chronologie consacrée à l' indie pop dans le dernier numéro de Technikart a suscité un réflexe aussi vieux que le dernier CD de My Bloody Valentine (1991 quand même) : mouais, et pourquoi pas le retour des néo-romantiques tant qu'on y est ! Car s'il est bien un "sous-genre" musical qui semblait avoir implosé avec l'avènement de l'électro au milieu des 90's, puis avoir été enterré par le retour du rock, c'était bien celui-là... La faute à des disques trop ancrées dans une époque, usés [...]
LIVE SHOW COVERAGE: It's February 19th, and I pull myself away tonight from a whirlwind first few days with my newborn child , and head into the city to see the excellent The Duke Spirit . This is a private show organized by 92.9 Boston Radio . We fight our way to Boston's FELT through the blustery wind and cold winter rain, and weave through a sea of unmarked doors; up dark stairwells to find the small room on the fourth floor of the building [...]
ATJ presents SUNNY DAY IN GLASGOW , Wednesday, October 22, 2008, for After the Jump's CMJ Showcase at the Knitting Factory NYC, performing at 10:30PM inside the Tap Room, along with Best Friends Forever , the Depreciation Guild , My Teenage Stride , the Pains of Being Pure at Heart , & Ringo Deathstarr . Listen :: Ghost In The Graveyard (Ulrich Schnauss Remix) [...]
There's a joke about rock bands, that when they get too big and fall out of touch with their audience, they start writing songs about the trials and tribulations be being on the road. It's a cliche in 1980's rock videos. You know, being on the bus, looking wistfully out the window as you roll into another town. Whatever. Here's a group of songs by an array of artists, that look to their band as a subject for their song. This is almost, but not exclusively, the provenance of British bands. The idea of being in a band [...]
My favorite shots of 60s model Penelope Tree . Video for the song Penelope Tree by Felt, a band that Belle and Sebastian often cite as an influence: Felt: Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow. mp3 (Recommended) Belle and Sebastian: Expectations .mp3
Tomatoes and corn and longer shadows. That's August to me. Here's #6 in this Summer series. Forgetting to bug any of my more artistic friends to make cover art, I did this one myself... and it shows. But musically, this one turned out pretty good. Have a good weekend. DOWNLOAD SUMMER FRIDAYS #6 Here's the track list: 1. The Kinks - Party Line 2. Envelopes - I'd Like 2 C U 3. The [...]
"What is that cheerful sound? Rain fallin on the ground We'll wear a jolly crown Buckle up, we're wayward bound " Beat Happening - Indian Summer "Without giving anything away, I can say it's by [...]
So, lucky weekly mix number thirteen...and it's the inevitable C86 mix. Many others have written about the legendary C86 cassette from NME (after all, there's even an excellent blog called Indie MP3 - Keeping C86 Alive ), and I doubt I have anything particularly new to add to the discussion. However, it continues to amaze me how one mail-order cassette spawned a genre, a scene, and an attitude toward music. Though NME had released a cassette five years earlier in conjunction with Rough Trade, appropriately titled C81, it never gained the same mythical status despite the fact that the [...]
I'm writing this at 4.20am. I woke up about an hour ago from dehydration due to an altercation with alcohol that has been going on for a few days. Rather than lie festering in bed I decided to get up and do some work for my day job; however software issues and a moment of clarity meant I soon binned that out and decided to listen to the Hatton fight and piss about on the net. We recorded the Christmas Podcast about 10 hours ago and I think it went pretty well, apart from a rambling last section [...]
The greatest thing about having this space is that the only deadlines are those I place on myself. That said, I am constantly wavering between the desire to do longer, more thoughtful pieces which take a whole lot of time and result in fewer posts or, doing those, yet augmenting the place with shorter, more immediate daily updates. I'm leaning heavily, though, toward the former. Although I flatter myself thinking that there are regular readers that stop by here I have no idea if that's true or not. All I know is that I don't want 24HourPartyPooper to be another [...]
felt primitive painters 1985 fabrice collette la complainte du picon bière 2007 (française version) Voici quelques années, fin 1985. J'ai reçu un costard cravate, représentant en encyclopédies. Qui voulait me fourguer l'Universalis. N'a pas réussi. La semaine suivante, il repasse et c'est d'art qu'il veut me parler. [...]
by Southcoasting Small people in Floral Street Felt - Primitive Painters mp3 Bob Dylan - Just Like Tom Thumb Blues mp3click through the picture to my flickr site, and a better quality image
Here is what I did with my body one day: At Leysin, in 1945, a piece of one of my ribs was removed, and subsequently given back to me, quite formally, wrapped up in a piece of medical gauze (the physicicans professed that my body belongs to me, in whatever dismembered state they restored it to me: I am the owner of my bones, in life as in death). For a long time I kept this fragment of myself in a drawer, a kind of body penis analogous to the end of a rib chop, not knowing quite [...]
In what seems like a paradox, Felt (born Lawrence Hayward) enjoyed exploring a wide range of music styles without ever feeling the need to experiment with the sound of his voice. Lawrence, who is British, sung with one of those overly faux-sounding British accents Americans often times employ. He focused mostly on the monotone, while the music, sometimes jangly pop/sometimes orchestral, filled in the melody. The band's sound fit in well with the anthemic, fast-paced work pervading the post-punk, new wave Venn diagram (a cross between early R.E.M. and Echo & the Bunnymen), but the man and [...]
Having already looked at a couple of 90s compilations this week, I thought I would take the advice of the wonderful Kylie Minogue and Step Back In Time. So here's some thoughts on Generation 80s : Classics from the 80s Alternative Scene. This particular CD came out as recently as 2002, and is probably still available in a few record shops. It's one of my favourite compilations, although the
Sometimes indie-pop was the new quiet I never knew quite how much I loved Felt, brainchild of the enigmatic Lawrence. They made albums I wanted to love, but too often felt all of a sameness. Still, the one thing they did was quite magical - and this song for me captures them at their best. Felt - Primitive Painters mp3 An American transplanted to the UK, Heidi Berry was signed to Creation, then
Does eveyone still know who Felt was? Does that ring a bell or is it like trying to tell generation x who Bob Dylan was? Now don't get me wrong those two are not in the same league or the same ballpark for that matter but I just wonder if the indie kids know the music of Felt and it's creator Lawrence Hayward (also Denim). For many of us Europhiles in the 80's each idiosyncratic felt release was waited for with bated breath. His fame or infamy rivaled that of Morrissey of the Smiths. And [...]
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