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Cleaner from Venus Martin Newell Keeps on Jangling

Apr 18, 4:46pm Rocker Magazine
Martin Newell - Julie Profumo
As fans of our Facebook page know, Rocker Magazine loves a birthday. So it was a moment of real inspiration that found me spending a Friday night trying to track down the birthdate of one of my very favorite "Jangling Men", elusive pop king Martin Newell. Most famous in the US for the company he keeps (co-writing with Captain Sensible of The Damned, and his Andy Partridge of XTC 1993 album "The Greatest Living Englishman"), his position as a Cherry Red label stalwart and firmly on the outside of the [...]
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Goodbye: Goodbye Dreaming Fields

Mar 10, 3:40pm Star Maker Machine
Goodbye: Goodbye Dreaming Fields Martin Newell (with Andy Partridge) : Goodbye Dreaming Fields [ purchase ] If, as I did, you discovered Martin Newell and his song Goodbye Dreaming Fields after the fact, you might be tempted to dismiss it, musically, as an XTC knockoff. Indeed, Andy Partridge was the producer, played many of the instruments, and can even be heard on background vocals. But, the XTC albums that sound most like this, Oranges and Lemons and Nonesuch, came out after this one. So, it would be more correct to say that Martin Newell's influence [...]
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Link Text:Martin Newell (with Andy Partridge): Goodbye Dreaming Fields
File Name:Goodbye Dreaming Fields-Martin Newell (with Andy Partridge).mp3

Best Reissues of 2011

Dec 14, 2011, 1:57am the finest kiss
Best Reissues of 2011 Why is it that the older you get the more old music you buy? Probably because as you get older you start to realize how little you know about music. Here's to all the labels that do the crate digging for you, because there is no way in hell you could have found all of this stuff on your own. Here are the top 15 reissues that I crossed paths with this year. 1. El Rego - El Rego ( Daptone ) I was vaguely familiar [...]
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Link Text:Bernard Chabert - Il Part En Californie
File Name:BernardChabert-IlPartEnCalifor nie.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Artist:Dalek i
Title:Destiny (Dalek I Love You)
Link Text:Dalek I - Destiny (Dalek I Love You)
File Name:DalekI-Destiny.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Artist:El Rego
Title:Hessa
Link Text:El Rego - Hessa
File Name:ElRego-Hessa.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2011
Artist:Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
Title:The Night
Link Text:Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - The Night
File Name:FrankieValli-TheNight.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Genre:R&B
Year:1972
Artist:Index
Title:Israeli Blues
Link Text:Index - Israeli Blues
File Name:Index-IsraeliBlues.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Genre:Rock
Year:2010
Artist:Issouf Compaore
Title:Dambakale
Link Text:Issouf Compaore - Dambakale
File Name:IssoufCompaore-Dambakale.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Genre:Alternative
Year:1978
Artist:Left Banke
Title:Pretty Ballerina
Link Text:Left Banke - Pretty Ballerina
File Name:LeftBanke-PrettyBallerina.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Genre:Indie Rock
Year:1966
Artist:Lia Uya
Title:Mientes
Link Text:Lia Uya - Mientes
File Name:LiaUya-Mientes.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Genre:Pop
Year:2011
Artist:Martin Newell
Title:Gamma Ray Blue
Link Text:Martin Newell - Gamma Ray Blue
File Name:MartinNewell-GammaRayBlue.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Artist:Nominal State
Title:Middle Class
Link Text:Nominal State – Middle Class
File Name:NominalState-MiddleClass.mp3
Bitrate:233 kbps
Year:2011
Artist:Pale Saints
Title:Sight Of You
Link Text:Pale Saints - Sight of You
File Name:PaleSaints-SightOfYou.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Genre:Electronica/Dance
Year:1990
Artist:The Danny Says
Title:The Boy Formerly Known as Me vs. The Girl Formerly Known as You
Link Text:The Danny Says - The Boy Formerly Known as Me vs. The Girl Formerly Known as You
File Name:TheDannySays-TheBoyFormerlyKno wn.mp3
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Artist:The June Brides
Title:In The Rain
Link Text:June Brides - In the Rain
File Name:JuneBrides-InTheRain.mp3
Bitrate:210 kbps
Genre:Unknown
Year:2005
Artist:The Panthers
Title:Malkaus
Link Text:The Panthers - Malkaus
File Name:ThePanthers-Malkaus.mp3
Bitrate:236 kbps
Genre:World
Year:2011
Artist:The Resonars
Title:The Golden Age
Link Text:The Resonars - The Golden Age
File Name:TheResonars-TheGoldenAge.mp3
Genre:Rock
Year:1999

Jangle in the attic

Sep 20, 2011, 11:51pm Now you're at Songblague!
Jangle in the attic What is it about slightly maudlin jangle pop that sounds so good when captured on cheap cassettes? It's like jewels found in the attic, covered in dust and neglect, and all the more precious for it. At least dudes like Ariel Pink were paying attention. Martin Newell went on to form the Cleaners From Venus, who went on to just about as unheard as these early recordings. Another nice Internet rescue from the out-of-printdom. Martin Newell - Julie Profumo Martin Newell - Winter Palace 2
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Artist:Martin Newell
Title:Julie Profumo
Link Text:Julie Profumo
File Name:julie_profumo.mp3
Genre:Pop
Year:1985
Artist:Martin Newell
Title:Winter Palace 2
Link Text:Winter Palace 2
File Name:winter_palace2.mp3
Genre:Pop
Year:1985

Martin Newell Reissue Out Now on Fixed Identity

Jun 20, 2011, 6:09pm End Hits
Martin Newell Reissue Out Now on Fixed Identity Burgeoning label Fixed Identity is shedding new light on a bona fide cult classic. The eccentric Martin Newell , best known as the frontman of The Cleaners From Venus , is arguably one of the greatest (and most overlooked) songsmiths to come from Britain in the last 30 years, but physical copies of his home-dubbed cassettes have become increasingly expensive and difficult to procure. According to Newell, Songs for... A Fallow Land was originally recorded in 1985 "on a four track in a bedroom in shameful poverty." And it shows. [...]
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Martin Newell-Songs For A Fallow Land

Jun 12, 2011, 6:45pm Sick of the Radio
Martin Newell-Songs For A Fallow Land Martin Newell is an under-sung O.G. of the tape music tsunami, most noted for being amongst the original pioneers of the cassette sound back in the 80s. Hailing from the UK, Newell made jangly guitar-pop as part of Cleaners From Venus, one of the acts credited with being among the first wave of tape artists in post-punk England. He also put out a ton of solo work, released almost entirely on cassettes, as well as multiple books of poetry and prose. 'Gamma Ray Blue' is a great pop track that should be required reading for fans of [...]
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BLUE WAVE

May 14, 2011, 12:12am rose quartz
BLUE WAVE MP3: Martin Newell - Sun Comes to the Wood So glad for the recent cottoning-on to Martin Newell and his Cleaners from Venus ; love for his brittle, psych pop beauty from contemporary favs like Big Troubles as well as Taylor Richardson (of Infinity Window ) and Gary War's Fixed Identity imprint is cementing his status as predecessor to much recent lo-fi and hauntological-leaning balladry. This solo jam is far from the soft focused sentiments of "Mercury Girl"; ghostly and preferring a more nervous, [...]
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Artist:Martin Newell
Title:Sun Comes to the Wood
Link Text:Martin Newell - Sun Comes to the Wood
File Name:3zhnklqjnp.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1985

Co-Premiere: Martin Newell, "Gamma Ray Blue"

Feb 17, 2011, 11:00am Visitation Rites
Co-Premiere: Martin Newell, "Gamma Ray Blue" Among other exciting label news , we just caught wind that Gary War and Taylor Richardson ( Infinity Window , Human Teenager, Purple Haze) have lauched their own Brooklyn-based imprint, Fixed Indentity - a "labor of love" dedicated to "next-level psychedelic achievements of the present, past, and future." Kicking off this initiative, a remastering of British guitarist/songwriter/poet/auth or Martin Newell 's 1985 limited-run cassette, Songs For A Fallow Land . Newell - known alternately as the "Wild Man of Wivenhoe " and "Britain's busiest wordsmith, tunesmith, and horitcultural assasin"- is a cult legend of sorts. He began his career in the glam-rock band [...]
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Music Review: Martin Newell - The Greatest Living Englishman

Jan 27, 2011, 9:19pm Music @ Blogcritics.org
Ex-Cleaners from Venus front man teams up with XTC's Andy Partridge for an insight into 1990s England.
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INSTA-REVIEW: Extended Play Edition

Sep 14, 2010, 12:02pm Rock Town Hall
The EP, or extended play, had run its course in America by the 1960s, but it was an established part of the UK rock 'n roll scene, offering artists a chance to leak out a little more than a single to tease fans for the release of a new album or, perhaps, to get a musical tangent out of their system without the pressure of constructing an entire album around a possible lark. As you probably know, The Magical Mystery Tour album that Americans grew up with and that was released in German True Stereo by [...]
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Artist:Jump Back Jake
Title:Call Me Your Man.256 MP3
Link Text:Jump Back Jake, "Call Me Your Man"
File Name:01_Call_Me_Your_Man_256MP3.mp3
Bitrate:256 kbps
Artist:Martin Newell
Title:Wake Up and Dream
Link Text:Martin Newell, "Wake Up and Dream"
File Name:01_Wake_Up_and_Dream.mp3
Year:2010

New old music for the New Year

Jan 1, 2010, 9:58am Inveresk Street Ingrate
Not enough of you click on the links of the music blogs placed under the Thank You For The Music banner, so a very quick intro to a few of the blogs listed: Walk Out To Winter - The name of the blog is a giveway. A music blog recently established which is a hymn to singles dating from - but not exclusive to - the period 1978 to 1983. If your musical tastes are for early goth, post-punk and the burgeoning indie scene from [...]
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Christmastime: Christmas in Suburbia

Dec 15, 2009, 6:19pm Star Maker Machine
Christmastime: Christmas in Suburbia Martin Newell: Christmas in Suburbia [ purchase ] Martin Newell's The Greatest Living Englishman is a minor gem of eccentric pop. If it sounds a bit XTC-ish, your ears aren't deceiving you--it was produced by XTC mastermind Andy Partridge. It doesn't hurt that, like Partridge (and Robyn Hitchcock and Ray Davies), Newell excels at detailing the minutia of English life. "Christmas in Suburbia" starts out describing a pretty normal Christmas, where folks "jingle jangle by electric candle light", but by the end of the [...]
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Artist:Martin Newell
Title:Christmas in Suburbia
Link Text:Martin Newell: Christmas in Suburbia
File Name:Martin Newell - Christmas in Suburbia.mp3
Bitrate:219 kbps
Year:1993

Lost In Music: a pop odyssey by Giles Smith (Picador 1995)

Jun 10, 2009, 2:45pm Inveresk Street Ingrate
Lost In Music: a pop odyssey by Giles Smith (Picador 1995) In 1985, the year before I became an official band member, one of Newell's regular mail-order clients in Germany took the cassette version of a collection of songs called Under Wartime Conditions , pressed it up as a vinyl album and distributed it to the stores. Newell was jubilant. This was, he reckoned, a real anarchist's triumph, a giant petrol bomb through the record companies' corporate windows. An album of songs made in his house in his spare time, using only a raddled guitar, an old piano with drawing pins in its hammers, a bass which was a barely [...]
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The brother of the greatest living englishman

Apr 1, 2009, 6:19am Inveresk Street Ingrate
FDTW's Stuart and Dave's old mucker, Chris Knight , gets his three minutes . (Granted, he got his other twelve minutes last week .) Comedy gold or revolutionary insight . . . I'll let you decide. I just think he's Martin Newell's twin in both get up and humour.
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Rock Town Hall Presents A Rock Town Hall Christmas

Dec 22, 2008, 12:09pm Rock Town Hall
Rock Town Hall Presents A Rock Town Hall Christmas You may recall the recent work led by Townsman Northvancoveman in compiling The Rock Town Hall Christmas Record . Today we share with you the selections, as sequenced by The Great 48 . These tracks will be posted through the holiday season. Enjoy! 1. Elvis Presley, "Santa Claus Is Back in Town" 2. Chuck Berry, "Run Rudolph Run" 3. The Beach Boys, "Little Saint Nick" 4. Martin Newell, "Christmas in Suburbia" [...]
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Artist:Big Star
Title:Jesus Christ
Link Text:13. Big Star, "Jesus Christ"
File Name:BigStar_JesusChrist.mp3
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Artist:Charles Brown
Title:Please Come Home for Christmas
Link Text:10. Charles Brown, "Please Come Home For Christmas"
File Name:CharlesBrown-PleaseComeHomefor Christmas.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1961
Artist:Chuck Berry
Title:Run Rudolph Run
Link Text:2. Chuck Berry, "Run Rudolph Run"
File Name:ChuckBerry-RunRudolphRun.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1958
Artist:Darlene Love
Title:Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Link Text:14. Darlene Love, "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"
File Name:DarleneLove-ChristmasBabyPleas eComeHome.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:1963
Artist:Elvis Presley
Title:Blue Christmas
Link Text:8. Elvis Presley, "Blue Christmas"
File Name:ElvisPresley-BlueChristmas.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:1957
Artist:Elvis Presley
Title:Santa Claus Is Back in Town
Link Text:1. Elvis Presley, "Santa Claus Is Back in Town"
File Name:ElvisPresley-SantaClausIsBacki nTown.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2000
Artist:John Lennon
Title:Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
Link Text:12. The Plastic Ono Band, "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"
File Name:JohnLennon-HappyXmasWarisOver. mp3
Bitrate:231 kbps
Year:1997
Artist:Martin Newell
Title:Christmas In Surburbia
Link Text:4. Martin Newell, "Christmas in Suburbia"
File Name:MartinNewell_ChristmasinSurbur bia.mp3
Bitrate:189 kbps
Year:1993
Artist:The Beach Boys
Title:Little St. Nick
Link Text:3. The Beach Boys, "Little Saint Nick"
File Name:TheBeachBoys-LittleSaintNick.m p3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:1964
Artist:The Kinks
Title:Father Christmas
Link Text:5. The Kinks, "Father Christmas"
File Name:TheKinks-FatherChristmas.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:1978
Artist:The Pogues
Title:Fairytale Of New York
Link Text:9. The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl, "Fairytale of New York"
File Name:ThePoguesKirstyMacColl_Fairyta leofNewYork.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1988
Artist:The Pretenders
Title:2000 Miles (2007 Remastered LP Version)
Link Text:11. The Pretenders, "2000 Miles"
File Name:ThePretenders-2000Miles.mp3
Bitrate:256 kbps
Year:2007
Artist:The Ventures
Title:Sleigh Ride
Link Text:7. The Ventures, "Sleigh Ride"
File Name:TheVentures-SleighRide.mp3
Bitrate:257 kbps
Year:1965
Artist:The Waitresses
Title:Christmas Wrapping
Link Text:6. The Waitresses, "Christmas Wrapping"
File Name:TheWaitresses-ChristmasWrappin g.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Artist:Vince Guaraldi Trio
Title:Christmas Time is Here
Link Text:15. Vince Guaraldi Trio, "Christmas Time Is Here"
File Name:VinceGuaraldiTrio-ChristmasTim eIsHere.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps

The Road to Colchester

Aug 11, 2008, 3:46am Inveresk Street Ingrate
Martin Newell - Julie Profumo
Bastard godlike. The hairs on the back of my neck are tingling at the brilliance of this YouTube clip. Who thought the nearest I would ever get to a religious experience this side of Denise Mina answering one of my emails would be from watching a black and white clip from an acoustic set performed at the Colchester Arts Centre? I'm actually jealous of that (seemingly) disembodied foot away in the audience. How's that for a personification of going soft in the head? Info accompanying the YouTube clip is as follows: [...]
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Martin Newell: The Glitter Never Really Fell Off

Oct 1, 2007, 11:30am Rock Town Hall
Martin Newell: The Glitter Never Really Fell Off Home Counties Boy I first learned about Martin Newell nearly 14 years ago to the day, not too long after my wife and I had moved to Hungary for a year. A Townsman sent me a cassette with Newell's The Greatest Living Englishman on one side and Crowded House's Together Alone on the other. The latter was advertised as a "good stoner album" from a band both of us had previously been lukewarm on (thanks, in large part to the productions of Mitchell [...]
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Artist:Martin Newell
Title:Cinnamon Blonde
Link Text:Martin Newell, "Cinnamon Blonde"
File Name:MartinNewell_CinnamonBlonde.mp 3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2007
Artist:Martin Newell
Title:You Made It Rain
Link Text:Martin Newell, "You Made It Rain"
File Name:MartinNewell_YouMadeItRain.mp3
Bitrate:170 kbps
Year:2007
Artist:Martin Newell With Andy Partridge (XTC)
Title:She Rings the Changes
Link Text:Martin Newell, "She Rings the Changes"
File Name:MartinNewell_SheRingstheChange s.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps