This year's Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival will take place in a variety of Belfast venues next month; and over eleven days, the 14th CQAF will stage music, comedy, spoken word and visual arts. We're going to focus on the festival's musical elements, and with the bill boasting old favourties such as Dexys and Adam Ant as well as a truly eclectic mix young and unknown talent, there should be something for anyone who finds themselves at the festival. There's even a guy covering Nick Cave if you fancy it. Thursday, 2nd May [...]
This year's Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival will take place in a variety of Belfast venues next month; and over eleven days, the 14th CQAF will stage music, comedy, spoken word and visual arts. We're going to focus on the festival's musical elements, and with the bill boasting old favourties such as Dexys and Adam Ant as well as a truly eclectic mix young and unknown talent, there should be something for anyone who finds themselves at the festival. There's even a guy covering Nick Cave if you fancy it. Thursday, 2nd May [...]
Martes 23.04.2013 Radio Zero 97.7 22:00 hrs. En una nueva edición de Super 45, tendremos a Diego Loerenzini en el estudio para hablar de su nuevo trabajo Trenza Ad Honorem (Uva Records). Además vamos a escuchar lo más reciente de Atom tm ( HD ), Edwyn Collins ( Understated ), y un clásico con Orange Juice ( You can´t hide your love forever ). No hay relacionados.
Tomorrow, Saturday, April 20th, is Record Store Day . Across the nation, droves of rabid music fans will swarm the remaining brick and mortar music retailers, drawn by the lure of in-store performances, special sales and, most importantly, limited-edition collectibles too numerous to count. My head swims as I survey the list of myriad goodies minted exclusively for RSD 2013 . What's on my wish list? One of everything. But that's just not practical. Tough decisions have to be made. Seriously, you'd think I was auditioning for a remake of Sophie's [...]
Six Of The Best is a semi-regular feature that pokes, prods and persuades your favourite bands, bards and barometers of hip opinion to tell us six of the best tracks they’ve ever heard. The tracks could be mainstream million-sellers or they could be obfuscatingly obscure, it doesn’t matter. The only criteria set is that, aye, they must be Six of the Best . Think of it like a mini, groovier version of Desert Island Discs… Number 14 in a series [...]
The task of assessing the various musics of Edwyn Collins when dislocated from the man himself is, perhaps inevitably, an intensely problematic one. The onetime Orange Juice songsmith suffered from a debilitating double brain haemorrhage back in early 2005, after which he set about reacquainting his body with the abilities so many of us now take for granted. Those of being able to read, write, write music and even walk, and though he could quite feasibly have been forgiven for wallowing in pitiful misery forevermore, he's never even so much as seemed to have done so. And so [...]
Understated (AED Records) es el nombre del trabajo que el inmortal Edwyn Collins editará el próximo 25 de marzo y que contará con las colaboraciones de Barrie Cadogan (Primal Scream), James Walbourne (The Pretenders, Ray Davies, Pernice Brothers), Carwyn Ellis (Colorama, The Pretenders), Sean Read (The Rockingbirds, Dexys), David Ruffy (Dexys) y Paul Cook (The Sex Pistols). Luego de la edición de Losing sleep (Heavenly Records, 2010) - el álbum que trajo de vuelta a Collins tras dos hemorragias cerebrales - la vida del ex- frontman de Orange Juice estuvo en boca [...]
All four of Orange Juice's Polydor era albums are being reissued on LP for Record Store Day 2013. The seminal Scottish post-punk/pop band's albums -- You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (1982), Rip It Up (1982), Texas Fever (1984), and The Orange Juice (1984) -- set the tone for much of the British pop wave of the 80s. Led by Edwyn Collins, Orange Juice are a hugely under-acknowledged influence on everyone from The Smiths to Belle and Sebastian. More importantly, their albums, and the band's refreshingly open-minded approach to music making, hold [...]
Orange Juice, original line up, by David Corio As reported this morning by Slicing Up Eyeballs , Domino Records will be reissuing all four studio albums by Orange Juice on vinyl for Record Store Day on April 20! This is some of my all time favorite music and has made me happy for years...ask anyone who knows me. Now is your chance to pick up brand new, (hopefully) reasonably priced, copies of these classics...especially their debut, You Can't Hide Your Love Forever . All four [...]
I'd be remiss if I didn't write about the most recent Girls Names track to come out of the Internet. I'd also be in the same boat if I didn't admit that I have no idea where the group is going musically, in an extremely exhilarating sense. When I first heard this tune, I noted the semi- Orange Juice guitar chops, but was thrown off by the haunting of the vocals. Then came this progression with keyboard intrusions and a brighter tone to the vocals-it honestly reminded me of The [...]
That onetime OJ crooner Edwyn Collins should return warbling: "Too bad/ That's sad/ I can't stay/ Another day with you" over a stereotypically effervescent, if abnormally soulful stomp is somewhat strange, given the heroic efforts over these past seven or eight years of longstanding partner, Grace Maxwell. The two words to compose the name of his wife-cum-manager were one of only four phrases he was able to utter having suffered a second cerebral haemorrhage back in '05: affirmative and negative linguistic lynchpins yes and no were of course also included in Collins' somewhat restrictive [...]
Visit www.edwyncollins.com for further details. Image courtesy of Jocknroll Ain't Noise Pollution .
Mirad el tío de la foto de arriba, el de la camisa de franela. Medio redneck , medio borderline : Frikazo completo. Ahora mirad la foto de aquí abajo: Es el mismo fulano, lo juro. Todo esto me viene muy bien, aparte de para poner cara de uyuyuyjesúsjesús , para ilustrar el hecho de que, a la primera de cambio, uno no sabe muy bien de qué va este tío. Puede que en la primera foto nos quiera contar que, si se lo propone, su música puede [...]
Jeez! Plain Or Pan used to be all about Beta Band outtakes and multiple versions of La's demos, the odd foosty soul survivor and long-forgotten obscurios by long-forgotten oddballs. It still is, of course, but just not today. I have a long-time love of disco . To these ears, it doesn't matter that it's considered kinda naff and uncool, which, when placed next to any amount of other musical bits n' pieces, it may well be. In the mid-late 70s, when straddled by the ugly, oiky twin-headed monster [...]
As the BBC's 6 Music recently reported , Edwyn Collins has started discussing his next album which will be called Understated , and will feature guest Richard Hawley. The current release date is sometime in January 2013 which is probably just for the UK. I'll be surprised if it sees a US release before the end of the calendar winter season. Collins is also involved in the making of a promising looking film called In Your Voice, In Your Heart , and it's the story of Edwyn’s journey back from his life threatening illness [...]
That's right, folks! In. The. Same. Calendar. Year! Here's the podcast I made from the blog posts that showed up in my blog reader on my birthday. Last year it was 40 minutes for like 7 songs. This year, it's just shy of 90 for 14. There's a nice eclectic mix and you can learn about some of the blogs that I'm reading in my life! Off the Charts #5: Birthday 2012 ***Featuring*** Ben Folds Five Bourgie Bourgie Camper Van Beethoven The Crimea Frank Ocean Goldroom feat Chela The Hood [...]
Day 11 - Your favourite one-hit wonder A hard 'yin. I guess (technically) this qualifies as a one hit wonder , though I know so much of their other work that I could never think of them as a one single band. And there was so much great dance music back in the day that could fall into the category of OHW, but when I think of 'one hit and they were gone', for [...]
We ran a rather lighthearted feature earlier this week about endearingly silly hair metal bands , one of which was the enduringly awesome Hanoi Rocks. At the time, we noted that despite inspiring many of the bands who'd rule the Sunset Strip in the 1980s, Hanoi Rocks had already broken up by the time hair metal went global. This got us thinking about how often this pattern has been repeated over the years — it's not always the bands who are the first to play a new sound who enjoy that sound's success. And in a happy coincidence, there's a [...]
Morning folks, it's Saturday and once again I'm hungover. No surprise there then I guess, I spent last night in the company of some fine individuals at King Tut's catching The Grand Gestures and Behold The Old Bear, A top night was had, but boy am I paying for it today. If I think that I feel bad now, god only knows how sorry I will be feeling for myself on Friday. As next week I will be heading up to Inverness for my third goNorth, Scotland's biggest music industry event/piss up. For the second year running, myself, Song, [...]
Hello Cleveland! Are you guys ready to rock? Giving these a theme is quite fun, so here's another themed post for today. See if you can guess what it is. Orange Juice - Rip It Up Fun fact: this is the first Orange Juice song that I can remember hearing. Thanks, older brothers with good records! Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away May as well make the blog gloriously NSFW today. Prefab Sprout - [...]
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