Go out in style with the Beat Surrender RAPTURE mix, you only live once. Download the zip Ray Wylie Hubbard - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse From his last album A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There is no C) get it at Amazon Two Cow Garage - Burn in Hell From the out of print CD The Wall Against Our Back, download at iTunes and [...]
That maFIFA boss Fatt Bladder did his best to stop these files from being leaked (he tried to sit on me) but the truth will out ! Now for the first time anywhere... not really ...some information has reached us about various international teams that would like it if you didn't hear the following songs. In truth you yourself would probably like it if you didn't hear them either. Or read the following text. We first start with a serious note... [...]
Looking back now 1992 was the most important musical year of my life. REM's Automatic For The People , The Jayhawks' Hollywood Town Hall and The Lemonheads' It's A Shame About Ray either confirmed my musical prejudices or pointed me further down the road marked 'twang'. It was also the year I discovered North London country-rock heroes The Rockingbirds who've played a handful of reunion gigs this week and whose marvelous debut album has just been re-released by Heavenly . When we were in the Fifth Form my [...]
Looking back now 1992 was the most important musical year of my life. REM's Automatic For The People , The Jayhawks' Hollywood Town Hall and The Lemonheads' It's A Shame About Ray either confirmed my musical prejudices or pointed me further down the road marked 'twang'. It was also the year I discovered North London country-rock heroes The Rockingbirds who've played a handful of reunion gigs this week and whose marvelous debut album has just been re-released by Heavenly . When we were in the Fifth Form my [...]
Every band pays tribute to their favourite artists with cover versions but only a few take hero worship to the level of writing new songs about their idols. These are songs by artists I like about folks they like, plus tracks by the people that inspired them. Tomorrow I'll post some more, all with a Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan connection. MP3: The Rockingbirds - Jonathan Jonathan MP3: Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner [...]
Every band pays tribute to their favourite artists with cover versions but only a few take hero worship to the level of writing new songs about their idols. These are songs by artists I like about folks they like, plus tracks by the people that inspired them. Tomorrow I'll post some more, all with a Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan connection. MP3: The Rockingbirds - Jonathan Jonathan MP3: Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner [...]
Every band pays tribute to their favourite artists with cover versions but only a few take hero worship to the level of writing new songs about their idols. These are songs by artists I like about folks they like, plus tracks by the people that inspired them. Tomorrow I'll post some more, all with a Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan connection. MP3: The Rockingbirds - Jonathan Jonathan MP3: Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner [...]
I was flicking through the channels the other day during one of the many commercial breaks that accompany Sky Sports coverage of the Ryder Cup when I discovered that one of the movie channels was showing There's Something About Mary. Now besides from being a fairly funny film - Ben Stiller usually makes me laugh y'see - the appearance of Jonathan Richman makes it a firm favourite in Villain
The 18th birthday of Heavenly records is being marked with a couple of surprise reformations : The Rockingbirds are getting back together, and so are cruelly-ignored No Rock favourites the 22-20s. The bands will be playing a gig at the Royal Festival Hall this September to mark the occasion; it's not known if this will be a one-night-only comeback for either.
From L-R : Andy Rourke, Morrissey, JC and Johnny Marr. If only........... It's actually the cover of a quite brilliant birthday present given to me back in 1993 by Jacques the Kipper. At the time in our lives, we were in the habit of exchanging C90s around every two months, made up of stuff that we thought the other would like, or old things that we were listening to again after a period of
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MOKB Premiere : Hacienda : Don’t Keep Me Waiting
Monday Music – 28 May 2012
Andre 3000 As Jimi Hendrix: Foxey
Listen: The Vaccines – No Hope
