Posts by Alan Perrott
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Next Kids, in reply to Tomorrowpeople,
totally agree with your point about Oz bands, and I think they shared a problem with many bands here in that they struggled to translate the live vibe onto vinyl.
back when I was playing (badly) we did a wee tour with the Deadly Hume (with original H&C pots and pans basher Greg Perano). they were a nightly revelation on stage, but that power never appeared in the studio.
much the same story with the Hummingbirds and the Plunderers. lovely fullas too. -
Hard News: Friday Music: The Next Kids, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
hey Geoff, you might want to check them online as well. a mate just flogged off an aussie only 78 jazz release on ebay and got over $3000.
I've got a HMV jobbie from 1928. lovely piece of kit.
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yep, Ed was the man - even managed to sneak the setlist. heh. really hoping he's back again soon. seems he's chatting to the promoter.
took some time to engage with Television, the limp initial mix didn't help - Ed made more of a racket than they did - but they have always been about dynamics in a what, geek rock stylee? helped when the soundie put more punch into the drums.
loved Jim Bolger's younger brother on bass. he wasn't as flash as the duelling banjos up front but he held it all together - apart from lapse later on - and Marquee Moon wouldn't be the same with that opening groove.
would have liked Jimmy Rip to have been let off the leash a bit more too. that early solo of his was something else.bloody good times were had and jesus yeah, that was an aged crowd.
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oops, should have read to the bottom of the interview - solo acoustic it is then.
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yep, there with bells on tonight - once I get the boys to bed. bloody kids.
and for the trainspotters here's Ed's most recent setlist - although I assume he'll only do 45 mins tonight.
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/ed-kuepper/2013/the-vanguard-sydney-australia-7bc77edc.html
I'll be the one calling for River Deep Mountain High. really hoping for some Laughing Clowns, but dunno what sort of band he's bringing.
also see Pete Murphy is playing the Studio on Dec 14 - looks like being a Bauhaus reprise.
cool, although there is the small matter of this...
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/11/news/la-bauhaus-peter-murphy-glendale-crash-20131011here's hoping he's all better.
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Russell Brown,
exactly, but what also amuses me is Slater saying he tried to protect her identity by - oh my gosh, blanking out her name, the devil - while providing enough clues in the text messages for us to get her name within five minutes.
the claim that any newsroom needed a tipoff is laughable.
anyway, I think - OK I hope - there will some unexpected consequences from this mess. -
I've got some terrible wedding gig associations with Abba, but I do like this one:
Might be the best track Midge Ure never wrote.
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Tyrion on Sesame Street - with a pastoral, sitar rock groove
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enjoyed a wee bit of solo rug cutting to this last night -
almost too cool.
and I'm not so hot on coffee grinders, but the indicator light in the car has a certain snap to it when it finds the groove.
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There's one major omission from Sweetman's crit but - yes, Lorde's 16. Do you know who else was 16?
Hitler.