Posts by Alan Perrott
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no, not a great year to be a journo. damned good year to be a drinker but.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Back to a…, in reply to Grant McDougall,
regardless, I'm pretty sure they won't be wanting the SJ Fits supporting them again - that bill turned out to be totally the wrong way round.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Loxene and Beyond, in reply to Russell Brown,
kick off at 5pm. just hoping the sun stays with us, it's rather glorious outside. pity the cricket will probably ruin everything.
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I've got that Golden Harvest 45, but being technologically challenged you'll have to pop along to Golden Dawn on Sunday to hear it. heh.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Not just…, in reply to JacksonP,
ha Jackson, I saw the pic and thought, "cor, looks just like mine.''
and well done that man. that'll be my lunchtimes this week too.
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good to see Bic has been able to hand Kody the production duties - I heard his rough mix of her last album and it kicked the arse of the eventual release.
I'd say that new track is more reflective of her/ their love of Ye Ye though, she's even got something of a cod French annunciation thing going on.also really digging the new UMO album. those Nielson fullas kinda amaze me really.
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it's been a particularly crap week for my icons - first John Keating, one the great English big band leaders/ arrangers and such. like many of those guys (Geoff Love, John Gregory, Alan Tew, Keith Mansfield etc and so on) he was always willing to experiment with odd ideas and (then) new technology, often to the point where you have to wonder who he thought his audience was.
anyway, this is my fave...synths/ harmonica/ kitchen sink, it's all herethen of course Hansi. he isn't a particular favourite - Bert Kaempfert is the German for me - but it was James Last's music that first got me interested in exploring the mad world of Schlager and easy listening - the strangest stuff has been recorded for the straightest audiences.
it was a job of work but I finally tracked down his big three albums Hair, Voodoo Party and Well Kept Secret - for anyone interested the latter boasts some big hitters of the US West Coast jazz scene. for instance... -
RIP James 'Hansi' Last, a man and his whistle...
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I can't disclose my source, but we're all getting ponies.
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waded through that Bill Brewster blue-eyed funk rock chart in Quietus the other day - good to see Sopwith Camel given some props - but no idea how I've managed to miss this Lennon track all these years.
zapped out a bagged a cheapie at Real Groovy.