Einstürzende Neubauten - Live at Berlín, Alemania 2004

 From the sublime to . . . . . . well this! 

For my erstwhile ‘new' cousin Geoff Swapp . . . . . . I once went to see this band at the ICA in London being friendly with Floss the then bookshop manager and he tipped me the wink to come see (it was he who got me in to see The Doors at the ICA being interviewed by Robin Denselow at the Album launch of Alive She Cried - sterling fellow!) but this lot were quiet QUITE different and scared the heck outta me! As memory would have it they had jackhammers and road drills and promptly set about the concrete floor and the wooden stage but I have never heard ( or seen ) anything quite like it - and I’ve see the Bow Gamelan Orchestra!!)

Einstürzende Neubauten - Live at Berlín, Alemania 2004

Kim Mc Menamin - Some Irish Music for yew! I call this the Little Irish Drummer Boy!

"This should make anyone proud to be Irish, great mastery, expressing the best of our culture in our musical tradition:" Kim Mc Menamin

I always wanted a Bodhran and wasn’t entirely sure if that was what this young man was playing, looks more complex and it may be a more sophisticated drum? If anyone out there knows and wants these youngsters credited please get in touch. Just staggeringly good

kinda restores your faith in people, knowing there are youngsters like this around making such fine fine music . . . maybe won’t go buy that bodhran just yet . . . . . 

check out the girls gazing at the young drummer boy and wait for them all to set about the tune . . . . .so cool!

Billy Strings - Seven Weeks In County | Austin City Limits : ACL Live ACL Festival

 ok lets get serious now . . . . . . here’s our Billy

Billy Strings performing “Seven Weeks In County” on Austin City Limits

Billy Strings

Austin City Limits

ACL Live

check out the Spaghetti Western quote!?

Donovan - Catch The Wind (Live on German TV ’65)

 A lovely version of a favourite song . . . . . . perhaps one of the finest written about lost love

Donovan - Catch The Wind = HD Radio Bremen ’65

Rock_N_Roll_Fantasy V.S.Rock

Red Shoe Boogie!

You Dancin’? 

There’s a lot of the Boogie Woogie Dance Hall classics knocking about and I don’t often post them but I do SO enjoy them . . . . here’s an example!

Red Shoes Boogie

Incredible Fantastic

Another random unannounced track , , , ,

Fortunately this is a doozie too! I should start a LUCKY DIP section? What do ya reckon? Why we could feature Pop Music?!

 

Dylan of The Day : This month back in 1989 Dylan released Oh Mercy!

 Great album with many favourite songs and this is no exception plus this video!

Political World - Bob Dylan (Oh Mercy) 1989

September, 1989: Oh Mercy is released. Working with producer Daniel Lanois, Dylan recorded the album in New Orleans. Oh Mercy garners rave reviews and strong international sales.

Bob Dylan

 

Artist of the Day : Alfred Wallis

 

Ship Amid Tall Waves, Alfred Wallis

 

well there’d better be . . . .there’s 16 million dropped by! 

(NO!- you have 9 followers who just visited 16 million times!- ED)

Snoopy calls it . . . . . . Autumn it is then! (‘Fall' to our Merkin visitors!?)

Well, I didn’t know Snoops and Leonard Cohen were that close (wasn't this the title of the last posthumous album?)

As you were . . . . .