Friday, June 21, 2024
Song of The Day | CROWDED HOUSE : IT’S ONLY NATURAL
From my ole pal Craig who sent this in (well posted on Flickenbakk) comes this classic pop
most suitable for a sunny day here in Old Blighty!
Neil Finn at his peak songwriting . . .this is rude who knew ‘knees please, let me . . . . . wot? what CAN he be singing about?
I dedicate this to him from whence etc etc . . . he’s just become a granddad!
Album of the Week : Kathryn Williams & Withered Hand - ‘Arrow’
Williams Willson - Arrow
Kathryn Williams & Withered Hand - ‘Arrow’
Kathryn Williams a fellow scouser, of whom I am a big fan, has a new album out and can’t wait to get it but gonna have to wait for funds into the vaults!
This is another collaborative effort with ‘Withered Hand’ aka Dan Wilson (Scottish fellah) who I am ashamed to say I did not know . . . . .so far into the album it is haunting and strong but delicate and wistful too by turn . . . . . . now I need to say I don’t understand what the inside info is on being called "withered hand”* (he doesn’t appear to have one) and get it is some kind of insider deal, if you know you know and if’n you don’t you’re not ‘in’ on it! which I hate and he has a perfectly serviceable name so please use it!. . . . it is only that which has stopped me buying it on the day of release back in January!!
the only thing I can think is it some reference to religion and the healing by Jesus of the man with the withered hand and on a Sunday too (sic) and as Willson was brought up a Jehoavh’s Witness maybe that’s it no explanation anywhere I could be bothered to search for so it's anyone’s guess and I could care less . . . . .shame
Willson Williams - ‘Shelf’
"Shelf" by Kathryn Williams & Withered HandListen here : https://kathryn-williams.lnk.to/shelfTaken from upcoming album "Willson Williams" out 26th AprilPre-order here : https://kathryn-williams.lnk.to/wills...Video by Marry Waterson https://www.marrywaterson.comFollow Kathryn Williams:Facebook: / kathrynwilliamsmusicInstagram: / kathrynwilliamsukTwitter: / kathwilliamsukWebsite: https://www.kathrynwilliams.co.uk/
Friday mewsics | CAPTAIN BEEFHEART : ‘Click Clack’
Click Clack Click Clack . . . .
About as straight a ‘My baby done left me on that evenin’ train’ blues as the Captain would ever get!
Gorgeous stuff
Have a great Friday all y’all!
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Other Birthdays | NICK DRAKE - When The Day Is Done
" Nick Drake was born in Rangoon, Burma this week in 1948
"When the day is done, down to Earth then sinks the sun, along with everything that was lost and won.”
Let’s close the day with this beautiful song
Our thoughts are with the Lane family today as Stan Lane is laid to rest RIP
Ronnie Lane’s brother Stan has passed away so we post this his favourite song of his brothers! (It was Stan who introduced Ronnie to Kenney the Small Faces drummer when they were 13 and the rest is history) Thanks Stan, rest easy now . . . . .
The version the Facebook page posted was cut off at the end so here’s a full version rounded off with a favourite song of mine ‘Oooh La La’!
Debris is about their dad . . . . .
We went there and back just to find out how far it is!
Oooh La La!
Family Lane
BUMP! Daily mewsics | Janis Joplin - ‘To Love Somebody’ Live on the Dick Cavett Show July 1969
I posted this last Sunday and it didn’t play but nobody was interested enough to let me know so here we go again . . . . .
"Cavett always seemed like a really nice guy. . . he looked like a ‘square’ but always seemed to appreciate the contemporary scene; Janis and the Airplane to name but two . . . . Here is Janis singing the Bee Gees!"
THE DICK CAVETT SHOW. July 18, 1969 To Love Somebody - Big Brother live
Turns out this vid didn’t play and nobody told me!!
So here ’tis!
Lorca’s Geraniums!
(International Times’ Interviews Liverpool poet Brian Patten)
I.T. interviews Brian Patten 2020
Malcolm Paul
Liverpool poet talks Merseybeat, the U.S. Beats and more . .
I bought this when it came out and it introduced me to a world where it turned out my generation could write poetry too!
I had been commenting on I.T.'s Facebook page and Malcolm encouraged me to check out the interview . . . . if you are into that era and British poetry then check it out. He shared ‘digs' with Brian Eno!
they were posting about Roger McGough
This . . . . . . . .
One of my dearest friends and ex-colleagues calls me Pandaman (Andy Pandy? It’s a long story!) and now we know why!!!
Long consider an evolutionary cultural-de-sac it is of course my spirit animal . . . . .. Why?
Click it! Go on!
Simples!
It’s an IDIOT!
Meanwhile in Europe! Earworms and one hit wonders you didn’t even know you needed!?! EuroTechnoPop! Mario Mathy "Liberty" 1986
My friend Connor sent me this and he does have the MOST extraordinarily unique taste!!!
You have been warned!
“We’re gonna need more keyboards!"
Summer hit wonders!
Time for a cuppa Java Joe!? The Band - Java Blues 1983
The Band performed Rick Danko's original "Java Blues" on New Year's Eve 1983 at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium. The Band was back, reunited earlier in the year and ended a huge year with an electrifying performance.
Classic Pop Songs ( and earworms!) Revisited! | Above many (most any?) THE BEACH BOYS : GOOD VIBRATIONS
Nice clip from 1967 This blew us all away . . .
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
The Companions of The Rosy Hours!
I was going to try to convert my cassette to digital and now there is no need . . . . . . . Frank (KilKelly) posted this on YouTube . . . . great fun, great band, great dancing and we loved these guys! My wife and I took the children with the friends we were staying with to see them at a venue for the Broadstairs Folk Festival and we all whirled around the dance floor and thoroughly enjoyed the band. One of the best live gigs I ever went to!
He also seemed to appreciate my posting there so go and check out his work on YouTube and with all his bands and several incarnations it is well worth the search . . . . .
For Robin Scott R.I.P
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Frank Kilkelly and the band
ARTIST OF THE WEEK : JYLIAN GUSTLIN
I especially liked these I stumbled across this week . . . . . California based and born in San Francisco these are by Jylian Gustlin.
More here . . . . .
She does feature other more what shall we say conventional pictorial subjects but I was especially draw (sic) to these figure studies. Check her out
ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST! | WOODSTOCK '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 : VA
- You should prolly go over to ATSE where Paul has posted the complete (sic) WOODSTOCK 1994 concert and a wild time they are too - see Trent Reznor covered in mud!
- Go check for nearly twenty a day!
- From Blues Traveller too Sheryl Crow, Joe Cocker to Crosby Stills and Nash, James to Salt n Pepa (oooh push it!) The Cranberries to The Band,Youssou N’Dour to Zucherro! You know you want it! Push it real good!
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David Bowie on the one artist who surpasses all others . . . . . . .
🔴 THE ONE MUSICIAN DAVID BOWIE SAID "DOESN'T HAVE COMPETITION"
The late David Bowie knew good music when he heard it. Drawing on a host of areas to create his distinctive sound, the Londoner utilised the best aspects of other artists over the years, giving him longevity that puts most to shame. This meant that in his time, Bowie touched on glam rock, jazz, industrial and disco to create his classic tracks.
Whilst Bowie didn’t enjoy all forms of music, as he made clear when he discussed his lifelong disdain for country and western, and in his less than courteous treatment of the young newcomer Gary Numan, when Bowie did like someone’s music, the insight with which he imbued his accounts proved to be fascinating.
Throughout his life, Bowie praised many prominent figures, including John Lennon, Syd Barrett and The Velvet Underground, while also touching on more contemporary acts such as Placebo. Yet, for all of the extensive readings of other artists’ work, there was only one he felt that was so brilliant that he “doesn’t have competition”. Of course, this was Bob Dylan, the folk-rock pioneer who has enjoyed more creative endurance than any other.
When speaking to the Dutch music programme Countdown in 1990, Bowie was asked about some of his supposed competitors in music. There, he used Dylan as an example of an act without competition before arguing that The Rolling Stones are in a similar boat. However, his argument was much less assertive about the British band. Bowie: “I would say that I stay out of it, I’d like to say that. Whether that’s true or not, I don’t know. You could tell from the outside. But I don’t really feel that. I feel that frankly, over the last 20 years or so, I’m pretty much my own man. I suppose it’s very cheeky of me to put myself in the same light”.
He added: “But if I look at Bob Dylan, he doesn’t have competition; he is just Bob Dylan. Whether you like him or don’t like him. Whether he does good stuff or bad stuff, he is still Bob Dylan.” “You don’t compare him with anybody. It’s not a competitive kind of thing,” Bowie continued. “It’s the same with The Stones. I know they create mock competitions for them with other bands. I’ve noticed in America, it’s been happening. But there is really no way that you can compare The Stones with anybody. And I would hope, I think, I’m probably in the same kind of position. I’m David Bowie, I’m either good, (or) a pile of shit. I’m accessible or not accessible, obscure, very commercial. I changed all the time. But I’m still me… no? (laughs)”.
Dylan and Bowie
Deaths . . . . . Anouk Aim̩e [27 April 1932 Р18 June 2024]
speaking of muses . . . . . . .
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portrait of Aimée by Irving Penn, 1965.
"Adieu to the magnificent Anouk Aimée (née Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus, 27 April 1932 – 18 June 2024), who has died aged 92. The most feline and inscrutable of mid-twentieth century French actresses, she’s a haunting, sensual, and Garbo-like presence in the glory days of European art cinema. Her death represents one less lifeline to that era: off the top of my head, it feels like of Aimée’s nouvelle vague French contemporaries, only Alain Delon, Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve are left? My favourite performances by Aimée: Les Amants de Montparnasse (1958), La Tête contre les murs (1959), La Dolce Vita (1960) – unforgettable as the elegant jaded thrill-seeking heiress in sensational sunglasses and little black cocktail dress! – Lola (1961), 8 ½ (1963), Model Shop (1968) and Justine (1969). But hell, I also love Aimée (dubbed by an American actress!) as the cruel lesbian queen in trashy sword-and-sandal biblical epic Sodom and Gomorrah (1962). It’s fascinating to contemplate that at the height of her international fame in the sixties, Hollywood considered Aimée for two high profile roles: the part played by Faye Dunaway in The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) – and The Baroness in The Sound of Music (1965)! Let’s give punk poetess Patti Smith the final word. In her 1972 poem “girl trouble”, Smith wrote “I need a chick. not a fresh easter chick. egg pop. not a new peach. but a girl with intricate balance. a girl who is grown up. but not cold enough to be called a woman. Anouk Aimée of the black dress and bruised eyes. not a bomb shell.” Later, in 1976, Smith raved to Circus magazine “Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star. I don't mean like an American movie star. I mean like Jeanne Moreau or Anouk Aimée in La Dolce Vita. I couldn't believe her in those dark glasses and that black dress and that sports car. I thought that was the heaviest thing I ever saw.”
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Adieu Anouk Aimée (1932-2024) 💔 Photographed by the great William Klein, 1967.
Other birthdays | Isabella Rossellini
Jean-Christian Bourcart, 1990
Also born this week: exquisite Italian-born supermodel (photographed by greats like Richard Avedon, Bruce Weber, Helmut Newton and Francesco Scavullo) turned mercurial and intense actress turned animal behaviour authority Isabella Rossellini (née Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini, 18 June 1952). Among the many achievements of the daughter of actress Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini: she remains the definitive spokeswoman for Lancôme cosmetics and maverick filmmaker David Lynch’s single greatest muse. Her performance as tormented sadomasochistic nightclub chanteuse Dorothy Vallens in Lynch’s 1986 masterpiece Blue Velvet (a role originally intended for Helen Mirren) alone ensures Rossellini cinematic immortality. Pictured: Rossellini photographed at the Cannes Film Festival by Jean-Christian Bourcart, 1990.
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I love this photo as it doesn’t conform tp the convention of portraying her as merely the staggeringly beautiful woman but in fracturing her image says something about imagery of the time . . . . she was of course muse and partner to David Lynch!
Sounds of the Day : Terry Reid - Rich Kid Blues (1969)
Not something I suffered from . . . . . . . . (unfortunately ! sic!) But we loved Terry ‘Superlungs hisself! and saw him live at Oxford Town Hall! (no less a venue but with poor acoustics and not conducive to later rock shows these must have been amongst the last after The New Theatre and the colleges began showing bands . . . especially the Oxford Poly as was now transmogrified into the Brookes University .suffice to say Terry blew the roof off there small civic town hall. . . . . later sixties?
go on click it I swear it works!
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
FRANK KILKELLY : REMEMBER ME
"One from my London days, a band called the Companions of the Rosy Hours, fronted by the late great Robin McKidd. He played cajun fiddle with the Stones once, and we played at Jerry Hall’s 35th birthday party in the Bombay Brasserie. Good times, though I’m not sure we thought that at the time! He used to sing this song, Remember Me, and would dedicate it to absent friends." Frank Kilkelly
from Frank Kilkelly’s Facebook page
From Companions Of the Rosy Hours
Remember Me
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/12/robin-mckidd-obituary
Frank Kilkelly's Music Page
Frank Kilkelly - Remember Me . . . . . . and we do Frank we do!
My wife and I, when on holiday in Kent, went to the Broadstairs' Folk Festival and saw the wonderful Companions of the Rosy Hours with their great blend of Americana, Cajun and folk reels and turns. I have a wonderful cassette bought that evening and whilst searching for them came across Frank Kilkelly’s Facebook page where he had posted his solo acoutic version of this song and his admiration for his fellow folkie frontman Robin McKidd who we recall singing the lead when we saw them but Frank does a fine job here to see you to the end of the day
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART : Trout Mask Replica was released on June 16th 1969, 55 years ago | THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL 1972
Bought when it came out and a seminal influence on my musical taste and hanging around with musicians who could play ’note for note’ (Dale and John!) the entire album and memorised the lyrics as a matter of course this album is uniquely special to me!
"If there has been anything in the history of popular music which could be described as a work of art in a way that people who are involved in other areas of art would understand, then Trout Mask Replica is probably that work.” - John Peel
"Trout Mask Replica shattered my skull, realigned my synapses, made me nervous, made me laugh, made me jump and jag with joy. It wasn't just the fusion I'd been waiting for: it was a whole new universe, a completely realised and previously unimaginable landscape of guitars splintering and spronging and slanging and even actually swinging in every direction, as far as the mind could see..." - Lester Bangs
Don (Captain Beefheart)
Mark Boston
Bill Harkleroad
She’s Too Much For My Mirror
Bill Harkleroad aka Zoot Horn Rollo remembers his favourite gig with Don and the band at the Royal Albert Hall, London in March 1972:"Obviously it’s a huge gig, I guess there were about seven, eight thousand people, we packed it and we were the headliners. How in the f**k did that happen? Captain Beefheart filling Albert Hall? Something was up, and I don’t know why. There was the Beatles in the audience, so we knew that, and I opened the show. I run out, start whamming on some power chord, E chord – I didn’t know it was a power chord then, but I played it – and, my amps off. You run out in Albert Hall, the biggest gig in your life, balconies, people hanging out, you know, and I’m opening the show, heart beating clear through your chest, run out there and your amp is off. Mommy, I wanna go home!I mean, it really was that, my life passed before me. So, I hold up my finger a moment, ‘One minute’, and then I go back, flip the switch, get back and go behind the curtain, run out again, and pause a second, and start whamming the chord again, which, of course, brought down the house. I don’t know where that came from. that’s not my style of being this introverted little jerk. but, I pulled it off somehow.And then, the bass player (Mark Boston aka Rockette Morton) comes out, and his cord is wrapped around the amp, so he gets out there, and, boom!, the amp falls and slides down the stage. the crowd thought that it was totally choreographed, it was awesome."These photos of Don, Bill and Mark were all taken by Barrie Wentzell.
Old Fart at Play
Happy Birthday Sir Paul!
Happy birthday to Paul McCartney, born as James Paul McCartney in Liverpool on this day in 1942. Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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