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Wednesday, July 02, 2025

SINGLE OF THE WEEK - POTENCO : RED KITE (2025)

 

'Red Kite' by Potenco - streaming now on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/potenco 'Red Kite' is the debut single by Potenco. 
It was written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Potenco in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, UK.
#RedKite #Potenco #LyricVideo #IndieFolk #NewMusic2025 #FolkRevival #Songwriter



© 2025 Potenco. All rights reserved.
Written by Rob Power


BANDCAMP


Red Kite is the debut single by Potenco. It was written, recorded, mixed and mastered in Kidlington, Oxfordshire. It is a song about raptors, and recovery, and family, and backwards guitars. It was written in 2015, but it took Potenco a decade to record and release it. The reasons for this are unclear, but likely include children, capitalist realism, ADHD, and a general sense of dread. It took a shoulder operation and surprise unemployment to get things moving. For fun, and because some people can only do things it’s they’re unnecessarily difficult, Red Kite was recorded and mixed on a 2007 MacBook held together with duct tape.

lyrics

RED KITE


There's a knife in your sail and a fork in your road
And the wind on your belly and sun on your backbone. 
In the distance you see it's all swaddled in green 
And the blue of the sea never flows where your kin go.

Soar so high, talking to yourself at night
You wish you did, but you don't know why. 

And if you won't fly, then I won't fly. 
You don't mind, then I won't mind. 
My red kite's gonna be alright
Ain't no one gonna save me.

There's a lift in your throat and a hole in your bones
As the hunger you wrote wheeled away in the whitest light. 
You were few on the rope but to hunt is to hope as the swallows and moles
Dance their waltzes in 3/4 time

Blood drips white, grinding on your teeth at night
To the sound of a foolish sigh. 

And if you won't fly, then I won't fly. 
You don't mind, then I won't mind. 
My red kite's gonna be alright
Ain't no one gonna save me.

credits
released July 1, 2025 
Written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Potenco

Timothy White's Rock Stars - The One and Only Steve Winwood #90-47 | Draftervoi - Voodoo Wagon

Timothy White's Rock Stars - The One and Only Steve Winwood

Timothy White's Rock Stars - The One and Only Steve Winwood
Show #90-47 for broadcast the week of November 19, 1990

 
Steve Winwood & Jim Capaldi - Dear Mr. Fantasy 
(Live 1990, Emerald Sound Studios, TN, Nov) 
  
Recorded at:
Emerald Sound Studios
Nashville, TN
1990
Valerie - Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi Emerald Sound Studios 1990

PLAY IT LOUD

Staggeringly good quality recording 

the YouTube poster Berkin Altınok says 

During the Refugees era, the Masters were hanging out a lot in Nashville, they recorded this very intimate studio unplugged session for Timothy White. The legendary track sees a Piano working by Master Winwood alongside Master Capaldi's Percussion. 

A great Acoustic Version...

R.I.P Valerie Carter...

draftervoi says:

Brought to you by the Collective For Live Music.

Flac files of wavs. Includes 300 dpi scans of the cue sheets and the CD discs, plus a pdf of the ad from Radio and Records (and low resolution conversion to .jpg).

I cut this into sections so that Our Beloved Audience can reassemble it anyway they like.  You want just an interview show?  Just the live tracks?  You can grab 'em and mix 'em up any ol' way ya wish.

This is sometimes listed as 1990-11-xx, indicating a recording in November. However, an earlier recording date is likely, as the show had to be mastered, pressed on CD, and shipped to radio stations (and a print ad created, proofed, and published in Radio & Records on Nov. 9, 1990). A recording date in August or September is likely.  The syndicated broadcast window was the week of November 19, 1990.


read on and check the link at the top of the page 



Steve Winwood & Jim Capaldi - No Face No Name No Number
 (Live Nov 1990, Emerald Sound Studios, TN)

Enjoy!
I know I did!

David Bowie - ‘Lazarus’ Black Star |jt1674

 I mean was anyone NOT blown away by David’s final swan song album, the irony, the self awareness, the sheer joy and intellectual rigour of his farewell? 🖤

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/787895483520745472/david-bowie-lazarus

On a real hot day what we need is a drum solo!

 Ginger Baker - Cream (Drum Solo)


Boating for Beginners says GINGER BAKER DRUM SOLO
Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker 
(19 August 1939 – 6 October 2019) 
was an English drummer and a co-founder of the rock band Cream. His work in the 1960s and 1970s earned him the reputation of "rock's first superstar drummer," for a style that melded jazz and African rhythms and pioneered both jazz fusion and world music
Baker began playing drums at age 15, and later took lessons from English jazz drummer Phil Seamen.

Baker's drumming is regarded for its style, showmanship, and use of two bass drums instead of the conventional one. In his early days, he performed lengthy drum solos, most notably in the Cream song "Toad," one of the earliest recorded examples in rock music. Baker was an inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Cream in 1993, of the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2008,[4] and of the Classic Drummer Hall of Fame in 2016.[5] Baker was noted for his eccentric, often self-destructive lifestyle, and he struggled with heroin addiction for many years. He was married four times and fathered three children. 

Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker (19 August 1939 – 6 October 2019) was an English drummer and a co-founder of the rock band Cream.[1] His work in the 1960s and 1970s earned him the reputation of "rock's first superstar drummer," for a style that melded jazz and African rhythms and pioneered both jazz fusion and world music.

GEORGE BEST | The Wedding Present 'You Can’t Moan Can You?' | Le Ramasseur De Mégots

 You Can’t Moan Can You?

The Wedding PresentGeorge Bestimage
For my old pal Phil!
Oh well he’s football crazy, he’s football mad!  There’s a George Best reference! 😉⚽️
You can’t moan can you? Well I can . . . . . . . its still too darned hot!

Marvin Rainwater - I Gotta Go Get My Baby! | ROUTE BOOKS

Marvin Rainwater would have been 100 today, born in Wichita, Kansas on this day in 1925. 

He gotta go get his baby.

“Chief Rainwater?!?!"

Route


Art of The Day : Léonor Fini and illustrations for The Story of ‘O’ (Pauline Réage)

 

Léonor Fini in Owl Mask, André Ostier, 1949

Some of Léonor Fini's illustrations for Pauline Réage's erotic Histoire d' O, 1962 - notably including an owl mask.







Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas - GRACE (Studio Demo) peerless and a wonderment

Gary posted this . . . . always worth revisiting one of the great 21stC voices with one its greatest guitarists!

gary@garylucas.com · Grace studio demo--Gary Lucas and Jeff Buckley


GL--guitars JB--vocals, harp

Jared Michael Nickerson--bass

Tony Lewis--drums

Words and Music by Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas

Produced by Gary Lucas


If you listen to one thing today make it this! The kernel of a great album and a burgeoning star is born -  Stunning! I feel so ashamed to not have acknowledged Gary's part in Jeff’s burgeoning explosion onto the scene and how much part he had to play in that - one of the generation's greatest voices with one of its greatest guitarists! 

💙

Some Main Squeeze! Squeeze at Glastonbury 2016 - plus!

Somebody posted a clip of Goodbye Girl from Squeeze back from Glastonbury in 2016 so there’s this!

 and this

SQUEEZE COMPLETE Glastonbury 2016


Love it!

The Drawings of Patti Smith - DANGEROUS MINDS

Interesting article here and I pride myself having a number of signed poetry books but my pride and joy is a Davis large format art catalogues of here artwork from Germany. Read on below
It made me start drawing her myself (see below)

(Credits: Dangerous Minds / Patti Smith)
 
(Credits: Dangerous Minds / Patti Smith)


(Credits: Dangerous Minds / Patti Smith)

The Drawings of Patti Smith - DANGEROUS MINDS



Patti Smith my pencil study c.1978


Patti - pastel study on handmade paper c1978 ©️ Andy Swapp


Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Glastonbury 2025 acts we missed -


yeas indeed . . . . I liked her

Robert Fripp Brian Eno - Evening Star | jt1674

 so we’ll sign off the evening with this . . . . . ⭐️

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/787779763082297344/robert-fripp-and-brian-eno-evening-star-an

Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head [Diamond Head] | jt1674

 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/787781219812245505/phil-manzanera-diamond-head

Glastonbury 2025 bands we missed . . . . . Beth Gibbons | from Floppy Boot Stomp - Voodoo Wagon

 This from the lads!


Beth Gibbons - Floating on a Moment (Glastonbury 2025)

Blue Girls : Pulp [It]

Blue Girls
Pulp
It
image

It’s hot here did I say . . . . . the next day before it breaks (we hope!?) but high twenties (26C) this morning and climbing . . . 

Wild Life!

 Of course you might be surprised who you see at Glastonbury!

😍


Daisy in a Field!

(seems appropriate to find the lovely and brilliant actor Daisy Edgar-Jones)


Flagging Down The Double Es | RAY PADGETT “Now It Goes Like This” no.6

Now It Goes Like This: "All Along the Watchtower"

Tracking the song's live arrangements from 1974 through 2025

Bob Dylan, Mondo Scripto, 2018, via Castle Fine Art

The sixth “Now It Goes Like This”—my series tracking all the different ways Bob Dylan has performed his songs live—tackles a big one: “All Along the Watchtower.”

Let’s get it out of the way right up top: The biggest “Watchtower” arrangement change was not made by Dylan himself. It was made by, of course, Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix’s cover (which I explored the history of here) set the template for almost every version performed subsequently, including the thousands by Dylan himself. Bob Dylan generally performs “Watchtower” like he’s covering Jimi Hendrix, not the other way around. The John Wesley Harding original now sounds like an alternate-version outtake, maybe something they’d unveil decades later on a Bootleg Series. “Wow, can you believe he once tried to record ‘All Along the Watchtower’ acoustically?” 

Because he was off the road when John Wesley Harding came out, he never played a pre-Hendrix version. But he quickly made up for lost time. “All Along the Watchtower” has now been performed more than any other Bob Dylan song. Over two thousand times. Given that number, you’d expect an insane number of different arrangements. Nope! In the '90s especially, it felt like he performed it a million times the exact same way. The differences from night to night were how energetically he sung it, and how shreddy were the guitar solos (on a scale that ran from “quite shreddy” to “extremely shreddy”). The basic arrangement didn’t change much.

That consistency over the decades makes the unusual arrangements that doexist really stand out. And some are quite dramatic! Including the brand-new one that inspired this entry. Let’s dive in.

read on here . . . .

Guitarists | MARY OSBOURNE

 MARY OSBOURNE?


NO ME NEITHER- I am ashamed to say



I Love Paris / These Foolish Things





Marian McPartland explains the first clip here at The Bitter End (note the company!)

Monday, June 30, 2025

The highlights (things and artists I watched) GLASTONBURY 2025

PATCHWORK - (Pulp) - Glastonbury 2025

GLASTONBURY HIGHLIGHTS 2025

Don’t know if these will all play and some Pulp not broadcast (drug references?) and none of the blistering Neil Young Set sadly

Pulp - Spike Island Glastonbury 2025



Lewis Capaldi - Survive Glastonbury 2025


Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved Glastonbury 2025

Pulp - Common People Glastonbury 2025
Wet Leg - Davina McCall - Glastonbury 2025


KNEECAP - Fine Art (Glastonbury 2025)

Weezer - Island In The Sun (Glastonbury 2025)


1975 - Matty Healy and About You  (Glastonbury 2025)

Kae Tempest - More Pressure (Glastonbury 2025)