Birthdays - Guy Garvey (52) | Route

 Happy birthday to Guy Garvey, born in Bury, Lancashire on this day in 1974. 

"It's looking like a beautiful day."

ELBOW, "One Day Like This” Live In Glastonbury 2011

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUY GARVEY! He’s 50!

 A very happy 50th birthday to Guy Garvey, born in Bury, Lancashire on this day in 1974. It's looking like a beautiful day. . . . . . . . 

ELBOW - ONE DAY LIKE THIS - LIVE ON ABBEY ROAD

I suspect (very strongly!) that Guy will have written this wonderful love song to his wife, the actor and wonderment that is Rachel Stirling (daughter of the peerless Diana Rigg) 

One day like this will see me right . . . . . . .

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Last Episode Series 'From The Vaults with Guy Garvey'

FROM THE VAULTS EPISODE 5

JULY 30, 2021

In the final episode of this series of Guy Garvey’s From The Vaults, the spotlight turns to 1987. It’s a year of farewells as The Tube comes to a close and The Smiths part company. Also featured are memorable performances from John Martyn and Big Audio Dynamite, as well as an early interview with Björk and Einar from The Sugarcubes. 

The show also includes hits courtesy of Julian Cope, Public Image Ltd, New Order, Depeche Mode and The Cure.

Watch on Sky Arts or Freeview Channel 11 at 8pm (Friday 30th July). All episodes are available to sky viewers now. 

Great episode to round off the end to this series with Depeche Mode, Julian Cope's follow up to World Shut Your Mouth, 'Trampoline' and a rare live performance of John Martyn's 'May You Never' brilliant stuff and love Guy's witty if sometimes too spare comments! More please . . . . . . . . 

SUNDAY MORNING MUSICS

 DREAM ACADEMY

 

 Being from the North of England this always struck a resonance with me and its multicultural vibe I found transportingly lovely. Inspired by Nick Drake ("composed upon Nick's guitar from the album cover   Bryter Layter" which is difficult in that the Guild M-20 featured wasn't Nick's at all but belonged to Nigel Weymouth's the art director and artist, he of Hapsash and The Coloured Coat psychedelic poster genius.  it is most likely that the album featured Nick playing his Martin D-28 or his Levin dreadnought *) and the Dream Academy single was featured by Guy Garvey on his excellent TV programme From The Vaults the other day [Series 2 Episode 3]

JULY 16, 2021

Tonight’s episode of ‘Guy Garvey: From The Vaults’ sees Guy focus on 1985, where overseas stars like Chaka Khan and Tom Waits descend on Newcastle to appear live on The Tube. Guy also looks back at rarely seen performances from Prefab Sprout, Dream Academy, China Crisis and The Style Council. 

Watch on Sky Arts or Freeview Channel 11 at 8pm (Friday 16th July). All episodes are available to sky viewers now.

Please note Guy Garvey is a top fellah and has broken news on his Twitter that fans like me have long awaited and that is there is a new album from the mercurial Stephen Fretwell who I had worried about as he seemed to have disappeared. Fretwell is the performer of the brilliant theme song for Gavin and Stacey so you'd think someone kept tabs on him

I will post a separate note about this as soon as I have bought the new album, buy it now sight unseen, sound unheard it WILL be worth it. . . . 

https://stephenfretwell.plctrmm.to/bg

* Nick Drake's guitar . . . or not

From The Vaults 1984 Episode IV with Guy Garvey - TALK TALK - Mark Hollis

 FROM THE VAULTS

with 

GUY GARVEY

+ VOODOO WAGON TRIBUTES

Elbow frontman and broadcaster Guy Garvey lifts the lid on two decades of TV gold – with era-defining musical performances, long lost studio appearances and revealing interviews that have remained on the shelves for decades. 

I've been watching Guy Garvey's From The Vaults on Sky Arts television and enjoying it immensely. It does seem to contain genuine elements that have never been seen before largely from The Tube and other similar programmes Being an Elbow fan it was always going to appeal and Garvey is a fine frontman to such a programme

We got up to Episode Four yesterday and 1984 where we looked at The Style Council with a previously unseen 'Shout To The Top' and it finished with someone Guy obviously admires above many others in Talk Talk's sadly missed Mark Hollis with some deeply moving comments and clips

1984

1984: Guy looks back at 1984 and Madonna's first British TV appearance, unseen performances from Sade and The Style Council, Culture Club's Japan tour footage and more. 

Guy Garvey - From The Vaults - Sky link here

I Believe in You - Mark Hollis

This is the Clip from From The Vaults

Hollis retired from music to spend more time bringing up his children in 1998 and his untimely death in 2019 was a shock to us all

I had I am ashamed to say forgotten recently just how great Talk Talk and Mark Hollis' songwriting was and he is much missed and we are unlikely to see his like again. Thanks to Guy's most welcome reminder

VOODOO WAGON covered Hollis' Death and posted a couple of things really worth checking out.

TALK TALK - Live in Utrecht 1984 - Voodoo Wagon

TALK TALK - Live at The Paris Theatre BBC London, 1982 - Voodoo Wagon

Mark Hollis