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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6068 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Phoenix Foundation - Horse Power Family Of The Year - Loma Vista Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6073 Registered: 05-2005 |
The 1975 - The 1975 (two disc version) The Parson Red Heads - Yearling (deluxe version) Sam Sanders - Mirror, Mirror | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6077 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bill Callahan - Expanding Dub / High In The Mid-40s Dub, from iTunes, as were the Sam Sanders and Parson Red Heads albums. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6106 Registered: 05-2005 |
I went on a prog rock buying spree on iTunes just now. I.Q. - The Wake I.Q. - Nomzamo Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear (Special Edition) Pallas - Sentinel (Bonus Tracks Version) Pendragon - Introducing Pendragon Twelfth Night - Art & Illusion Twelfth Night - Twelfth Night | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 652 Registered: 03-2007 |
I made the mistake of visiting the Shelflife Records website earlier today. The Proctors - Everlasting Light Majestic - The Majestic 12 Years Dub Noir - Pick Your Century The Garland - The Garlands The Arrogants - Your Simple Beauty ( EP ) The Arrogants - Nobody's Cool ( E.P. ) The Arrogants - You've Always Known When Best To Say Goodbye The first six are on the Shelflife Records label. The seventh was self released. The label describes Dub Noir as an Ohio band who sound like they spent their glory years on New Zealand's shores and recommends them to fans of The Chills, Felt, The Go-Betweens and the Able Tasmans. Eleven tracks recorded between 2003 and 2006. This is the only sample of their music I have been able to find. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqlhrsHSZ IA Majestic were a Californian band who existed between 1994 and 1998. The album collects together their entire output ( 13 tracks.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ6F8Loet 8I | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6117 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, once again, I bow to your encyclopedic knowledge of all things indie. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6132 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ride - Original Album Series UB40 - 5 Album Set Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg The Strypes - Snapshot Basement Birds - Basement Birds Manic Street Preachers - Rewind The Film Nirvana - In Utero (20th Anniversay two disc edition) Help She Can't Swim - The Death Of Nightlife/Committing Social Suicide Golden Smog - Blood On The Slacks My Latest Novel - Deaths And Entrances Beach Fossils - Clash The Truth Brett Anderson - Black Rainbows Walk The Moon - Walk The Moon deluxe edition | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6136 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jaw Laffer - When The Iron Glows Red | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6137 Registered: 05-2005 |
That should be Jae Laffer. Damn auto correct. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 654 Registered: 03-2007 |
Salmonella Dub - Freak Controller Zachary Cale - Blue Rider Paul Dempsey - Shotgun Karaoke Desertshore - Drawing Of Threes Woodenbox With A Fistful Of Fivers - Home And The Wild Woodenbox - The Vanishing Act ( EP ) Woodenbox - End Game | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6147 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again (deluxe version) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6164 Registered: 05-2005 |
Day Ravies - Tussle | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 223 Registered: 05-2005 |
The new Mazzy Star one and the new Prefab Sprout one. Both sound good on first listen, some extraordinary photos of Paddy McAloon. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3302 Registered: 03-2005 |
Beaumont -- No Time Like the Past The woman on here, Cath Close, sounds amazingly like Nancy Sinatra. Probably about a third of the songs will make it onto my very large capacity iPod as some are quite pretty. But I'm too much of a pop vulgarian to enjoy many of them, which sound too earnestly tasteful to me. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6187 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nikki Sudden - The Boy From Nowhere, Who Fell Out Of The Sky (six CD box set) | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 666 Registered: 03-2007 |
Oliver Mann - Slow Bark The Orbweavers - Loom The Ancients - Night Bus Fabulous Diamonds - Commercial Music New Estate - Recovery Spotswood by The Orbweavers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Gy8t-Ki qM | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6201 Registered: 05-2005 |
From the bargain bin in JB Hi-fi Eastgardens yesterday: Percy Sledge - Sings Country Highwaymen - The Road Goes On Forever Drive-By Truckers - The Big To-Do Hans Zimmer/Geoff Zanelli/Blake Neely - The Pacific soundtrack NASA - The Spirit Of Apollo Diplo - Top Ranking The Falls - Hollywood Horse The Band - Desperate Living Cassandra Wilson - Close To You: The Pop Side Jordie Lane - Lovers Ride Dan Warner - A Likeness Of You Powderfinger - Golden Rule (two disc edition) Indigo Girls - Poseidon And The Bitter Bug Tift Merritt - Buckingham Solo Dr John And The Lower 911 - City That Care Forgot The Whitefield Brothers - In The Raw Dave Alvin - And The Guilty Women Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3303 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh is tugging at me . . . . One of the things I've been searching my eyes out for is an Aussie female singer who conveys some of the rough and ready country honesty that a number of Aussie male singers manage with ease. I'm not sure the woman in front of this group does it either but there is a quiet thoughtfulness to her that is appealing. Meanwhile, here's an old Aussie female classic, Betty McQuade (ex-pat Scot) doing J.D. Loudermilk's "Midnight Bus" in 1961. It's one of my favorite records from the era from any country. Subtly scratchy vocal, flute and tremolo guitar! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9EtTMHwV -4 | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 668 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, live at Triple R. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTn_zOzAC CU | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 915 Registered: 10-2006 |
Excellent, Hugh - like that a lot! But earlier this morning there were at least five other threads on this board which seem to have vanished, at least on my computer...? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6211 Registered: 05-2005 |
The threads are still there Stuart, but devilishly difficult to find. It's happening to me too. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6461 Registered: 05-2005 |
From Red Eye this afternoon: V/A – Songs For Slim (Jeff Tweedy, Patterson Hood, Joe Henry, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle and many more on a double CD to raise money for Slim Dunlap, who had a massive stroke) Damien Jurado – Brothers & Sisters Of The Eternal Son (two disc version) Mick Harvey – Intoxicated Man/Pink Elephant (his 1995 and 1997 Serge Gainbourg covers albums collected, plus two previously unreleased recordings) | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 679 Registered: 03-2007 |
50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong - Baby Trash 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong - Enough ( EP ) Busch - Entsetzlich Busch - Bossa Nova Busch - Busch ( EP ) Caramel - Punkpopgaragemods Caramel - Ole Zamora Groovy Cellar - Six O'Clock P.M. ( EP ) Knabenkraut - True Love Can Wait Kristallin - Station Most Wanted Men - Revisted Red Letter Day - Table and Chairs ( EP ) This Year's Model - The Clock Strikes Ten This Year's Model - We Walk Like Ghosts Various Artists - The 2nd Marsh Marigold Review Various Artists - The 3rd Marsh Marigold Review All titles released on the Marsh Marigold label in the 1990s / 2000s. German bands with the exception of Caramel who are French. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 681 Registered: 03-2007 |
City Giants - Provenance ( 1986 - 1988 ) Doggy - Des Stars Dans Tous Les Bus Doggy - Mon Colonel Doggy - Leurs Traces Dans La Neige Klaus Cornfield & Lotsi Lapislazuli - Little Tigers Klaus Cornfield - Comes Klaus Cornfield - Stay Angry! Klaus Cornfield - Sweet Dreams Of Anarchy The Haywains - Never Mind Manchester, Here's The Haywains The Haywains - Desperately Seeking Something The Haywains - Get Happy With The Haywains The Haywains - A37 Revisited Throw That Beat In The Garbagecan! - Large Marge Sent Us! And More Throw That Beat In The Garbagecan! - Not Particularly Silly Throw That Beat In The Garbagecan! - Cool Throw That Beat In The Garbagecan! - Cool ( EP ) Throw That Beat In The Garbagecan! - Superstar Throw That Beat In The Garbagecan! - Sex Tiger | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3332 Registered: 03-2005 |
Helpful information as always, Hugh. I've placed an order for the City Giants disc and also ordered The Felt Tips (more recent, from Glasgow) from Firestation. I've been lying low while dealing with what is unquestionably the most complicated, laborious and expensive change of residence I've ever done. But the $$$ demands are starting to loosen up so I can buy music again. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 683 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I have not been around much myself due to family issues but I was wondering where you were. I hope things settle down for you soon. Link to an interview Roque did with the City Giants. http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/blog/?p =1195 How did you get on with Feverfew? The reason I ask is that Songs To Hoover By Volume 2 by The Rileys ( fourth release in the Cloudberry Cake Kitchen series ) is currently at the pressing plant. The Rileys formed from the ashes of Feverfew. I was in touch with Roque recently and it seems that small labels in the indiepop scene are having a hard time of it at the moment. The Groovy Cellar ( German band ) who I like have just released a new album on Firestation Records but it is only available on vinyl. Link to a track on The Rileys forthcoming album. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu7_FMOVo D4 I was also in touch with Uwe at Firestation Records and they will be releasing a retrospective by The Gits sometime this year. Yet another U.K. band from the 1980s who only released one single at the time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFs1_Kz7Q 28 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGsiSYdSt Vw Link to an interview Roque did with The Gits http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/blog/?p =994 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3333 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh I pre-ordered a copy of the Rileys release perhaps about a month ago, so hopefully I'll be getting a copy. I suspect little labels specializing in reissuing uncommon music are always having a hard time of it. The fact that more and more people are getting used to downloading for either no money or next to no money can't be helping. And the economy: it's not terribly good over here where I am and apparently worse in so many other places that would normally be their markets. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 686 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, Nice to know. As far as I am aware, releases on Cloudberry and Firestation are often limited to 300 copies so it must be soul destroying when you cannot even sell that small amount worldwide. The proceeds from sales invariably go towards funding new releases and I think the lack of sales is becoming a major problem for many small labels. I would buy more releases from Cloudberry if I could but I actually own copies of every title the label has put out with the exception of those on 7 inch vinyl. I also own copies of the majority of the Firestation releases with the exception of those on vinyl. Latest purchases :- Catchers - Mute Catchers - Stooping To Fit Jasmine Minks - Cut Me Deep - The Anthology The Fish John West Reject - Fin The Puddle - The Shakespeare Monkey The Puddle - Secret Holiday / Victory Blues The Sleeping Years - We're Becoming Islands One By One The Shakespeare Monkey and Secret Holiday / Victory Blues are recent releases by the band who recorded for Flying Nun in the late 1980s and on into the 1990s. The Jasmine Minks are / were a Scottish band who recorded for Creation Records between 1984 and 1991. The Anthology collects together their first four releases and adds some previously unissued songs ( 51 tracks spread over two discs.) A Cherry Red Records release. The Fish John West Reject formed in Tasmania before moving to Melbourne in 1988. Fin was released in 1990 and the band broke up in 1991. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5M5c0w4G AY | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 285 Registered: 11-2007 |
Yesterday I preordered an absolute gem. I already have most of it but have a look on your own  http://www.redsunrecords.com/the-sound-b oxset-2014-reissue many tracks on the cds that have not been on previous releases. Put together with input from band members Mike Dudley and Graham Bailey as well as Adrian Borland’s father Bob, the box also contains a 36 page booklet with annotation by Tim Peacock of Record Collector, as well as the lyrics and ephemera. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6675 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Apartments - Seven Songs (Radio Session). Andrew bigged this up here ages ago, but I've only just bought it from iTunes. Three tracks in to the first listen and it sounds wonderful. Thanks for the tip Andrew. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 904 Registered: 04-2005 |
...and from Walsh's Facebook page, the new Apartments release has been mastered recently. Still no info on date or label, but apparently contains the song '21' which so moved me when they played Bordeaux in 2012. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6679 Registered: 05-2005 |
Good news. Thanks Andrew. Hopefully it gets a physical release. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3364 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yes, the physical release thing is big. I still haven't been willing to buy a down load. I want a physical release. It will be more permanent and generally better quality. The copies of things I keep on the computer don't have to be such great quality because they are secondary copies and I'm just listening to them in the car or on some other cheap device. That allows me to keep more music on the computer by using smaller file sizes. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 721 Registered: 03-2007 |
I have no interest in MP3 downloads but have purchased several digital relases from Bandcamp in FLAC format simply because it has been the only way to source the music. One example is The Gits Drink Milk ( A Cabinet Of Curiosities ) which consists of 32 tracks recorded between 1987 and 1990. The band only released one single back in the day and I suspect there is little or no chance of at least some of these tracks ever appearing on a physical release. Firestation Records are releasing Eventually: A Retrospeculative 1987 - 1990 by the band in June, 2014. From the band's website :- They came, they hung around a bit, they left. Hopeless optimists from Horsham in the United Kingdom who set out to achieve little and were wholly successful." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gOwdy_6 Oo Last records bought :- The Driscolls - Complete Recordings 1988 - 1991 Falling Joys - Wish List Falling Joys - Psychohum Pageants - Dark Before Blonde Dawn The Steinbecks - Kick To Kick With The Steinbecks The Zebras - The Zebras The Zebras - Worry A Lot The Zebras - Siesta | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 728 Registered: 03-2007 |
JEL - All The Blinding Menace One Thousand Violins - Halcyon Days ( The Complete Recordings 1985 - 1987 ) She Sir - Go Guitars The Crane Wives - Safe Ship, Harboured The Crane Wives - The Fool In Her Wedding Gown The Easybeats - Complete Easybeats The Gits - Retrospeculative 1987 - 1990 The Popguns - Love Junky The Popguns - A Plus de Cent The Starlets - I Wake Up Dreaming | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6717 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joan Of Arc - Boo Human Doves - The Best Of Bastille - All This "Bad Blood" (two disc version) The Painted Ladies - Play Selections From The Loner R.E.M. - Unplugged 1991/2001: The Complete Sessions XTC - Skylarking (Corrected Polarity Edition) The Moles - Flashbacks and Dream Sequences : The Story of The Moles | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6816 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just arrived in the post today: The Sound - Four disc box set (they'd better be as good as you people tell me they are...) The Bats - Volume One (three disc box set, because I'm a sucker for buying stuff I already own when there are a few demos thrown in) The Auteurs - After Murder Park (two disc remaster, because I'm a sucker for buying stuff I already own when there are a few demos thrown in) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3389 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, I found the Sound to be a slow grower. Jeff Whiteaker is a great fan and I started buying their albums on his recommendation. I loved the pre-Jeopardy demo album ("Propaganda") immediately. It is just about the PERFECT four piece rock band album in terms of sound, feel and substance. Jeff, of course (because he and I almost always like different phases of the same artists), sees "Propaganda" as a minor curiosity. Well, unless his view has changed in the last few years. I'll see him in October; maybe I'll remember to ask him. The official releases, starting with "Jeopardy" are less playful, less trashy, more weighty. I find that I like all of the Sound's records probably three times as much now as I did when I first started buying them some 5 or 6 years ago. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6819 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Randy. I'll let you know. Propaganda isn't part of this set, but there are BBC sessions, concerts, b-sides and EP tracks - 72 tracks in all. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3390 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hmmm. I wonder if the b-sides are things I need. I suspect "Thunder Up" isn't on there either which I only picked up recently. It's quite a bit better than I expected. The thing to keep in mind is that Adrian Borland is a comparatively homely vocalist, sounding a lot like Jeffrey Lee Pierce (Gun Club) to my ears. For the most part, his songs and music sound like the product of somebody who would ultimately do himself in. It's the sound of suffering, if you ask me. In that sense, you could think of him as a post-punk Gene Clark. Or, more accurately, just think of him as a post-punk British Jeffrey Lee Pierce. There are shadows and darkness in just about everything the Sound did, even the youthful and comparatively playful "Propaganda" which you aren't getting. I think his music is really worthwhile but it's definitely not for everyone. And I'm still going into it very slowly myself. I haven't yet picked up any of his post-Sound recordings. I will. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 749 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, It is a nice package which you can pick up for about US$20.00 in the U.S. It contains a 36 page booklet including lyrics. 'Thunder Up' is not included. Here is a link to what is included. http://www.discogs.com/Sound-Jeopardy-Fr om-The-Lions-Mouth-All-Fall-Down-Plus/re lease/5662688 Robert Scott - The Green House ( CD/Solo Spares/Shix ) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6825 Registered: 05-2005 |
I just bought The Church's A Psychedelic Symphony from iTunes. I've just hit play and it sounds wonderful so far. I wish I'd gone to the concert. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6826 Registered: 05-2005 |
... which, I should point out, was at the Sydney Opera House. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3399 Registered: 03-2005 |
At Unknown Pleasures on Canongate I just bought: Dirty Three - She Has No Strings Apollo Cancel the Astronauts - Animal Love Match Kid Canaveral - Shouting at Wildlife I am surely the only music lover not here for the Fringe Festival. And gone early tomorrow. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6852 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm pretty sure I have that Kid Canaveral album Randy. I've got something by them somewhere anyway. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 758 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, Nice to see you buy albums by two Scottish bands while in Edinburgh. I hope you like them. Padraig, Their latest album ( Now That You Are A Dancer ) is very good. Last records bought :- The Chills - Somewhere Beautiful ( CD ) The Chills - Stand By ( EP ) The Chills - Molten Gold / Pink Frost 13 ( 7" vinyl ) Picked these up at the Mechandise Stall at the Old Fruitmarket on Saturday night. I purchased a copy of Stand By years ago and no longer have a functioning turntable but I wanted to show my support for the band. They signed all three items after the gig. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6855 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, the tour version of Stand By - my friend bought it after the Dublin gig - has two extra songs than the version from a decade ago. He also got the Somewhere Beautiful album. It turns that The Jesus And Mary Chain played on the same night as The Chills in Dublin, which probably contributed to the half full turn out for the latter. The promotion for it also seems to have been almost non-existent. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6856 Registered: 05-2005 |
And I'm listening to the re-recorded version of Pink Frost. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 759 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, The sleeve lists two extra tracks but there is only one extra song on the disc. The other track is made available as a digital download from Fire Records ( Solitary Man which I assume will be a cover of the Neil Diamond song.) You need to register with Fire Records to get it and I am betting it will be an MP3. The gig on Saturday night was a bit of a mixed bag. The band were excellent but their time on stage was seriously curtailed by the organisers and they only managed to play nine or ten songs before having to go off. Very disappointing for the group and their fans. I spoke briefly to Martin at the end of the night and he said that they hope to tour the U.K. and Europe to promote the new album ( Silver Bullets.) He does not have an official release date as yet but thinks it will be late 2014 or early 2015. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3400 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, I know nothing about Cancel the Astronauts. I just pulled their album at random from the "Scottish indie" section. I'm still catching up with being back so I haven't heard it yet. I always look at the local music section in a store and make a purchase if I can figure out a rationale for doing so. Usually it will be on the basis of the cover art. You sent me some Kid Canaveral tracks a couple years ago so I picked that one up for that reason. I'm sorry I didn't get the other KC album that was there, as the shop clerk told me that one of the members works at the store. He also asked me if I'd seen them the night before. Shame-facedly I had to tell him that I had just arrived in town within the hour and that I was buying the disc because "a friend in Glasgow likes them." (I didn't think the situation called for such precision as saying "a friend in Prestwick.") | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 761 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I am not surprised you know nothing about them as I don't think they are even all that well known here in Scotland ( Edinburgh perhaps being the exception.) They have been around since at least 2009 and self release their music. In addition to the album you picked up they have also released three singles ( 1 x 2 track; 2 x 3 track ) and two eps. I am very fond of the eps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGhBKzfj 21s Last records bought :- Red Box - The Circle & The Square Red Box - Motive Blank Realm - Go Easy Blank Realm - Grassed In Sinister Luck Ensemble - Anniversary La Dusseldorf - La Dusseldorf La Dusseldorf - Viva La Dusseldorf - Individuallos Everything Everything - Man Alive Everything Everything - Arc ( Deluxe Edition ) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3402 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, sorry to hear the Chills gig was curtailed. That has to have been quite a disappointment after so many years. But at least your story makes me feel a lot better about missing it! After dinner Saturday night in Hackney I and my dinner/travel companion met a young New Zealand woman at a bus stop. I told her she should be in Glasgow to see the Chills. As it turns out she has her own band but sadly I cannot for the life of me remember the name; it was two words and not obvious ones. By chance she had eaten at the same place as us and was in town to play a few gigs in the London area. All I know about her band is that she's spent some time in Brooklyn and at least some--maybe all--of the members aside from her are Yanks. I'll do some google work when I have the leisure time. It's idle and idiotic to envy the young but one thing I really do envy is their itinerant habits. She was in the U.K. doing gigs, had spent a couple years in Brooklyn and was in Christchurch at the time of the earthquake. I seem to run into so many young adults living like that. I know you traveled a lot in your younger years Padraig. I didn't and sometimes the regret really eats at me. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1753 Registered: 08-2006 |
I agree, Randy. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6861 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, Rob, I did an interview in my late 20s for a new radio station in Ireland. There were two interviewers, one of whom I'd met a couple of times before through a mutual acquaintance. Probably because of that, he decided to play 'bad cop', and the other was 'good cop'. Bad cop - actually, asshole would cover it better - pointed at my resume and said there was a big gap in it and could I explain. He asked this in a manner which suggested that perhaps I'd been in jail for some heinous crime during this period. I said I'd been travelling in Australia, America and elsewhere. He asked did I now regret that. I said no, because I didn't want to get to my 50s and wish I'd spent two years backpacking around the world in my 20s. I knew I wasn't going to get the job. Good cop followed me out of the interview and hurried to catch up with me as I waited for the lift. He told me he was in his 50s and regretted not seeing the world when he was younger. It was a nice thing for him to do. I've still got a few years before I get to 50, but I sometimes (like right now) marvel at the wisdom of what I said that day. And I really only said it because the other guy was being such a dickhead. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1754 Registered: 08-2006 |
What kind of dipshit would ask you if you regretted time spent traveling? How do you respond to that? "Yeah, exploring different cultures, meeting new people, absorbing experiences that will serve me well the rest of my life, all when I could have spent 40 hours a week laboring joylessly in a cramped, windowless studio with you. What WAS I thinking?" | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6863 Registered: 05-2005 |
You can be my scriptwriter Rob! That's what I should have said. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3403 Registered: 03-2005 |
The thing I was thinking when I read Padraig's story was how I've run into people who feel a little bit threatened or challenged when I talk about some of my past decade's travels. I actually asked my brother and sister-in-law (she of "Summer of '68") whether they thought I was judging them or criticizing them for not traveling. They said "yes" and I said that all I was doing was sharing with them what I had been doing and what it had done for me. (They are both suffering from depression and I'm always trying to give them inspiration for possible escape routes from their mental prisons.) So my thought was that the jerk in the interview was actually insecure about his own situation. Blasting him with Rob's rejoinder would have been hilarious. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6864 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, I learned a long, long time ago not to talk about my travels in the village where I come from in the south west of Ireland. If someone has never travelled as far as Dublin, never mind out of Ireland, I found they didn't want to hear about any of my adventures. I put it down to envy and their fear of both the unknown and knowing they would never do anything particularly interesting with their lives. I'm not dissing my entire home village by the way; a great many of them were interested in what I had done, but I learned to let them bring it up first. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6866 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, I learned a long, long time ago not to talk about my travels in the village where I come from in the south west of Ireland. If someone has never travelled as far as Dublin, never mind out of Ireland, I found they didn't want to hear about any of my adventures. I put it down to envy and their fear of both the unknown and knowing they would never do anything particularly interesting with their lives. I'm not dissing my entire home village by the way; a great many of them were interested in what I had done, but I learned to let them bring it up first. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6867 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sorry that got posted twice. I should point out that many of the people younger than me from my hometown have also travelled a lot, and that some of those older than me were interested to hear what I had done, even if they had not travelled much themselves. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2545 Registered: 01-2005 |
Camera Obscura - Desire Lines Robyn Hitchcock - Man Upstairs St. Vincent - St. Vincent Laura Cantrell - No Way There From Here Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence George Harrison - All Things Must Pass REM - Unplugged 1991/2001: The complete sessions Humble Pie - Performance: Rockin' The Filmore Kate Rusby - Ghost | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 767 Registered: 03-2007 |
Black Cillas - Step Outside Love ( 16 track retrospective.) Sometimes Sartre - Songs To Hum In Days To Come ( 11 track retrospective.) Both released on Firestation Records and limited to 300 copies. The Black Cillas were based in London and released their sole 7 inch single in 1986. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wnLhbKNS 3c Sometimes Sartre hailed from Reading and released two flexi discs in the late 1980s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYLamysxx 8c | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3418 Registered: 03-2005 |
Algo Salvaje Vol. 1; anthology of Spanish bands from the 60s; from Rough Trade East in London Black Cillas -- Step Outside Love; mail order from Germany's Firestation Records Darling Buds -- Said Pop; from Rough Trade East Fire Island Pines -- True Grit; a Firestation Records release of a NEW band, purchased at Rough Trade East Sometimes Sartre -- A Retrospective 1985 - 1989; from Firestation Records Tinmine Soul Supply; from Rough Trade East Verone -- Retour Au Zoo; from International Music in Paris. Sadly I don't know when I'll be able to play my four expensive Alain Bashung Eps with picture sleeves purchased from Monster Melodies in Paris. I have to find a place in my new house with something reasonably close to a level floor. Monster Melodies is a vinyl-only store in the 1st Arrondissement. I went there with Jeff Whiteaker, formerly of this board. He reported that the store had the most comprehensive collection of Smiths 12 inch singles he'd ever seen and the largest Go Betweens section. They had a copy of "Spring Hill Fair" on Sire. At the same time this was probably also the most expensive vinyl store ever. The proprietor must have heard me telling Jeff how unlikely it was that I'd find TWO different Masters Apprentices albums because he promptly engaged me in conversation and managed to part me from 80 Euro for the four Bashung Eps, including shipping. No regrets, they're really groovy. |