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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10076 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cathie Harrop - Cathie Harrop’s Ireland. A 1973 New Zealand folk album, whose existence I only became aware of five minutes before pressing play on a stream of it. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4599 Registered: 03-2005 |
Feu! Chatterton - Palais d'Argile | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10079 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jacknife Lee - The Jacknife Lee. LA-based Irish guy https://thejacknifelee.bandcamp.com He's also working on an album with Cathal Coughlan. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1421 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hey Randy, How are you finding "Palais d'argile" ? I really like it, but feel frustrated at no opportunity to see the band play the songs on stage  | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4601 Registered: 03-2005 |
I can't say yet, Andrew. That was a first listen; I almost always need more. And 66 minutes is a very long album; it's basically the length of two albums. I ended up multitasking instead of sitting down for the entire thing, meaning it didn't get the attention it deserved starting about halfway. I'll have something to say later. Interesting they decided to set a Yeats poem to music. Has Robert started a thing? Surely it's not a coincidence. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10080 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Waterboys did a whole album of Yeats poems a decade ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Appoint ment_with_Mr_Yeats and also did one, The Stolen Child, in 1988 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVSN9DMv l6I | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1422 Registered: 04-2005 |
Randy, Yes possibly too long at 66 mins ?! But worth sticking with. "Libre" is over 9 mins long ? Slightly bizarre rock-out on that one (The Byrds meet a post-punk band ?) but I imagine that it would be great on stage though. I hadn't even noticed the Yeats poem and apparently "Compagnons" is based on a Jacques Prévert poem. Literary smart-arses  They have a certain "intellectual" reputation as 3 of them met at a prestigious Parisian lycée and they went on to top "Grandes Ecoles". The once that I saw them live Arthur the singer rambled away constantly between songs, a mixture of observations and poetry ! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4602 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ah, then it starts with the Waterboys! I often consider not knowing the language an advantage when listening to a band because then I don't have to be distracted by the embarrassingly bad lyrics. But of course that means I lose out when the lyrics are excellent. I was wondering whether Feu! Chatterton recorded the album remotely. If there is a note about that I might figure it out with my almost nonexistent French but I have to bring out my magnifying glass to read the text on the CD case! Somehow I did manage to see the Yeats info without the glass though. I missed the Prévert credit. One of the things I credit to the Go Betweens--but surely the credit must also go to the Manchester crowd--is the creation of a pop music career path for university graduates. It has been followed by many since then and seems to explain nearly the entire Spanish music scene. I'm delighted to learn Feu! Chatterton fits in. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10082 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mina Tindle - Parades. I’m sure the Francophiles here are long onto her, but she’s brand new to me. This is fantastic. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1920 Registered: 10-2006 |
This particular Francophile has her debut album, I think, Taranta, which does have some very nice stuff on it, though it seems to have vanished from my French shelves at the moment. Possibly lacking a sense of edge to really make her stand out. I didn't know she was married to Bryce Dessner though! Or that her real name was Pauline de Lassus Saint-Geničs, surely worth recording under itself. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1921 Registered: 10-2006 |
This was the song that hooked me, I think: I wish she'd sing more often in French. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Hx0frW IfQ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10084 Registered: 05-2005 |
Interview with Cathal Coughlan about his great new album and much more on an Irish radio station. If you’ve ever been remotely interested in his solo work, or his music with Microdisney and Fatima Mansions, you ought to listen to this. https://soundcloud.com/paulmcder/cathal- coughlan-songs-to-learn-and-sing-ep-801 | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1361 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, Another interview with Cathal Coughlan. https://www.c86show.org/e/microdisney-th e-fatima-mansions-special-with-cathal-co ughlan/ There are also recent interviews with Simon Rivers of The Last Party and The Bitter Springs and Chris Thomson and Paul McGeechan of Friends Again and The Bathers on the same site. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10090 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks, Hugh. I'll have a listen. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10097 Registered: 05-2005 |
Flywheel - She. Wow, I just realised that 1996 is 25 years ago, so this album is a quarter century old. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 527 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff Tweedy - Love Is The King. Brilliant album! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10101 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Bobby Fuller Four - Magic Touch, The Complete Mustang Singles Collection. What a loss to the world Bobby Fuller’s early death was. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 504 Registered: 11-2007 |
My very first concert on 30.11.1980 a Saint Nicholas present from my parents. I was there with my two younger brothers and some of their friends. Double feature - Stiff Little Finngers and The Jam (Jam playing more than 3 hours) both in very fine form. A good start for my concert visiting career STIFF LITTLE FINGERS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC7RRv6B JGQ | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1934 Registered: 10-2006 |
How great to see the Jam back then, Andreas! I wish I'd got off me arse more often to go and see concerts when I was young enough to actually stay off said arse for as long as I wanted to. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4613 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's a great start to attending concerts Andreas! I had two older brothers so my first concerts were driven by their agendas. So I remember attending a concert by Stephen Stills' Manassas group. I also saw a number of dreadful disco artists because that's who my new gay friends in Los Angeles wanted to see. I saw the Village People and Gloria Gaynor. Gaynor actually isn't so bad but her microphone didn't work. That was at the Hollywood Bowl, quite a high prestige venue to have such a basic technical disaster. I learned that if I was going to see somebody who I wanted to see I'd have to do it by myself. So I saw my first real concert--one that I chose--at Royce Hall in UCLA. I saw . . . The Jam!!!! "Setting Sons" was the newest album at that time. They did not play 3 hours but it sure was a nice experience. So I doff my hat to your parents for actually paying attention to their kid and giving him something he really wanted. They scored. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4614 Registered: 03-2005 |
Correction: The Gloria Gaynor show was at the Greek Theater, another outdoor venue. That makes more sense, as it was a rather poorly managed location. The memory gets sloppy after four decades! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10107 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andreas, how amazing to have your first ever concert not only be professionally shot, but available for all to see more than 40 years later. My first concert was Queen in Dublin in 1984. Then I saw some local bands in Limerick - the city closest to where I grew up - and then in the summer of 1985 I saw U2/Squeeze/The Alarm/REM/In Tua Nua in the Croke Part sport stadium in Dublin. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1935 Registered: 10-2006 |
In keeping with my passion of the moment – and being my first musical passion, a pretty all-consuming one – I was at Edinburgh’s student union to see Focus in 1976, still at secondary but feeling pretty darned cool there with a pint of heavy in my hand surrounded by all those loud, meaty, denim-clad students. Of course nobody had told us that fabled guitarist Jan Akkerman had jumped ship before the tour and they had had to make a desperate last-minute grab for replacement Philip Catherine, a refined jazz-fusion player without any of Akkerman’s blues-rock chops and blistering flare. Nobody was very happy, either on the stage or in the audience. I had to wait, what, about 30 years to see Jan live, in Amsterdam, with what my wife described as a beatific glow on my face throughout the whole concert. And, despite the loathing I had for him in my heart on that evening, I have just about all Philip C’s back catalogue as well. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 505 Registered: 11-2007 |
Yeah, i was very Lucky and happy That my Patents Gave me THE chance of attending this Special event. Many years later I could take my dad to his First ever concert @ the age of 75! We saw the late Jackie Leven - and my father loved it. Nice Memory of my dad. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4615 Registered: 03-2005 |
That is a beautiful payback Andreas. At his best Jackie Leven was probably the most spirit-lifting artists out there. A nice memory indeed. You and your dad are both very lucky people. | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 129 Registered: 03-2015 |
My first real concert was Todd Rundgren & Utopia at the beautiful & historic Auditorium Theatre, Chicago in March 1980. The music journeyed from progressive rock (not really a fan) to pop. I remember they had a video behind the band for part of the concert; I was 14 and remember smelling pot for first time (it was everywhere). My second and third concerts that year were Fleetwood Mac and Talking Heads (both were incredible). My first actual concert was really KC and Sunshine Band and Seals and Crofts in a double bill in an awful suburban venue (I believe it was 1978). Someone gave my parents the tickets, so my brother and I had to go. Aw, the Seventies. | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 130 Registered: 03-2015 |
P.S. That Stiff Little Fingers video is great. Thanks, | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1426 Registered: 04-2005 |
My first gig was Wings at the legendary Glasgow Apollo in 1975. My stalls ticket was Ł1.50 and I got an offer of 50 quid on the night to sell it. Still the best gig I’ve ever seen. Never since experienced a crowd or an atomsphere like it. McCartney played « Yesterday » just himself on stage and at the end I swear that you could have heard a pin drop. The silence was broken by an utterly Glaswegian voice from the upper balcony that shouted « F****** magic ! Go yersel’ big man » and 4 and a half thousand people erupted. I swear that the building shook. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10108 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andrew, I saw McCartney in Sydney a few years back. There has been a bit of price inflation in the meantime. It was $250, and worth every cent. | ||
| David Unregistered guest |
Jackie Leven is my favourite live performer bar none. His wonderful guitar playing, magnificent voice and endless shaggy dog stories were a joy. I still miss the great man who i was fortunate enough to chat with a few times - he would talk to anyone and spend his half time break at the bar with the crowd drinking treble vodkas. As close to a hero as i have. |