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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10850 Registered: 05-2005 |
Deadbeat Beat - You Lift Me Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kab2l-Q 2eM | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10853 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Beach Boys - Sail On, Sailor | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10855 Registered: 05-2005 |
Victoria - Rushing Bull. Owes a little (OK, a lot) to Marquee Moon, but that's alright. https://victoriatheband.bandcamp.com/alb um/treats-lp | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2378 Registered: 10-2006 |
Track 2 is very TV, 3 very Grant, 4 very Robert! So that's the Alison who was starting to happen in there, also of Smudge? Overall, highly designed to appeal to the Oz jingle fan, and very enjoyable. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 380 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes that's Alison Galloway from Smudge on drums with Victoria. Band also includes Max Doyle who was in Songs (Robert Forster was a big fan) and members of Youth Group. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10857 Registered: 05-2005 |
Songs - Keeping It Clean (from a split 7" EP with The Bats from 2009). | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 881 Registered: 08-2005 |
People Say - Robert Forster live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbzv6lei 4rA I've just got back to my modest-but-clean hotel in Cardiff after seeing Robert Forster at a joyous near-two-hour gig at the Gate Arts Centre.} Life is good! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4981 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for that Simon. Robert looks great. Wish I could have seen him. And another: Breakfast On A Train - Robert live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiF-Qr65 ogo I have to own up to something here. I was a bit vexed by Robert's release of "Strawberries" because I figured it was far too soon for him to have a good set of songs. Robert, after all, has always been a slow writer. In an email with Pádraig in which I summarily shrugged off the album, Pádraig rose valiantly to Robert's defense. "Breakfast On A Train" was his rejoinder. And, of course, he was right. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 882 Registered: 08-2005 |
Randy, I nearly suggested that, but I have such a love for People Say. It was a good setlist. https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/robert-fo rster/2025/the-gate-arts-centre-cardiff- wales-3416deb.html | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2379 Registered: 10-2006 |
Florist - Have Heaven This all works perfectly, the acoustic frills, that warm drum sound adding gentle depth, but especially the voice. Beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MeWtFPr yyI | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 270 Registered: 05-2005 |
Florist’s album Jellywish is very good and that’s the best track. There’s a largely excellent CD of Neil Young covers in/on the new Uncut. The highlight is Margo Cilker (soft C) covering Comes A Time. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2380 Registered: 10-2006 |
Emily Barker - Sonogram Speaking of Uncut, about to chuck out some stacks, I decided instead to go cherry-picking through old reviews of stuff I’d never followed up, which is most of it; a lot has made no impression so far but this song really stood out, extraordinarily lovely, and obviously someone to have a closer look at. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZDiZHt0 htw | ||
| Gareth Unregistered guest |
Simon, I was at the Cardiff gig too and it was superb. I'm a fan of the 'Strawberries' album. The one track i've struggled to get into is 'Foolish I Know' but last night it was a real highlight. The other highlight was his solo version of 'Is This What You Call Change'. Never thought i'd hear that one live. And his band are terrific. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10863 Registered: 05-2005 |
Anna Von Hausswolff - Struggle With The Beast. This is magnificent. I wonder if she has ever heard Laughing Clowns, or is the similarity just coincidence. Randy, your thoughts on this please. https://annavonhausswolff.bandcamp.com/t rack/struggle-with-the-beast-2 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4985 Registered: 03-2005 |
I never heard of her before, Pádraig. According to Discogs she's been making records since 2010. The earlier records do not sound like this new track. Among her releases the random member/editors at Discogs have pegged her as contemporary, classical, vocal and prog rock. Sometimes her music is tagged experimental or drone. I must say that the first track on her "Live At Montreux Jazz Festival" sounds like something for Stuart. No idea whether the music wanders more into the jazz realm later in that performance. That album dates from 2022 and doesn't credit a saxophonist. Maybe she has fallen upon some old Laughing Clowns records and taken inspiration from them or maybe she just landed at a somewhat similar sound pursuing her marriage of jazz, prog and art rock. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2385 Registered: 10-2006 |
You're not wrong, Randy! I wish Struggle had stayed instrumental, it really builds up a good head of steam there, but then the voice and lyric don't really take it anywhere interesting. Always happy to check out an artist from Gothenburg though, a town I have great memories of, so I'll try some of her other stuff too. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4987 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, I later checked out the studio version of "The Truth, The Glow, The Fall" only to be disappointed. It's 4 minutes longer and a more elaborate arrangement seems to dissipate its focus and impact. And her vocals don't appeal as much with the studio processing. |