Whole Lotta Led - the Barn - Southwick - 26 April 2014. Superb musicians playing Led Zep songs, not a bunch of lookalikes with mediocre talent. The music tells the story. Listen and make up your own mind. Mine's already there...
Jem's Music blog does just what it says on the tin - it's all about music. Stuff he's listening to, bands he's seen, bands you ought to see and listen to, and anything else he wants to talk about - all music related.
Sunday, 27 April 2014
Friday, 18 April 2014
Wry's dry eye: Interview with Lee from Mok
Wry's dry eye: Interview with Lee from Mok: A while ago I had the pleasure of speaking with Lee Jones from Mok. What was originally intended as a simple Q&am...
Sunday, 30 March 2014
MacDogs the 2nd
Hot on the heels of what is without a doubt my favourite album of the year so far - Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey - Going back home (Chess-March 2014), here's my latest compilation/playlist - MacDogs the 2nd.
- Wilko & Roger - Sneaking Suspicion
- The Deep End - What's Up
- Aynsley Lister - Upside Down
- Albany Down - Travellin Blues
- Texas Radio - Too hot to handle
- Hoax - Talk is cheap
- Union - Sawtooth mountain/You're my Jesus
- Canned Heat - On the road again
- Wilko & Roger - Ice on the motorway
- Anders Osborne - Had my reasons
- Eric Steckell - Funky C funky do
- The Moops - Dust my broom
Should keep the pants shaking on my Shuffle this week. Clip above is the Wilko original of my opening track - the Roger D collaboration is totally faithful to it!
Sunday, 23 March 2014
The King
Probably one of my oldest popular records - Elvis Presley's 'Teddy Bear' released in July 1957 on 78rpm on the RCA record label. This was a US No.1 and a UK top 10 hit spending a total of 19 weeks in the charts.
Not too sure where this particular copy spent the first 25 years of its life, but it's been with me for the last 32!
Sunday, 9 March 2014
Gigtastic
Although many have been reviewed via the Jems Music blog, there have been many more besides. Here's a selection of tickets from some of the gigs I've been fortunate enough to have been to over the past ten years or so.
Saturday, 8 March 2014
Mixture tape heaven
Remember these? How about 'Wow and flutter', 'spooling', 'bias', 'auto-reverse', 'headroom', 'impedance', 'well' and 'Dolby'? Or the absolutely essential pencil?
All part of what is rapidly becoming a distant memory - the era of the mixture tape. Many a happy day spent putting together compilations from my record collection and, occasionally, from those borrowed from others. Tapes kept and tapes given away. Tracklists crafted, fadeouts and fadeins orchestrated; covers painstakenly designed, prepared and crafted. Music captured for a smile, all now fading like a distant memory. Overshadowed by a nondescript future where the playlist is king.
Saturday, 8 February 2014
City & Colour - Brighton Dome - 4.2.14
Apparently, this one was down to me. Seems I added their 2005 album 'Sometimes' to Steve's iPod sometime back. So, when the Brighton leg of their 2014 European tour was announced, we were in. Rather appropriate choice as it happened - because the last time City & Colour were in Brighton was in 2005 - albeit at a much smaller venue. We weren't to be disappointed the second time around though - compensating for a somewhat lacking stage presence, the band delivered song after well-crafted song. The audience demographic, younger that I would have imagined (City & Colour are - as I found out the following day - one of my son Ed's favourite bands), lapped it all up, singing along to everything and braying for more after the first two hours. Although not completely my cup of tea, there was something for everyone here - even a pampering to my taste for guitar solos with Dante Schwebel capably demonstrating just how wonderful a Gibson ES339 can sound in the right hands.
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