What are you listening to right now?

 Friend just put this together - https://soundcloud.com/stringbender/working-class-hero

  I've never managed to see this guy before. So looking forward to it..

Anyone else going to see Jello Biafra at Bodega on the 7th May?

 

Puts a whole new meaning to the term "wobble board"

I feel like a child in this fred.

Edit: cant embed video. What browsers are you lot using?

Need something new to listen to - ideas?

Cairo Knife Fight

Wait just a minute!! That's tempting!!  Hmm...

Listening to "Palma Voilets" at present.........definately worth a listen !!!!

 M83.

Quite relaxing.

Tell me sweet little lies...

Fleetwood Mac.

Superb.

Oh no no you can't disgiuse!!!

I loved the bluray DVD so I bought the CD's for the car.

I had a listen to him. Some is alright!
some other blues to have a listen to...  Desert Blues

Eariler tonight I was intoduced to Scumraid. Sort of intense.

Never been into folk - Seen too many beardy folk in pubs with their squeeze boxes and neck-kechiefs singing of life on the canals or in coal mines. Same with a lot of Irish folk music just a wee bit too smug.

Well I've been blown away by this:

Mairi Morrison & Alasdair Roberts album Urstan. https://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/urstan/id511127272

She has truly the most amazing voice. Sung in Gaelic Ailien Diunn is heartbreaking and powerful. There are a few versions of this out there but they all sound so contrived compared to this, sorry only have this live version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3UH_HPYw8w

This old track pisses on the Dubliners version, sorry about the crappy video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cha_0DBB8Qg

I guess the one good thing about music is that you get more broad-minded the older you get whereas everyting else you tend to get more conservative.

Went to the XFM Winter Wonderland last night at the Brixton Academy – Chvches (average), Miles Kane (decent), White Lies (average) and the Vaccines (bloody amazing).  Off to see the Bad Shepherds tomorrow night.  It is Ade Edmondson's band and they do classic 70’s punk/rock music (Jam, Clash, etc) in a Celtic style, so all mandolins and stuff like that.  Seen them twice before and they are very good (even met Ade Edmondson, and Phil Jupitus afterwards, and opened a door for Nigel Planner after the first one)

You were the young one there?

Been looking forward to Chvrches when they play here for Laneway. Haim, Run the Jewels, Cat Power (although gutted no James Blake), Jamie XX, Kurt Vile, Danny Brown, Daughter, Earl Sweatshirt.... as well, gonna be good.

Also saw Miles Kane open for the Arctic Monkeys at the Enmore in Sydney, he was pretty good. On AM, can't wait for their shows coming up in May.

Joe Bonamassa & Beth Hart - their Seesaw CD.

After seeing the top 50 NZ movie list (in the film thread) I got to searching for the Ngati soundtrack - without success.

A number of good tracks but one - Haere Mai - is great.  Dalvanius arranged the music and had a couple of variations on it in the film.  The first is a group rendition - haunting and very melodic.  The second was an instrumental with saxophone doing the business - grrrreat!

Here is the closest version I could find on youtube:

Just got tickets to see the Hold Steady at Bush Hall in May.  Tres excited, mange tout.  Tres excited (RIP Trigger).

Might score a modern Euro-bird then.

Also got myself tickets to Foster the People at the Troxy in March. 

On the same Monday night (24th March) the following are all playing in London:

* Foster the People at the Troxy

* Ed Sheeran at Royal Albert Hall

* The Pretty Reckless at the Electric Ballroom

* Jason Derulo at Hammersmith Apollo

Not all my cup of tea (above is probably the order I would see them) but pretty decent choice for a Monday.

over the next couple of months I am going to see the following:

* Franz Ferdinand tonight at the Roundhouse

* Foster the People at the Troxy in a couple of weeks

* The Hold Steady at Bush Hall in May

* Violent Femmes at the Troxy in June

There was also some drunken talk of going to see Lee Scratch Perry next Friday night, as well as the Bad Shepherds sometime soon (but I cannot remember when that actually is).

Listening to a Pink Floyd  concert whilst watching an A League game and being completely sober and drug free, can be an interesting experience. "Learning to fly" whikst watching  Barisha going in with a two footed challenge was particularly poignant. And moving.

Not listening but reading..... 

Friend and I were listening to Cabaret Voltaire ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-IixtxKETU ) and he mentioned that one of the members, Stephen Malinder, had completed his PhD thesis. It's worth a read - thesis. 

This Gary Numan effort, live, is pretty good. -

Went to see Franz Ferdinand on Friday night - not bad but it is only when you listen to them for 90 minutes straight that you realise that all their songs sound the same.

Queens of the Stone Age and NIN tonight, yeeeaaaaaahhh!
And tomorrow night too!

Saw Foster the People at the Troxy last night. Great venue and a really good show.

It does annoy me how people just film an entire show on their mobile phones these days - one person even held up an iPad mini through the whole show. Kind of reminded me of this

 

 

Yeah I'm not as fussed about seeing live bands these days as I was. There is no energy in the crowds these days and you are right everyone just films the gig on their phones.

 

Also my ears are screwed with tinnitus so half the time I go with ear plugs in anyway.

 

Currently listening to the new War on Drugs Album - really growing on me.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Excellent 5 minute intro!

With the prospect of Newcassel coming over here, I have been listening to Northumberland folk songs and dug up my mum's Jack Elliott of Birtley LP (songs of a Durham miner).

Some great old favourites like Cushy Butterfield, Wor Nannies a Mazor, Keep Yer Feet Still Geordie Hinney and very funny stories (Hadrian's Waaaall by Scott Johnson, Silent Budgie by Jack Elliott.

Best song for me is the Harring's Heed (Herring's Head).  Can't find this particular version on Youtube, lot's of Scottish ones and other parts of Britain, but not the Geordie version.

Batucada. Some brief sound we got yesterday 

Went to see the Hold Steady at Bush Hall last night. Cracking gig in a cracking little venue.  Absolutely broken today as a consequence.

Edit to add the review

http://metro.co.uk/2014/05/06/the-hold-steady-live-at-bush-hall-review-we-had-a-massive-night-every-song-was-right-4716241/