'Drunkard in the Think Tank' is the title of a new Roy Loney CD out next month on Career Records, who also have a Deniz Tek/Scott Morgan disc in the pipeline.
Saturday, February 14, 2004
So yeah, where are we? Valentine's Day. That would explain the queue for bloody flowers in Tesco this morning. Personally, I think that the flowers should be left in the ground to be viewed alive but today they enjoy the fate of turkeys on Thanksgiving or Christmas depending on where yr at.
Last weekend Mary Lee's Corvette took a spin up to these parts and did a great show at The Tron in Glasgow. It'll probably be the last show of it's type at that venue because the greedy bastards charge upwards of £200 for the privilege of hiring it. But I digress, ML delivered a choice selection of her fine line in AOP. Adult Oriented Pop. Finely crafted and sung and an altogether commercial proposition indeed. Check out her website via the sidebar here. Prior to that we saw School Of Rock. It's good but possibly not the tour de force the hype claims. However, hearing The Ramones "Bonzo" at super volume in a cinema full of impressionable kids and (some) parents is something in itself. I just wish the guy who deserved to see this kinda thing was still around.
Other than that it's been a bastard of a week but last night I went to see The Waifs. They're an Australian folky pop thing that caused quite a stir at the Cambridge Folk Festival last year. The one song that I knew "London Still" reminds me of Iris DeMent's "Our Town". They're good at what they do but it comes over as too well oiled. Apparently they don't relish the fact that they're supported so strongly by their countrymen at UK shows but what the chuff is that about? An audience is a bloody audience and at least a third of last nights, judging by the accents in the bar, was from Oz. I think that in this day and age of lazy bastards that won't go out and furthermore won't buy tickets. They're doing pretty well. I left though wishing that Amy's Allison and Rigby could command such support. They each deserve it more because they have tons of songs that the great unwashed would like if only we could program them to. Walking around town I see Marc (ky Ramone) Bell is booked to play a multi-media show with two guys from the UK Subs in April. Another hapless cash-in. Yes he was there but only just. You'd think for Joe's memory they'd just exercise some caution.
I'm pretty excited about the prospect of hearing Suzy Y Los Quattro based on the extracts on the SCREAMING APPLE site. Go to the catalogue section and scroll down to the Suzy section. More about this outfit when I do.
Photo from www.underground-cologne.de. Spotted by Illegal Mover Flyin' Brian who will be bringing his combo's buzzpunkpowerpoprockactiondeluxe to that very establishment on February 27th of this annum.
Last weekend Mary Lee's Corvette took a spin up to these parts and did a great show at The Tron in Glasgow. It'll probably be the last show of it's type at that venue because the greedy bastards charge upwards of £200 for the privilege of hiring it. But I digress, ML delivered a choice selection of her fine line in AOP. Adult Oriented Pop. Finely crafted and sung and an altogether commercial proposition indeed. Check out her website via the sidebar here. Prior to that we saw School Of Rock. It's good but possibly not the tour de force the hype claims. However, hearing The Ramones "Bonzo" at super volume in a cinema full of impressionable kids and (some) parents is something in itself. I just wish the guy who deserved to see this kinda thing was still around.
Other than that it's been a bastard of a week but last night I went to see The Waifs. They're an Australian folky pop thing that caused quite a stir at the Cambridge Folk Festival last year. The one song that I knew "London Still" reminds me of Iris DeMent's "Our Town". They're good at what they do but it comes over as too well oiled. Apparently they don't relish the fact that they're supported so strongly by their countrymen at UK shows but what the chuff is that about? An audience is a bloody audience and at least a third of last nights, judging by the accents in the bar, was from Oz. I think that in this day and age of lazy bastards that won't go out and furthermore won't buy tickets. They're doing pretty well. I left though wishing that Amy's Allison and Rigby could command such support. They each deserve it more because they have tons of songs that the great unwashed would like if only we could program them to. Walking around town I see Marc (ky Ramone) Bell is booked to play a multi-media show with two guys from the UK Subs in April. Another hapless cash-in. Yes he was there but only just. You'd think for Joe's memory they'd just exercise some caution.
I'm pretty excited about the prospect of hearing Suzy Y Los Quattro based on the extracts on the SCREAMING APPLE site. Go to the catalogue section and scroll down to the Suzy section. More about this outfit when I do.
Photo from www.underground-cologne.de. Spotted by Illegal Mover Flyin' Brian who will be bringing his combo's buzzpunkpowerpoprockactiondeluxe to that very establishment on February 27th of this annum.
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