The Next Big Thing

There's something badly wrong when you have two of the greatest performers and songwriters in living memory performing to 20 people in the arse end of beyond on an inclement Sunday night. Such was the case at The Bein Inn last night with Amy Rigby and Wreckless Eric. Not that I'm complaining but when you consider the crap that seems to be "popular" then I fear for the taste of the common five eighth. Glad as I am that Ronnie Spector covered "All I Want", it's no patch on Amy's own. And any man who rhymes "zodiac" with "pac-a-mac" is evidently a laureate personified. Anyway, they've got a great thing going and if you want to hear what The Velvets performing "Leaving On A Jet Plane" might have sounded like then these are your people. If there was any justice then they'd be everybody's people. Their reinvention of Amy's "Don't Know Nothin'" as a long lost Clodagh Rogers Eurovision entry is quite astonishing. They're in Aberdeen tonight, at The Lemon Tree. If you're in travelling distance then give Corrie a miss tonight and go along. They'll inspire you.

And, I tried to "embed" the code for Angel's "Lou Reed's Hair" video on Youtube but it no workee. So click the regular link and you'll be transported to that particular portal anyway. You can check out the man's barnet for yourself when he brings "Berlin" to Europe in what passes for summer...