LOS CHICAS!

ANOTHER CINCO SONG!

CINCO DE MAYO SONGS!

MICROBES BEWARE!

John Wesley Harding · Sick Organism (performed by Wreckless Eric)

ACCORDING TO THE CALENDAR, IT'S MONDAY

As discovered by Martin Hayward

A WEE REMINDER

To mark this day where Amy comes out of isolation and can make it to the post office again, here’s Part 5 of her Girl to City podcast. All other episodes are available there too. I took delivery of more copies of the book the other day so any UK/Europe orders would be turned around real quick. 

It’s an ideal diversion for this current malarkey in which we find ourselves.
A portal to another time.

Check this out too...

SUNDAY SAFERIDE!

HERE WE GO AGAIN...

The Zantees - Lost Highway (intro) (Bomp/Charly) 

The Courettes - Night Time (The Boy Of Mine) (Damaged Goods) (1.59)

The Piggies - She Ran Away (Sparkle Time) (3.56)

Eric Ambel - All Down The Line (Lakeside Virtual via Bandcamp) (3.56)

Bithammer! - Urban Guerilla (self-released via Bandcamp) (3.19)

Danger - Good Times Overload (Family Spree Recordings) (3.03)

Matilda - No Friends (self-released) (0.45)

Kid Gulliver - Susie Survived Chemotherapy (self-released) (4.00)

The Yum Yums - She’s Got Everything (Screaming Apple) (3.09)

LHD - Boiling Water, Dreamy Girl (Dirty Old label) (5.12)

The Third Mind - Claudia Cardinale (Yep Roc) (2.53)

Family Spree All Stars -                    

We Are The Worst (No Hay Rocanrol Me Quedo En Casa) (Family Spree Recordings) (6.00)

Ben Vaughn - I Get Vibrations (Shoeshine) (3.34)

Baby Shakes - Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again (Li’l Chewy) (3.00)

The Dahlmanns - Already Gone (WFMU comp) (4.30)

Gelatinas - Sin Ti (self-released) (2.33)

Geoff Palmer & Lucy Ellis - In Spite Of Ourselves (self-released) (3.42)

The Courettes - Want You! Like A Cigarette (Damaged Goods) (2.02)

The Zantees - Lost Highway (ootro – not a typo) (Bomp/Charly) 

Assembled, etc. in The Elvis Booth, Saturday May 2nd 2020.

Trouble finding links or whatever to get any of this stuff. Holler and I'll try to assist.

SATURDAY MORNING DOS DE MAYO!

A WEE MESSAGE FROM THE SILO - POST NUMBER 7000

There goes April. Not much in the way of showers until this past couple of days but it’s hardly believable how the world has turned upside down. I’ll attempt to keep the daily posts going because it doesn’t seem like there’s going to be much else to do.

My email is out of action but I figure that anyone who needs to contact me is aware of how to do that. This could be an opportunity to just let that all go.

However, if what goes on here helps you through a few minutes then the job is done. This is Post 7000. It all kicked off in 2003 and the direction of travel has changed little in these seventeen (going on crazy) years. If it hadn’t been for Jeroen Vedder out in yonder Netherlands then you might have been spared this. 

These clips capture everything we hold dear. We can’t let that become past tense.

INSTRO-MENTAL DOUBLE BILL

I'VE BEEN WONDERING THE SAME THING...

SHOULD BE SEEING THESE GUYS IN GLASGOW TONIGHT...

WON'T YOU BE HER NEIGHBOURS?

ALL DOWN THE LINE...

GOOD VIB-RATIONS!

TODAY'S SELECTIONS...

KEN FOX CAMPAIGNS AGAINST PROCRASTINATION WITH THIS PINK FAIRIES COVER!

And as the members of S.U.P.E.R.R.O.C.K are distance, Count Zaremba makes an appearance here.

WILD PUNK SATURDAY EXTRAVAGANZA!

TURN IT UP AND GO-GO-GODZILLA!

IT SURE SEEMS LIKE IT SOMETIMES...

DON'T FORGET THE EL SOTANO BACK CATALOGUE

   

   

       

           

       

           

            Screeching Weasel, Joan Jett, Detroit Cobras, France Gall

                       

           

WRECKLESS ERIC HAS THIS BUG THAT'S DOING THE WORLD. NOT GOOD NEWS BUT HE"S GOING TO BE ALRIGHT!

In case you didn't hear the news that came in yesterday. Here's the take on it by the man himself. And if you never read his blog before then you're in for a treat. 

SO DOWNHEARTED, SOMETIMES...

REMEMBERING CHRIS GAFFNEY

A FINE TRIBUTE TO JOHN PRINE (with LUCY ELLIS in the IRIS DeMENT role)

AMY RIGBY - GIRL TO CITY PODCAST - EPISODE 3

NEVER BEFORE HAS SUCH A CHEAP GUITAR CAUSED SO MUCH MAYHEM!

MATILDA'S NO' HAPPY!

MEANWHILE OUT IN BARCELONA, 6 YEAR OLD MATILDA HAS A MESSAGE...

NINETEEN YEARS...

THIS IS WHAT THE DAILY WALKS FEEL LIKE RIGHT NOW...

THE WEATHER IS SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD TODAY

KNBT - THE PILOT

THE SAGE OF TIPPO

AMY PODCAST EPISODE 2 - Photo by Julia Gorton

GIRL TO CITY EPISODE 2

YOU'LL BE SIGNING UP FOR A DOSE OF THIS...

THEME FOR THE ROAD WE'VE TAKEN

ALLERGIC TO HUMANS

VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE OF BAD BEHAVIOUR

BEWARE OF THIS SCAM BY THIEVING BASTARDS IN MADRID AND LIKELY ELSEWHERE. There's been an outbreak of utter cuntery in addition to what you're already having to suffer. Some scumbag has come up with the wheeze of pretending to be out favourite hostelries such as Weirdo Bar! and Wurlitzer to try and siphon cash from patrons. They're using the logos and pictures from the bars to look official. Funhouse, Mongo and Chopper Monster have also fallen victim to this underhand development. As if people could stoop much lower.

THIS IS NOT THE BARS. IF THEY WERE DOING ANYTHING IT WOULD COME THROUGH OFFICIAL CHANNELS. THIS MAKES ME RAGING MAD BECAUSE I"M CONCERNED ENOUGH THAT I MIGHT NEVER ENTER THESE SACRED PORTALS AGAIN. So please, think at least three times before you donate. It's terrible to have to do that but this is what we're up against. It makes the 'we're all in this together' line ring pretty hollow.

Anyway, I was just taking care of a couple things when I saw this and wondered if overseas folks might see this and want to help. As soon as anything official happens to that regard then I shall circulate all relative information.
THERE GOES MY BLOOD PRESSURE AGAIN.

THIS MOTION IS CARRIED (AS HEARD ON EL SOTANO)

TWIN PEAKS IS 30 TODAY

MUSIC FOR GLOVES

Here is a BANDCAMP link to the MUSIC FOR GLOVES initiative in Spain. It includes our friends - FAMILY SPREE, FOLC, Ghost Highway Recordings and 
Jarama 45rpm.

If you feel like you have some spare cash and are sitting in your bunker craving entertainment then have a look (and listen).

Is there a similar campaign here in the UK? Hit me up with details if there is. Other countries too. I'm led to believe we get visits from all over.

RIP - HAL WILLNER

RIP - JOHN PRINE

VIVA GELATINAS!

RIP - DAVID RITCHIE

An important part of the Glasgow music fraternity. I'm genuinely saddened to hear this. Davie released the Wreckless Eric cover of "Sweet Jane" on his Vibrascope label.

My condolences to Donna and his friends and family.

SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN!

At this point, Amy should be in Hull for a show tonight...

FROM DIEGO'S BASEMENT TO YOUR BUNKER!

                       

   
   

       
       
       
       
            Sigamos bailando

WATCH OUT, THE WORLD'S BEHIND YOU!

MORE COWGIRL!

ONLY AVAILABLE FOR TWO WEEKS FROM NOW!

3 HOUR SHOW... PLAYLIST HERE!

AND SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN IN EDINBURGH TODAY!

AMY SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN GLASGOW TONIGHT...

CURRO'S MADRID!

I was really looking forward to seeing this in real time but that's not happening under the circumstances. So come take a virtual walk around the exhibit with me. 

Click the image of what could well be the coolest cinema in the world.

DANGER EVERYBODY! AND NOT JUST FOR WILL ROBINSON!!

If you’re here for a tune during my facebag isolation period then welcome, I shall endeavour to post something every day provided I’m in a condition to do so. This is a far from essential service but it might entertain you. And for now I’m going to refrain from people who died.

But the name of the act is very apt for the occasion. This fine wee combo ought to kick off this strand just right.

AMY RIGBY PODCAST

GIRL TO CITY Part 1

CLEAR THE COBWEBS...

LIKE JONI MITCHELL SAID...

WITH LOVE FROM CANADA!

RIP - BILL MARTIN

LADIES and GENTLEMEN - GOLDIE DAWN!

RIP - DANNY MIHM

Danny Mihm at
Hurrah, NY 1979

Photo by Tom Bessoir

Brother Don on Danny...

First time I saw him was at the Whisky a Go Go in 1979 when I travelled all the way to California from NY just to see the Groovies.  Roy Loney and the Phantom Movers opened those shows and I was amazed at what Danny could do with a small drum kit.  That kit got smaller and smaller over the years.  By the time I saw him last maybe 20 years later, at a dive on Haight Street, again with Roy, he was down to a snare, kick and high hat. 

But that was all he needed.  His signature snare rolls never ceased to excite.  

A lot of people don't realize that Danny not only played on classics like Teenage Head and Slow Death, but also You Tore Me Down and Shake Some Action. One time in the 80's, I ran into Danny right on my street.  I dragged him back to my place and played him The Trip * demo. First thing he said:  "It sounds just like the Groovies!" Mission accomplished. 

Danny Mihm was, to my mind, one of the greatest rock n roll drummers ever. Tremendously underrated.  

SEVENTEEN MINUTES WITH BOBBY Z

AMY RIGBY SIGNATURE SOUNDS SHUT-IN SHOW

ALAN VEGA IN MADRID (GRACIAS IŇIGO)

BRAIN IN A JAR - THE WEASEL IS BACK!

FOR ALL THE PARTY GIRLS!

Order now at Beluga Records or Ghost Highway Recordings!

YOU CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON THE FELLOWS!

RIP - KENNY ROGERS

FOR THE FLIPSIDE!

THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES

DO THE (NEW) MATH!

TALLAHASSEE LIKE YOU LIKELY NEVER HEARD IT BEFORE!

LET'S HOPE THIS PANDEMIC MALARKEY IS HISTORY SOON!

VARLA ROSE PICKS SONGS FOR SHUT INS - TAKE ONE!

ROOKIE of CHICAGO

MORE GREAT S-POP FROM PAQUITA SALAS...

WHEN WORDS AREN'T ENOUGH!

ANOTHER MAN DOWN...

RIP - GILDAS COSPEREC

Sorry to hear about the exit of a lifetime supporter of rock n' roll. 

I never met Gildas in 'real life' but we fought on the same side for forever. Always a bummer to hear about the good guys reducing in number. My condolences to his family and friends. He was a big supporter of my endeavours over the years. 

If you're not aware of his position with regard to 'all this' then head over to Dig It! for a crash course.

DAD'S DANCEHALL

Professor of Costellology, Kjell Magnusson found himself in Glasgow as part of his ongoing pursuit of Wee Declan McManus. Always good to see this guy and he gifted me a copy of this fantastic hardback book that he and his associates have assembled. It’s called No Action but I’d sat there was quite a bit of action in the 12 months it documents regarding activity in a Malmo venue called Dad’s Dancehall. 

It’s so important that places like this are remembered and this is a labour of love to be sure. There are Ramones pictures in there that you haven’t seen so that should be enough for some of you to take notice. Do it now because there is unlikely to be a reprint.

The info is in Swedish but if you send an email to info@bilderisyd.se then overseas order info will be supplied. (click the image)

MARK THE DATE CLOSEST TO YOU ON YOUR DOCKET!

THE THINGS YOU FIND WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING ELSE...

I'M NOT SURE I EVER HEARD THIS BEFORE

XV FOREVER!

JAMES HUNTER IN THE KIND OF GROOVE HE DOES BEST...

GO KENNY!

RUBBER TO BURN!

Is punk deid? Or does it just sometimes smell funny? The Phobics are often lumped in that particular pigeonhole but what they are is an archetypal rock n roll ensemble. It’s  a common mistake though and perhaps there’s a hint of a resemblance to that 40 year old plus neighbourhood disturbance but truly what they do bucks any trend brought upon by nostalgia. They belt out the truth with no small amount of love without giving a hoot about what purists or your average thumbheid (of which I’m one in the haircut department). Their joyous racket must surely appeal to anybody with an ear for rambunctious pub tuneage. 

Short, sharp and bloody furious, these Phobic fellas might well boot your jaded arse into action because you plain figured that this stuff wasn’t made anymore. “Whatever Comes My Way” is as good as anything yon alleged ‘last band that mattered’ ever recorded while the title track borders on pushing Scandinavian Rock to the man. 

As good solid rackets go of the sound variety - not the ongoing fleecing - the band is steeped in the stuff it takes to crank out anthems that might just restore your faith in a band’s ability to give you a good-natured slap about the hearing gear. The band is incapable of putting a foot wrong to my mind. they’re doing it for themselves. I can tell you from experience that you’ll have no finer time than to witness them in a London boozer or some other such hostelry.

"Burning Rubber" is something I hope these fellas will continue to do for a bloody long time to come. You can get a copy of this (CD only for now) direct from them if you drop a line to Tom via malonecrossley@aol.com. Ten quid postpaid in the UK but tell him where you are and he’ll sort you out.

AMY RIGBY GIRL TO CITY - EDINBURGH

AMY RIGBY GIRL TO CITY - GLASGOW

KJETIL JUST SENT ME THIS LINK... IT'S A BELTER!

You can buy it here!

TIBURONA

WHEN THE WORLD YOU THINK YOU KNOW IS FALLING DOWN...

COMING SOON...

DON'T MISS DLL IN AULD REEKIE!

AMY on NPR

ROY TRIBUTE IN SF

THE STEMS ON RTVE 3!

                       

   
   

       
       
       
       
            The Stems

INTRODUCING JACK CRUZ

Did you watch What Did Jack Do? yet? 

RIP - DAVID OLNEY

RIP - BOBBY COMSTOCK