KURT GOES ACKER (BILK)

KNBT10 – SIPPING CHAMPAGNE WITH A BIRD ON THE BIG WHEEL AND OTHER ADVENTURES!

Presented for entertainment purposes only, you are encouraged to support these artists and their work. Several generations need to be educated that there’s no such thing as a free lunch or music for hee haw. This title of this episode is a lyric from The Freshies song that pretty muckle represents my current mood.

KNBT10

Lost Highway (intro) The Zantees Bomp/Charly

Fiesta Electric Playboys Imposible

New Machine DANG!!! Apollon

Tin Foil Soldier The Hellacopters Nuclear Blast

Right Wheel, Left Hammer, Sham The Tremeloes CBS

Wrap Up The Rockets The Freshies MCA

Culo De Cuscús Grasias Vanana

Opinión de mierda Los Punsetes Canada

Wolves Big Russ Wilkins and Lightning Holling Bandcamp

Non Ti Lascerò The Courettes Wild Honey

Hang With The Girls Hoodoo Gurus Big Time Phonograph Record Co.

Tomorrow Came Today The Dahlmanns Beluga

El Grupo Americano Las Varonas Snap/FOLC/Delia

Get Us To The Eurovision Lola Dutronic Bandcamp

Ooh Ah Just A Little Bit Gina G Eternal

Dancing In My Mind Ben Vaughn Relay Shack

Supermujer Georgina WEA/Tool Music

23 Minutes In Brussels Angel Corpus Christi A&R

Avtryk Annika Norlin Razzia

Picking Up Beer Cans On The Highway Homer Henderson Lulie

Funny How Time Slips Away Billy Walker Columbia

Dracula YeYe Andre Pajares Munster

Do The Drongo! The Drongos Bandcamp

La Illusion del Ahorro Adefesios Discos AleHop!

Vote Those Fuckers Out Willie Gibson and Helen McCookeryBook Gare Du Nord

Lost Highway (outro) The Zantees Bomp/Charly

CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MADRID TICKETS!

THE WORD IS OUT - PLEASE SPREAD IT!

GREAT POP SONGS I NEVER HEARD BEFORE - AN ONGOING SERIES

COMING IN AUGUST - CLICK ON IMAGE TO PRE-ORDER

 

RIP - HOMER HENDERSON (PHIL BENNISON)

I DON'T RECALL EVER SEEING THIS!

BEN VAUGHN'S REALITY!

RIP - CHRIS BAILEY

KID GULLIVER IN MADRID - A MATTER OF WEEKS AWAY!

REWATCHING BETTER CALL SAUL

KNBT9 - BROADCASTING FROM THE PLAGUE BUNKER

Seems like I haven’t learned anything since my last one of these. 

I’ll qualify that with hating to babble because the music is what's important, introducing it to folks who might not know the stuff.

Click on the link below and you'll be transported to Mixcloud where all of these reside.

KNBT9

Lost Highway The Zantees (intro) Bomp/Charly 

14th Street Emily Spray Two Boots 

La Cuidad Huele A Sudor Ginebras Vanana 

Fall In Love Hayley Mary Via Bandcamp 

Rat Kinder Angst Kinderangst Music 

Kiss Of The Rat Nuevo Cateclismo Católico FOLC 

Soccer Sucks No Brains Plato Utrecht 

Won’t Let You Go The Courettes Damaged Goods 

Tura Satana Tiburona FOLC 

The Last Time The Dahlmanns NBT 

Gotta See Jane Ben Vaughn Many Moods 

I Started A Joke Kid Gulliver Red On Red 

Darkest Shade Of Dark Annika Norlin Razzia 

BBC Ming Tea Hollywood 

Tchang Tchu Yo Georgie Dann Discophon 

Blue Light Disco Mr Teenage Flightless 

White Beaches (French Version) Blue Violet Blue Violet 

Don’t Go Downtown Parlor James Discovery 

Baby Baby Baby Make The Girl Dance Roy Music 

Lost Highway The Zantees (outro) Bomp/Charly

RIP - BOBBY RYDELL

KID GULLIVER HEAD FOR SPAIN!

 

FIRST PRIZE! - THE PRIZE LIVE!!

RIP - JORDAN

IT'S HAPPENING...

 

THE COURETTES IN MRC!

A SHOCKER...

RIP - GAVIN MARTIN

THE UKRANIAN ANSWER TO THE BEN VAUGHN COMBO

THE GURUS COME FROM THE FUTURE

NEW LOLA

RIP - GARY BROOKER

ADEFESIOS ON BANDCAMP

RIP - DONNA QUATTRO

PLAGUE ISLAND JUNE 2022 - CLICK ON FLAVIA AND MARTIN FOR DETAILS

EXPLORE THE CANYONS!

LO LO LOLO LO LO LO LOLO! !

A SUGGESTION YOU MIGHT WANT TO FOLLOW...

FIESTA!

DADDY LONG LEGS BACK IN MADRID

REISSUE COMING VIA MUNSTER SINGLES CLUB!

MATT and KIM with K. FLAY

SUGAR AND TIGER 2022

ROLL ON SEPTEMBER

FROM OZARK SEASON 4 - PART 1

ON THE RAZZIA IMPRINT!

CHEAP THRILLS

BOOK YOUR COPY NOW!

UGLY UGLY PEOPLE REDUX

RIP - RACHEL NAGY

FORGOT ALL ABOUT THIS...

FEATURING SANDRA GINEBRA

RIP - RONNIE SPECTOR

RIP - BRUCE ANDERSON (MX-80 Sound)

JULY WEEKENDER IN "THE LONDON"?

IT'S A GAS!

FINLAND CALLING!

TWENTY ONE - PROOF THAT IT WASN'T ALL BAD.

I’m not really one for these end of year lists but a couple of folks asked me so what the heck... and there are links so you can hear for yourselves that these are worthy of your indulgence.

Absolutely my most played album of 2021, I discovered GINEBRAS via the trailer for a show called Sky Rojo in March of last year. My gateway drug was a version they’d worked up of a song that I since found out has had a trillion YouTube views called "Con Altura" by someone called Rosalía that I swear, I'd never heard of. Their interpretation just had a unique chemistry and down the rabbit hole I went. Turns out their debut album “Ya Dormiré Cuando Me Muera” (“I’ll Sleep When I Die”) consists of nine wall to wall pop gems. Ten if you count “La Cuidada Huele A Sudor” (“The City Smells Of Sweat”) which has a video just to make it even cooler. That last title is on the Edición Deluxe of their album on Vanana Records. GINEBRAS is getting more popular by the day and a friend I alerted them to from The Netherlands recently told me “The sense of pure and non-ironic joy they emit is very contagious”. They really seem like they like to have a laugh too whilst retaining the ability to knock out a damn good tune. I’ve never been more sold on an act since I discovered Hello Saferide and while I fully realise that being Spanish language is problematic in other territories, I don’t think that I’d want them to record in English. The language here is like an additional set of instruments and just plain old catchy but in the positive sense, not like this damn virus that’s been harshing our collective mellow. The Sky Rojo show itself is a hoot, made by the folks that brought us La Casa De Papel. Both Netflix.

The release of The Courettes “Back In Mono” (Damaged Goods) coincided with the band making it back to Plague Island and somehow waking this dead from the ankles up land mass for a couple of weeks. NBT types should all have their copies by now but this is an album that should be Amy Winehouse big. It boots that Mark Ronson/Daptone retro app sound square up the jacksy and turns it full Spector-al. Just a pity there are no pop programmes on TV anymore because this pair would make quite the scene and maybe jump start a whole new generation of hit makers. Is Later still on? The producers should be begging Flavia and Martin to appear. By all accounts, they’ll be back this way around May/June time so somebody should be trying to make that happen. Mark that on your minds! They’ve just recorded four new songs so I imagine they’ll be coming our way to coincide with that. Meanwhile order all of The Courettes records via their Bandcamp page. Full disclosure. I'm biased. What's it to you?

DANG!!! released “Sociopathfinder”, a record largely out of step with most other things that seem to have gotten traction in recent times. It sounds old but never backdated in the way it connects 60s and 70s shapes in a blender with a few shots of left field snifters. These Scandinavians, abetted by key guests from across understand the majesty of rock better than most and this something that should have a big stage. There are plans to make it live but it demands a scale that likely isn’t available to something unknown at this moment in time. I’m hoping that an opportunity will be forthcoming. DANG!!! will be back for a second season and that monster is currently being revved up with a view to the result being available during 2022. “Sociopathfinder” is on the Apollon imprint.

IN THE RED Records released “NEGATIVITY” – the first Scientists record in Forever. It also issued the final recording that Alan Vega made with Ben Vaughn, Palmyra Delran and Barb Dwyer in 2015. Entitled “After Dark”, it continues the pioneering free-form of "Cubist Blues". I’m pretty sure I’m right in saying this was Alan’s final session outside of anything he made at home with Liz and Dante. It features all the tracks except for a "Dream Baby Dream" revamp that will hopefully appear in due course.

Back to España and the debut by Tiburona (FOLC Records). They’re three Punk Rock Grrrls from Madrid and the statement of intent that is “Sola Y Feliz” (“Alone and Happy”) combines a stroppy spirit with an equally feisty take on what it takes to sound like they mean it. They even have a song entitled “Tura Satana”. That alone should have you itching to hear it.

Memphis Electronic’s “One + One = One” is a lonesome outing by Didier from Dum Dum Boys and Non! Lo-Fi to the point of No-Fi but pulsating to an altogether ‘nother backbeat. Great version of the Stones “Miss You” like you never heard it before. Mono-Tone Records. Numbered edition of 300.

Elia y Elizabeth’s self titled and “Alegria” releases on Vampisoul are the antithesis of shouty punk rock. These Colombian sisters recordings from the 70s are just timeless and I think you’ll recognise the song that is entitled "Pesadilla” on the self-titled set.

Kid Gulliver hooked us with “Susie Survived Chemotherapy” and find themselves collecting all the tracks that have come out since then on to one handy compact disc or album length "Greatest Hits" download entitled "Kismet".

The Primevals keep making them and the listening public need to catch up but that doesn’t deter them. “New Trip” continues their grasp on being trapped in a world they never made. That listenership needs them more than the band needs these lollygadders but some attention beyond the converted is long overdue.

And one for 22, seeing as it’s out January 24^th. I mentioned Hello Saferide before and Annika Norlin has an album entitled “Mentor” released by Razzia Records. The tracks I’ve heard so far indicate that this will likely head any list for this year.

The formatting went a bit awry but rather than do something that means I have to start again, I'll leave you to deal with the mis-spacing. Almost never writing anything here anymore, I'm not down with any of the stupid tweaks Blogger has made to irritate me. How we ever got to fixing things that don't require it only to leave more important work incomplete is a symptom of the times. May you continue to avoid the ongoing plague like the plague. That outbreak of common sense is still scheduled as far as I know.

K-OTICA!

SONIC REDUCTION

NEW TO ME...

INTRODUCING THE NAGGS!

COBWEBS BEGONE!

2021 SEASON FINALE

RIP - BRUCE BROMBERG (PRODUCER)

I WATCHED PAQUITA SALAS AGAIN...

JAPAN'S GINEBRAS?

THIRTY YEARS OF NCC!!

FILE UNDER SACRED ANGELS/LEGENDARY HEARTS MUSIC

GIRL TROUBLE'S FESTIVE TACOMATHON!

IT'LL LAST TIL MIDNIGHT ON THE 25th. THEN LOCKDOWN!

IT AIN"T CHRISTMAS IF THERE AIN'T NO PANTONES!

A BLAST FROM THE PABST!

WATCHED THE JOHNNY MOPED DOC ON NETFLIX LAST NIGHT

DON"T FEAR THE REAPERS!

RESPECT THE ROCK!

SOMEWHERE JOEY RAMONE IS SMILING, AFTER ALL THESE YEARS SINCE HE WANTED 'SEE MY BABY JIVE' TO BE ON ACID EATERS!

IN MEMORY OF FRANK COSTANZA!

SURFORAMA 2022

 

AS RECOMMENDED BY MR DUFF

THE BEST POP BAND ON EARTH RIGHT NOW - IN MY OPINION!

THE SOUNDTRACK OF YOUR LIFE THIS LIMITED FESTIVE SEASON

RIP JOHN NOLAN (POWDER MONKEYS/BORED!)

Los Chicos with John Nolan - My Pal (GOD cover) Off The Hip BBQ @ The Tote, Collingwood (21st Aug 2010) from Carbie Warbie on Vimeo.

RIP - MIKE NESMITH

AS RECOMMENDED BY ERIN BERRY

FROM THE DAYS OF WINE AND COLA!

SUPER ROCK 1983!

CARRY ON GURUS!

IT'S A HIT!

IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO NETFLIX...

VIBEKE!

FROM THE LAST PARTS OF LA CASA DE PAPEL

RANDALL'S ISLAND CONCEPT GOES UPMARKET...

APOCALIPTICO!

IT'S A HIT!

ACROSS TOWN FROM THE NCC SHOW TWO WEEKS AGO!

BRAND NEW HAYLEY MARY!

IT'S A HIT!

NONE MORE BLACK...

PUT IT ON YOUR DECEMBER BANDCAMP LIST...

ONLY IN IT FOR THE BEER!

FLAVIA'S BACK PAGES

YOUNG, PHAST, SCIENTIFIC!

THIS HAPPENED!

THEY ARE AND CONTINUE TO BE - THE COURETTES!

Them (fabulous) Courettes hit up 17 towns in 17 days and they’re just about to commence a blitzkrieg of France and The Netherlands. I finally caught up with them presenting their Back In Mono extrav in a venue called Mono. That’s the attention to detail at which these kids excel. The album turns the Mark Ronson retro concept inside out and forces their frequencies through the same electrical fugue that David Lynch favours by channelling Joe Meek-ish vibrations via some kinda Ouija board plug-in. Re-inventing a wall of sound-like barrage for these perilous times. Don’t take my word for it, hear it for yourselves then buy it directly from Courettes HQ.

THE RIGHT TO ROCK!

CAN"T FAULT THE SENTIMENT!

MORE MEMPHIS UNDERGROUND, I MEAN ELECTRONIC!