Nice sixties, 8mm out-of-focus cinefilm touch to the video. (slow MySpace video replaced with YouTube version.) which you’ll now have to see on Youtube as embedding has now been disabled at I assume the request of the luddite record company.
They’ve been around for a while and I’ve only just stumbled across them due to the increased coverage they’re starting to receive.
Reluctantly, here’s their myspace link. Myspace may be a good networking resource and showplace but its templates seem to have been devised by a complete tool with no sense of direction or space.
Seems like the MySpace guy had a first attempt at a template, went for lunch and could never find his way back to the office. He’s probably been walking into the same lamppost for the last few years.
Single out in February
It’s My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry & Be My Baby, released on Sane Man Recordings 14/02/08
Some pretty poor quality videos on YouTube but you get the idea. Be My Baby sounds really promising but the audio quality is naff on YT.
I can’t put my finger on it but along with the Spector Wall Of Sound stuff maybe there’s a brutal Trashcan Sinatras in there…
Probably the retro style and video makes me think of Richard Hawley’s stuff as well. (yes, they may have hairstyles in common, but that’s not it.)
I wish the bloke would tweak his lyrics to Cole’s Corner and get Petula Clark to sing it. Maybe a duet, dropping in some Downtown, I Couldn’t Live Without Your Love or Don’t Sleep In The Subway somewhere along the line.
Revisiting some of the Trashcan Sinatras stuff, I can’t get over how good a band they were and still are.
Apart from their own stuff, they’re prepared to explore classic tracks from decades ago and other genres and do a bloody good job with them.
Found this gem.
Hopefully it will entertain you while I’m still out of action with back and neck problems.
I wish someone would get round to putting the No Nukes concert onto DVD. I’d post a couple of clips but they disappear from YouTube very quickly. Just search for No Nukes or The times they are a changin’ on YT and you may find a few tracks, including performances by Bonnie Raitt and Springsteen.
Eclectech, despite just being about to give birth has managed to put our version of NOT The Cliff Richard Christmas Single on YouTube. Eclectech did a fair part of the animation and, as is her trademark style, brightens the whole thing up with her punk/goth or ASBO-seeking furry creatures.
Music by the always excellent Doghorse of AudioMangle, a company that will see to all your sites and animations’ sound fx and musical needs.
Apologies for posting this so late for Christmas. We seem to be a month behind the retailers.
With my probable departure from Camden, the town I consider my home, back to Scotland, it pisses me off that a guy who restricted his performances to the land of my parents, grandparents and their ancestors’ birth* is now travelling far and wide and will therefore give me less of a chance to see him live.
*My dad was an engineer and the family moved around the Middle East. I was born in Kirkuk, Iraq, but I am a ‘Sweaty Sock’ as we are called down here.
And the bloke seems to use a pretty broad range of instruments, including the accordion.
I remember the first time I saw Shawn Colvin at the original Mean Fiddler. She was accompanied by bassist and accordion player, T Bone Wolk.
Shawn told a story that, at a benefit gig, Bonnie Raitt approached T Bone after a spectacular accordion solo and asked him if he was married, to which he replied yes and enquired why she had asked.
She replied, “Your wife has got to be the luckiest woman in the world to be married to a guy who can move his fingers that quickly.”
One of few tracks using accordion I’ve heard (honest I don’t search for accordion music) is Eddi Reader singing with Fairground Attraction on the LIVE version of Allelujah from the album Ay Fond Kiss. A simple yet brilliant analogy underpins the song - the composer is Mark Nevin.
The video below is pretty good with Eddi Reader being nuttier than usual but the track on the album is better.
“An ice-cream van shuts off its tinsel bells, Winter won’t be long.”
Just found this great track on Tim’s site Stablesound.
Hewitt’s gone so it’s out of date now, but it’s still the business.
to the tune of REM’s “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It.”
“The older version valued lives, not economic Class divides.
Patients pay in ten years’ time. I’m no Einstein.
Liam Donaldson, Andy Burnham, Gordon Brown.
Labour party, piss-take, wooden horse ruse! You
hypocritic, patronising, scum bag gits, right? Right.”
Here’s a mini clip but to hear it in all of it’s glory and see the lyrics, go here :
Tim runs both Stablesound where he posts his own music and Audiomangle, a company which provides all manner of sound effects for animators, films etc.
Tim at Stablesound who writes music and lyrics and plays a multitude of instruments has launched a new site The Audio Mangle.
He can create voiceovers, sound effects, write a whole song, play and record it while juggling three melting ice creams on a unicycle without messing up the carpet.
He has worked on several projects for Greenpeace, The TUC, No2ID, Friends Of The Earth and Camcorder Guerillas amongst others.
I’ve worked with him and eclectech on a few things and not only is his work quality but he meets deadlines consistently.
The only downside is, that in such a competitive world, he is a nice bloke.
So, if you want to hire a bloke about whom Burt Bacharach once said “who?”, do it.
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