LIST 226 - 08/12/17
Hello again,
I don't regret much missing gigs-wise, but one that definitely got away was missing a by then extremely rare sojourn to Britain by Even As We Speak in summer 2008 in order to see a friend's band instead. With the recent first release by the Sydney indiepop veterans in well over a decade due to be followed by UK dates next year as part of a Sarah Showcase tour being arranged by Boyracer head honcho Stewart Anderson, I'm very, very determined not to make the same mistake twice.
Apologies in advance to any other friends' bands planning to tread the boards on whichever evening it turns out to be :-)
Elsewhere in this List, it's a pleasure to share a track I discovered on a compilation entitled Motown Meets the Beatles, in which Stevie Wonder's (still just about) then wife Syreeta Wright delivers a Wonder-produced interpretation of She's Leaving Home which you'd swear was created three decades later had you not seen the release date, so ahead of its time are the R&B stylings, voicebox treatments, and so on. Quite extraordinary.
Fazerdaze offers delightful shoegaze pop not terribly far removed from Alvvays - I'd love the New Zealand-based Amelia Murray to take in Indietracks and the like in 2018. Mammoth Penguins and Friends were of course there for all to see at the finest DIY festival of them all this last summer, and The Sailor is as Standard Fare-alike as anything on their valedictory effort John Doe, as deftly a realised indiepop concept album as you'll ever come across.
The passing of the French Elvis is reason enough to include one of his most enduring early rock'n'roll efforts at the end of this week's List. The passing of Christine Keeler is similarly all the excuse needed to unearth a single from one of the early-mid 1990s most regular fixtures at all good sticky floor venues near you :-)
J xx
I don't regret much missing gigs-wise, but one that definitely got away was missing a by then extremely rare sojourn to Britain by Even As We Speak in summer 2008 in order to see a friend's band instead. With the recent first release by the Sydney indiepop veterans in well over a decade due to be followed by UK dates next year as part of a Sarah Showcase tour being arranged by Boyracer head honcho Stewart Anderson, I'm very, very determined not to make the same mistake twice.
Apologies in advance to any other friends' bands planning to tread the boards on whichever evening it turns out to be :-)
Elsewhere in this List, it's a pleasure to share a track I discovered on a compilation entitled Motown Meets the Beatles, in which Stevie Wonder's (still just about) then wife Syreeta Wright delivers a Wonder-produced interpretation of She's Leaving Home which you'd swear was created three decades later had you not seen the release date, so ahead of its time are the R&B stylings, voicebox treatments, and so on. Quite extraordinary.
Fazerdaze offers delightful shoegaze pop not terribly far removed from Alvvays - I'd love the New Zealand-based Amelia Murray to take in Indietracks and the like in 2018. Mammoth Penguins and Friends were of course there for all to see at the finest DIY festival of them all this last summer, and The Sailor is as Standard Fare-alike as anything on their valedictory effort John Doe, as deftly a realised indiepop concept album as you'll ever come across.
The passing of the French Elvis is reason enough to include one of his most enduring early rock'n'roll efforts at the end of this week's List. The passing of Christine Keeler is similarly all the excuse needed to unearth a single from one of the early-mid 1990s most regular fixtures at all good sticky floor venues near you :-)
J xx
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