Another fine Monday and the alarm clock completely failed to wake me up. When I got into work, a good hour late, most of my co-workers had not turned up at all. My poor boss…..
There is no milk either, so I have to drink black instant coffee, which is better than a mouth full of broken glass, but not much. It is exactly one week until we’re off to Not in Pill Studios in Newport. And I still can’t find any directions to the place. Maybe it is one of those places that you can only find if you already know where it is, but if you don’t know where it is no one will ever tell you.
Rhysaurus picked up a copy of Brian Eno’s “Another Green World” for us from the library's music sell off last week, and I am listening to “St Elmo’s Fire” right now. I love this early Eno, it seems timeless to my ears. On the one hand I wish I could have heard it fresh at the time, but then I am very happy with being my age at the present time when the world of music actually seems to be full of possibilities again. It is easy to look at the stagnation that the major corporations seem to have created and feel that the outlook is very bleak. But when you find independent and unsigned musicians creating incredible music with complete freedom, and it is available for you to listen to for free, how can you be sad?
Here’s a thing: listen carefully to “Sky Saw” from Another Green World and then listen to Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man” from “Head Hunters”. What instrument plays the same phrase in both tunes? It’s uncanny, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say anyone purloined anything from anyone else. I’m pretty sure I’ve used the same phrase myself in the past….
We may be having a gig in the Singleton Hotel on the 25th of March, supporting the King of Despair. The bar is open until 1am apparently, so you can get yourself fall down drunk then go home and be sick on the neighbour’s cat. Or on the neighbours. I’ll let you now when it is all confirmed, but you can pencil it into your diary now. Or put it on the calendar in the kitchen, if you have one. I have one, and March has a nice picture of some foxgloves to go with it.
I’m going to go now, it sounds like Arena is starting.
Additional: Mark has put some photos and video clips from the last gig on the website. Go see!
8 comments:
woo!!!
and also hoo!!!!
I can see and hear you on the web site.
Can't smell you though, unlike Multiple Miggs in the next cell. He can smell you.
I also have another CD for you -- a retrospective of early Cabaret Voltaire tracks. Most are rather crap, some are crapish but somehow interesting, a few are great.
It was a pleasure to give you the Brian Eno CD, but I rarely listen to music like that anymore. I still enjoy it but no longer for my own sake: only for the sake of the person I once was, when I used to enjoy it. Does that make sense?
The only time I listen to stuff like that now is when I'm with you. You are clearly the living embodiment of my nostalgia!
I'm not going to Portugal now until March 29, so I'm free to see your next gig! Hurrah!
Why are there no dancing monkeys visible in the live videos? I'm very disappointed, I want dancing monkeys, damn it!!!
Music is good though.
There was one dancing monkey, but you probably didn't recognise him as he wasn't wearing his bowler hat.
I don't know which is funnier; that you call him a monkey, or you call that dancing.
It's nice to have you back Uncle Burns. Where's the Chot?
Ahhh... that was a monkey was it?
No, that was a pelican. The monkey made no movie.
Pelicanite: the only known substance that can harm Pelican Man.
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