1992, Crown Hotel, Dunedin.
Tag: Music
Music and Dancing
Finally got around to uploading some obscure mp3s from the dim past – including tracks from Das Phaedrus, Age of Dog, Swarm, Body Bomb, Alpha Plan and a few of my own, spanning the last 20 years (just about!)
Presenting the Bad Clowns?
As a general principle the idea of Mick Harvey leaving the Bad Seeds would be a negative, but when his replacement is Ed Kuepper the situation becomes more complex, especially when the Laughing Clowns are back in town.
(Barbed) Wire
Just listened to one of the tracks from the new Wire album “One of us” – available as a free download.
Still brilliant. Contributing to my theory that post punk music groups can (not always) survive middle age better than pre punk music groups.
David Kilgour at Arc, 13/9/07
I ventured out last night to the Arc, which is under “new” management (again.) It’s a good space but has struggled. I’m out of the loop with music at the moment as I have been engaged in different things in the last few years.
Bailterspace?
The high ranking BailterSpace have some new mp3s on their MySpace page after many years of silence.
My pick is Place of R. Some people like music to drive to. This is music to drive space freighters to.
Games People Play
Some interesting sounds have appeared on my desk lately.
I discovered a copy of Roy Budd’s fantastic soundtrack to Get Carter and have been enjoying it a lot. It’s a great movie, starring Michael Caine in a career highlight, and the book it was adapted from (Jacks Return Home, by Ted Lewis) is a cracking read.
The soundtrack is crossover soul-inflected jazz interspersed with early 70s electronic effects and some haunting atmospheric work. Well worth tracking down.
Received from John recently: a collection by country-soul crossover king Joe South, best known for the post-hippy anthem “Games People Play.”
Joe is a grower, if you can get past the sometimes overenthusiastic studio trickery from thirty-something years ago, and this old country boy definitely goes with the Joe South attitude.
Dating Godot
I was alerted to a music show on National Radio last week featuring an interview with old friend and bandmate Andrew Spittle, now lost in the mists of the far north somewhere.
The half hour interview was great, and some long overdue coverage for the man who puts a new meaning to productivity. However the interviewer threw in a weird quote from an old Dead Weight article I wrote about Andrew, where I called him “one of life’s beautiful losers, a man screaming into deep space.”
If you read this Andy – you recovered well, man, after the first strangled choking noise you made. You’re right, the comment was made about your business acumen. The music stands. Or to quote from a certain movie “the dude abides.”