l dates this Christmas. They will headline at the ABC2 in Glasgow on December 22 and the next night at the Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh on December 23. Their manager told me that tickets should be on sale from tomorrow, priced around £10.
I have also been told that the test pressings for the new single ‘Claire’ on 7″ should be ready next week. So if you live in Scotland you might even be able to snap up a copy at the gigs! You should certainly be trying Av
been a bit quiet round here of late,it’s just been kinda busy… Katie Sutherland -‘Because I Do.’ mp3<
Then go and make friends with Pearl and the Puppets on myspace…
!), I’ve heard this loads and can’t get it out of my head. This has also been played on Iain Baker’s show and it’s bloody fabulous. Expect to see this in the 17 Seconds Festive Fifty at the end of the year.
I have to put my hand up here and say that I am not an authority on Ry Cooder‘s music. According to legend, Bob Dylan once went to him at 3am to learn to play guitar like Sleepy John Estes. So if he’s good enough for Dylan, who are the hell are the rest of us to argue?
Cooder’s career strectches back nearly forty years. This compilation includes his covers of ‘Dark End Of The Street’ which is heartbreaking, and is totally instrumental. Its’ emotional strength is solely down to the playing. He also covered Johnny Cash’s ‘Ge
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t Rhythm’ in the late eighties, which was the first time I ever heard his music, aged eleven.
ooder has been described as one of the top ten guitarists of all time, and listening to this compilation, you’d be seriously pushed to argue with that. Whereas some have pilfered roots music and claimed it as their own, Cooder has always respectfully acknowledged the music that has influenced him, be it rock, blues, country, tex-mex, to name just a few of
He is also an accomplished soundtrack composer, perhaps most famously for Wim Wenders’ masterful Paris, Texas. This is amongst another twenty soundtracks he has done.
If you’ve never heard Ry Cooder’s music before, this is an exc
A somewhat disturbing story that I read on NME which can be read in a little more detail over at AllHipHop.
The man in the picture at the top is called Trick Trick. Trick Trick is a collaborator of Eminem, and Trick Trick has some serious issues. The man is homophobic to his core. I am not going to reprint what he said here -with freedom of speech comes responsibility, and his views on homosexuality are just offensive, not just to those who define themselves as non-heterosexual but any right thinking person. He has said, quite bluntly, that he doens’t want homosexuals buying his album. Don’t worry, I don’t think many people will, hater, bigotry has to stop somewhere.
I’m encouraged by most of the comments on the NME and AllHipHop posts that I read, it’s clear that the majority of people think he’s a sick, sick man in a very bad way. It’s time that society confronted this sort of hatred full on. There is no excuse. Period.
Oh, and anyone who tries to excuse themselves by quoting this passage from the Bible can go away. Stop hiding your prejudice behind religious teachings that you have distorted to promote your hatred.
Society is changing, and hopefully, not just with Barack Obama’s election as President, but people do seem to be realising that standing out against sexism, racism and homophobia isn’t about political correctness, it’s to do with human respect. Mrs. 17 Seconds and I have quite a few gay and lesbian friends; in fact, some of them – gosh! shock! HORROR! -are Christians as well. It is, as they say, not about where you’re from, it’s where you’re at.
As a teacher, I find many young people are becoming more enlightened. The school where I teach does deal with homophobic incidents, though in the previous school there was amazement that I’d reported one girl for making homophobic remarks about another girl. There has been the somewhat disquieting rise in the use of the word gay meaning ‘stupid.’ As a fellow teacher said to one child: ‘What do you mean, that chair’s
Escape Act -‘Loosely Based On Fiction (Volte Face Records)
Escape Act’s debut LP Loosely Based On Fiction follows on from the June release of the rather fine ‘God Says’ single Having been impressed by that single the album do
y needed any more Celtic magic, but the producer (Fratellis, Mogwai, Sons & Daughters) has helped them deliver a debut that any band would be proud of. Whilst it seems a bit obvious to draw comparisons with the Undertones and Ash, there’s defintely hints of those bands with both a bit of nosie and a lot of a tune. In this case, ten of them.
This is just hugely enjoyable, a fresh and exciting listen that continues to delight on every successive listen. Rather like the Strokes, here is a band who have realised that less is definitely more. Pure punky joy.
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Loosely Based On Fiction is out now on Volte-face Records
Deerhunter’s third album is their first on 4AD. This is not so much a double album, rather than a ‘bonus disc of brand new material [Weird Era Cont]…an album in its’ own right.
There are lots of great songs on this album, spread across the two discs. The problem is that it tends to be a little disorientating wit
h the sheer arnge of stuff on here that it’s a bit much to take in in one sitting. The album is a fitting one for 4AD to release, with its’ overtones of sunny shoegazing (or dreampop, if you’re American). At times they remind this listener of the Dandy Warhols, at other times Big Star is the point that comes to mind.
Stand-out tracks here include ‘Activa’ and ‘Neither Of Us, Uncertainly.’ There’s bits here I will want to hear again, but I’m not sure that I feel the urge to keep playing the album in its’ entirety. And that’s not a
ioned yesterday at NME, Orange Juice are reforming.
Does anyone know anything about this? Couldn’t find out anything at Edwyn’s site, but it would be great. Be interesting to know which members would be rejoining. Edwyn obviously, but what abo
