She can be a neurosurgeon / If she’s doin’ nothing urgent
A quick PSA to check that we’re all on the same page regarding McCartney II. In particular, Temporary Secretary. Good, OK. Tip of my mop top to AP for the o.g. intro. Images from FYPM.
Lady Joints
I took over my pal Tyson’s show Loose Joints on FBi this past Sunday, 3rd October. Hosting the weekly film show is fun and always entertaining but sometimes I do miss the days of my specialist music hours at the station. This week it was a Lady Loose Joints spesh, all female vocals. Click below [...]
You know the scene is very hum-drum
I was talking all-time fave raves with my pal Chris over dinner the other night. We’ve been friends for a good ten years or more, meeting as one did in the late 90′s through a shared interest in Belle & Sebastian. We were talking about upbeat pop songs that make you feel the same way [...]
I got us a song
As part of my radio show, I see a lot of films. Most films, in fact. There are some that critics aren’t invited to (the review-proofs & the stinkers) and some that don’t quite fall into my jurisdiction, but most films that came out in the cinema this year, I’ve seen. The worst ones are [...]
WWVB/BSJD?
A few years ago I decided as my new year’s resolution to cut out publications in print and online that had a negative vibe. Mostly this meant claws-out fashion sites and celebrity culture magazines that I perused when bored or in grocery store check-outs. This was around the same time that my old housemate Flippe [...]
Fate for Breakfast
Photograph by Samuel Hodge My four year old nephew, Archer Yves, held upside down by yours truly at my birthday breakfast a few weeks back. Not so great with birthday parties, I made sure mine was over by midday, inspired by an Art Garfunkel record.
I want her all for myself
Looking through my-my-my-my-my soul. . . Irregular internet access is having a terrible effect on me. My salve? Pop. Particularly the Blake Babies cover of Temptation Eyes. All Sunday long as I attempt to get this article outta my-my-my-my-my mind and into print. It’s hard to play the record and not watch the video on [...]
Why do you feel it? When will it stop?
Beautiful waste, stupid feeling Beautiful waste, wonderful feeling Stupid feeling making fools out of us Beautiful Waste by The Triffids is, surely, one of the best pop songs I’ve ever heard (mix tape staple). A big call perhaps, but heartfelt. A total jumping about in the kitchen tune, and the video is charming in that [...]
Blowing the moonlight over you and me
Just this, over and over and over and over and . . . Other Kevin Ayers YouTube highlights: with Soft Machine (’67) . . . singing May I? (’72) . . . covering Falling in Love Again (’76) . . . nothing good from his excellent Joy of a Toy era, however.
Lazy ways
I forget about Tracey Thorn periodically. When I was a kid, my sister adored Everything But the Girl and I remember making a cassette with them on one side and The Style Council on the other, the cover was something ripped out of a late 80s issue of The Face, naturally. It must have been [...]