tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83089489735320258112024-03-13T01:14:10.506-07:00Groove OrgyNew music blog with news, reviews, videos, downloads and general shenanigans.Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-59034703336105948022012-09-02T07:02:00.001-07:002012-09-02T07:04:26.662-07:00Kreidler - Den<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a world saturated by pop culture cynicism, the association between
rock music and rebellion looking more and more like a bad joke with every
decade, it seems to me that the gradual rise in the underground of what I call
‘rock band self harm’ can be seen as perhaps one of today’s most relevant trends...</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsuygJPatdNTSGDMRbPLgzviJoTQSfoXwmHvuTq8YIJnwVDfnalEQD6RcuM-BSc9bKCWMs9iXwrBEXQeDHs52w_nlcVLeQ0l9-rDU7tyCj2SIJDHftgQCm4OS_r548YXWgY3mX9p4cgTM/s1600/mr+fogg.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsuygJPatdNTSGDMRbPLgzviJoTQSfoXwmHvuTq8YIJnwVDfnalEQD6RcuM-BSc9bKCWMs9iXwrBEXQeDHs52w_nlcVLeQ0l9-rDU7tyCj2SIJDHftgQCm4OS_r548YXWgY3mX9p4cgTM/s200/mr+fogg.png" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr Fogg, Reading’s kookiest pop prodigy, has graced us with a follow-up
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2QS4gy4QkEtuTe90cibDqC0KLuioemw0VcZluTG-scUgU05Mt8lK9W386oqT3cljV-ArHDVjNWbfJVrxozflv3j3zCm0gK9k-tS55JSo6Dm6g7FTnaexMx2uQr1WEjbjBnb9nzeuzVpM/s1600/crocodiles.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2QS4gy4QkEtuTe90cibDqC0KLuioemw0VcZluTG-scUgU05Mt8lK9W386oqT3cljV-ArHDVjNWbfJVrxozflv3j3zCm0gK9k-tS55JSo6Dm6g7FTnaexMx2uQr1WEjbjBnb9nzeuzVpM/s200/crocodiles.png" width="200" /></a><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As someone who, from time to time, has been known to defend the record
geeks behind indie rock and the whole ‘new music through archaeology’ formula,
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recipe – Phil Spector, Velvet Underground, Beach Boys, Doors – which brings
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But something’s wrong, and immediately I’m uncomfortably aware of the midday
breeze coming through my bedroom window, and my fantasy wafts away like a fart
in the wind. What’s snapped me out of it is not only the realization that this
isn’t a gig: this isn’t even a rock band.<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://grooveorgy.blogspot.co.uk/p/collisions-believe-in-this-ep.html">READ FULL ARTICLE HERE</a></span></div>Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-53557036720991690552012-07-30T02:45:00.001-07:002012-07-30T02:45:52.437-07:00Gossip – A joyful noise<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Looking through the comments on youtube videos of old Gossip songs is an uncomfortable exposé on how they hit the big-time in 2006. In amongst all the “you go girl”‘s and tiffs over the sex appeal of larger-than-life women, it doesn’t seem like anyone has anything to say about their</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">music.</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> Back then Beth Ditto may indeed have been a conversation starter, rivalling Adele as the epitome of the anti-model, defiantly baring her gargantuan buttocks in the direction of</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> the twig-thin catwalkers of the glossy magazine rack, but once you stripped them of alternative fashion icon status, Gossip always seemed to be a little short of things to say...</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://grooveorgy.blogspot.co.uk/p/gossip-joyful-noise.html">READ FULL ARTICLE HERE</a></span>Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-67380911177563036772012-07-30T02:39:00.001-07:002012-07-30T02:39:08.644-07:00Nada Surf - ‘The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy’<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Prior to the release of their sixth original album, ‘The Stars Are
Indifferent To Astronomy’, Nada Surf announced their intent for a return to a
more visceral, practice room aesthetic. For a band whose retreat from
skate-punk tinged alternative rock testosterone (and with it commercial growth)
came almost immediately after the buzz of their one and only college radio hit
back in ‘95...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://grooveorgy.blogspot.co.uk/p/nada-surf-stars-are-indifferent-to.html">READ FULL ARTICLE HERE </a></span><!--EndFragment-->Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-91669487779317080712012-03-07T12:07:00.002-08:002012-03-07T12:08:15.545-08:00Portico Quartet - Portico Quartet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoMM8DGSHj5lmbpgyaHDHSuggS07aJLSnghA4YaLYsb0FsL7q1Umz7tXAdVmDILDOprx9HBfCvbtjGgiboL52_F7Sv7f0zHx_1yCTEUHLVwvZr4pQJJbVlQ5N43LIxAzLD7fxEbs38Q8k/s1600/porticoquartet_RGB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoMM8DGSHj5lmbpgyaHDHSuggS07aJLSnghA4YaLYsb0FsL7q1Umz7tXAdVmDILDOprx9HBfCvbtjGgiboL52_F7Sv7f0zHx_1yCTEUHLVwvZr4pQJJbVlQ5N43LIxAzLD7fxEbs38Q8k/s200/porticoquartet_RGB.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you’d have surrendered your spare change to Portico Quartet’s hat on a drizzly London day sometime before their rise to the throne of youth-friendly post-jazz jamming, it may not have been obvious that a few years later they’d be competing for a place as the next Four Tet. However, after the electronic hinting of 2009’s Isla, it shouldn’t be too shocking that the follow-up has found an infatuation with synthetic production– an infatuation that all but buries the sax and hang drum rambling of their tube station busking days.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><a href="http://grooveorgy.blogspot.com/p/portico-quartet-portico-quartet.html"><span style="font-size: large;">READ FULL ARTICLE</span></a></span></div>Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-34491634462220498022012-02-18T07:43:00.001-08:002012-04-16T09:22:13.733-07:00Anomie Belle - Slither<div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXpatv6gRGJ5smDj488IpxzFVpBeQbgBA0oTrmsBi2B7aFl1BrfT2N3OSd1HVZsbuBcs4zdYC1Vzun91yxtvsoxjNA9X5BfkXj6b-6PF2beALNBrvRJFlLTrvBYI0ECS2oQeoim4le7kw/s1600/slither_cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXpatv6gRGJ5smDj488IpxzFVpBeQbgBA0oTrmsBi2B7aFl1BrfT2N3OSd1HVZsbuBcs4zdYC1Vzun91yxtvsoxjNA9X5BfkXj6b-6PF2beALNBrvRJFlLTrvBYI0ECS2oQeoim4le7kw/s200/slither_cover.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anomie Belle’s new single, ‘Slither’, follows November’s ‘Machine’, a single widely cited as an important part of the soundtrack to Occupy Wall Street. ‘Slither’, a collaboration with Sneaker Pimps’ Ian Pickering, suggests she's since got her hands on some chill pills - this one's much less urgent, a new age, floating down the river kind of track. Frictionless and sleek in its dynamics, it’s both unchallenging and subtly sophisticated.</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Belle chews her words in a strange sort of way, with tones, pronunciations, and articulations the conventional singer wouldn’t go near. In a way it’s very similar to what Joanna Newsom does, but in place of Joanna’s folky innocence Anomie has a cool similar to Bajka (known for her work on Bonobo’s ‘Days To Come’).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Slither’ might not have the punch of protest that ‘Machines’ brandished, but its understated presence has a tender, almost surreal beauty. With its gentle gongs and <i>House Of Flying Daggers</i> strings towards the end, this is the sort of track Buddhist monks would be swaying to if they’d entered the iPod age.</span><o:p></o:p></div>Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-56598369506108988442012-02-18T07:40:00.001-08:002012-04-16T09:34:48.798-07:00Stressechoes - Bitter Acoustic Noise EP<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPqf-IrchGdJ44XLw4Houm1BopiaTbi_c2sEenMk64YNd009PsuJKnDNy4Ba1PWViUilGlfdlk-knTDSBJCK3JwI2pNDL8a242UCgD4YH5kBE2bC-_reaL_ZFst7JTl4BwZDjG7K6-mlw/s1600/stressechoes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPqf-IrchGdJ44XLw4Houm1BopiaTbi_c2sEenMk64YNd009PsuJKnDNy4Ba1PWViUilGlfdlk-knTDSBJCK3JwI2pNDL8a242UCgD4YH5kBE2bC-_reaL_ZFst7JTl4BwZDjG7K6-mlw/s200/stressechoes.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In last month’s MAG review I teased Rufio Summers for naming his EP ‘Over It’ – an ironic choice, I suggested, for an EP that’s arguably a bit of a blubfest. It seems my sardonicisms can extend to February – the first chorus of Stressechoes’ ‘Bitter Acoustic Noise EP’, this month’s choice, appropriates a questionably relevant Dr Johnson quote most will recognize from Hunter S. Thompson’s ‘Fear and Loathing and Las Vegas’: “he who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man”. Artistic license and abstract interpretations considered, it’s still hard to understand why these guys would pick said quote to introduce an EP that’s only a few jaunty riffs and a twinkle-in-the-eye away from being Cheltenham’s resident authority on ‘the pain of being a man’. Someone call a shrink: Gloucestershire is in denial!</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://grooveorgy.blogspot.com/p/stressechoes-bitter-acoustic-noise-ep.html">READ FULL ARTICLE HERE</a></span></div>Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-4345908733211763122012-01-20T10:03:00.001-08:002012-01-20T10:06:41.150-08:00The Twilight Sad - Another Bed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNobRT4GiG-4yTCIMmoOSPbw2J6bY_aFJUTK_XZBb1F9RGM91lHGieZ3gnXGYbbfeuZa27jBr4YZSDnqnVpLQ1BmN5Es6vfHyDKvhuJjuMWAiFXEnYD_o1Pe_sYvngcv8KmrprjhPSc6o/s1600/twilight+sad.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNobRT4GiG-4yTCIMmoOSPbw2J6bY_aFJUTK_XZBb1F9RGM91lHGieZ3gnXGYbbfeuZa27jBr4YZSDnqnVpLQ1BmN5Es6vfHyDKvhuJjuMWAiFXEnYD_o1Pe_sYvngcv8KmrprjhPSc6o/s1600/twilight+sad.jpeg" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Nowadays, if you haven’t re-created yourself by album number three, you might as well be signing up to stack shelves at Morrisons. That’s why The Twilight Sad’s new single, ‘Another Bed’ – which displaces the diesel-thick noise folk they have been known for in the past for chilling, industrial gothica - is a smart move. It rolls along like a corrugated conveyor belt, the bass throbbing mechanically in straight 16’s, saturated with morose vintage synths and hopelessly bleak ambience. It’s like what New Order would be jamming today if Ian Curtis came back from the grave. They’re so adept at doom-peddling it’s actually hard to imagine that they recorded in a studio, not outside in a fucking</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">thunderstorm</span></i><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">. They’ve got some convincing emotional baggage, and know how to create atmosphere</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"> </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">(sounds like they have as much fun with their bounty of effects boxes as any shoegaze pedal-boffin), but</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"> </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">for fuck’s sake, someone give them a hug or something<i>.</i><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-54874156955274506652012-01-20T10:01:00.000-08:002012-01-20T10:07:09.962-08:00Underclass - Beat Your Fist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioy3TcqMyvqr540E-xKU1lBA7Bc08mLCf28VuACHt1frtAAkiSlvgkcfqp6Eyox9N8k8ZsVCGVCE_sihDeVkb9BGW8ImrJKu99EoW0EYOWE9dAtCSesehG_WebSU1LExYqJoVTUItAGQY/s1600/underclass_-_beat_your_fist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioy3TcqMyvqr540E-xKU1lBA7Bc08mLCf28VuACHt1frtAAkiSlvgkcfqp6Eyox9N8k8ZsVCGVCE_sihDeVkb9BGW8ImrJKu99EoW0EYOWE9dAtCSesehG_WebSU1LExYqJoVTUItAGQY/s200/underclass_-_beat_your_fist.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their Facebook page may big them up as the next genre-smashing big thing, but in their latest release, ‘Beat Your Fist’, I can’t hear the faintest hint of most of the genres Underclass claim to have welded together. To me this is symptomatic of a patronising trend I have noticed a lot of recently – a band sing a pentatonic scale and suddenly they play ‘blues’; they use a wacky sounding synth and suddenly they’re ‘psychedelic’. Ok, rant over.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Contrary to what I may have insinuated, I don’t actually dislike this record. The middle 8 may sound a little like an alt rock nursery rhyme but the throaty brute force of that riff isn’t fucking around – it’s like something Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would play if someone hosed them out of bed at six in the morning. There’s an anthemic quality to the chorus, but it lacks the memorability needed to be a true rock anthem – next week I’ll have probably forgotten it.</span><o:p></o:p></div>Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-50345869127078429732012-01-16T06:25:00.000-08:002012-01-16T06:25:26.253-08:00The Dustaphonics - Party Girl<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFdk-nANUeTFGrGjGbpnkk7QSGh_fppAS1I_Er1l4VL0dVO6djC32ZyU_a2CDYgFi-xovj7P-hJWdhe5fHOCQGiAvDsPW5to0tEpwh7GA8PxGdhqUPBp0xSmNx7lsvuVLX-Q_ncDE7Cug/s1600/dustaphonics_party_girl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFdk-nANUeTFGrGjGbpnkk7QSGh_fppAS1I_Er1l4VL0dVO6djC32ZyU_a2CDYgFi-xovj7P-hJWdhe5fHOCQGiAvDsPW5to0tEpwh7GA8PxGdhqUPBp0xSmNx7lsvuVLX-Q_ncDE7Cug/s200/dustaphonics_party_girl.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">It’s like something from Kerouac’s <i>On The Road</i> - the dank smell of whiskey and stale cigarette smoke curls through the bar, thick and cancerous. It hangs in the witching hour gloom. A woman in stockings and a feather boa moans a tune from across the top of a battered grand piano. She’s sexy and dangerous and mostly every man sober enough to lift his head off the bar is swaying to her hypnotic spell. There are silhouettes of old negroes, sleazy looking men in shabby hats, sunken-eyed junkies - all clanking their bottles and stumbling around in the smog to the ramshackle clatter of the band.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://grooveorgy.blogspot.com/p/dustaphonics-party-girl.html"><span style="font-size: large;">READ FULL REVIEW HERE</span></a></span></div>Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-62091749957749757412012-01-13T06:40:00.000-08:002012-01-20T10:04:28.509-08:00Fresh Reviews - Iarla O'Lionaird, Bankrupt, Rufio Summers<div class="p1" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aloha one and all. Got a few new reviews up, pre-release from Lights Go Out, Mudkiss and MAG fanzines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The three artists involved really couldn't contrast any more - Iarla O'Lionard, the smooth-voiced celtic folk-sop of Afro Celt Sound System; Bankrupt, a snotty punk/ surf band from Budapest; and Rufio Summers, Gloucester's own bright-futured soul troubadour. Next up I'll probably be slapping death metal next to X Factor winners.</span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1471414410"><br />
</a></span></div><div class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://grooveorgy.blogspot.com/p/reviews-bankrupt-ialar-olionard-rufio.html">READ ARTICLES HERE</a></span></div>Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-63368714583964895342012-01-02T01:38:00.000-08:002012-01-02T01:39:50.801-08:00Ice Choir - Two Rings<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VmmSSaViJ8s/TwF7UnTwLUI/AAAAAAAAADE/n53gsue89JU/s1600/Ice-Choir-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="120" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VmmSSaViJ8s/TwF7UnTwLUI/AAAAAAAAADE/n53gsue89JU/s200/Ice-Choir-007.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">20 years after it landed on our planet, synthpop is still being sneered at from behind guitars and analog mixing desks in many corners of the music world. And true, there's something questionable about a totally simulated orchestration of sounds spewing out romantic goo - its about as convincing as the serenades of a starry-eyed robot. However you can't accuse the music of not having character - the fact that the character’s simulated doesn't prevent this, it’s actually the reason it has character in the first place.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Two Rings", the debut single from Ice Choir, sees leading synth-tweaker Kurt Feldman jump ship from his shoegazing past to embrace synthpop head-on. Despite having his feet firmly planted in the legacy of bands like Talk Talk and Tears For Fears, this release sees sugary, saturated production that's much more technically evolved than its classic 80's forefathers (although it shamelessly incorporates most of the clichés - for the example the novelty snare reverb tail), and sees a strong New Order vibe woven in. Feldman's voice is smooth and unchallenging - almost like another synth line. But then synthpop fifty years after the advent of the synth isn't meant to be challenging, it's just a pleasant reminder of our past.</span><o:p></o:p></div></div>Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-52886746193201087002011-12-08T10:06:00.000-08:002011-12-08T10:06:31.541-08:00Sleazy Skanking: Genre Slags At The Frog And Fiddle<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Three glassy-eyed ragamuffins peek suspiciously at me through greasy dreadlocks as I swagger through their spliff’s aroma towards the Frog and Fiddle, feeling a little high-and-mighty with the prospect of blagging my way in as ‘press’ for the first time and thinking it’s probably safe to assume these lot are heading to the same reggae-infused stoner jam as I am. Tonight my good pals Emmett Brown are warming the stage for Bristol-based Zen Elephant and Brighton’s rabble-rousing Samsara; a motley crew of some of the most fantastically outrageous genre slags to have ever bounced the Frog’s sticky floors.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_89677161"><br />
</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://grooveorgy.blogspot.com/p/sleazy-skanking-genre-slags-at-frog-and.html">READ FULL ARTICLE HERE</a></span></div>Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-63043001486073475542011-12-08T10:04:00.000-08:002011-12-08T10:06:51.810-08:00The Orchard – Dead Town EP<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWTmXN2pW-OgexR2fdzeXf__X34EMS1yK1qBcPROo_hCgQSVB4u7cV6575hbT4ATa57gyFtHMnuYItPaDVHaymXp4VvdDiIA8gyFi11QAJCS_pj5zR-4Idf5DfWk0ZyksrCGrUCd2MSuM/s1600/orchard.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWTmXN2pW-OgexR2fdzeXf__X34EMS1yK1qBcPROo_hCgQSVB4u7cV6575hbT4ATa57gyFtHMnuYItPaDVHaymXp4VvdDiIA8gyFi11QAJCS_pj5zR-4Idf5DfWk0ZyksrCGrUCd2MSuM/s200/orchard.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their name may lead you to assume that they’re whimsical yodelling milksops with more beard than bollocks, but don’t be fooled – The Orchard will have your guts for garters. Their debut release, full of menacing, claustrophobic riffs and paint-stripping snarl, finds an unlikely balance between raw fury and chemically slackened sludge. They sound like Black Flag on thorazine, or Kyuss if someone had set them on fire.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://grooveorgy.blogspot.com/p/orchard-dead-town-ep.html">READ FULL ARTICLE HERE</a></div>Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-58435562726834780772011-12-02T08:43:00.000-08:002011-12-02T08:46:48.151-08:00MAG Fanzine December Issue<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">December issue of MAG fanzine is out, profiling the cider-swilling shenanigans of the Gloucestershire music scene. My second review for MAG, a review of Oui Legionnaire's debut EP, is out and ready to read.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-14649829375992034842011-12-02T08:27:00.000-08:002011-12-02T09:16:12.456-08:00Zoft - Electrically Haunted<div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPdTwEnGOEBPjClNmI-Dtd4RcsEjxnppNhApBY_sLQh_s6reGcZHGjgoLjqBAztc8jKRuo4J9ezRJafBNdXTTkfXsjm0_TxzPHgTO4Qd86gBUbFDMgZTfqgu95NfAG1oOfSGzhi75LSlg/s1600/Zoft_Electrically+Haunted_CD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPdTwEnGOEBPjClNmI-Dtd4RcsEjxnppNhApBY_sLQh_s6reGcZHGjgoLjqBAztc8jKRuo4J9ezRJafBNdXTTkfXsjm0_TxzPHgTO4Qd86gBUbFDMgZTfqgu95NfAG1oOfSGzhi75LSlg/s200/Zoft_Electrically+Haunted_CD.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For me, avant garde music is a thorny topic. I studied music at a university that was obsessed with the stuff, and have many memories of lessons that were a little like having my eardrums sandpapered. In one classic incident a new teacher asked for our initial opinion to one particularly hideous piece to which I curtly replied “I think it’s pretentious bollocks”, only to find she had composed it herself. Surprisingly, however - despite my calamitous slagging off - I am actually a big fan of experimental music. I love dissonance when used in the right way, I love chaos and unpredictability and I love music with an intellectual stimulus, as long as there is also a visceral, expressive ingredient...</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://grooveorgy.blogspot.com/2011/12/zoft-electrically-haunted.html">READ FULL ARTICLE HERE</a></span></div></div></div>Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-20257762704321470732011-11-28T07:00:00.000-08:002011-12-02T09:16:36.265-08:00Downpilot - New Great Lakes<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5g37JGR4K9sR6N4akpFm_-aPUhnhiMo2LcGQJCK2zPCR64N-QtW0UfvguFqW39G0HPmaIVLe2aURRxmhuV4X4JLA5dNCjGNFSI3GU3bZeba12w4ZU8HdZOgqo7NsfmubFTpPBSMh8gK4/s1600/8585259.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5g37JGR4K9sR6N4akpFm_-aPUhnhiMo2LcGQJCK2zPCR64N-QtW0UfvguFqW39G0HPmaIVLe2aURRxmhuV4X4JLA5dNCjGNFSI3GU3bZeba12w4ZU8HdZOgqo7NsfmubFTpPBSMh8gK4/s1600/8585259.jpg" /></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">What is Americana? For Paul Hiraga, it’s the whole landscape. In ‘New Great Lakes’, his third album under moniker ‘Downpilot’, he paints a heart-breaking picture of his hometown - grey, drizzly Seattle, while infusing it with enough southern charm to turn a bucking bronco into a ‘my little pony’.</div><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;"><div style="text-align: justify;">From start to finish Paul’s blanket of intimate melancholy is ruggedly beautiful; full of dreamy chord sequences and warm, rustic production. The modest accompaniments to his guitar and piano (brushed drums, an ancient sounding melotron, glockenspiel and so on) are understated and restrained, suggestive of immense power but never satisfying us with the full whack– one of my personal favourite musical effects.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The only thing that taints Downpilot’s music for me is that it’s too easy to see where the influences come from. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy has obviously contributed the americana sentiment, with the more tender moments of Wilco and R.E.M filling up the rest. His dusky pipes are a dead ringer for Ryan Adams’. Whilst there’s nothing wrong with having your heroes (especially with such sublime taste), I can’t see that Paul would be left with much if his were taken out of the equation.</div></div>Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-91702261212138665182011-11-24T09:41:00.000-08:002011-11-28T07:01:29.837-08:00Roberts & Lord - Eponymous<div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUAzA7oTRLpEE9i_QxIu4AD3OGCUXGa-cZlNYe311FFu1zLiMhJ4OGzqfuPCJ816X1QZl9G6HR5YIRd1bfmDbS3CtgKwscOLiO9WFgPVwB0-F6nsMElxhBP3CMS8hWy6PylCjxNNZSX-Y/s1600/roberts_and_lord_eponymous.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUAzA7oTRLpEE9i_QxIu4AD3OGCUXGa-cZlNYe311FFu1zLiMhJ4OGzqfuPCJ816X1QZl9G6HR5YIRd1bfmDbS3CtgKwscOLiO9WFgPVwB0-F6nsMElxhBP3CMS8hWy6PylCjxNNZSX-Y/s200/roberts_and_lord_eponymous.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: normal;">If your iPod-fried attention span is, like most people’s, having trouble committing to full-length albums these days, Roberts & Lord have tapped themselves firmly into the jugular of your zeitgeist and may even have found a solution. ‘Eponymous’, their debut album, is a swirling kaleidoscope of wacky sounds; squelching, tweeting, buzzing and throbbing its way through an analogue haze of psychedelic mischief. It caters for those with little patience by fidgeting with them through a montage of clashing elements - each track a new novelty. Roberts and Lord approach pop in the same way that Jamie Lidell approaches soul – with an eccentric imagination in the studio but enough personal style to glue the fragments together into a whole, breathing entity...</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_2143085365"><br />
</a></span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://grooveorgy.blogspot.com/p/review-roberts-lord-eponymous.html">READ FULL ARTICLE HERE</a></span></div>Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-17806246519060003492011-11-18T01:21:00.000-08:002011-11-18T01:23:17.326-08:00Evolution: Studying The Engine From Music's Slipstream<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Newport Folk Festival, July 1965</span></i><br />
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</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You Can’t Stop The Future,<i> thought Bob Dylan as he glared back into the harsh, stunned gawk of the crowd. Like an ocean of earthy colours and unwashed beards they froze in the bloated summer dusk; bloated like the ozone of a blistering stormcloud. They twitched as they watched Dylan, all black leather and loud, ‘fuck you’ orange shirt, arm himself with an </i>electric<i> stratocaster and jam a buzzing lead into it. Charged with sizzling defiance, Dylan and his band (recruited at the last moment, upon hearing the festival snobs heckle the electric Paul Butterfield Blues Band) gritted their teeth and hurtled into a squawking, feverish ‘Maggie’s Farm’.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The audience howled like a huge, spurred beast as the raggedy speakers shrieked and thundered with lusty vigour. Pete Seeger, an architect of the world that Dylan had just declared war on, grabbed an axe and stomped towards the soundboard.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or, so they say.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://grooveorgy.blogspot.com/p/highway-studying-engine-from-musics.html">READ FULL ARTICLE HERE</a></b></span></div>Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-7938758673285926032011-11-13T07:03:00.000-08:002011-11-13T07:03:01.926-08:00EMI bites the dust<div class="p1"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ25rVU__DQUOE6LCbf3WPYmFqxuDF36pSVOlsKVwAMdvYJxzz0I2ZYrVhT0H_nuhGeXWNGDQEsvKgFU7feHsMSEtJ8staR8YoEF9KldF8zNFyqR8Bq4xa-Km82JDx0l1pVpKCAB8wp_I/s1600/emi.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ25rVU__DQUOE6LCbf3WPYmFqxuDF36pSVOlsKVwAMdvYJxzz0I2ZYrVhT0H_nuhGeXWNGDQEsvKgFU7feHsMSEtJ8staR8YoEF9KldF8zNFyqR8Bq4xa-Km82JDx0l1pVpKCAB8wp_I/s200/emi.png" width="200" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Times ahead look bleak for artists as EMI, one of the music industry's giants, draws its last breaths - to be consumed by rivals Universal and Sony. This now leaves, considering also Warner, just three superpowers left to dominate the industry. It is unsurprising that times are tough for record companies with the integration and acceptance of file-sharing into our culture, what is perhaps more surprising is that the industry has survived at all. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a day and age where so much power is controlled by so few people (whose loyalties lie with the money, not the music), every step towards music's seemingly inevitable new world order is a terrifying one for musicians globally.</span></div>Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-25968126048354925792011-11-03T09:27:00.000-07:002011-11-13T09:03:29.279-08:00Tune Of The Month<div class="p1" style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?vgz02ef1z5ajeze" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[Free Download]</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Captain Beefheart - Moonlight On Vermont</span></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="p1"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoKuNAueQJu2uwNce-_9mQlsBl3vFsu_V1XNdUSHcMPpMa55AV3RjZgx1aKZAqoOe4LEW8EZr9qIAy6H8rEviKhC6idcBx79Ma85ywqt3bXp03Hi-vaVW2YtOknsQudzqtbl4B2ie8iLQ/s1600/Captain-Beefheart-dust-bl-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoKuNAueQJu2uwNce-_9mQlsBl3vFsu_V1XNdUSHcMPpMa55AV3RjZgx1aKZAqoOe4LEW8EZr9qIAy6H8rEviKhC6idcBx79Ma85ywqt3bXp03Hi-vaVW2YtOknsQudzqtbl4B2ie8iLQ/s200/Captain-Beefheart-dust-bl-007.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rarely has rock & roll sounded as utterly deranged as Captain Beefheart. In wild cacophony and without the slightest care given to playing in time with each other, clashing tones, dustbin-lid drums and satanic barking snarl at each other like circling wolves, twitching with rabid bloodlust - it's actually pretty terrifying. According to popular legend the captain once kidnapped and held his band hostage until they played the exact sound that was in his head, without giving them any clue as to what it was. However, if this yowling, bonk-eyed din wan't enough of a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">warning call to the men </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in white jackets, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they should probably be in the loony bin too.</span></div></div>Lawrie Donohoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924182970196385142noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308948973532025811.post-63378458447680218822011-10-27T00:16:00.000-07:002011-11-03T08:43:33.076-07:00MAG Fanzine Debut Article<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have recently become involved with Gloucestershire-based MAG fanzine, you can see my debut article, Lars's Album Of The Month (covering 'how do you do' by Mayer Hawthorne) in the November issue, recently released. There's a free online version, so get on it!</span><br />
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