Hard News: Music: In before Christmas
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Alan Perrott, in reply to
never doubted it would be...
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The Richmond Road party band from the 90s are back!
This week, 'Refugee' and 'Born to Run' get the treatment.
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Barnard, in reply to
The other Tim Minchin Xmas song also bring tears...of laughter
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Emma Hart, in reply to
Cheers, Barnard, I've just played that for my daughter, who loved it.
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How could I have forgotten the first professional gig of Jon Bon Jovi "R2-D2, We wish you a Merry Christmas" from the Star Wars Christmas album of yore.
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it's end o' year bubbles o'clock here, so that's my excuse for a little selfindulgence...hic
I share Danielle's enthusiasm for Nancy Wilson...have you heard this one?
I've also finally found a decent copy of Helen Shapiro's finest hour - the single is insanely rare, but I spotted it last week on the English-pressed comp...top blue-eyed Northern soul styles
also flogged off enough rubbish to afford for this...your starter for ten: what telly theme did this inspire?
have a merry wotsit.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I share Danielle’s enthusiasm for Nancy Wilson…have you heard this one?
Tune! Well, all of them, really.
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hey matey, I'm here all week...not really, but do try the veal.
and this...
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now I'm just the early doors boozer who won't go home, and I seem to be the only one left at the party, but I wanted to plus one on the Builders references above before heading back to the fan-damly.
aside from the odd - at times very odd - Builders album still lurking at home, I had a lovely wee while chatting with Mr Direen at ye olde Shakespeare. A nice bloke and no mistake. With his own teeth and everything.
And I'm not certain why but I have a suspicion his stuff will endure in better health than much of other the stuff of that ilk.that said, if anyone has a copy of this slice of made Peruvian madness, I'd be well up for sorting out some kind of rental agreement - Vampi Soul comped it a wee while ago, but I really want/ need the 7''...just love the hi-hats.
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Geoff Lealand, in reply to
Great stuff! Just what a Jewish boy needs to get through Christmas
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Mr Direen
Us Southerners (& Melburnians) get a chance in the new year:
Sunday 13 January
Tago Mago, Melbourne
with Barry Stockley (bass), Jess McCann (accordion) and Tama Stockley (dr)Wednesday 16 January
Dark Room, Christchurch
Music and readings
Bill Direen with Stuart Page and Mick ElboradoFriday 18 January
Taste Merchants, Dunedin
Music and launch of Percutio magazine 2013
Readings and acts by contributors to Percutio 2013, followed by music by Bill Direen with Stuart Page and Mick ElboradoSaturday 19 January
Taste Merchants, Dunedin
Readings and acts to be announced
Bill Direen with Stuart Page and Mick Elborado -
Just been reminded how apocalyptic Johnny Cash could be (and such a wonderful voice and musician)
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Mike O'Connell, in reply to
Great to see Mr Direen back in Chch soon, The last time I recall he was down this way was a gig at the now demolished El Porto Santo in Lyttelton, Dec 2010. Mick Elborado is always good on bass accompaniment, Stuart Page of course on drums. What always amazes me is the dexterity Bill has and the sounds he gets from playing guitar without a pick.
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Hebe, in reply to
Bill Direen
Well hell; it's Mayan New Year's Eve and I'm waiting for the apocalypse, which then led to thinking about my old friend Tom and how he would've been enjoying today enormously. Then Bildireen comes up...so I shall mention (because it's fated -- and I can see Tom's mouth and the cigarette smoke curling and twitching at that thought) the song he wrote called Beating Hearts about Aztecs and sacrifices.
Tom Scully was a good friend; we spent a lot of time prowling, ranting, smoking and hanging out when we were meant to be at journalism school. As this google turned up "he left the gig early".
http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2010/10/bill-direens-notes-for-underground.html -
FletcherB, in reply to
your starter for ten: what telly theme did this inspire?
Unfortunately, my Friday evening alcohol addled brain is unable to fathom which TV theme was inspired by this (slightly brilliant) tune... On the other-hand, It is hugely evident that said tune was (more than a little bit) inspired by "Wild Thing" by The Troggs.
P.S. all else you've posted is also (at least) slightly (if not more-so) brilliant - cheers!
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
the song he wrote called Beating Hearts about Aztecs and sacrifices.
Hey maybe it's a genre.
I always liked Robyn Hitchcock's Mexican God:
Cruel, magnificent, roasting your people
I am secure at the end of your rod
Cut out my heart and it flies to the ceiling
Time will destroy you like a Mexican god -
Crank this Christmas epic.
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linger, in reply to
The TV theme is of course that of Futurama.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
beet red heart....
Tom Scully was a good friend...
...me too, from South Intermediate and sporadically thru High School and beyond - he went off to St Bedes (I think that's where he met Bill) and then he ended up at Cashmere, we met up and camped together on the hill at the the first Ngaruawahia Music festival, Tom slid down during the night... I'd run into Tom at the Gresham, and gigs, often with Bill...
Every time I drive past Studholme Street I think of him and his family...Noahpocollapse... the great arc
Mayan New Year’s Eve and
I’m waiting for the apocalypse
...because it’s fatedThe great cycles turn, baktun the future
one spiritual/symbolic age ends
another begins...Some astrologers say the Age of Aquarius actually begins in 2012. That’s because they believe the star Regulus in the constellation Leo the Lion marked the ancient border between the constellations Leo and Cancer. This star moves to within 30o of the September equinox point in 2012, meaning that Regulus leaves the sign Leo to enter the sign Virgo this year. Presuming equal-sized constellations in antiguity, that places the border of the constellations Pisces and Aquarius at 150o west of Regulus, or at the March equinox point. By this reckoning, the Age of Aquarius starts in 2012. {source}
Popol reign...
The cyclic nature of it all, makes me wonder about the connections ,, coincidences and holographic distribution of concepts at all levels (and that's just before breakfast!!) - the Mayan trickster ball game heroes drove their mythology, the Hero Twins must battle Seven Macaw to save mankind.
Do we know where glider pilot Richie McCaw (7) is at the moment?
Is he flying to the breakdown of civilisation, even as I type?Hey maybe it’s a genre.
The Mayans dallied with numbers
and tallied with string ( Quipu )
Give 'em enough trope...
and this Budd's for you ambience chasers, too... -
.DWFO #6: "A Christmas Carol (Suite)"
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Danielle, in reply to
Alan Alan Alan! So excited to see that linked here! I absolutely love 'The Clapping Song'! (In fact it may have been the genesis for our household theory that all songs containing handclaps, numbers, days of the week, or spoken word interludes are awesome. Which doesn't necessarily hold up under scrutiny, but we still have a weakness for them.)
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Not music, but audio links anyway:
Two BBC4 programmes on 21/12/12 (so they’ll be around for at least a week; possibly longer) are connected to A Recent Thread. (I’d have put the links there instead, but, well.)
(i) The Listening Project: parents of an autistic boy
(ii) More or Less: US gun crime statistics -
John Armstrong, in reply to
The cyclic nature of it all, makes me wonder about the connections, coincidences and holographic distribution of concepts at all levels (and that's just before breakfast)
Can I just say, Ian, that you come across as the most interesting bloke? And, I suspect, a more than useful ally for doing cryptic crosswords.
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A Christmas song from Sun Ra's wonderful, slightly mad, doo-wop era:
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