Not Bad.
She looks better than I remember too.
Oh no! It's catching.
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It is well on record that at the age of seven I took to music so hugely that it was frankly bizarre. I was writing down the Top 30 every week and predicting what would happen in the next week in terms of chart movements. I've only ever heard of one other person doing that sort of thing so young. It was years later and, erm, it was Morrissey. Being 1970, it meant embracing all kinds of styles without the influence of connotation. I was aware that people's older brothers were into Humble Pie and Emerson Lake and Palmer but that didn't matter as they were ancient. But by 1977, I suddenly found at 14 that most stuff had to be rejected in favour of one thing - any thing - on the grounds of one type of thing being cool.
Well, I struggled.
Later I would get into the Clash and the Jam but in the late 1970s I was doing a bit of the Vapors and the Pretenders here and then some 10CC and Renaissance there and the early soul and singer-songwriter things had in an old fashioned way endured. But it got to 1980 and I felt that I hadn't got it right. I was all over the place. So I did then look for my own cool band. I knew I needed something to which I could genuinely tie my flag What that turned out to be idiosyncratically - I knew no one else who was into them although clearly they were massively popular - was "Searching For The Young Soul Rebels" by Dexy's Midnight Runners. Loved the sound. Loved the cover. I identified with the boy in the picture. Loved its musical heritage reference points. Loved the fact that it was fun. Loved the fact that it was from the Midlands of which I knew nothing at all. Loved the oddness of Kevin Rowland. And loved the sheer Britishness in its obvious eccentricity.
And Gideon Coe played this last week.
It just bounced gloriously off the radio speaker. Admittedly it was from the huge follow up "Too Rye Ay" which I loved equally. But some 40 years on, I can look the 17 year old in the eyes and say "man, you were so spot on with that band".
Dexys Midnight Runners - Let's Make This Precious (BBC Session) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YmANooue6s
From the same sort of period, I think, and what, with hindsight, would have been a darn sight cooler, though remote:
Henry Flynt - Hillibilly Tape Music : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LstLpd_iVWA
(arguably it was a bit earlier : it sounds way ahead of its time)
After all that fun, it could be time to head down to the Mancunian indie sounding African disco:
(Just Who Is.........?) 
William Onyeabor - Good Name - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27nCc2eiERM 
Then finally it's just a few steps to the Chillout Zone:
Pearls Before Swine - Rocket Man - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV_jDmSmu2g
(I've now packed my bags pre "flight"...........Nighty Night) 
Dexys were brilliant and it was only Kevin's stubbornness and odd decisions that held them back so much
The follow up to Too Rye Ay was a great album that bombed completely
Didn't help that he insisted the first single to come off it was nearly 13 minutes long - radio wouldn't play it...
It was brilliant but he wouldn't listen to advise and insisted
Quote: lofthouse @ 10th February 2020, 6:40 PMDexys were brilliant and it was only Kevin's stubbornness and odd decisions that held them back so much
The follow up to Too Rye Ay was a great album that bombed completely
Didn't help that he insisted the first single to come off it was nearly 13 minutes long - radio wouldn't play it...
It was brilliant but he wouldn't listen to advise and insisted
Yes, utterly brilliant - and so very him.
I was at the first family orientated Camp Bestival in 2008. On my own as no one else I knew wanted to go. I had it in mind to walk a section of the Jurassic Coast, which I did, but beforehand I was extremely keen to see Chuck Berry and also the Flaming Lips at the festival. The arrival was deeply unpleasant. My sense of excitement was totally ruined by a bloke checking the bags who made a huge thing about me not being with a family. It left me with low level paranoia throughout the three days. I pitched my tent far away from anyone else. As it happened, a mother had spotted me and sent her daughter regularly in my direction to give me food and plastic bags and other things she thought might be helpful, generally at the start of the day when we were all greeted with "hello campers" on the tannoy. Consequently nobody had a problem with me other than him. He clearly had issues and I was just so glad I didn't have to bump into him again.
Anyhow, there were many memorable moments. Wayne Coyne coming down the steps of Lulworth Castle in his gigantic ball. Chuck having to be dragged off the stage by the 65 year old son who was his manager as he was refusing at over 80 to comply with the 11pm curfew. Some fairly decent comedy in a stand up tent. The Wurzels live. And an amazing - amazing - piano player up at the bonfire where a piano had just been slung for anyone to play. I had a brief chat with him saying how great he was and he wasn't to be honest too friendly. But, hey, that turned out to be on enquiry Tom Rogerson of the still little known Three Trapped Tigers. They should have been massive but that is not how the world works.
What, though, beat all of that was the hour in a tent on the fringe which most there would not have spotted was officially being DJ'd by Kevin Rowland. I knew because I had read the small print in the programme and made a beeline to there. He didn't say a thing. He just kept peering very weirdly like a startled rabbit out of a tiny alcove, like someone looking through a hatch from a kitchen to a dining room, and repeatedly closed it before opening it again. I got closer and closer to the hatch while wanting really to turn to someone understanding and say "hey, it's Kevin Rowland" but, honestly that person wasn't there. Nobody seemed to have a clue. As he stared out and I stared at him it was like a mutual release of two sets of paranoia - mine just for the weekend and him probably for a lifetime. And yes I did convince myself, although this wasn't the case as it had been going on since the start, that the closing hatch door was about my impacts on him.
Three Trapped Tigers - 5
Studio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuRkOYKXINM
Live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbdAblXcQjM
(I went wild for this when I heard it, declaring I had "seen" the new direction for music)
Quote: lofthouse @ 10th February 2020, 6:40 PMDexys were brilliant and it was only Kevin's stubbornness and odd decisions that held them back so much
The follow up to Too Rye Ay was a great album that bombed completely
Didn't help that he insisted the first single to come off it was nearly 13 minutes long - radio wouldn't play it...
It was brilliant but he wouldn't listen to advise and insisted
Rowland's first piece of vinyl.
Quote: Chappers @ 10th February 2020, 8:39 PMRowland's first piece of vinyl.
More energy than most of the bands which made it.
Three Trapped Tigers - 5
Studio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuRkOYKXINM
Live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbdAblXcQjM
The first one doesn't work for me probably because I'm in the colonies.
I've been investigating them and discovered Route One or Die.
On first listen this one appeals to me most.
Quote: john tregorran @ 11th February 2020, 12:29 AMThree Trapped Tigers - 5
Studio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuRkOYKXINM
Live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbdAblXcQjM
The first one doesn't work for me probably because I'm in the colonies.
I've been investigating them and discovered Route One or Die.
On first listen this one appeals to me most.
Last one's too electronic.
Not really. 
Actually all the ones you posted are pretty cool. Good discovery. They seem to come under the genre Math Rock.
Have you listened to any Boards Of Canada (from Scotland, naturally)?
They probably are too electronic for you, but they're interesting, and worth hearing, and it's easy to get hooked by them.
No I haven't yet but I'll give them ago.
You have to thank Horse,by the way.I lifted the two links from his previous post.
Quote: john tregorran @ 11th February 2020, 1:45 AMNo I haven't yet but I'll give them ago.
You have to thank Horse,by the way.I lifted the two links from his previous post.
Ah , found it! That was the post I was going to read when I had more time. You need to savour Radish's posts, not speed read them. Thanks, Radish!
First track reminded me a little of Mogwai. Are you into them jt? I'd imagine they're your cup of tea, but might be wrong, of course.
Evil Spirits - The Damned
Happy New Year, Gordon! 
Not totally won over by the vocal gymnastics on this, but it certainly holds one's attention, and the guitarist (who I've seen live) is on great form.
Noisettes - Children Of The Revolution (Live - New Pop Festival 2009)
Quote: George Kaplan @ 11th February 2020, 1:38 PMAh , found it! That was the post I was going to read when I had more time. You need to savour Radish's posts, not speed read them. Thanks, Radish!
First track reminded me a little of Mogwai. Are you into them jt? I'd imagine they're your cup of tea, but might be wrong, of course.
Oh yes.Mogwai.
If you listened to John Peel you got to appreciate Mogwai
Quote: john tregorran @ 11th February 2020, 9:28 PMOh yes.Mogwai.
If you listened to John Peel you got to appreciate Mogwai
I had thunk that, yes, but I just wanted to check.