A Horseradish
Tuesday 7th April 2020 10:36am [Edited]
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Quote: George Kaplan @ 7th April 2020, 1:18 AM
Didn't seem to disappoint their fans though. The Live bit was them participating in the Comments as it was streaming. And it's a Premiere supposedly.
Bands can't really play together now and maintain the social distancing thing, so the real live streams tend to be solo artists/performances.
Slow Readers Club did a thing yesterday where they all streamed live from their different homes simultaneously, did a Q & A with fans, premiered a vid, and played some songs, recording their separate parts in their own homes beforehand, then mixed them together on screen. Worked pretty well. Their debut album just got into the Top 10.
I think the National's "Fake Empire" is their most memorable. Around the time of its release I often played it alongside Band of Horses's "Detlef Schrempf". Don't know why other than it seemed to work as a natural segway of sorts.
Not quite sure what to think of the bands and social distancing thing. You might have thought that there is scope for an entirely new exciting genre to emerge in such novel circumstances but my mind is a bit of a blank on that one. The best I can come up with there is a take up on what Kirsty MacColl often tried to do which was to multi-layer her voice so as to be a kind of Beach Boys. Maybe that's it. Solo artists sounding like a band but in a wider variety of ways than voice.
Quote: john tregorran @ 7th April 2020, 12:38 AM
Some good ones there Horse,mainly the first and last.I don't know what was creepiest ,Hugo or a glimpse of DLT.
Round the Horne doesn't get mentioned enough on the forum IMO
Thanks. It's definitely the Hairy Cornflake. Hugo is a delight. I too love Round The Horne. It is one of my favourites. I had a dream last night that Stephanie de Sykes was the grandmother of Eric Sykes. I wonder if she ever was? Say, in the 70s?
