When Alan’s radio station, North Norfolk Digital, is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a hilarious chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege. In cinemas August 7th.
Neneh & Andrea in London last week Via + One of the greatest live bands. So many memories...solo Springer performance in York Cathedral, bunny hopping in a van being driven by Neneh around a Manchester car park, the night of the souped up speedy brain cells at the Primatarium in Kings X. The late and very lamented Sean Oliver (and our endless conversation about which jazz album was the best: he went for 'A Love Supreme' while I could never get past 'Spiritual Unity'...just wish that I still had all those live recordings I made of them. Oh well! If you don't know them go out and buy the remastered and expanded editions of their three albums out now.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds:
1. Stranger Than Kindness
2. St. Huck
Crime and The City Solution:
1. All Must Be Love
2. Steal To The Sea
3. Grain Will Bear Grain
The Swans:
1. Beautiful Child
2. Like A Drug Info
New on Ninja Tune. Hmmm! Not sure about this one at all...all seems a bit Hazel O'Connor V.2013 to me, still I suppose it could be worse. It could have been Nina Hagen/Lene Lovich V.2013!
Very kindly recorded by Mark Patterson. This is the recording of Robert Calvert and Dave Brock’s “revolutionary chit-chat” on Tommy Vance’s Friday Rock Show, June 18, 1977. In Mark's words "I recorded most of it, only missing Tommy’s endorsement of ‘Quark..’, and reading from the LP liner notes, right at the start. It’s strange hearing it again after all this time. As usual Robert is very perceptive and prescient; recognizing HW as a proto-punk band in the middle of the ‘77 ‘New Wave’ music explosion, and wary of uk talents being diluted in the “backwash of American culture.” Interesting stuff." Many, many thanks to Mark for this.
Via Nick Calvert