Tuesday 5 April 2016
Monday 4 April 2016
Sunday 3 April 2016
Southern Tales
Melbourne Recital Centre (29/3/16)
Stockholm (Not recorded)
Palmetto Rose
Decoration Day
Something More Than Free
Alabama Pines
Traveling Alone
The Life You Chose
Different Days
Never Gonna Change
Cover Me Up
Relatively Easy
If It Takes a Lifetime
Speed Trap Town
24 Frames
Children of Children
* * *
Elephant
Codeine
Download
Croxton Hotel (1/4/16)
24 Frames
Flying Over Water
Something More Than Free
Decoration Day
Different Days
Hudson Commodore
The Life You Chose
Travelling Alone
Alabama Pines
Codeine
Palmetto Rose
Never Gonna Change
Cover Me Up (1:08:45)
If It Takes A Lifetime
Stockholm
* * *
Speed Trap Town
Children of Children
Download
NOTES:
(Tuesday)
I have to say that I have really been looking forward to this Jason Isbell gig at the Recital Centre for the past couple of months a venue that I've only been to once before for a Robert Henke/Monolake audiovisual performance. I was supposed to have been back here a couple of times this past month but Gira's gig was cancelled (after the Grimm clusterfuck) and I was just too sick to come and see Tweedy here last week.
Anyway arriving about 45 minutes before he is due on the stage and I go to buy a beer and the street level bar has run out. Oh well my pancreas will be happy. I do find this a bit ironic considering Isbell has become something of a pin-up boy for the 12-steppers amongst us. Check out the reaction after he sings the lines "But I sobered up and I swore off that stuff forever this time" from 'Cover Me Up' live from Austin City Limits
Isbell's sobriety has been good for us as well as for him
And then it's inside for the gig. I have a bit of an aversion to sitting down gigs at the best of times and this is the problem for me on the night. Sonically the room is outstanding but it's not loud at all and this combined with the enforced politeness of the audience made me wish that I had known about his pub gig at the time this gig was announced but at this point I have to give kudos to the woman air punching throughout the gig while sitting in front of me though. Straight after the gig has finished I'm buying a ticket for his pub gig in a couple of nights (or so I thought)
(Thursday)
The Croxton Hotel is only just up the road from me and it's another venue that I haven't been to since they started live music there again a couple of months ago. The hotel's reputation as a live venue back in the seventies is still legendary but for all the wrong reasons. Fights would break out every night
Oh Jesse, Jesse, Jesse...
Of course what happened at The Bataclan was an absolute tragedy and while I totally understand that you are obviously suffering from PTSD and that fans losing their lives at a bloody rock gig makes my annoyance at the continuing loss of civil liberties pale in comparison but I really do have no time for your shite music nor right wing, NRA loving, hasbara, freedumb politics. You are on record as saying that if the audience had been armed the whole tragedy could have been averted and yet here you are searching everyone for, as the bouncer said on the way out, 'guns, knives and bombs'. Which leads me to another point...what exactly were the bouncers looking for when they were searching our bags? A black round thing with 'BOMB' written on it? Or perhaps orange sticks taped together with fuses at the top? I had my digital recorder in my bag which didn't even get a second glance and to be honest I know nothing about explosive devices but wouldn't an electronic device that size perhaps be more what a bomb could be contained in these days? But yes as the bouncer said on the Friday night it was all just done to keep his management happy.
(Friday)
So here we are back at the Croxton with not a security wand in sight and Jason and the band are on top form again. What is it with people talking throughout gigs these days though? The first time I asked the guy with the hat and his two female companions in front of me to try and keep it down I was polite. The second time not so much.
Which reminds me I must get these printed up
Thursday 31 March 2016
Wednesday 30 March 2016
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - Live @Paradiso Amsterdam (2016)
24 Frames
Decoration Day
Different Days
Travelling Alone
Cover me Up
Speed Trap Town
Children of Children
Elephant
(NB: the sound is a bit distorted but still a great show)
Sunday 27 March 2016
The State of the Nation
Yes that's Trump 'violating' Rudy Giuliani's breasts...and I thought Trump's hair was bad now
Saturday 26 March 2016
Friday 25 March 2016
Wormrot & Biquette the goat
When did you first notice she enjoyed attending the shows?
While she was here, she always loved concerts, settings with lots of people. As soon as there was someone she had never seen, she stuck up against them for an hour! And when there were lots of people, it was above all a chance to go steal a little tobacco or something else that was lying around!
What was her favorite food?
Number one: tobacco!!!! In all its forms (butts from the ashtray, lit cig in your hand....)
And more generally a little bit of all the stuff lying around. She consumed a decent amount of the bottom of pots of paint or oil drains too...it depended on the season. She drank alcohol pretty well too, of the sort of all the bottoms of glasses of bottles of booze that people hid in another part of the barn and that she managed to root out.
Via
Johan Cruyff R.I.P.
Straight after watching this game in 1974 all of us kids were straight outside on our street in Glasgow trying to perfect this trick
Thursday 24 March 2016
Derek Bailey: On The Edge - Improvisation in Music (1992)
In the lack of indigenous music, [the record store is] where [people] find their roots. And in music, whatever you're looking for - whether it's authenticity, or originality, or transcendentalism, or traditionalism - the best place to look is in a record store. But you won't find - or you'll rarely find - mention of improvisation. It's not a term which has become part of the record industry's promotional vocabulary.
R.I.P. Phife Dawg
Our hearts are heavy. We are devastated. This is something we weren't prepared for although we all know that life is fleeting. It was no secret about his health and his fight. But the fight for his joy and happiness gave him everything he needed. The fight to keep his family happy, his soul happy and those around him happy, gave him complete and unadulterated joy... until he heeded his fathers call."Via
The statement ends with the group sending their condolences for "the outpouring of prayers," noting, "He's affected us as much as he's affected all of you. We're inspired by his daily joy and courage. He wasn't in pain. He was happy.
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A Tribe called Quest 'Midnight Marauders' live Subterania 2.12.94 London UK
Wednesday 23 March 2016
Tuesday 22 March 2016
Flowdan - Track by Track at BPM Manchester
SB.TV joined Grime legend Flowdan up north for his exclusive SB.TV Track by Track episode. We were invited to film his epic performance at the Black Sound Series event at the Contact Theatre in Manchester. He talked us through future releases, classic tracks and blew us away with an exclusive set with the amazing Kaleidoscope Orchestra. Ever wandered what 'Skeng' sounds like played by an orchestra?
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