Kat Flint: Go Faster Stripes
Kat Flint, Scottish singer/songwriter, has just released her album “Dirty Birds”, the recording of which was entirely fan-funded. Go faster stripes are racing stripes, and the song is, as her press release tells us, “a tale of impatience, disasters and happy accidents”. She says, “I write lyrics about junkyard prostitutes, life in the fearsome crowd […]
Merz
Merz, aka Conrad Lambert, is an English folk singer/songwriter with an electronic experimental side. Ulrich gave me his new album, Moi & Mon Camion, which is simply exquisite, with natural vocals, accoustic and electric instruments and electronic ambience building epic soundscapes on the quiet melancholy of the lyrics. It’s all about being uprooted and on […]
Brian Wilson @ Black Cab Sessions
OMG: the legend behind the Beach Boys hopped into the Black Cab Sessions, a non-profit music project, with his band and they hit it to create Chapter 59:
I will survive
“I will survive” as performed by Gloria Gaynor was an OK dance song in 1978/9 (if you liked disco), but it’s truly brilliant when the words are sung with meaning – especially by Cake (what a marvellous video, with the little animals made of glass) – or parodied by the likes of musical comedians Igudesman […]
Nellie McKay
Nelli McKay, comedienne, singer-songwriter and actress, has a sharp wit (viz. Mother of Pearl) and a romantic soul. She sings about her dog and interprets all sorts of stuff, including jazz standards (viz. If I had you). For Belli.
The heavy metal pilot
“White man came across the sea…” and cured them of their misery. It was a nice bit of news for a rainy day: Bruce Dickinson, lead singer for Iron Maiden, has a day job as a commercial pilot and is one of the pilots who picked up vacationing tourists after their tour operator XL Leisure […]
Pretenders: Brass in Pocket
Listening to Radiohead’s “Creep” and the singer’s wish to be “special” kept reminding me of Brass in Pocket by the Pretenders, their breakthrough hit of 1979. Bandleader Chrissie Hynde said that she was initially reluctant to have the song released: “When we recorded the song I wasn’t very happy with it and told my producer […]
