Tag: Jarvis Cocker
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RC 272: Don’t Call It A Comeback
Yes I’m back and podcasting, only popped out for over 3 years and appropriately with a bumper 3 hour show*…after guesting on the Lloydbrary 100 show over Xmas I got the podcasting bug again. Also I’ve been watching what came along after I left podcasting, and I mostly am not impressed…need some better music and…
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Sink Ya Teeth
First heard about Norwich band Sink Ya Teeth via Amy Lamé’s first 6Music show now that’s she’s taken over from Jarvis Cocker…I’m certainly there for the Donna Summer/Moroder vibes of Glass – if anyone brings the chugging octave bassline I am SO there – and also the woozy after-party weariness of If You See Me…
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The Wild, The Beautiful And The Damned
On an early Ultravox kick since a friend reminded me that they recorded their sixth album with George Martin (6 albums in 5 years – puts the navel-gazing of current artist release schedules to shame doesn’t it?). I know the “happy fed” Midge Ure Vox, but didn’t know the critically acclaimed but couldn’t get a…
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O sleep! O gentle sleep!
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush’d with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum’d chambers of…
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Lost Pulp or Tim’s Top 10 Pulp Tracks
And so I, I walked my way around town I tried to love the world Oh but the world just got me down Well not completely lost, but I think if you read Guardian’s Top Ten Pulp tracks you might think that certain parts of Pulp’s history never happened. The shiny 70’s nylon Pulp took…
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5 Years of Angry
Went to see Super Furry Animals tonight, it was great, but before a very emotional ‘Fire In My Heart’ Gruff Rhys spoke about the current situation in the UK, with the Tories being re-elected. He said ‘Let’s get angry. 5 years of angry’ to cheers. They later did an appropriately angry ‘Man Don’t Give A…