Tag: neil innes
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Bonzo Dog Band live 1969
This one should make you come….again! Viv Stanshall A really far out (or so far ahead it’s beautiful) live performance of the Bonzo Dog Band at the Jazz Bilzen festival. I’ve not seen this before, but the Quiet Walks undermined by microphone issues and the later bubble sculpture but also a rather heavier….crazier Bonzos and…
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RC 333: Three Birds Repeating
An episode dedicated to the number 3 and the birds that come and say hello when I paint and draw…and spookily the birds of Rhiannon, the Adar Rhiannon whose songs can wake the dead and lull the living to sleep. They also can simultaneously appear close and far, hence the artwork. From new age to…
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RC 330: Lost Stars
Are we all lost stars trying to light up the dark? This episode is more of a downbeat/upbeat commemoration of some artists we have lost recently, have become stardust on the way to the big (Champagne?) Supernova. So this one goes out to Peter Green, Denise Johnson, Neil Innes, Andrew Weatherall and of course that…
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RC 316: 20-20 / Grandpa winter
A frosty farewell to 2019 and Neil Innes and a 20/20 vision of what’s to come and a ritual for the sun to come back, and winter to go far far away and come again another day! The first podcast of 2020 includes a very eclectic mix of jungle, folk, hardcore, Mexican ska, hauntology and…
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RIP Neil Innes
I wish I had better news these days, and it comes in droves. Neil Innes of Bonzo Dog Band and Rutles fame has just died, and to say I’m gutted is the biggest understatement of 2019. If you don’t know the work of Neil Innes, especially ‘Innes Book of Records’, his solo albums and the…
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Great Lives – Vivian Stanshall
Just found this documentary about Vivian Stanshall from 2013 with Ki Longfellow (his second wife) and Neil Innes – it’s an excellent listen, includes a rare home demo from Ki’s archive about Seedy the bird.