By coincidence yesterday a couple of famous musical coincidences cropped up. First the death of Ike Turner, who by way of v.dry humour I took Lucy, who’d had an unhappy family life, to see on St Valentine’s Day a few years ago at Ronnie Scott’s in Soho. Secondly, I caught the BBC documentary on Pink [...]
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Making music on World Mental Health Day
Musically marking World Mental Health Day I played in a band for the very first time, playing the castanet, with the band at Hammersmith & Fulham Consumer Forum.
What connects Cornershop, Oasis, Pulp & Black Grape?
Watching the BBC programme on women with troublesome big breasts and serious issues about health and self-esteem; and then I remembered the line from the Cornershop track ‘Brim Full of Asha (mp3)’: “Everybody Needs A Bosom For A Pillow” not least ’cause back in 1993 I’d booked them to appear at some very very small event..
James Brown now dead
OK, so I just found out James Brown died on Xmas day. Day-way to go James. Not surprisingly this news did not make it to the Black Forest where I was staying. New’s today is that there moving his body to a final resting place. Apparently he recently appeared in London at the BBC Electric [...]
Last of the Gilles Peterson podcasts
This is the last in the series of podcasts from Gilles Peterson in Brazil, thanks to Brahma beer, on the sound of electronica!
(That’s Gilles on the right wearing a medal..)
At home with the Rodrigues
Third in the series of the Gilles Peterson podcasts, sponsored by Brahma. ‘At Home with the Rodriguez‘. Very good.
Roots & Samba podcast
Another in the podcast series from DJ Gilles Peterson in Brazil. While these are available free from Brahma to save you the time and trouble here’s the one on Roots and Samba. It’s an wma around 30mb so it takes a while to download - enojy! The download function from the site doesn’t work [...]
My bands confession
Anyhow, just to confess my own nerdish behaviour, with a few bands I have seen including:
Gary Glitter
The Last Poets (Toxteth, Liverpool)
Hair Cut 100 (Leicester)
Nina Simone (Albert Hall)
Showaddwaddy (De Montfort Hall, Leicester)
Ike Turner (Ronnie Scott’s)
Peter Gabriel
Edwin Starr (Stratford)
Downset (LA2)
Public Enemy (The Dome)
Black Grape (Brixton Academy)
Erasure [...]
Gilles Peterson podcast on Brazilian music
Also spotted in the magazine British DJ Gilles Peterson’s six-part podcast series on Brazillian music..
ICA wig out
Strangely I deigned to smoke one of his Cambodian cigarettes, and was suitably impressed by his Mines Advisory Group T-shirt from Laos..