Oh, alright, I give in. Months have passed by with me trying to write something interesting whilst also catching up on playlists. We’re now into 2011 and I’m still giving you lists from October. I’ve had enough of being miles behind, so I’m going to bite the bullet and just shove up the show lists and start afresh once up to date. So here’s two more. Continue reading
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Selection Box Show 150
The featured track for this show is the first single from the new album by Liverpool’s surgically-masked noiseniks Clinic.
Now on their 6th album, this track demonstrates a rarer toe tip into a rather lovely lilting dreamy sound for which the band are not often noted. Thankfully, the full thrust of the album, entitled Bubblegum, doesn’t entirely dismiss the minor key guitar howls and Philips Philicorda keyboard wibbles. They say if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. It’s nice to tinker though, eh. Ruddy marvellous.
Courtesy of this lovely Soundcloud player you can listen to this show again for a limited period (probably about the length of time it would take for a hedgehog to consume an entire wheelbarrow of slugs). Sadly due to copyright and such blah the show cannot be made available as a downloadable file.
Selection Box Show 148
…The catch-up continues, and seen as this particular show was the Leeds Festival review, which has been covered in some extensive detail here, here and here I dare say we can rush this one through fairly quickly without much guilt.
Courtesy of this lovely Soundcloud player you can listen to this show again for a limited period (probably about the length of time it would take to fashion a bust of the head of Skeletor out of mashed up walnut cake). Sadly due to copyright and such blah the show cannot be made available as a downloadable file.
Selection Box Show 148 by PatrickSelection_Box
Us glamourous press types get our own enclave with its own bar and enough room to swing a cat. Oh yes.
Selection Box Show 148
Transmitted 06/9/2010
1. Jack Montgomery – Dearly Beloved
from: Ultimate Northern Soul (various artists)
Interview with Biz from Kassius
2. Champion Jack Dupree – Shake Baby Shake
from: The Birth of Rock N Roll (various artists)
3. The Walkmen – I’m Never Bored
from: Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone
Interview with Dave & Jaff from The Futureheads
4. The Futureheads – Park Inn
from: Nul Book Standard EP
5. Caribou – Odessa
from: Swim
Interview with Andy & Kelcey from Local Natives
6. Local Natives – Sun Hands
from: Gorilla Manor
7. British Sea Power – Remember Me
from: The Decline of British Sea Power
Patrick Thornton presents Selection Box every Monday at Midnight.
In C
A quick blog post about something pretty interesting today I hope…The birth of minimalism. Back in the 1960s american composer Terry Riley put together a piece of music known as ‘In C’ referring I presume to something musical. Is is quite often cited as the first ever pice of minimalist music production (probably as a result of the post modernist culture around at the time) and probably gave way to Brian Eno, and Philip Glass, who is quite often used in movie montages that involve people calculating numbers. When you listen to this work you can hear its influences on various electronic moments around today. Reasserting my believe, that [this music’ was not all made by ‘blokes on drugs’ in some horrendous over simplified cliched manner that clubbers might spurt out half was though a night.
Anyway. Last year the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble in Americi decided that In C needed an update/homage. They commissioned a few artists to produce there own versions of in C, and put it out as an album. I have heard quite a few tracks from the album and they make very interesting listing. Below is a sample from the album but it does not do it justice….GO BUY
Selection Box 147
Gah, the desperate will to catch up on my life seems to not be sufficient to actually bridge the gap into the present. Indeed we’re still dealing with shows from August, rather terrifyingly.
So, as suggested last time we’ll have some quick blah about a featured track and then on with the playlist.
This week I have plumped for a bit of folk in the shape of Men-An-Tol’s Black Waterside which comes from the album Through The Quoit. I can’t claim to be anything even remotely approaching a Men-An-Tol afficiando, but I certainly know how to snaffle a free record or two when offered, so when lovely Albert Freeman offered up some unknown delights from the Static Caravan label – home of the likes of Tunng – you could bet your bottoms that I did my best to ensure that the aforementioned wares would find a permanent home in my living room.
And they did – taking a brief outing back to BCB for an appearance on Selection Box 147. Sadly, I cannot find a video online to link to the track, but you can listen to a lovely snippet here or alternatively just listen to the track along with the rest of the show in question…
Courtesy of this lovely Soundcloud player you can listen to this show again for a limited period (probably about the length of time it would take to turn a knee entirely to dust if you rubbed it non-stop with a carpet tile). Sadly due to copyright and such blah the show cannot be made available as a downloadable file. Continue reading
Selection Box Show 146
If time is a concept then in recent months my grasp and understanding of it appears to have faltered significantly because I don’t seem to be in possession of sufficient to do the things I need / want to do. This has left me ludicrously behind on updating you on Selection Box playlists.
I don’t like to just pop on and bang up a list, though. It’s a bit impersonal and I prefer to give you a bit of bread for the aural soup as it were. But how to do this with the necessity for haste?
Well, thunked I, how’s about a paragraph or two on one of the tracks played on the show as a sort of “featured record spot? There’s a question mark there but it was rhetorical, as I’m going to do it anyway. Continue reading
You Great Big Fat Burke / Selection Box Show 145
I’m starting to think that the Leeds Festival site is centred around some sort of wormhole in the space / time continuum, as the best part of two months seems to have dropped away from my life and I have barely noticed them. As a result it appears that I have found myself quite spectacularly behind when it comes to show updates and playlists, so I’ll endeavour to bridge the gap and bring these READMYBLOG posts up to date.
However, I don’t really think we should go any further before we mark the sad passing of Solomon Burke, who gone done went and karked it on a plane earlier this month whilst traveling to a series of gigs in Holland.
James Brown liked to refer to himself as The Godfather of Soul, but not only was Brown something of an over-rated fat face, he also operated on something of a misnomer. Brown’s huhs and hahs and the seeming continual need to repeat his name every four seconds in case we forgot it was more funk than soul, whereas Solomon Burke’s was a voice which tore at the heart as well as moved the feet. I make the comparison only because Burke’s early influences from church gospel mixed with rhythm & blues made him one of the true early godfathers of the Soul genre, though Burke himself liked to call himself The Godfather of Rock & Soul. Continue reading
Been a while.
Hey music blog…tis been a little while since I checked in. In all honestly I have been busy getting the brand new BCB website ready to go, so have not had much time to get on the blogging…Will be giving this little thing a face lift in a few weeks as well with any luck.
Anyway, I thought I would draw people’s attention to some rather sick albums that are doing the rounds. Why might you not have listened to them? Because they’re movie sound tracks.
Mountain Man BCB session
I said it at the time, and I’ll say it again. The Mountain Man session we had recently at BCB is one of the most beautiful sessions I’ve had the pleasure of being involved in. You can hear it again here now.
Mountain Man BCB session by DJ Albert Freeman
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Mountain Man at BCB, posing as cats!
I would like to find time to put all our sessions up on the blog for you to listen to again, but the reality is I don’t have time. Others I have put up here in 2010 are The Duke & The King and Lawrence Arabia. When I get time, I’ll put more up here too.
Leeds Festival Review: Day 2
(Yes, I know, I’m shoving this up on the blog somewhat after the event, but I’m a busy man y’know. Better late than never…)
Bloody hell, it’s windy. Either that or someone has got hold of the outside of my tent and is flapping it about like a Killer Whale with a half dead seal. Maybe it’s them Spam bastards paying me back for nicking their tent pegs. One thing is certain – the noise it is making has rendered any further sleep impossible without tranquilisers. I dare say there’s a fair bit of Ketamine washing around the festival site, but personally I’ll give that a miss if it’s all the same to you.
Horse tranquilizers: it's a race horse called Horlicks, apparently.
I am a parent now and hurtling towards middle-age, so 8am is considered an indulgent lie-in anyway, so I get up and go for breakfast – the details of which started the first blog, so we’ll skip over that. However, before I can go to eat I am refused entry to the festival main area as no one is allowed in until 9am. Eh, do what? The festival closes at night? I thought this was supposed to be a playground of non-stop revelry and no sleep ’til Brooklyn. Now I find that everyone went to bed before me, tucked up with a cup of Horlicks (other revolting bedtime drinks are available).
It occurs to me that I’ve not really had a proper look around the whole site, so I rectify this. There’s not a great deal around other than food stands and stalls selling t-shirts with wanky slogans, although I do spot a place which sells ale as opposed to the rather flimsy Tuborg which is the only other beer available onsite. Sadly, further investigation later in the day reveals the ale to be rather horrid as well. Continue reading