Looking back in time… memorable moments in sonic history!
ROXY MUSIC celebrated their first number one album in the UK with STRANDED
hitting the top spot of the British album charts on 8 December 1973. Their third LP
and the first one with Eddie Jobson, who replaced the genial Brian Eno…
First single was the swirling STREET LIFE. Let’s dance back in time…
Thomas Alan Waits was born in Pomona, California
on 7 December 1949 – 67 years ago
Three pearls to celebrate the 67th birthday
of a man who didn’t want to grow up…
Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
Album: Small Change (1976)
I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
Album: Bone Machine (1992)
Hell Broke Luce
Album: Bad As Me (2011)
TOY – Trix, Antwerp – 3 December 2016
Brighton-based psychedelia explorers TOY are finally back, three years after their energizing, second, album ‘Join The Dots’. On new excellent LP CLEAR SHOT the band sounds bluesier, more introspective and contemplative than before. Floating, melodic journeys echoing late 80s shoegaze atmospherics, but still regularly injected with the band’s by now characteristic, haunting Krautrock trips. Last Saturday in Antwerp they proved (again), with glowing flare, why they are one of the most cutting live bands on the buzzing underground scene. On stage they create a trance like fantasy world colored with a mesmeric mix of gloomy pop reveries and extended, motorik psych jams that increase the flow of your body’s adrenaline spectacularly. They shift tempo and emotion in a truly overwhelming and hypnotizing way. I am completely addicted to their swelling escapades growing heavier and nastier with every second. Amplified, soul exploring electricity to get completely lost in. One word: breathtaking!…
Here’s the band’s newest single…
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And get your CLEAR SHOT in full here…
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Some photographic reflections…
Moony vox…
Bluesy moods…
Storming jams…
Colorful adrenaline…
Setlist…
Music that shakes us in a way we want to scream out loud…
If you like it really NOISY, come in, have a seat and check this 4-piece engine. Expect high-voltage guitar frenzy loaded with muscled power chords and punch your fists in the air riffs while a manic madman hammers his drums so boisterous you can really feel the resulting earthquakes physically. FACT! On top of it all raging vocals are testing your ears’ flexibility. Sounds pretty mental, doesn’t it? You bet. And it blew my mind & senses the way I love it.
I experienced the impressive tantrums of this Belgian steamy noise band live for the very first time last Friday in Brussels. A complete knockout! The band’s intensity is phenomenal and the drummer, looking like a heavy metal wrestler, left the stage with al his gear, at one point, to go and explode among the spectators. Bonkers, absolutely bonkers! You want a piece of the action? Let’s start with a new electrifying track from their fresh album…
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So far, so damn gloriously turbulent. And I will not spoil the party.
On the contrary, here’s brand new 8-track record AGAAIIN in full…
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Here’s an idea of their vital live force.…
And to end this noisy trip, here are some pics from last Friday ‘s storming gig in Brussels…
Aaaaaaaaargh…
Let’s play even louder…
Meeting the fans…
Nastiest drummer in the house…
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(All concert pics by Turn Up The Volume!)
Weekly firework to dance your Blue Mondays into oblivion…
‘Get Higher’ by BLACK GRAPE
Remember BLACK GRAPE? Actually a mix of Happy Mondays and Ruthless Rap Assassins members doing what they did before: going totally apeshit on the dancefloor with Bez leading the moves. Although they were full time dopeheads they managed somehow
to create several mesmeric vibes like GET HIGHER with its hilarious fabricated lines
about drugs by former American president and his first lady, Ronald & Nancy Reagan,
at the start of this sonic orgy. Dance your blue Monday away like it’s already weekend,
with a big grin on your face. Empty your head and activate your limbs. Here we go…
Donald:
“Nancy is joining me because the message this evening is not my message, but ours. Despite
our best efforts, shortages of marijuana are now being reported. From the early days of our administration, Nancy has been abusing marijuana on a daily basis and her personal observations and efforts have given her such dramatic insights that I wanted her
to share them with you this evening….”
Nancy:
“I yearned to find a way to help share the message that drugs open your eyes to life.
To see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to his children.”
Get Higher was on their second and final 1997 album ‘Stupid Stupid Stupid’
Looking and listening back in time! Memorable moments in sonic history!
Forty years ago today – 1 December 1976 – the SEX PISTOLS shocked the British island with this (in)famous appearance on ITV’s live early evening ‘Today‘ show. Haha! Good old conservative and prude Britannia went completely mad after the rude language interview with four unknown who-the-fuck-cares teenagers. Presenter Bill Grundy was fired, although he was right about one thing: “they are as drunk as I am…” Here’s the SHIT….
Oh my God, it looks actually like silly amateurish British comedy today. Here is the real f*****g way to remember what the b****y brilliant Pistols were all about and they are
SO relevant again in today’s bleak Brexit land. Political filth and fury anno 2016 in the UK…
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Video clips that will impress your eyes and ears…
THE MOONLANDINGZ – a psychedelic collective containing Sheffield’s electronic explorers The Eccentronic Research Council and Fat White Family‘s wicked masterminds, far out frontman Lias Saoudi and mental guitarist Saul Adamczewski – released swinging new single BLACK HANZ a couple of weeks ago, reviewed on this space here. And now here is the video visualizing the band’s scary imagination. It was filmed in Sheffield and directed by Sean Lennon‘s partner Charlotte Kemp Muhl. It shows Lias aka weird John Rockett, a kind of underground punk Batman living in the city’s dirtiest sewer, being laughed at in the streets by so-called normal people. Ugly post Brexit grimness it is. Outsiders need help. Wait, here comes Johnnyyyyyyyyy…
The Moonlandingz will release their debut album Interplanetary Class Classics on
24 March 2017. Pre-order details here. The album was recorded with Sean Lennon at his
New York studio. It features Ross Orton (drums), Mairead O’Connor (bass), as well as guest appearances from Randy Jones (the Cowboy from, yes, The Village People), Rebecca Taylor from Slow Club, The Human League‘s frontman Phil Oakey and, last but not least, Yoko Ono, who yowls on the LP’s epic closer This Cities Undone. Here’s the full tracklist…
1. Vessels
2. Sweet Saturn Mine
3. Black Hanz
4. I.D.S.
5. The Strangle Of Anna (feat. Rebecca Taylor of Slow Club)
6. Theme From Valhalladale
7. The Rabies Are Back
8. Neuf De Pape
9. Glory Hole (feat Randy Jones from Village People)
10. Lufthanza Man
11. This Cities Undone (feat. Yoko Ono & friends)
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