Notebook Mania

The little brown coloured notebook from Rymans is my latest addition to the collection of notebooks i have. Can you have too many notebooks?

A Brighton Morning

A totally different morning song batch of tracks. All the bands featured are female rockers and pop indie bands from my old haunt of Brighton. Two of the bands I have not seen live whilst the other i have seen four times whilst i lived in Brighton, that being Electrelane.

Starting with The Pipettes and a track called "Judy" -

Next up Natasha Khan as Bat For Lashes and a track called Glass

And finally the band i have seen live, with among them a contributor (Mia Clarke) to The Wire magazine, Electrelane and a  track called To The East.

They really did rock! Their music drew from a wide range of influences including Neu!, Stereolab, Sonic Youth, and The Velvet Underground. Although the band had strong feminist and political views in their personal lives, they generally preferred to not communicate that directly to their fans or through their music. Mia Clarke was the freelance writer in the band for The Wire ,the Guardian newspaper, and Pitchfork magazines.She now lives in Chicago with her new band Follows.




I have actually met her and fell in love straight away when i saw them in 2005. So here is another track by them , the beautiful The Lighthouse.

Enjoy.

Must buy the The Wire magazine again. Started reading it from 1991 till about 2010. The best   music mag on the market as it coves all the genres i am into.  The Wire is a British avant garde music magazine, founded in 1982 by jazz promoter Anthony Wood and journalist Chrissie Murray. The magazine initially concentrated on contemporary jazz and improvised music, but branched out in the early 1990's to various types of experimental music. Since then it has covered hip hop, modern classical, free improvisation, post-rock, and various forms of electronic music. Yeah, that defines me as well. 

In The Office (Redux)

So once again i walked into Sittingbourne to go to the Office and have my brain mashed by the course. Rather disgruntled that i am stuck indoors but had a wonderful walk meeting cousin walking in the opposite direction going home.

Leaving soon in roughly 45 minutes.

Bands / Artists Seen Live In Brighton Part One

Apart from doing some revision and doing a practice test in which i received 76 % correct questions , nothing else much happened today. However , the response to my Brighton music theme this morning was very positive. I would love to do a whole post on post-rock  uber cool band  Electrelane, but for now, that shall wait till another time.

I was trying to remember all the bands i had seen live whilst i lived in Brighton. These were bands or artists that i was alerted to by that excellent bible of avant garde music , The Wire.

Top of this list is Acid Mothers Temple and The Melting Paraiso at the Freebutt pub -

This is one of my favourite albums by them. Jap psyche rock musos!

Next, Sunburned Hand Of The Man at some arts place where they showed avant garde films  in Brighton - Seen them twice actually.
Here is a track called Nice Butterfly Mask.

At the Sussex Arts Centre i saw the Chicago Underground Duo -
A track from the album Synesthesia  called Blue Sparks Form Her.

At a small theatre event , name escapes me, i saw Jaga Jazzist live. Like the Chicago Underground Duo , cool and brilliant live! so here is a funky number called All I Know Is Tonight.

On a tour with fellow Africans i saw Salif Keita live at the Dome. Awesome. A track called Cono.

Yeah some great live concerts and some  top notch groups. In Part Two i shall plays clips by Faust, Devendre Banhart ,Joanna Newsom,  Toumani Diabate , and Oumou Sangare. The last two were on African Soul Rebel visits  and i sure miss them!