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The Vapours: Turning Japanese (1980)
Ever wondered why the English New Wave band The Vapours were just a one-hit wonder with Turning Japanese? They don't. They know exactly why.
A little background though: they were from Guildford and the mainman was singer/songwriter Dave Fenton who had a day job as a solicitor. Playing as the Vapours, the four-piece were spotted by Bruce...
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No Way Sis: I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (1996)
For the Oasis tribute band No Way Sis their work was done for them: Oasis were notorious for borrowing/plagiarising/thieving melodies which songwriter Noel Gallagher cheeerfully admitted -- and their song Shakermaker owed more than a nod to the Greenaway-Cook song I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (a hit for the New Seekers and also used as...
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Ocean Colour Scene: Saturday (Keep on Keeping On)
Despite being one of the most exciting
and interesting bands of the Britpop Nineties -– singer Simon Fowler had
a rough and soulful voice, guitarist Steve Cradock a member of Paul
Weller's touring band –- this outfit from Birmingham never really
took hold in New Zealand.
On their home turf they had Weller as a
vocal...
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Ocean Colour Scene: Here in my Heart
It was one of the saddest days I can recall, and yet it had started out so well in Birmingham, a place where I had been drawn to interview the Britpop band Ocean Colour Scene in their hometown. It was 1998 I think.
OCS never really made an impact in New Zealand, which was a pity because the night I saw them they were spectacularly good,...
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OCEAN COLOUR SCENE INTERVIEWED (1996): Take it to the top
From the outside – even on the rather mundane inside -- the
Irish Centre on Birmingham's dreary, windswept Digbeth High St
doesn't look like the city’s premier rock’n’roll venue.
And it’s probably not, but . . .
“Yeah, the history’s here though,” says Ocean Colour Scene’s
lanky...
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MIKE EDWARDS OF JESUS JONES INTERVIEWED (1993): Right here, right now . . . back then
Mike Edwards has got a big mouth - and
without going too far into the anatomically impossible, it’s his
big mouth that gets right up people’s noses.
And right here, right now in
Birmingham, he’s been getting up the noses of the British music
press - which admittedly isn’t hard to do and probably quite...
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Blur: No Distance Left to Run (EMI Double DVD set)
This beautifully shot, career-spanning, feature-length doco leaves a lot of threads hanging for those who didn't follow every nuance of the relationship between the four members of Brit-pop's Blur, and you certainly get the impression that guitarist Graham Coxon -- often a blitzkrieg of noise on-stage but nervous, reticent and slightly precious...
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Graham Coxon: The Spinning Top (Transgressive)
Damon Albarn has had the more visible profile outside of Blur -- Gorillaz, his Mali Music album, The Good, The Bad and The Queen -- but for the band’s former guitarist Coxon (who left after Think Tank of 03) The Spinning Top is his seventh solo outing and extends his interest in Anglofolk of the Nick Drake, Bert Jansch and Richard...
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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2008: Paul Weller: 22 Dreams (Shock)
A couple of months ago I was invited to give a lecture to Auckland Uni music students about a contemporary songwriter of my choosing whose catalogue of work was interesting and worth studying.I picked Paul Weller on strength of this quote from him about his forthcoming album: "It takes in soul, rock'n'roll, there are some folky moments,...
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The Fratellis: Here We Stand (Island)
Last year's debut album Costello Music by this rowdy Glaswegian three-piece didn't make it to Elsewhere because, frankly, I didn't rate it as highly as some. I thought it had many of the problems and few of the advantages that attend a debut. But this follow-up is something else.If Costello Music was firmly in the pop-rock camp with an ear for...
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Jordan Zevon: Insides Out (New West/Elite)
This album isn't here because this is the 27-year old son of the later Warren (although the surname did attract attention to it) but because it is so . . .
Well, if you know his dad's stuff this is surprising.
There's nothing to say Jordan should have followed his dad's path (Warren was famously Mr Bad Example we should remind ourselves)....
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Paul Weller, Wild Wood (1994)
By the time he came to releasing albums under his own name in the early 90s, Paul Weller had already had two separate careers: first in the Jam and then the Style Council.
If the Jam had been quintessentially English and took its references from the Who, the Small Faces and Ray Davies as much as Mod culture and the rage of the punk years,...
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UB40: Just another labour of love
So UB40 were back for another New Zealand tour. Well pardon my lack of enthusiasm.
It's not that, like most critics, I don't have much time for their MOR reggae. I don't, but with me it's much more personal . .
It was my misfortune to spend a day with the band in Birmingham many, many years ago. But the memory is etched into my brain....
> mybackpages/759/ub40-just-another-labour-of-love/
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