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Dr John: Gris Gris (1968)
Long careers generally mean the raw and rough edges of the early days are smoothed out, and that audiences forget just how edgy and unusual the artist’s music actually was.
So it is with Dr John whose career reaches way back to playing piano in bars as teenager in New Orleans during the 50s alongside legendary figures such as Professor...
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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...
> fromthevaults/3236/no-way-sis-id-like-to-teach-the-world-to-sing-1996/
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...
> absoluteelsewhere/3131/mike-edwards-of-jesus-jones-interviewed-1993-right-here-right-now-back-then/
ROBERT WYATT IN CUCKOOLAND (2003): A man, his muse and his music
Robert Wyatt occupies an unusual place in rock culture. He's in it, but also apart from it.
He's not known for his hits, although did enjoy brief chart success and a Top of the Pops appearance with his singular version of the Monkees' I'm A Believer back in '74. He doesn't do videos and won't be coming to a concert stage near you, unless it...
> absoluteelsewhere/2324/robert-wyatt-in-cuckooland-2003-a-man-his-muse-and-his-music/
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 Kinks, Something Else (1967)
Anyone looking for that low door in the wall which allows entry into the distinctive garden of English pop-rock is, almost invariably drawn to the Kinks whose songwriter Ray Davies had a mainline into the Anglo-heartland for almost decade from the mid 60s.Davies' songwriting could sometimes be satirical or cynical, but more often than not he...
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IT WAS 40 YEARS AGO TODAY
In November 68 the Beatles released what became known as The White Album, a diffuse and diverse double-vinyl which in places sounded like the work of three separate songwriters who has seconded various other band members. Their producer George Martin argued for a tight single album, and many others have suggested since it might have been...
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PAUL WELLER'S PHASE TWO: THE STYLE COUNCIL. There are second acts in English life
After six exhausting years in the Jam, singer-songwriter Paul Weller pulled the plug in October '82 and within months re-appeared with his keyboard-playing friend Mick Talbot as The Style Council, a group with a soulful, European attitude and some hard things to say about the political state of Britain under the Torys.
Their debut album...
> absoluteelsewhere/1117/paul-wellers-phase-two-the-style-council-there-are-second-acts-in-english-life/
RAY DAVIES INTERVIEWED: Still a well respected man (2008)
Ray Davies, the former Kink and for the past decade a solo artist, say that these days he “stays -- notice I don’t use the word ‘live’ -- at Highgate Hill which is literally half a mile from where I grew up in Muswell Hill. It’s the highest spot in London and you can look over the city, one of the more romantic...
> absoluteelsewhere/1800/ray-davies-interviewed-still-a-well-respected-man-2008/
Various: Secret Love 4 (Sonar Kollektiv/Rhythmethod)
I'm guessing by the title that this is part of a series, the three previous volumes of which have gone right past me -- as I imagine they have with most people.
Only a pre-release copy of this, a lazy Sunday and it being close to hand got me to it -- and I'm very glad of that.
With the likes of Andrew Bird and Findlay Brown represented...
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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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