I ordered James Blackshaw's latest CD after seeing him at Green Man, and it arrived today. (I got it via Boa Melody Bar in Glasgow — linked from James's site — and I'd definitely recommend them/her for a wide range of folky/droney esoterica at cheap prices, in this case £8.50 inc p&p.) I'm on my second listen now and really enjoying it. I could barely hear James at the festival, and he said he could barely hear himself, but I had a hunch I would enjoy his stuff. He plays a ...
Nancy Wallace opened the evening — filling in for Last of the Hard Men — with a mix of two traditional songs, a few originals, and a cover of I Don't Believe in the Sun by The Magnetic Fields. Great to hear it sung with a Northern English accent. Anyone goes up in estimation by acknowledging the genius of The Magnetic Fields, but I was already enjoying Nancy's performance before that. Like Kate Rusby, only better.
Morvern Callar, playing with Larkin Grimm on tambourine and backin ...
I've seen Sonic Boom a few times, playing with Yo La Tengo, Luna, and (back in the '80s) as part of Spacemen 3. But I've never caught on to his approach as well as I did last week at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop event, where he played solo for half an hour or so.
To be honest, I'd assumed that most of the fuss about the most famous Radiophonic Workshop staff, Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire, was down to the romantic and slightly kinky idea of these blue-stocking women with horn-rimmed gla ...
