Saturday, August 31, 2013
- The Human League: August, 1978
I recently acquired this Peel session in mp3 format and was keen to share it with you all. If anyone is interested, I'll make the mp3s available in some format or other. If not, just enjoy this video montage.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
- YouTube Mining: The Soul Survivors - Mama Soul
The key to YouTube mining is to go with your instincts.
'YouTube mining' is a term I've devised to define my hobby of searching for new and previously unheard music on the video website. It's actually quite a simple notion: Listen to something that you haven't heard for ages and then choose something you've never heard before from all those videos that are displayed on the right hand side. This can be tricky, as all you're going on is the thumbnail picture chosen by the uploader. It is, however, incredibly rewarding when you find something truly majestic, as is the case with today's offering.
I'd never heard of 'The Soul Survivors' (they basically had one fairly big hit in the late 60s) and all I had to go on was the image of the magnificently afro-haired woman enticing me to click on a song called 'Mama Soul'...
As far as I can ascertain, this track was never even released as a single. I've found very little information about this song, although it apparently featured on their 1967 album of the same name.
'YouTube mining' is a term I've devised to define my hobby of searching for new and previously unheard music on the video website. It's actually quite a simple notion: Listen to something that you haven't heard for ages and then choose something you've never heard before from all those videos that are displayed on the right hand side. This can be tricky, as all you're going on is the thumbnail picture chosen by the uploader. It is, however, incredibly rewarding when you find something truly majestic, as is the case with today's offering.
I'd never heard of 'The Soul Survivors' (they basically had one fairly big hit in the late 60s) and all I had to go on was the image of the magnificently afro-haired woman enticing me to click on a song called 'Mama Soul'...
As far as I can ascertain, this track was never even released as a single. I've found very little information about this song, although it apparently featured on their 1967 album of the same name.
- 22nd December, 1995
A 46-minute segment of the pre-Christmas show. I'm extremely pleased about this one as it features the epic song 'Flesh' which I myself played in one of my podcasts. At the time I was in the 'difficult' second year of university, you know the one where they kick you out of halls and you have to live in a house much worse than your parents'. Thanks to alanforduk for this gem:
New Bad Things - Like
Henry & Louis - Instilled Dub
The Fall - The Chiselers
Gagarin Kongress - Astralleib
Polvo - Bombs That Fall From Your Eyes
The Geckoes - The Old John Peel
Ken Nordine - Flesh
New Decade - Broken Keys
Girl Of The Year - Halo
Jackie And The Cedrics - Banzai Diamond Head
Prince Far I & Creation Rebel - No More War
Loren MazzaCane Connors - Stilled Wind
The Fall - This City Never Sleeps At Night
Download here.
New Bad Things - Like
Henry & Louis - Instilled Dub
The Fall - The Chiselers
Gagarin Kongress - Astralleib
Polvo - Bombs That Fall From Your Eyes
The Geckoes - The Old John Peel
Ken Nordine - Flesh
New Decade - Broken Keys
Girl Of The Year - Halo
Jackie And The Cedrics - Banzai Diamond Head
Prince Far I & Creation Rebel - No More War
Loren MazzaCane Connors - Stilled Wind
The Fall - This City Never Sleeps At Night
Download here.
This is what TV adverts looked like in 1995. Glad to see that someone was still using Quo to sell car parts, while it's amazing to see what Bruce Forsyth would do if, er, the price was right. Did the internet really look like that back then?
BRUNO MARS – THE NEW MUSIC ICON
Peter Gene Henandez commonly known by his stage show name Bruno Mars is an American singer, song writer and record producer. He has a family background of musicians. At a very young age Bruno Mars started doing his stage shows. After his graduation, he
moved to Los Angeles for pursuing his musical career.
One Saturday night on his stage show at Barlays
Centre while Bruno Mars was busy singing romantic
slow jam “ If I knew” he
halted unexpectedly for a comic movement. He had an eye to eye stare at
a lady sitting in the front row by
the name India and offered his intention to sing for this lucky lady. He with
his unique Hawaiian style acknowledged
and began his song named” R & B 101” after introducing himself to the lady and started with words “ I’m the guy on the ticket”.
This marks Mars’s down
to earth attitude towards his fans. His talent as a musician is more
than enough to admire him. Just with two albums to his name ( recently “Unorthodox Juke box” of 2012) he has already made a mark in the world of pop music.
The technique with which
Bruno Mars shifts the styles and genres is effortless. In the first hour, his mix of styles starts
from disco-funk licks of “Treasure” to
Jamaican rhythms called reggae of
“ Show Me” to a heavy notes of “Runaway Baby” in a spur of moment .His unique
ability is like an iPod with which Mars shuffles between the songs of Barrett Strong’s “Money(That’s What I Want)”,
Ginuwine’s pony and small notes of
Prince’s “Purple Rain” with great ease.
It is Mars who is
the whole and soul behind the show, but it is the team effort and
coordination of the members of his band is behind its success . The eight
member band comprises not just people who are hired by him but are his best
friends who are dancers and rappers who share the best on stage chemistry. The
unity among them is seen on the fact that all wear same red suits, leopard
–skin vests and gold chains. This resembles the pimp culture usually seen in
New York as they
started playing “Shaft”.
The major success comes from the show of new wave rock song “Locked Out of Heaven”. It is a feather in his cap. This is not only Mars best tunes but has become the
great pop songs of the decade. Even after being criticised by many critics that
this song has Police being mostly referred, it is rocking all over by making
people dance to its tunes .
Mars acknowledges the love
for his fan following by throwing the golden glitters into the crowd and by
performing his drum solo.
Bruno Mars is a
performer and entertainer in true sense as his show is a complete package of
humour, catchy and rhythmic songs. One cannot get away with Mars’s mesmerising music which will
make a mark not only on ones’s mind but also on one’s soul. Tonight Mars
is going to rock in Prudential Centre Newark with his
performance.
Monday, August 19, 2013
- Cover Versions Special: 13th July, 1991
Thanks very much to Alan for making this one available. I haven't even downloaded it myself yet so can't comment much. The downloads cover almost the full three-hour show, in four parts, and feature sessions from Party Dictator and Scientist.
Available for download here (part 1 47 mins), here (part 2 44 mins), here (part 3 46 mins) and here (part 4 31 mins). If anyone wants to do a tracklisting, feel free.
Will return with more festive 50s soon.
Available for download here (part 1 47 mins), here (part 2 44 mins), here (part 3 46 mins) and here (part 4 31 mins). If anyone wants to do a tracklisting, feel free.
Will return with more festive 50s soon.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Looking to hire a live band?
What do you do when you want to put on a really great event such as a party, wedding, or even just a really memorable family get-together? For the longest time it seemed really difficult if you wanted to hire a live band to come and perform at such an event. Where could you even begin trying to find a band? What style would they play and would it be appropriate for your party? How much would it cost to hire them? Were they reliable or was there always that nagging risk that they would let you down on the big day?
All these questions and many more were exactly the kind of
things going through people’s minds when trying to book live entertainment and find
bands for hire in the past. With all of the innovations in the music
industry that have taken place over the past decade or so, it would seem
impossible that no one would have thought of a better way to bring such live
performers to the attention of those who wish to hire them. If you’d reckoned
that someone would have come up with just such a solution, you’d now be right!
Finally, there is an online service that allows people
looking for bands to get an idea online: hire a band from earcandy liveentertainment. You are able to view acts and read testimonials about all of
the bands, so earcandy bands for hire gives you a really great idea of
exactly what you are going to get when you have that fantastic party in mind. In
addition to a wide number of bands, the earcandy website also offer a wide
selection of DJs and contacting the site is very easy. Earcandy really has
taken the worry and stress out of the process of finding the right live
performers for your special event.
Monday, April 23, 2012
I miss doing this!
To all those who used to drop by here, I should say that I really miss writing this blog and hope to resuscitate it soon.
Just sayin...
Just sayin...
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