A few weeks ago while out for a beer or two with some friends I got talking to someone at the bar, just the normal pub conversation which soon turned to music, films and books. My new aquaintance told me he had just finished a book called 'The Road To Nab End' and recommended I should read it. The town I live in doesn't have a decent book shop and I couldn't find a copy in the local library so it looked like I would have to order it online or wait until my next visit to Glasgow to purchase a copy. However a few days later while browsing in a local charity shop I found a hardback copy for £2. Result! - The book itself is an autobiographical work telling the story of his impoverished upbringing in Lancashire during the Great Depression. The story itself tells us much about the social conditions of the time as families struggled to survive during some of the bleakest times ever. It really is a story of hardship but through this hardship there is always hope and above all love. There is a sense of family values that just don't exist anymore and although nobody could ever look back on those times with any great fondness there is a feeling that something special has been lost since those days. I found the book very illuminating and a fantastic piece of social commentary from that time.
Both tracks on this Redd_Kross / Sonic_Youth split single were taken from The_Carpenters tribute album 'If_I_Was_A_Carpenter' which was released in 1994. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Redd Kross - Yesterday Once More 2 Sonic Youth - Superstar -------------------------- download =
I was never a massive fan of Bauhaus although I did buy a few of their records in the '80's. This was the band's first ever release and in my opinion was the best thing they ever recorded. Released in 1979 on Small Wonder records 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' is over 9 minutes long and captures the subject matter superbly. --------------------------------------- 1 Bela Lugosi's Dead 2 Boys ------- downoad ----------
I bought this 7" single from a record stall in my local market around 1982. I know very little about the band or record except that J.F.A. are an American band and this single was released on Placebo records in 1981. --------------------------- 1 Out Of School
The last post I put up was the Cheeky Monkey collaboration between Scotland's own Francis MacDonald and New York based Michael Shelley. Before finding the album in my local Oxfam, Shelley was a complete unknown to me but after a trawl through his excellentwebsite I found these recordings he made of the Teenage Fanclub song Mellow Doubt. Get the free mp3s here.
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I recently wrote about another CD I bought by a band called Moondials who included Stevie Jackson of Belle and Sebastian in the line up. Well it seems that Jackson also played bass guitar for Cheeky Monkey when they recorded a slot for the 'Beatroom' television show in Glasgow. It's a small world indeed. [see photo here]
Yet another charity shop find and yet again another Scottish band that I previously hadn't heard of. Cheeky Monkey were a transatlantic collaboration between Francis MacDonald (BMX Bandits, Eugenius, Teenage Fanclub) and New York based musician Michael Shelley. -
A few weeks ago while out for a beer or two with some friends I got talking to someone at the bar, just the normal pub conversation which soon turned to music, films and books. My new aquaintance told me he had just finished a book called 'The Road To Nab End' and recommended I should read it. The town I live in doesn't have a decent book shop and I couldn't find a copy in the local library so it looked like I would have to order it online or wait until my next visit to Glasgow to purchase a copy. However a few days later while browsing in a local charity shop I found a hardback copy for £2. Result!
Here's a free download of the Mogwai remix of a track taken from the new Soulsavers album Broken. The album features Mark_Lanegan as the main vocalist while there are contributions from the likes of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Jason Pierce, Mike Patton and Gibby Haynes. 
I was never a massive fan of Bauhaus although I did buy a few of their records in the '80's. This was the band's first ever release and in my opinion was the best thing they ever recorded. Released in 1979 on Small Wonder records 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' is over 9 minutes long and captures the subject matter superbly.
I bought this 7" single from a record stall in my local market around 1982. I know very little about the band or record except that J.F.A. are an American band and this single was released on Placebo records in 1981.
The last post I put up was the Cheeky Monkey collaboration between Scotland's own Francis MacDonald and New York based Michael Shelley. Before finding the album in my local Oxfam, Shelley was a complete unknown to me but after a trawl through his excellent website I found these recordings he made of the Teenage Fanclub song Mellow Doubt. Get the free mp3s here.
Yet another charity shop find and yet again another Scottish band that I previously hadn't heard of. Cheeky Monkey were a transatlantic collaboration between Francis MacDonald (BMX Bandits, Eugenius, Teenage Fanclub) and New York based musician Michael Shelley.
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