https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbD2sd1YaFw
― j., Friday, 18 January 2013 06:45 (eleven years ago) link
shit-hot electric guitar
ten distinct yet not mutually exclusive adjectives
1. topsy-turvy2. historical3. metaphysical4. cosmological5. phantasmagorical6. universal7. oedipal8. personal9. satirical10. topical
― j., Friday, 18 January 2013 06:50 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/alasdair-roberts-friends-a-wonder-working-stone-115934
I suspect only he could rhyme abracadabra with “intact cadaver”
― j., Friday, 18 January 2013 07:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/7535
dusted's review links to the dragcity soundcloud, one track, 'the year of the burning'
― j., Friday, 18 January 2013 09:15 (eleven years ago) link
which would be 'historical'
― j., Friday, 18 January 2013 09:16 (eleven years ago) link
Shit hot guitar!! He is never disappointing. I don't like to read reviews before listening to sthg I'm anticipating, but I will listen to the track on soundcloud!!
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Friday, 18 January 2013 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
ordered! waiting!
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Friday, 25 January 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
whipcrack on whipcrack on whipcrack!
it's finally here! i'm listening to it this morning before i go into work a little later. great morning!! beautiful package too. i love how he writes notes for each song, v thoughtful.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
"brother seed" is totally melting my brain right nowwhat a song!!!!
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ "scandal and trace" with the red river valley melody
this guy, always lightening the mood with a goofy tune while singing about being on the edge of empire. i have kinda mixed feelings about this song, but it's audacious.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
i'm definitely going to try to introduce "only a cock's stride away" to my daily vocab.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
I believe this should be posted here -- this is the incest ballad "brother seed", totally whoa goodhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVme8xe7NNo
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Monday, 4 February 2013 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
misreading the tracklisting for this new one i was surprised to see ali going in a slightly new direction with his polka-rap, but no. :''(
― hot young stalin (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
this album goes in a lot of different directions, but that's not one of them
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
dunno, isn't that funky part of Rap Y Clychau Glâs pretty much Glaswegian hip hop?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
Alasdair Roberts and his friends are coming to Chicago this summer! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
coool, what are the other dates?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
i dunno! he is coming as part of our summer in the park music series thingie -- they usually have one act i am marginally interested in, but this year i am so excited to use taxpayer dollars to fly one of my favorite artists over here -- and his friends! i want to be on the welcome wagon committee.
surely this is being paired with other shows, though -- the city thing is a good way to get over here, and then stay a while (i hope!)
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
for the sake of people in other parts of the usa, that is
talking of whom:
http://thequietus.com/articles/11821-alasdair-roberts-favourite-albums
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
The song Craigie Hill off that Dick Gaughan album is something you really need to hear btw. First heard it when June Tabor played it on a radio show she was a guest on, total lump in the throat stuff for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP15bKvUpdw
― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
does anyone know anything about him cancelling US tour? website does not look promising for show in chicago on MONDAY
;_;
http://www.alasdairroberts.com/content/2013/07/07/north-american-tour-cancelled/
North American Tour under threatJuly 7th, 2013The July 2013 North American tour of Alasdair Roberts & Friends is in danger of being cancelled as we do not yet have the required visas for entry to the USA. Please watch this space for further developments…
The July 2013 North American tour of Alasdair Roberts & Friends is in danger of being cancelled as we do not yet have the required visas for entry to the USA. Please watch this space for further developments…
also omg he is playing in cedar rapids <3
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
lamesville
― tylerw, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 15:10 (ten years ago) link
hey only they're allowed to call it that
― j., Wednesday, 10 July 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
Alasdair and two of his bandmates's visas have been approved. Now we are waiting on the Embassy to process and return their passports, which hopefully happens before the are meant to fly on Thursday. We are optimistic that the tour will happen. The ensemble is a three piece now. Two casualties to the process!
DC show at end of the month still tentatively on, albeit w/ Alisdair and less bandmates
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
oh man it's gonna be so awkward when he is on stage with two other people at a giant pavilion in downtown chicagoi was hoping there would be a full band fingers crossed for the passports! i've been looking forward to this for months. years if you count the last time i thought he was coming and then bert jansch got sick :(
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 17:58 (ten years ago) link
three of them made it! those poor men in the hot sun, it looked painful. they were troopers though, gave it their all. played mostly new stuff from wonder working stone, but also played http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fair_Flower_of_Northumberland<3
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7355/9287321885_763fa82240.jpg
let's see how it goes tonight at the giant pavilion...
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 15 July 2013 15:36 (ten years ago) link
LL, did you happen to catch his last minute show last night at Lighthouse Tavern? saw the last minute tweet from Drag City and it was so tempting, if i hadn't been wiped out with severe head congestion.
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 15 July 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link
no :(even if i had seen it, i was in for the nightnow i'm bummed
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 15 July 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
oh sorry, didn't mean to bum you out.
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 15 July 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link
a person can't stay attached to every social media outlet hoping for a morsel, it's okstill bummed i missed it though
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 15 July 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
My dad e-mailed me to say that he and my stepmom were going to see Fatoumata Diawara tonight and would be getting there early for "the Irish folk singer warm up group." I replied that Roberts is Scottish, and he joked that now they "probably won't go." I mean, I think it was a joke! But my stepmom is also really into being "Irish," so I dunno.
― jaymc, Monday, 15 July 2013 19:40 (ten years ago) link
mani knew that would be the case -- i was trying to explain to D how i knew that AR would go first and not be the headliner even though i hadn't looked it up to check and that proves my point. :-/
i have a request -- i'm hoping for "brother seed". figure there's a good chance since it's on the new album that both the other two guys played on.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 15 July 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
I don't know Alasdair Roberts's music at all. But it's hard to imagine that he'd be able to top Fatoumata Diawara's energetic dance grooves, anyway.
― jaymc, Monday, 15 July 2013 20:08 (ten years ago) link
http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/artists/?entity_id=95372&source_type=B
DC show video stream
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 August 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
Alasdair Roberts & Robin RobertsonHirta Songs
10 track album concerning the history, landscape and people of the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda. Features guest appearances from Corrina Hewat and Robin Williamson, plus mainstays of Alasdair's live and studio ensembles Tom Crossley, Rafe Fitzpatrick and Stevie Jones.
Single CD in jewel case with 12 page booklet, limited edition 180g vinyl with insert (250 copies for the World) and download. Released November 2013.
http://www.stonetaperecordings.co.uk/str-006.html
― tylerw, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 14:38 (ten years ago) link
Looks like an amazing place (St. Kilda). Going by google maps there's about five houses on the entire island..I'm still getting my head around the Roberts & Friends album, but I say bring it on.
― willem, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 14:46 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i'm definitely still absorbing the last one... just found this place - http://libraryofaethers.wikispaces.com/ which might help.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
topics:
Animals Armed conflict & weapons Birds Body parts, functions & fluids Drinking Musical instruments & terms Numbers Points of the compass Titles & trappings Trees Vegetation Weather
i was already excited but by the time i got to "vegetation" and "weather" i was already dreaming of st kilda
must get!!
― special beet service (La Lechera), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
did anybody go to his Galoshins show a couple of years back? (Actually looking through this thread I see that Krakow definitely did!) On one hand I kinda wish I'd written something about it after it happened so I could remember it properly, but then I quite like the weird dreamlike place it occupies in my memory.
― opie dead eyed piece of shit (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 15:46 (ten years ago) link
shit-hot guitar
finally i hear it
― j., Thursday, 5 December 2013 11:19 (ten years ago) link
New album, a collab with poet Robin Robertson, is really good. Concept album, of sorts, about St Kilda, with nice guest spot by Robin Williamson (Incredible String Band) on hardanger fiddle.
http://stonetaperecordings.bandcamp.com/album/hirta-songs
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Thursday, 5 December 2013 12:14 (ten years ago) link
Hoping to attend this, cld be an excellent setting for A.R.:
http://www.ents24.com/glasgow-events/govan-old-parish-church/a-christmas-time-concert/3669218
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 5 December 2013 12:19 (ten years ago) link
That sounds lovely!!
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Thursday, 5 December 2013 12:53 (ten years ago) link
Dang, not going to be around for that unfortunately. I've seen him plenty of times, but Govan Parish Church would be quite something.
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Thursday, 5 December 2013 13:49 (ten years ago) link
Finally got Hirta Songs yesterday. Only heard half of it on my commute but it sounded wonderful and I look forward to spending quality time with it.
― willem, Friday, 18 April 2014 09:32 (ten years ago) link
these arethe wheels ofthe world, my friendyou must understandfor two thousand years they’ve beenspreading destructionall over this land
― j., Friday, 9 May 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link
she's lain with one too near in blood
― j., Friday, 16 May 2014 22:31 (ten years ago) link