ian on sky arts' Great Songwriters this week (last week). very fidgety and rambling but always entertaining.
likes cryptic crosswords, doesn't get Only Connect though.
odd choice of songs though (killing moon, dancing horses, proud to fall, unstoppable force)
― koogs, Saturday, 19 August 2023 20:33 (nine months ago) link
Steinbeck et al, they just wrote novels, they don't have to sing them...
I think the second volume of Will's bio comes out very soon.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 19 August 2023 20:40 (nine months ago) link
The way Will describes the current dynamics of the band makes me feel sad, he comes across as quite enervated by the whole business.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FoIifB2Ylk
― MaresNest, Friday, 1 December 2023 11:45 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1QFubPHyZc
― MaresNest, Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:27 (five months ago) link
i had that (glasto 85) as a bootleg, bought during my first week at university from a guy selling them in the students Union building. they do, iirc, it's all over now baby blue, she cracked, paint it black
(oh, track listing right there...)
― koogs, Thursday, 4 January 2024 19:06 (five months ago) link
the Crystal Days box has versions of those, and more, from Swedish radio. don't know if the glasto versions ever saw an official release.
― koogs, Thursday, 4 January 2024 19:09 (five months ago) link
I can't help it, that Peel Session song "No Hands" is the gothiest thing ever. Beautiful and amen. Listen to the bass. I'll never recover. That is absolutely the most beautifully goth thing I've ever heard. Oh my god, make it stop. That is going to fuck with my head all night.Too much goth. Too much.
― think you're a fookin' bat, eh? (Bimble), Saturday, February 7, 2009 6:25 AM (fifteen years ago)
bimble otm, but it's not too much. i just heard this song for the first time earlier this week, listening to the peel sessions collection from a few years back. when "no hands" came on i immediately tried to figure out which album it was from and how i had missed it before. but it's only on that session, i think, the january 1982 peel session, i think? it rules
― z_tbd, Saturday, 17 February 2024 23:04 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSd36N5rBg8
― z_tbd, Saturday, 17 February 2024 23:05 (three months ago) link
I had that Glasto / Swedish radio bootleg, too -- so good!
― three of the doctor's valuable bats are now dead (broom air), Sunday, 18 February 2024 01:21 (three months ago) link
There's only one, pitifully short and tangential Wild Swans thread on ILM, but I thought it worth mentioning here that I'm halfway through Paul Simpson's memoir and it's pretty enjoyable so far.
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 18 February 2024 01:51 (three months ago) link