I just realized R Ashcroft is married to Kate Radley! and she is very tall.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
I've just 'found' the Voyager 1 live album which I'd not previously been aware of. It sounds fantastic and McCabe is on one.
I think A Northern Soul sounds like a 'younger' album in a number of ways. It might just be that Ashcroft's weird mix of saying thank you to girls and misplaced messianic fervour is more pronounced. Either way, it's still magnificent.
Didn't he, ah, pinch KR off Jason Pierce?
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I know they toured together in 92. Not sure if that's when it happened.Spiritualised and Verve, like
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
Yep, that was the start of it. RA and KR were together by A Northern Soul. Which I happened to listen to on Tuesday, and which is still awesome. Obsessed with dying alone and being grateful for sex. So adolescent. But so powerful. And the guitar, holy fuck. No one since.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
pierce and ashcroft have a similar way with cliched/meaningless song titles
― mookieproof, Thursday, 8 August 2019 01:17 (four years ago) link
I wonder if Ashcroft wrote the So It Goes 'I'm just a poor little wifeless fella' coda for JP?
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Thursday, 8 August 2019 09:57 (four years ago) link
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Wednesday, August 7, 2019 9:38 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Yes, and I'm glad he did, because it lead to Pierce writing 'Broken Heart'
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 8 August 2019 11:46 (four years ago) link