Blueboy request

Anyways, I have both of these Blueboy albums and, seeing as Wishes is dead short, they'll fit snugly on a single 80min CD- R. Mail me offline and I can do the copying. Alternatively mail me offline if you're connected with Sarah Records and strongly disapprove of this sort of thing, and I *won't* do any copying.

I think "Remember Me" was by The Blueboy, and is a fantastic record.

Anyway, I have arranged off list a pie-music exchange. Cheers! Now... if I could only get that Another Sunny Day singles compilation.... :-)

Keith Girdler RIP

http://www.indiepages.com/lovejoy/news.html

Oh no - this is awful. As I said upthread I knew Keith briefly, half a lifetime ago, when he was the singer in a band with some friends of mine. I remember one of their first gigs, in the main hall of Reading University - Keith swirling his shirt above his head and introducing the band during the outro of one of the songs, perfectly in time so that the final 'and I'm Keith!' rang out as the band stopped dead. He wrote some terrific songs - one in particular that I remember called 'The Apotheosis of Love', the lyrics of which WH Auden would have been proud of. Another fond memory is going along with Keith to see James at the ICA - he knew the band and we sat with them as they were interviewed by Mark Ellen for the OGWT broadcast. Keith moved away from Reading after a short while, I briefly joined the band he left, then I left the area too. I never saw Keith again, or heard a note of his subsequent music, but he made a real impression on me in the brief time that I knew him - a really kind, ultra-enthusiastic and creative person.

RIP Keith, you won't be forgotten.

sad.

started off as a fan but he was a friend of various friends so i got to meet him several times, memories of him aboard the thekla looking like morrissey, sat in the betsy, the blue posts, various rooms in greenwich and crystal palace and a couple of trips with the ex to visit him in brighton.

he had a birthday party the one year, a semi-secret in a social club or something in the backstreets of reading. i think we were the only two people there who weren't close personal friends. halfway through the remains of blueboy (this was post-sarah, pre-shinkansen, i think) played half a dozen acoustic songs, mostly new, unknown stuff. was great.

Heard about this last night. Awful.

Pam & I sort of lost touch with him over the last couple of years; we still have a box of his 1980s 7"s with which he DJ'd at one of our little events at the Blue Posts. We knew he was ill but how serious it was sort of went unspoken.

He had lots of grand and daft plans for the Snowdrops, some I think purely to wind up Jimmy T ("hey, how about GW Bush tour T-shirts?") at the label.

Bless him.

had forgotten this but i did a tiny microsite for the first beaumont lp:
http://listen.to/beaumont

(has a couple of samples if dr c is interested. that said, blueboy were the epitome of the sarah sound so he'll probably hate them. keith's voice and paul's guitar were rarely bettered. have put a couple of the meatier tracks here as well: popkiss and imipramine)

had also forgotten that they played that night at the betsy trotwood (supported by the pines). dug out the recording last night and will post it tomorrow, probably. also found my copy of mike's recording of greenwich gig...

We love you, Keith. You will be missed.

Nice little post here:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2011/05/10/stephen-burt/young-and-quite-pretty/

Have actually never heard of the band before, but the stuff on Spotify is really lovely.

they were so lovely. paul stewart made a couple of beautiful records without keith but it didn't seem the same. is he, paul, obviously, still active?

Louis Philippe's cover of "Lazy Thunderstorms" (off the Keith Girdler tribute album) is really really touching and beautiful.

and tbh it was the cover version that inspired me to seek out the original. I still haven't heard the rest of that tribute album.

Stephen Burt! He wrote Adventure Playground! So awesome.

"Clearer" from the Engine Common compilation is pure pop heaven. The whole record is great, but Blueboy's song stands out.

I tried but failed to get into the albums, but so happy to be reminded of this beautiful song every now and again:

http://open.spotify.com/track/3yU9xo3GA0wzGiiWL9G4xS

Funny to see Harvey pop in upthread (presumably).

Anyway, not finding any footage of Blueboy live on youtube (tbh could search a little harder I suppose). Anyone know if footage exists online anywhere?

Unisex is an underappreciated classic, it's perfect start to finish.

heckuva finish too (Imipramine specifically)