I've seen him do relatively straight-up song-based sets as well, both a cappella and with guitar (acoustic or electric) etc, which is wonderful and beautiful, moving or eviscerating or other, but I'm glad that he doesn't feel the need to play like that every time and is able to stay free to do pretty much whatever he likes.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Sunday, 19 August 2012 11:37 (eleven years ago) link
Listening to Amplifying Host again tonight - this really is my favourite of his for very many years. Really beautiful.
Is anyone gonna be catching him and Neil Campbell next week at Cafe Oto? I expect it'll be confounding as ever - and pretty noisy this time too. Can't wait.
― kraudive, Sunday, 14 October 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
never heard of this guy until today
this is really amazing
― seasonal hugs (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
you have like a dozen more great records to look forward to, see up-thread for recommendations. Ceaucescu, Asthma/Diabetes, and the 444d 10" (all with Simon Wickham-Smith) are great, solo recs Festival and Beyond The Valley Of Ultrahits are also great.
― sleeve, Friday, 26 October 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
I like Airs Of The Ear and Naive Shaman a lot, the 'song' albums
― this update fixes the following known sugs (Jon Lewis), Friday, 26 October 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
Ultrahits is a great entry point!! (also good songs!)
Sapphie is easy to find and also good.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Friday, 26 October 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
In fact, I saw a Richard Youngs record at the store yesterday, but I didn't buy it because it was in the new vinyl section and was from 2007. I figured it would be there the next time I decided to stop by if it has been there that long.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Friday, 26 October 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
ultrahits was the one i started with because it had the flashiest name
very cool, and very unique
― seasonal hugs (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 October 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
The Youngs / Neil Campbell / John Clyde-Evans set last month at Cafe Oto was extraordinary, lots of chanting / choral singing at the beginning and end - with some guitar rocking out in between.
I'd love to know if someone recorded it - it would make a fantastic album release!
― kraudive, Monday, 26 November 2012 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it was, i remember liking the weird skronky techno section in the middle most, but for something that was so all over the place stylistically it worked really well as a coherent set. (someone in front of me was recording it, but unfortunately that's all the information i have - we'll just have to ask everyone who's ever at cafe oto and hope we get lucky.)
― Shane Richie Junior (Merdeyeux), Monday, 26 November 2012 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
boy do i love richard youngs.i have to play catch up. i think there are at least a few records released since the last one i bought..
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Monday, 26 November 2012 05:23 (eleven years ago) link
man this Youngsbower record! I know I'm a decade behind but it is SOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
― Drugs A. Money, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 08:27 (eleven years ago) link
his set with Luke Fowler at Cafe Oto last night was one of the best I've seen from him in years of seeing him here there and everywhere. Singing + grand piano + modular synth beats section was as beautiful as anything he's done and needs to exist in recorded form somewhere.
― Fanois och Alexander (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 8 June 2013 14:57 (ten years ago) link
What did UPPER MS SHAKEDOWN end up digging?
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Saturday, 8 June 2013 15:37 (ten years ago) link
He is so, so special. Last night was wonderful and as confusing as ever. I thought they may do deep techno all night at one point - I wish this bit was louder, there was some chatter during that. But then he came into the crowd and sang his soul and broke everyone as far as I could see.
― kraudive, Saturday, 8 June 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link
I'll have you know I had something in my eye.
― Fanois och Alexander (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 8 June 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link
So has anybody heard the new limited vinyl LP "Barbed Wire Explosion In The Kingdom Of Atlantis"? I bought a copy from the usual source but my needle is buggered so can't listen yet. D-beat, what the hell is D-beat? etc (yes, I read about it on Wikipedia)
― kraudive, Thursday, 20 June 2013 20:50 (ten years ago) link
FIRST SOLO US TOUR IN SEPTEMBER!!http://www.jagjaguwar.com/artist.php?name=youngsrichard
― I'll take the jangle-jangle over the throb-throb (brg30), Saturday, 10 August 2013 01:42 (ten years ago) link
Oh man, I got excited, but then no Chicago.
― ashcans (askance johnson), Saturday, 10 August 2013 01:50 (ten years ago) link
Oh man :(
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Saturday, 10 August 2013 04:08 (ten years ago) link
seeing him play with alastair galbraith when he toured nz a few years ago = amazing (opening his set with a cover of the dead c's 'sky' was a pretty lol moment too)
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 10 August 2013 08:01 (ten years ago) link
So going to this.
― Spot Lange (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 10 August 2013 13:29 (ten years ago) link
good for Richard, making a break for the big time.
Has anyone heard the "Barbed Wire Explosion In The Kingdom Of Atlantis" album that kraudive mentioned? It sounded intriguing but not quite intriguing enough to splash out whatever Volcanic Tongue were charging.
― Merdeyeux, Saturday, 10 August 2013 13:46 (ten years ago) link
It's good but very short. Twelve tracks under 2 and a half minutes, and many of them under a minute long. It's repetitive and noisy rock with a similar hardcore drumbeat on every track. It's very much Richard's voice throughout, crooning over the cacophony. I'm not at all familiar with the central concept genre but I've enjoyed it each time I've heard it. "Neon Desert" is worth hearing for his Rotten like howling.
I would urge any US ilxors to go and see these shows. You won't regret it. You may well not get what you're expecting but what you get will likely be fantastically great and moving.
― kraudive, Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
Damn. When can I see him again?
― kraudive, Saturday, 10 August 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
What would it take to convince someone to book a show in Chicago?!
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Sunday, 11 August 2013 00:22 (ten years ago) link
can't wait for this show tbh. richard is one of my faves...
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Sunday, 11 August 2013 00:26 (ten years ago) link
http://bombsite.com/issues/999/articles/7310
nice interview with Ben Chasny.
― Clyde One DJ Diane “Knoxy” Knox-Campbell (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 29 August 2013 04:24 (ten years ago) link
Has anyone heard the "Barbed Wire Explosion In The Kingdom Of Atlantis" album that kraudive mentioned? It sounded intriguing but not quite intriguing enough to splash out whatever Volcanic Tongue were charging
VT is listing it at £12.99 which hardly seems unreasonable for a signed limited run of 250 copies.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 29 August 2013 07:43 (ten years ago) link
Thanks for posting that interview! Great read, love Chasny and Youngs, but have never read an interview with Youngs. Pretty insightful.
― grandavis, Thursday, 29 August 2013 13:35 (ten years ago) link
Look for Marc Master's old Zine, Crank Automotive. Issue 5 I think has an EPIC and fascinating interview with Youngs, and an awesome one with Stefan Jaworzyn. T
― dan selzer, Thursday, 29 August 2013 13:42 (ten years ago) link
Thanks Dan! Marc is a great guy, hope I can track that down. Maybe someone has digitized it ....
― grandavis, Thursday, 29 August 2013 14:42 (ten years ago) link
there was also a good interview with him in the Wire a few years back, the one where he was also on the cover. Around 2007, maybe?
― Clyde One DJ Diane “Knoxy” Knox-Campbell (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 29 August 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I had (have?) that Wire. He is just a compelling guy, always has some really interesting stuff to say and is just so atypical as a musician.
― grandavis, Thursday, 29 August 2013 15:15 (ten years ago) link
Great show tonight in Brooklyn.Fairly evenly split between acoustic guitar and acapella numbers. Very happy I went.
― ian, Friday, 6 September 2013 02:50 (ten years ago) link
Oh man, I totally forgot about that. Worked late and was exhausted and came home to more work and debating if I'm going to Lindstrom/Todd Terje and totally forgot about Richard Youngs even though it's in my calendar. Saw him and Simon Wickham-Smith at the Table of the Elements Festival at the Knitting Factory in the 90s. First Tony Conrad show since the 70s I think? W/ Jim O'Rourke. Zeena Parkins played as well.
― dan selzer, Friday, 6 September 2013 03:02 (ten years ago) link
his best stuff on canticle, by ilk
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 6 September 2013 03:06 (ten years ago) link
Northampton show was great, too! I was hoping for some Ilk, but I'll take what I can get since he hardly ever plays live in the US.
― I'll take the jangle-jangle over the throb-throb (brg30), Friday, 6 September 2013 23:07 (ten years ago) link
Just ordered from VT: a tour cd "rumoured to be the album ‘rejected’ by a notorious cabal of bozos masquerading as an ‘underground’ record label"
Hmm, who would this be? Jagjaguwar maybe? They've not released one of his records for a while. Heard one track and its typically tripped. Sounds great actually. Is that 6 LPs this year then?
― kraudive, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/volcanictongue/unreleasedrichardyoungs
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Friday, 6 December 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
went to a local glasgow library this lunchtime to return a cpl of bks. slightly disconcerted to find richard youngs behind the counter. he had that slightly wary "you might know me outside of my day job" look, so I didn't say anything.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
For context, that unreleased tracks soundcloud "release" is as-picked by Neil Campbell from a pile of unreleased R. Youngs stuff he has lying around. It's a fun listen for sure.
Ward, that is very cool and decidedly weird.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7mBRk3WCx8
― am0n, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
gorgeous
― first is the worst (askance johnson), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
RICHARD YOUNGS - A TOWER HAMLETS TRILOGYThree different performances in three different places...For this very special trilogy of shows in London's Tower Hamlets, Richard has been working with Upset The Rhythm to take live music away from its safe domain of established venues to somewhere different in search of a more radical and memorable experience. Over the three nights Richard Youngs will perform an entirely different in tune with each specific place...
...For this very special trilogy of shows in London's Tower Hamlets, Richard has been working with Upset The Rhythm to take live music away from its safe domain of established venues to somewhere different in search of a more radical and memorable experience. Over the three nights Richard Youngs will perform an entirely different in tune with each specific place...
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Friday, 19 December 2014 12:29 (nine years ago) link
No Fans Compendium 7xCD box set on VHF in April!
http://www.vhfrecords.com/news/2015/2/19/richard-youngs-no-fans-compendium-7cd-box-available-april-6-2015
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Thursday, 19 February 2015 23:18 (nine years ago) link
that sounds great, and VHF releases are usually affordable.
― sleeve, Thursday, 19 February 2015 23:20 (nine years ago) link
descriptions of the 7 CD's contents and some sounds herein case you (like me) were wondering if you need 7 CDs/$45 worth of hard-to-find Richard Youngs musichttp://www.vhfrecords.com/catalog/richard-youngs-no-fans-compendium-7cd-box-set-vhf137
― groundless round (La Lechera), Monday, 23 March 2015 19:12 (nine years ago) link
~~sold~~
― adam, Monday, 23 March 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link
i'd like to pay to download this. hope they port it to emusic.
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Monday, 23 March 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link