Well thank you Johnette for the birthday wishes but most of all thank you for making me go back and listen to the first two Concrete Blonde albums. Happy Birthday appears on Free, their second album released in 1989. The third album Bloodletting (1990) was the first Concrete Blonde album I knew well and although […]
I wouldn’t normally just repost something that I wrote two years ago. But then circumstances have dictated that I do just that. Tomorrow morning at 8.44 I take the train from Penzance to London. On to Warsaw and a connecting flight to Yerevan in Armenia where I will play with Anekdoten on Sunday night – […]
This week’s theme is surely political and unlike most politicians and because I’m in the studio, posts this month will be short and to the point. Lou Reed released one of his better later albums, New York in 1989. It included this track Strawman that asks…well read the lyrics, listen to the song and dig […]
Caterwaul were a late eighties Indie band from Phoenix, Arizona, a scratchier Siouxsie And The Banshees with something of Death Cult in their sound. They were certainly influenced by English Post-Punk’s, desolate razor guitar – John McGeoch and Billy Duffy were probably often on guitarist Mark Schafer’s turntable. Betsy Martin’s distinctive voice was a gothic Chrissie […]
The haunting beauty of this album will transport you to the land of melancholy and sadness but through your tears you will be utterly moved, struck by the overwhelming feeling of the profound as the fingers of the ancients caress you from beyond the centuries, tantalising you with the despair of human emotion. The duduk is an […]
A beautiful song from Ian McCulloch’s first solo album featuring Liz Fraser. It was the third single from the album and although it failed to chart, the album made No.18 in the UK charts. There’s two clips below, one seems to be the video, the other is just audio with a pic of the September […]