As possibly the last person on the planet to be aware of this song, the film, the academy award, it seems to fit in well with my duo thread, harmonies, boy/girl thing. I’m not sure how these threads start – one thing leads to another I suppose. I’m also not sure how songs like this […]
Although amiina are little known outside Iceland they have succeeded in inspiring the few that have been lucky enough to discover them. Creative, experimental, visionary, a Neo-Classical ensemble of string players and multi-instrumentalists performing unique instrumentals incorporating unlikely instruments. They have two albums to date: Kurr (2007) Puzzle (2010) They have three Ep’s AnimaminA (2005) […]
Amy Winehouse sings, “I fuck myself in the head with stupid men” a lyric from her song Tears Dry On Their Own, featured on her second album Back To Black released in 2006. When she died in 2011 in an atmosphere of the inevitable and although the mainstream had discovered her and the press couldn’t get […]
Not exactly a cover but it certainly sounds like John Martyn wrote this song, or is it Nick Drake and was Richard Thompson in the room – and does it matter? The problem (if it is a problem) is that having heard this sound for the first time in the late sixties and early seventies as […]
The Wirral penninsula is a piece of land that’s wedged between two rivers that separate North Wales and Liverpool. On the left the River Dee on the right the River Mersey – this is where I grew up as a teenager in an inconsequential, oddly named village called Thingwall – a stone’s throw from Liverpool. […]
Porcupine Tree’s first commercially released live DVD in collaboration with Lasse Hoile from a show at Park West in Chicago. It’s a creatively filmed and musically excellent representation of the band to that point in their history. The live line up here is: Steven Wilson — guitars, lead vocals Richard Barbieri — keyboards Colin Edwin — bass […]