When is comes to skeleton suits and rock music, one man stands head and shoulders (or should that be ‘skull and clavicle’) above the rest, and that man is John Entwhistle from The Who. The iconic performance was at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. Of course, by the time I saw The Who in [...]
25Oct11
Bone Machine
Artist: Tom Waits Label: Island Released: 1992 In 1992 the world was waiting for a new Tom Waits album. It had been five years since Frank’s Wild Years (which still remains one of my favourite albums of all time) Not that Tom had been idle. He appeared in films as diverse as Ironweed, At Play [...]
So it begins! October is the month of Skeleton Suit! Or Skeletons, Skulls and Bones, and in a month long celebration, The Mysterious Order of the Skeleton Suit is checking out the Skeletons in their closets. To get the ball rolling, here’s Me and the Devil from Gil Scott-Heron (uploaded by XLRecordings) For an up [...]
London Irish Punk: Life & Music… Shane MacGowan Author: Joe Merrick Publisher: Omnibus Press Published: 2001 I know this is probably one of the most obvious and stupid things I have written here on P2K, but life is subjective. We all live our lives with a myriad of external forces pulling us in one direction [...]
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Tagged Book Review, Music, Shane MacGowan, The Pogues, World Music
Tagged Book Review, Music, Shane MacGowan, The Pogues, World Music
22Jun11
Gypsy Beats and Balkan Bangers
World music never really goes away, but every few years a band comes along that sparks and interest in exotic foreign sounds for a new audience. In the 1980s in was the Pogues. Then the Gypsy Kings gave the world Bamboleo and David Byrne went all ‘O, Samba’ on us. The success of the film [...]
19Apr11
Tom Jones: Live Caesars Place
Varése Saraband Records – Re-issue (1971) I found my knife in my hand, and she laughed no more! As production techniques got better in the late 60’s and early 70’s, songs began to get really big. Added to usual band line ups, were string and brass sections and girl backing vocal groups. Through all this [...]
24Jan11
Twice Upon a Time
Artist: Siouxsie & the Banshees Label: Wonderland Release Year: 1992 I have a strange ‘love / hate’ relationship with Siouxsie and the Banshees. Actually ‘hate’ is too strong a word. It’s more of a ‘love / oooh dear!’ relationship. I made a piss-poor goth in the mid eighties. I guess my heart wasn’t really into [...]
15Dec10
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings breezed through town last week, playing two shows at The Palace at the top of Bourke Street (it’ll always be the ‘Metro’ to me). The show, as anyone who has seen Sharon Jones before would know, was absolutely amazing. Uploaded to YOutube by Daptone Records.
I woke up with Sam and Dave in my head – which, if you’re going to have a song buzzing around in your head all day, then Sam and Dave’s Hold On, I’m Comin’ isn’t a bad one to have – rather than some insipid pop song off the radio. This performance is from a 1966 [...]
