This Sunday (Oct 3rd), at 9pm, you’re invited to share a listening session with some likeminded souls, wherever you might be. This can be experienced either alone or communally, and you don’t need to leave the comfort of your own home to participate.
Having enjoyed such an auspicious start, Living To Music is catching the imagination of an ever increasing amount of music lovers. Next up, on Sunday October 3rd at 9.00pm, it’s ‘Abbey Road’. I’d always had The Beatles in mind for the third session, it was just a matter of which LP. ‘Abbey Road’ (the final one they recorded, but the penultimate one released) is a great introduction for those who aren’t familiar with their albums, whilst it’s a selection I’m sure will meet the approval of those who are.
I received an unusual request from Matt Lund via my SoundCloud page a few weeks – he told me that he’d got together with his girlfriend whilst I was playing at Bestival last year, in the Rizla Arena, and had decided it would be the perfect time to propose to her during my spot twelve months on, this time in the Bollywood Tent. He asked if I could play the edit of Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell’s ‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough’ (aka BT Edits ‘Mr Marvin & Ms Tammi’), which he’d heard me play in 2009 and has been such a showstopper for me during recent years (thanks to Michael Cook for putting me on to it). That would be his cue to get down on one knee and pop the question.
Better known in the States (where the idea originated in the mid-90’s) than in the UK, a quirky aspect of ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’s’ legacy is the supposed synchronization if you play they album at the same time as you watch ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ (1939). This is referred to as ‘Dark Side Of The Rainbow’, ‘The Wizard Of Floyd’ and ‘Dark Side Of Oz’.
Soul is not something you acquire, it’s something you either have or you don’t, and sometimes you can find it in the most unlikely people. It’s over a decade now since I was first introduced to the truly extraordinary talent that is Super Bad Brad, via Dermot Doran, whose father, Eamon Doran, founded the famous pubs in Dublin and NYC, which bear his name. Dermot had run off some VHS copies of Brad, who he’d got to know over in the US, singing ‘Ben’ and ‘You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine’, in order to amaze and entertain his friends. One of these tapes becoming essential viewing in our household, and something we’ve shared with numerous appreciative visitors down the years.
The following day I was back in Liverpool city centre, again with my son, when I saw the bus parked up outside the Royal Court Theatre, where Kesey had performed the previous night. I still had a camera with me from the previous day and began to take a few more shots of the bus. I noticed Kesey stood at the stage door and he recognised us. One of the younger Pranksters was with him and he asked if I’d like him to take a picture of the three of us together, and that’s how the photo above came about.
This is Pauline Amos’s re-interpretation of the Wings album sleeve for ‘Band On The Run’ (1973) and Kid Acne’s take on ‘Let It Bleed’ by The Rolling Stones (1969). They’re both part of the ‘Cover Versions’ exhibition that opens at the A Month of Sundays Gallery in Sheffield this Friday (10.09.10). Pauline’s contribution was also filmed as a performance painting, intercut with footage of the personalities on the original cover – James Coburn, John Conteh, Clement Freud, Denny Laine, Christopher Lee, Kenny Lynch, Linda McCartney, Paul McCartney and Michael Parkinson: http://vimeo.com/14762181 […]
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