I have finally crawled out of my post-White Stripe split enforced hermitage!
In that time of constant spinning of their 6 albums i have discovered a few things; It doesn't matter how long it has been since you last heard it, Seven Nation Army has been ruined by saturation. Ball and Biscuit is the Jimi Hendrix Experience song they never wrote, and there are some really odd songs on Get Behind Me Satan (The Nurse, anyone).
Spent some time watching God on Discovery Shed. The painter Bob Ross. The Joy of Painting. Jeremy and Mark on Peep Show call him God. He's a good painter, but God is a bit much.
Radiohead released a new album. The King of Limbs. Have absolutely no idea what a "Newspaper" album is, but that's what it is, apparently. Digital release last Saturday, physical release in March sometime. I can only assume its being released by The Daily or Sunday Mail, although obviously not them, but the Observer or Guardian. The Times maybe. Hmm. Can't decide if I care or not. In Rainbows seemed to pass me by a bit. Everyone says its a step forward with every album, but new single Lotus Flower could have come off Amnesiac, so i don't see how that's a step forward. I know i should be interested, that's what a Radiohead fan and music lover should be, but.......
So, the Middle East ay, bloody hell......is it good what they are doing? Obviously overthrowing tyrants is a good thing, but every single country is doing it. Do they have a plan? I'm not convinced. Good luck to them though!!
Its the NME Awards tonight. That'll be exciting. I'm sure every band i voted for won't win because they aren't NME enough. Somehow Kasabian and the Arctic Monkeys will win something despite not doing anything last year. I think. Did Kasabian release an album? Can't remember. Don't like them, so didn't get it, so how should i know! Was "Fire" out last year?
Right, erm....anything else......nothing off the top of my head.........better get up really, got work in just over an hour........Cup of Tea??
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
THE WHITE STRIPES ARE NO MORE!
This is terrible news.
If you have never (and now will never have) seen the duo of Mr Jack White and Miss Meg White ruin a stage and audience as if they were barely there, then you have missed out on one of rock'n'roll's purest of entities.
To see them is divine. To experience the explosion of noise and passion is nirvana.
It is a genuine announcement that i have never born witness to such a relentless assault of the senses than that which Jack White exposes the audience member to.
There is no reasonable or rational explanation for what is created by two solitary figures on stage.
In the main, a cover version can be catastrophic or passable. Very rarely does it become awe inspiring. The White Stripes version of "Jolene" originally by Dolly Parton is quite magnificent!
If you could bottle the essence of pain and release quite like Jack does when singing " please don't take him, even though i know that you can" then you have all you will ever need from a song about the heart wrenching fear of losing the person you love to someone else.
Quite how the duo can create such a wall of sound from such a small outfit is testament to the raw aggression and talent that lies behind such an irreverent pair.
Quiet and demonstrative, they display an air of nonchalance and relaxation that belies their frenetic and frantic on-stage persona. Jack is an unchained beast, released from its shackles, stalking the stage like a man possessed. Meg, can change within the blink of an eye, into a frenzied skin-thumper, taken over by a rabid behemoth.
It brings a tear to the eye that no-more shall we see such a wondrous spectacle. A sound that should be coming from a 9 piece band, is emanating from one man and his female companion.
The back catalogue is spell binding. The White Stripes, De Stijl, White Blood Cells, Elephant, Get Behind Me Satan and Icky Thump. A legacy of striped down Blues, Rock'n'Roll, Music Hall, South American and many more influences besides, should be a starting point for any modern day musician who wants to make a difference in this sterile music scene, that only realises something new and original once in a blue moon.
Thank God Jack White will continue to be the voice of the true alternative to the mass produced, manufactured, counter culture that is festooned across the Atlantic divide.
It is unfortunate that NME's God-Like Genius award has already been chosen, as these two deserve it, and with such an un-timely demise it would have been a perfect send off to an incredible band.
R.I.P The White Stripes. Long Live Mr Jack White and Miss Meg White.
Thank you for the memories.
This is terrible news.
If you have never (and now will never have) seen the duo of Mr Jack White and Miss Meg White ruin a stage and audience as if they were barely there, then you have missed out on one of rock'n'roll's purest of entities.
To see them is divine. To experience the explosion of noise and passion is nirvana.
It is a genuine announcement that i have never born witness to such a relentless assault of the senses than that which Jack White exposes the audience member to.
There is no reasonable or rational explanation for what is created by two solitary figures on stage.
In the main, a cover version can be catastrophic or passable. Very rarely does it become awe inspiring. The White Stripes version of "Jolene" originally by Dolly Parton is quite magnificent!
If you could bottle the essence of pain and release quite like Jack does when singing " please don't take him, even though i know that you can" then you have all you will ever need from a song about the heart wrenching fear of losing the person you love to someone else.
Quite how the duo can create such a wall of sound from such a small outfit is testament to the raw aggression and talent that lies behind such an irreverent pair.
Quiet and demonstrative, they display an air of nonchalance and relaxation that belies their frenetic and frantic on-stage persona. Jack is an unchained beast, released from its shackles, stalking the stage like a man possessed. Meg, can change within the blink of an eye, into a frenzied skin-thumper, taken over by a rabid behemoth.
It brings a tear to the eye that no-more shall we see such a wondrous spectacle. A sound that should be coming from a 9 piece band, is emanating from one man and his female companion.
The back catalogue is spell binding. The White Stripes, De Stijl, White Blood Cells, Elephant, Get Behind Me Satan and Icky Thump. A legacy of striped down Blues, Rock'n'Roll, Music Hall, South American and many more influences besides, should be a starting point for any modern day musician who wants to make a difference in this sterile music scene, that only realises something new and original once in a blue moon.
Thank God Jack White will continue to be the voice of the true alternative to the mass produced, manufactured, counter culture that is festooned across the Atlantic divide.
It is unfortunate that NME's God-Like Genius award has already been chosen, as these two deserve it, and with such an un-timely demise it would have been a perfect send off to an incredible band.
R.I.P The White Stripes. Long Live Mr Jack White and Miss Meg White.
Thank you for the memories.
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Am i too old to be in a band? I'm nearly 30, is that too old?
You watch the TV and you see the students rioting, and you think 'Is this the generation that should be starting a band and fighting back?'. Is being in a band all about fighting against the establishment?
It doesn't feel like 12 years since i was playing my first gig and feeling the most alive i have ever done in my entire life. It feels like yesterday. I want to feel like that again.
Every band that emerges today seem so young, so full of life and gumption it makes me feel old and decrepit. They also come across as angry about the state of Britain today. Working class and furious about how they are marginalised and reduced to a poor, scrounging or reduced to a menial job that is un-fulfilling and dead-end, non-entity with no prospects.
Brother have emerged with an ethos of "Fuck the man" and a batch of tunes that say 'We are downtrodden' and 'We demand respect'.
Haven't we heard all this before? The Enemy came out with a similar manifesto and people got behind behind it, but now things are significantly worse, and the jobs they didn't want because they wanted to sit at home with Richard and Judy, aren't even available.
Too many people demand rock'n'roll is for the underprivileged and deprived, but is it really?
Why isn't it for everybody?
James McMahon of NME fame, talked about the issue of certain elements of society being "too posh to rock". The student tuition fees issue talks to a specific sub-section of society, but is this jilted generation the only people allowed to vent their dissatisfaction with life or just plain and simply comment on their situation.
There are other people in this country that can write a tune, a lyric or a whole song that doesn't have to belong to the young. It can speak to everyone, and it makes it no less valid.
Surely Rock'n'Roll is classless! It can speak to everyone no matter where they come from.
You can write about how shit your "working class" life is, or your not, and you don't. Sometimes its more interesting to hear that your aren't and you have the same feelings as everybody else, but it isn't about escaping from the suburbs and "making it".
This is in no way an attack on the whole ethos of being "working class", purely a diatribe on how music is for "everybody" and that someone that may not be from the most deprived background can feel alone, trapped, un-loved, disappointed or, God forbid, happy.
Rock'n'Roll is for EVERYBODY! Except Matt Cardle! The tosser!
You watch the TV and you see the students rioting, and you think 'Is this the generation that should be starting a band and fighting back?'. Is being in a band all about fighting against the establishment?
It doesn't feel like 12 years since i was playing my first gig and feeling the most alive i have ever done in my entire life. It feels like yesterday. I want to feel like that again.
Every band that emerges today seem so young, so full of life and gumption it makes me feel old and decrepit. They also come across as angry about the state of Britain today. Working class and furious about how they are marginalised and reduced to a poor, scrounging or reduced to a menial job that is un-fulfilling and dead-end, non-entity with no prospects.
Brother have emerged with an ethos of "Fuck the man" and a batch of tunes that say 'We are downtrodden' and 'We demand respect'.
Haven't we heard all this before? The Enemy came out with a similar manifesto and people got behind behind it, but now things are significantly worse, and the jobs they didn't want because they wanted to sit at home with Richard and Judy, aren't even available.
Too many people demand rock'n'roll is for the underprivileged and deprived, but is it really?
Why isn't it for everybody?
James McMahon of NME fame, talked about the issue of certain elements of society being "too posh to rock". The student tuition fees issue talks to a specific sub-section of society, but is this jilted generation the only people allowed to vent their dissatisfaction with life or just plain and simply comment on their situation.
There are other people in this country that can write a tune, a lyric or a whole song that doesn't have to belong to the young. It can speak to everyone, and it makes it no less valid.
Surely Rock'n'Roll is classless! It can speak to everyone no matter where they come from.
You can write about how shit your "working class" life is, or your not, and you don't. Sometimes its more interesting to hear that your aren't and you have the same feelings as everybody else, but it isn't about escaping from the suburbs and "making it".
This is in no way an attack on the whole ethos of being "working class", purely a diatribe on how music is for "everybody" and that someone that may not be from the most deprived background can feel alone, trapped, un-loved, disappointed or, God forbid, happy.
Rock'n'Roll is for EVERYBODY! Except Matt Cardle! The tosser!
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