Paul Liddell

Wednesday 26th May 2010 – Grapevine at Bedfords, Norwich

Thursday 27th May 2010 – Folking Live at The Cellar Bracknell, Greater London

Friday 4th June 2010 – The Smugglers, Sunderland

Wednesday 9th June 2010 – Stage 2 at The Stables, Milton Keynes

Thursday 10th June – The Cumberland Arms, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Friday 11th June 2010 – RNCM Studio Theatre, Manchester

Saturday 12th June 2010 – Great Driffield Festival, Driffield, East Yorkshire

Sunday 13th June 2010 – The Black Horse, West Boldon, North East

Friday 18th June – Wolfson College, Cambridge

Sunday 20th June 2010 Beverley Folk Festival, Beverley, East Yorkshire

Thursday 24th June 2010 – The London Bar, Driffield, East Yorkshire

Friday 25th June 2010 – The Smugglers, Sunderland

Sunday 27th June 2010 – The Tap & Spile, Hexham, Northumberland

Thursday 1st July 2010 – Acoustic Club, Half Moon, Bishops Stortford

Saturday 3rd July 2010 – Private House Gig, Herefordshire

Sunday 4th July 2010 – The Schooner, Seahouses, Northumberland

Tuesday 6th July 2010 – The Processed Pea at The Light Dragoon, Etton, East
Yorkshire

Friday 9th July 2010 – Kontra Roots at Kennedys, Finedon, Northamptonshire

Saturday 10th July 2010 – The Moonbeams Festival, The Wold Top Brewery,
Hummanby, East Yorkshire

Sunday 11th July 2010 – The Black Horse, West Boldon, Tyne & Wear

Friday 16th July 2010 – Loosely Acoustic at The Georgian Theatre, Stockton,
Teeside

Sunday 18th July 2010 – Don Paddys, Uppingham, Rutland

Thursday 22nd July 2010 – Rothbury Roots at The Queens Head, Rothbury,
Northumberland

Friday 23rd July 2010 – The Secret Garden Party, Cambridgeshire

Jon and Lynn

The Watercolor Café June 2^nd – that’s this coming Wednesday, 7:30 PM. They’re on the main drag in Larchmont, which is a nice town, and the food is excellent. They suggest reservations at (914) 834-2213.

The East Side, to the Orchard House Café at 58^th and 1^st Ave, on June 11- a Friday – at 8 PM. The “suggested contribution” there is $10, and they suggest reservations as well: 212-371-1170.

Then, back to Larchmont on Sunday June 27^th for a brunch-hour performance at Anna Maria’s Restaurant. Try the Polenta with Sausage or the Mussels in white wine and garlic… awesome! (914) 833-0555

The See See | Mary Soul

I wrote about the band a while ago,since when their plans and direction has changed, so I will be getting a new band review up pretty soon, I am also planning on getting along to see them this month while they are on their tour.

The single opens with Mary Soul, Opening with the swirl of echoed guitar which harks backs to ’60s psychedelia, The See See merge their guitars to great effect as their psychedelic influences wash around the ears. They control the output superbly as the track continues in a recognizable direction, avoiding the dead end spokes which could so easily be followed.

Big Wheels whilst in no way sounding like her, made me think of Janis Joplin, with the narrative and musicality pitched on a fine balance. This is an atmospheric piece which is a real credit to both their song writing and composition skills.

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The Reactors

1. The Reactors England (re-entry)
   
2. The Steepwater Band USA  (unchanged)
   
3. The XX England (+ 11 places)
4. Elephantom USA (unchanged)
   
5. The Heartbreaks England (new entry)
   
6. The Supernovas England (+ 10 places)
   
7. Kabul Dreams Afghanistan (+ 5 places)
   
8. Coin Greece (New entry)
   
9. Moxine Brazil (new entry)
   
10. Storybooks for Small Dogs Ireland (new entry)
    
11. The Paraffins Scotland (new entry)
    
12. The Brassic England (- 7 places)
    
13. Galapaghost USA (re-entry)
    
14. Junkstar England (-13 places)
    
15. Let Her Dive Italy (+ 4 places)
    
16. Gaoler’s Daughter England (- 9 places)
    
17. The Exhibition England (new entry)
    
18. The Drums USA (- 10 places)
    
19. Divorce Scotland (- 9 places)
    
20. Readers Wives Ireland (- 14 places)

The Reactors have come back in to the chart this month, heading straight to the top. While still looking for a new bass player, their output is attracting considerable interest.

The Brassic

1. The Brassic England (re-entry)
2. Roses Kings Castles England (new entry)
3. The Paraffins Scotland (unchanged)
4. Storybooks for Small Dogs Ireland (- 3 places)
5. Elephantom USA (+ 4 places)
6. The Gadsdens England (- 2 places)
7. Gaoler’s Daughter England (re-entry)
8. The XX England (- 4 places)
9. Kabul Dreams Afghanistan (re-entry)
10. The Steepwater Band USA (- 3 places)

The Brassic continue with the high octane energetic sound and are growing an ever stronger and wider fan-base.

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The band of the month is a top twenty chart and the top thirty bands, using the internal statistics which help make up the chart are:

The Brassic
Coin
Divorce
The Drums
Elephantom
The Exhibition
The Gadsdens
Galapaghost
Gaoler’s Daughter
The Heartbreaks
Junkstar
Krakatoa
Kabul Dreams
The Legendary Pink Dots
Let Her Dive
Moxine
My Girlfriend is Better Than Yours
OfeliaDrome
Papercuts
The Paraffins
Paul Liddell
Psychic TV (PTV3)
The Reactors
Red Vellum Razorblades
Roses Kings Castles
The Soft Pack
The Steepwater Band
Storybooks for Small Dogs
The Supernovas
The XX

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The Pocket Gods

Once again, The Pocket Gods have done what they are so easily able to do.

This sits alongside the National Anthem v Anarchy in the UK mix, which sits as staple diet of my regular music. Rule Britannia juxtaposed against Come on England by The Pocket Gods, hits my senses perfectly.

Superb lyric, great humour and the requisite dash of cynicism.

Come on England (no nookie or playstation) The Pocket Gods

I was meant to see The Pocket Gods last week, but as readers of the newsletter know, all is not as it should be for me at the moment.

Turn up the volume, open the windows and sing to the real Anthem for 2010 South Africa.

Roses Kings Castles | One Born Every Minute

One Born Every Minute, I was immediately transported back to Twin Peaks and David Lynch, an under-current that all is not as it seems. This is a great track with an atmosphere of superb depth, the opening lyric encapsulates the Lynch theme of power games. Musically this is a song that naturally resonates, with reverb that makes my heart smile, the lyric calls me to arms. What makes it stand out from the crowd is the underlying abuse – unspoken and unseen. Great track.

Sit Down, finds an acoustic challenge. While there is a nod to The Beatles commercial hip, far more importanly Roses Kings Castles, raise a new avenue to explpore. Acoustics are not, as you all know something that makes me leap in to action, but dome well, they deserve space and with a powerful lyric they deserve acceptance. Sit Down, I could imagine Tom Robinson Band crashing in to.

One Born Every Minute by Roses Kings Castles by 360degreemusic

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Storybooks for Small Dogs

1. Storybooks for Small Dogs Ireland (new-entry)

Storybooks for Small Dogs | All These Animals by indiebands

2. The Heartbreaks England (-1 place)
3. The Paraffins Scotland (-1 place)
4. The Gadsdens England (+3 places)
5. The XX England (+1 place)
6. OfeliaDorme Italy (re-entry)
7. The Steepwater Band USA (re-entry)
8. Divorce Scotland (unchanged)
9. Elephantom USA (-5 places)
10. Galapaghost USA (unchanged)
    

Storybooks for Small Dogs with their fast paced re-weaved new wave have immediately attracted attention from readers of the website.

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One of the great things about living near Cambridge is the easy access to the experimental music scene, this does has have an horrific downside, that the many of the promoters in Cambridge are so far up their back-sides they can only comprehend local experimental, or Internationally known, which means there is a dearth of decent spaces for upcoming bands to find a berth to play to an audience who would like to listen to the music. Aside from that, Cambridge hates cars and getting anywhere is fraught with angst. Fortunately, on a Sunday the Council Office Car-Park is open, which is just a few strides from Kettle’s Yard.

The joy of a venue on Sunday lunch-time in Cambridge is the diversity of audience and on that Sunday the small audience of about 30 ranged from earnest Students, hoping to meet just anyone, to seasoned academics intrigued by new spaces. There were photographers trying to capture moments of enlightenment from obscure angles, as we sat in seats arranged for professorial discourses. The setting was in a hushed quadrangle of white walls and museum pieces, an antipodal point to the music to be played.

I was going somewhere here I am sure…… Oh yes, Babygrand

Babygrand

Absolutely brilliant. A dictaphone for looping, electromagnets for sound composition and they were off. Babygrand took us on a tour of 15 minutes of creative genius. The Dictaphone started to record the sound of a single bell, which was made by a wire connecting with the electromagnet, this was built, re-looped and re-recorded until there was a peal of bells, then Peacock feathers and so much more appeared on a small table and began to strike their sounds and we had some new loop backs, mobile phones fed-back through mikes to generate even more creativity and the whole time this was layered and looped over and over to a Dictaphone. Who needs a 64 track machine?

The acts were introduced by polite and an appropriately dressed compere, in quiet tonality and the audience politely clapped, I just felt this should be in a far larger space with people who were really interested and would appreciate the power of the composition, superb creativity played to an audience of 30, the world is missing out.

Pete Um, who readers of the website will know I appreciate, lumbered to his politely appointed space, which featured a tape to tape deck recorder, probably from the late 80′s and a laptop and regaled us with 30 minutes of magic.

Pete Um

This was the creativity that makes Pete Um who he is, as he fed his computer to the tape to tape and took me on a journey. Pete is best known for his one minute summations, but he is equally adept at improvisation. It is at settings like this, where musicians lay themselves on the line and expose their creative genius, or frailty, that experimental music can be truly appreciated.

As I said Cambridge is great for experimental music and internationally known bands, but if you actually want some promotion, it isn’t happening here.

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