Ritournelle
LD came back so it’s time to start working [full-time] again. That’s a double entendre seeing as Curb Your Enthusiasm is back on US screens. Just another insight into the personal world of LV. Well, at east one sixth of it.
We’re playing two shows next week as you can see from the “Forthcoming Shows” above. One is our “first” performance aboard the Thekla with Babeshadow and the other is under the guise of the Bristol Harbour Festival. We’re on at 7PM for the latter and entry is free. Those take us up to the end of July and I think we’re going to be recording shortly afterwards which means no performances for a while. I have said that before but this time I mean it.
BT has got into British Sea Power in a big way. Further proof that I don’t just talk about songs I like merely to seem knowledgeable. I’m trying to enrich your life.
Until a month ago, I knew The Sundays because of “Here’s Where The Story Ends”, which I had always considered nothing more than an artifact of the 1990s alternative rock scene. File next to Elastica, that sort of thing. Despite this, I bought Reading, Writing And Arithmetic on an impulse last week and found out I was wrong. Seriously, this album is amazing. I read a description of their sound that was absolutely perfect: the music of The Smiths and the voice of:
Another impulse purchase. I’d heard “Pearly Dewdrops’ Drops” on the radio and had grown to like it well enough that I thought I may as well buy an album. The vocals are less unintelligible than on other Twins releases apparently. Liz Fraser does the whole “emotion in her tone” way of singing whereby I have no idea what she’s saying but I can absolutely feel it.
And here’s something different from female-fronted late 80s alternative rock. LD and I have discussed before about how we’d love to be in a position where we could pick the artists we play with (Lena, Vanessa Carlton). Have I mentioned this before? Anyway, Hall & Oates did this before in 1985 and played some songs with Eddie Hendricks and David Ruffin from the “Classic Five” era of The Temptations.
I got into the solo work of David Ruffin a couple of years ago and consider his version of “I Want You Back” to be untouchable. Lots of people have said that he had one of the best voices in music history and sometimes lots of people are right.
DB x
