After seeing the name Ladytron turn up in ticket emails a ridiculous number of times (They are playing the ABC in November apparently) I thought hey, why not listen to them because you can't fault them on taste (Roxy Music if you didn't catch the reference because you didn't grow up on glam). So I am listening to them right now and I am enjoying the various noises.
I found a girl called Esperanza Spalding which first off is a great name and then I saw her and I had to check her out. That hair! She's Latiny jazz and it's all very pretty.
I've been listening to a lot of silly French sixties pop including an album from April March who did Chick Habit (which is a cover of a french song) and a whole bunch of other chirpy nonsense. I also managed to track down Roller Girl which was in the video with the socks! and quite frankly is a fantastic song to dance to while you wait for the kettle to boil. I also found a french cover of Paint it Black which amuses me.
I tried to gather some sort of reasonable jazz collection. My dad was very unhelpful, claimed he knew nothing about it and that I should 'pick an instrument I liked and then look up who was great at it'. So I just went with names I recognised. It's only after I'd done so that he tells me he has John Coltrane records in the attic somewhere and Miles Davis on his ipod (some huge album thing were his words) and a bunch of others. See I knew he had Coltrane, I knew I'd seen the name in our house before but any CDs that got my hopes up turned out to be John Cale (an entirely different John.) So yeah there was that.
From there I found the aforementioned Esperanza, a frenchie american called Madeleine Peyroux who sings like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday so I'm happy. I moved onto Dustin O'Halloran who plays these heart twitching beautiful piano solos and was in the Marie Antoinette soundtrack.
I found a band called Eskimo Joe. Their music is alright, nothing hugely exciting, but they covered the Pixies and they're called Eskimo Joe. They are Australian and their wikipedia page tells me their music is 'frequently played in the background of Home and Away'. Good for them.
Oh, I checked out the Mountain Goats after seeing their name bounced around a few places. He is fantastically depressing! Seriously I managed to pick up the album about his abusive stepdad but the music is good. I also got the Verve's new album because I thought why not? I haven't listened to it much but I keep tuning out their new single and hearing Love is Annoying. Not great.
The Dirty Pretty Things new album is fucking awful.
And finally this is the most beautiful version of the best song about other people's fluids. And while we're on her subject I like this better than the original.
I've been trying to find new bands you see. All the ones I like either don't tour because they're collectives or whathaveyou, dead or split up or are currently recording new stuff that I must wait for. I haven't been to enough gigs, guys. I've got terrible cravings so I may just start going by myself again. Also the Kills are playing the same night as Dylan Moran. Come on! Why can't the things I like space themselves out better!
Oh! I forgot Stars. Very pretty band, dreamy female singer. I've been listening to In Our Bedroom After The War. I am perhaps drawn to names but hey that's how I find some of the best bands so it's all good.
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I am getting used to people telling me what to do and nodding so if you ever need someone to occupy the space next to you and dispel the big neon sign saying 'I've came to a gig alone' then I'm your number three back-up man (On the condition that you never actually ask me to go to a gig.)
By the way, is it okay if we start calling Joe 'Eskimo Joe' from now on? By mutual consensus, of course. He sorta looks like an eskimo. Something about his chin.
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