NYK podcast No. 2

We did another podcast. Here it is:

NYK Experiment Episode 2 - The Hour by Nyk_Experiment on Mixcloud

International Anthem from Entschwindet und Vergeht

Dougie has outdone himself again..
http://youyouidiot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-international-anthem.html

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Last night we recorded the first NYK Experiment in, well, a long time. check it oot below - contains some strong language and sounds of eating.

NYK Experiment Episode 1 by Nyk_Experiment on Mixcloud

Screamin Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You

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Hair Of The Dog

I've been helping Jonnie with his installation coming up this weekend, involving 8 Niftymitters.. Do come along, it is going to have to be good.



A full length album of material from Jonnie Common’s debut 'Master Of None' remixed by a talented bunch of his personal favourites. Available as a limited screen print with download. Featuring:

GEESE : DEMS : FOUND : BEN BUTLER & MOUSEPAD : ONTHEFLY : RIVER OF SLIME : GRNR : A LA FU : MIAOUX MIAOUX : THE JAPANESE WAR EFFORT : CAUGHT IN THE WAKE FOREVER


Nov 25 - 27 : Jonnie Common Sound Installation

Jonnie Common has worked with Zero Waste Design to produce an interactive sound installation at MONO that lets users mix the elements of his debut album with the added potential for lo-fi surround sound to be achieved.

If that’s not all, an exhibition by illustrator David Galletly will also be shown over the weekend featuring drawings and murals related to ‘Master Of None’.


Nov 27 : Exhibition Closing Party

live sets from: BEN BUTLER & MOUSEPAD + DEMS + GRNR
special guest DJ sets from: FOUND + THE JAPANESE WAR EFFORT

7.30pm : £4 : MONO : 12 Kings Court, Glasgow, G1 5RB


INFO + TICKETS: WWW.JONNIECOMMON.COM

A Song of One Hundred Years, Adam Beattie

A Song of One Hundred Years by adambeattie

I played as a consultant of Adam Beattie regularly for a couple of years after graduating, and have very fond memories of the experience. Indeed without Adam there would be no three headed Inspector Tapehead, seeing as Chris too was a consultant at that time, and Jonnie was unashamedly in thrall to Adam's croonings. It is fairly damning for us then that since he parted our close proximity, Adam has continued to improve without pause, revelling amongst a host of excellent London consultants. Of course we still meet occasionally and the meetings are all the more delightful for their scarcity. In a good way.

My favourite of his songs that we played together was Man Running, a track realised in boldly different colours on his second album We'll Wave From the Shore. When we played Man Running it was something of a heartfelt, rich, tearjerker, almost rubbery in its rubato (as was oft the way in that lineup, much to Adam's delight). It got me in the same way that pretty much any brass band playing Nimrod or Danny Boy does - when we played it at the Abu Bozy album launch in the Tron, I got pretty carried away with the old deep-sighing of the harmonium!

Anyway the point of this essay is that a couple of years ago Adam nonchalantly whipped out a song that has come to replace Man Running in my top spot of Beattie tunes, in the form of A Song of One Hundred Years. An astonishing bit of song writing, he has now put it into zeroes and ones and uploaded it to Soundcloud as a preview of his third album. In Adam's words, it is "A song I wrote for my grandfather George Craigie, who died last April 2010, at the age of one hundred years old." Listen to it above, and enjoy.

PS. As you can see, the effect of any dose of Beattie is acute sentimentality such as this!

Roy

The Cinematic Orchestra - 'Entr'acte'

JWC at the DBL

One of two videos from a recent outing with Jonnie Common to the Diving Bell Lounge:

L@tDBL - Jonnie Common - Shogun from Precious Productions on Vimeo.


Jonnie's excellent recent album is listenable and buyable here.
I cemented a rock solid professional reputation by fucking up two takes royally before getting this, still ropey performance, improved endlessly by some delightful cinematography by Extreme Man, Richard. Eg. here is Richard filming himself kitesurfing.

Enjoy, Roy

PS.

I've just read the caption for this video on vimeo, presumably written by Richard or Jolene, with much amusement! If it is Richard, we are clearly regarding each other with similar suspicion, me of him being some kind of superman, and he of me being a potential architect and assassin. One of those accusations is true, and the other is sort of true, see if you can work out which.

Enez live video

Stu put up this film recently from the Enez gig at St. Andrew's in the Square in May. For those that missed it, enjoy!
Roy


Jag tänker så titt from Stuart Macpherson on Vimeo.

Unfold

May I recommend the Tru Thoughts Unfold podcast, such as this one? Why, Thanks.
Roy

Inspector Tapehead Duress Code Tour Video, BOSH.

Back in September, just after Duress Code's release I went on tour with Inspector Tapehead, and the tour video is now online, in not one, nor two, but three acts. Count em.

Now, Youtube stats show that for every 30 people that view act 1, 1 switches off after that, and a further 7 don't make it to act 3. So you better buck up folks, as I know readers of theSlog have approximately 50 percent more time on their hands than blogs with better employed readerships..

Duress Code is out on Song, By Toad and available here. We are playing at the Caves, Edinburgh on Friday evening and Brel, Glasgow on Sunday afternoon.

Roy Tapehead, enjoy... we did.

N'awlins

Last weekend in New Orleans.

A Disappointed Radiohead Fan

rather good!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZsrnRVQDFU&feature=player_embedded

via AtEase
Roy

Enez gigsss

Hello. I am 33% of the way through a run of Enez gigs. The first one got a rather good review in the Scotsman last week, although they spelt Tristan wrong.:
http://living.scotsman.com/music/Music-review-Diego-Laverde-Tistan.6750043.jp

And the subsequent ones are bound to be better, given that Tristan should be able to use both hands for em. The first is this Saturday at Ceol's Craic, the Gaelic club at the CCA. Ticket info here:
http://www.cca-glasgow.com/page=236B7D10-868E-4F86-A306909B378E5655&eventid=02AFC0CE-930E-4F16-974FAC647562E9F0

And then we are playing at St. Andrew's in the Square in May:
http://www.ticketsoup.com/tickets/tristan-le-govic-harp-jazz-2011-12688/default.aspx

We've got a rather old myspace here, which sadly was prior to Lise's joining on vocals:
http://www.myspace.com/eneztrio

Spherical Roy

In other news, I also love the Guardian

Beady Eye
The Roller (Beady Eye)

You might not recognise this three-and-a-half minutes of what future generations will see as a massive leap forward in our culture. But mark this day in your diaries, because this song – which sounds like will.i.am has travelled to the year 3098 and collaborated with aliens – will change how we see music forever. Not really. It's just standard Oasis from 1996, and over the guitars, we think we can hear the faint sound of Damon Albarn laughing.

Issy Sampson for The Guardian, 19th Feb

Roy

I love Liam Gallagher

"I heard that fucking Radiohead record and I just go, ‘What?!’ I like to think that what we do, we do fucking well. Them writing a song about a fucking tree? Give me a fucking break! A thousand year old tree? Go fuck yourself! You’d have thought he’d have written a song about a modern tree or one that was planted last week. You know what I mean?”

Roy

Ditto vid

Tapehead Live at the Diving Bell Lounge

Live at the Diving Bell Lounge (MUSIC) on Vimeo: Last week Jonnie and Chris and I went along to Marcus' beautiful east end studio to record these tracks for Precious Productions, with some quite flattering results:

Live at The Diving Bell Lounge - Inspector Tapehead - Fillet of Bozo from Precious Productions on Vimeo.

Live at The Diving Bell Lounge - Inspector Tapehead - I am your pedigree from Precious Productions on Vimeo.

Enjoy, Roy.

Ditto

I'm currently doing percussion for a show in Edinburgh, entitled Ditto. The List had this to say:
http://www.list.co.uk/article/32023-ditto-explores-how-8-12-year-old-children-listen-and-respond-to-music/#

It's on at the Traverse on Saturday at 13.30 if anyone fancies a skeg.
Roy

An evening in

A rare thing currently, and I have learnt three things:

1. I am a hopeless and unashamed Radiohead nut. And there are millions others out there, some of whom assemble pages full of amusing 'head philosophy. And despite having the whole catalogue to choose from, I increasingly tend to go back to half-known tracks off How Am I Driving and Pablo Honey (namely Thinking About You). What a sentimental fool.
2. The Metropolitan Police seem unable to grasp that the nature of the web makes denying that you charged at protesters on horseback, pointless. And not knowing that your subordinates did, inexcusable.
3. And finally, without Bad Science keeping a keen eye out for statistical pitfalls, I may have missed the survey that found that on average, as people get older, they get older. Priceless.

Royhead.