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“Keep Charlton live!”*

08 Tuesday Jan 2013

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Rock’n’roll thrills are fairly thin on the ground in Charlton, so it was pretty exciting to see Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook playing a set at Cattleya’s on Charlton Church Lane on Sunday evening. Playing with a version of The Los Dawsons with the addition of Dennis ‘Nine Below Zero’ Greaves on guitar, and occasional Ripchord Gus Glen on bass, Glenn rattled through an hour or so of covers, joined for a couple of songs by Dave Suich of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain on vocals and harmonica.

Here’s a snippet of Gus singing Buddy Holly’s Rave On.

 

(* “it never f*ckin’ was“, according to the man at the bar)

Vague ambitions for 2013

01 Tuesday Jan 2013

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I’m not wild on the idea of New Year’s resolutions (January is surely the worst time to make radical lifestyle changes, even if you actually wanted to), so here are a few things I’ll be pleased if I achieve in 2013:

– make more photographs, or at least keep up the current splurge of photo-taking activity (plus the digital photographer’s perennial aim: print more of my photos)
– an early return to Wilton’s Music Hall.
– lots of swimming at the lido when it reopens
– the purchase of a bike (and, perhaps more importantly, somewhere dry to keep it), for riding to the lido
– write more for The Charlton Champion
– do more home recording (I have in mind a track a week, though this may be a little ambitious), and even…
– write an actual song, rather than just surf guitar instrumental doodles. This necessitates getting over the horror of writing words, though…

The best 5 new things I heard this year

19 Wednesday Dec 2012

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Ty Segall – You’re the doctor (on Letterman)


Noisy and snotty and surprising and Fender Mustangs and a bloody great tune. “Don’t neglect your studies!”

Spiritualized – Hey Jane

Starts out like J Spaceman at his most pedestrian and ends with one of his finest choruses. Words and tune you think he must have borrowed or used before but can’t work out where.

Y Niwl – Undegpedwar

Offset guitar action. And because words are for idiots.

Lightships – Electric Cable

Woozy, warm, wistful, and uncool and gorgeous.

The Dubwood Allstars – Under Dub Wood

A brilliant idea that could have fallen apart under its own novelty but works unbelievably well. Listened to it over and over and over again.