Only four of the eight song set I'm afraid - the BBC thought that Kings of Leon and Amy Winehouse were a better bet. I'm seriously thinking of not renewing my licence fee. (Actually, that's not true. I love the Beeb).
And unlike the NME's coverage, I've accompanied this little storyette with a picture of British Sea Power, and not one of Crowded House. (No, I don't either). And I missed their reported epic version of No Flags. (No, I don't, etc).
Songs included here: Waving Flags The Great Skua No Lucifer Down On The Ground
Looking forward to seeing this lot at the Upload Festival in Hainault Forest on 30 or 31 August (not sure which one yet). The festival is organised by a group that used to run the TMF Festival in Orsett, Essex and they have a pretty eclectic line up - anyone that can put Young Knives with bands like Chrome Hoof have obviously looked the word up in the dictionary. Saw them at Chinnery's in Southend in March and they were absolutely fantastic.
A few sets which I have ripped from digital TV so they should be better quality than the ones available on various "listen again" web places.
I'm also using uploadjockey to host the files, which seems to be able to log into rapidshare, something I can't do about 18 hours a day due to it being very crashy. If it doesn't work, or the popups and ads annoy you, apologies.
Foles r grate tho. Didn't play Olympic Airways which is my favourite track off Antidotes right now but good enough.
I was genuinely upset to hear of the death of former Earl Brutus frontman Nick Sanderson.
While others will remember him for his involvement in a number of other bands - Clock DVA, World Of Twist, Jesus and Mary Chain and Freeheat - I remember him most with his short involvment in the band which was active between 1993 and 1999 and released two albums, Your Majesty .. We Are Here and Tonight You Are The Special One (nothing to do with Chelsea). The latter album was released on Polygram and it's hard to imagine a major label taking such a risk on such a band these days - a 30-something collection which included a former JoBoxer, Martin Fry out of ABC's brother and a headbanging Japanese guy whose contribution other than, erm, standing on stage headbanging was so limited he made Bez look like a multi-instrumentalist.
They first came to my attention when the short-lived "we're XFM, a REAL indie radio station" (copyright 1997-1998) A-listed The SAS And The Glam That Goes With It. In the early days of the UK version of MTV2 (circa 1999), viewers could choose an hour's worth of videos on their website and I managed to get Come Taste My Mind a rare TV showing, which I recorded for posterity and subseqently Youtubed here:
I was lucky enough to see them live about 10 years ago a the Electric Palace in Camden supporting Kenickie, with a friend who clearly hated them. I was pretty much mesmerised by the whole set - probably the best support slot I've had the good fortune not to ignore.
The bastion of all world knowledge that is Wikipedia describes them as a hybrid of glam rock, Kraftwerk and the Fall, and I can't really argue with that.
No firm news of how and when it happened but his last record label, Planting Seeds, reports that it was in the last couple of days, and posters on JAMC message boards suggested it was cancer.
