New Releases! Mon 02/11/09

A volley of new releases are served at you today, although hopefully not at 155mph like Andy Roddick might serve them to you.

Ghana Special - Various Artists

 

Moustaches!

Badamsinh Juwansinh Gurjar , owner of a fantastic moustache

There’s nothing better than visiting your favourite music blog to find out that they’re talking about moustaches, is there?

To an extent, that’s what happened to us when we visited the Times site the other day, as we were treated to their article The Top 25 Moustaches In Pop.  Don’t worry, Freddie Mercury is in there.

November is also of course Movember, an excuse for men to grow a moustache but to also to raise money for The Prostate Cancer Charity.  So if you know anyone who’s growing their lip rug, make sure you sponsor them to raise money for the war against cancer.

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New Charlie Winston Video!

We’ve just found out about this, it’s a video for Kick The Bucket by Charlie Winston, taken off the album Hobo.  It features skeletons!  Glow-in-the-dark dancing skeletons!

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Lack of Updates!

Dear regular readers, you’ll have no doubt noticed that the blog hasn’t been updated for a couple of days.  Apologies, we’ve all been very busy.

Your faithful correspondent spent Monday night selling merch for Portico Quartet and Sweet Billy Pilgrim.  I’d say it was a great gig but due to the fact that the merch stall at Koko is in the foyer and outside the main hall we couldn’t see or hear it.

Subscribers to our newsletter will be pleased to hear that i’ve spent the last day attempting to make it look pretty.  Hopefully you’ll like it and the whole exercise won’t have been a complete waste of time.  For those of you who haven’t subscribed, you get to listen to music if you do!  You can sign up here.

 

Hallowe’en!

A Hallowe'en Episode of The Simpsons

Boo!  Yes, it’s another commercial attempt to squeeze some money out of you by twisting the context of the ritual celebrations of our ancestors.  A bit like the c word.  (Having said this, i’ve just found out that trick-or-treaters in America often raise money for UNICEF, which is a good thing.)

So what does this have to do with music?  Well,

 

Wanna Win Some Free CDs?

A box o' CDs

Hello!  I’ve got a box of CDs next to me that need to be won, pictured.  Please note though that i’m not giving away my keyboard and mouse, as otherwise i won’t be able to use my computer, hence won’t be able to run any more competitions.

The reason we have these to give away is because they are the sole survivors of a massive clear-out of our promo rack we had a couple of weeks ago.

So to enter our competition, all you have to do is answer this question:

 

Live Review! Bellowhead

This review comes from Colin Coates, who didn’t have to pay to get into this gig in exchange for some flyering, as he is a member of our street team.

Bellowhead – Norwich Waterfront – Tue 20/10/09

Another wonderful evening in the company of Bellowhead, and again thanks to Andy and Jon at Properganda for getting my mate and I on the guest list.

Belshazzar's Feast

The support were Belshazzar’s Feast (one of Paul Sartin from Bellowhead’s other projects), clever, musically astounding, and very smutty at times!  (An example of this was how in the past the letter “f” was used instead of “s”, so Paul said they would “suck it and see” how a tune would work out.)  I bought their album Frost Bites as a result, and highly recommend it.

Bellowhead themselves were on for 90 minutes or so with two encores; the set was mainly from Matachin, with the arrangements looser giving the band a chance to show off their musical skills.  Highlights for me were Fakenham Fair (it had to be, me being from Norfolk), Kafoozalum, and Whiskey Is The Life Of Man, the number they started with, Jon toasting us with apple juice!

Bellowhead

A few new numbers, the best being the ‘begging song’, and old faves like Haul Away, Rigs Of The Time, The Rochdale Coconut Dance but sadly no Jordan.
As ever great to watch, the “posing”, the “dance”(!) routines and how they seem to be having as much fun as the audience is.

A GREAT evening, and look forward to the next time they play Norwich, one of the best gigs this year.

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Jimmy Webb on Radio 2!

Jimmy Web

Country/Americana guitarist and singer Jimmy Webb has, today (Wed 27th Oct) been on Radio 2 on the Ken Bruce show.  This is an impressive feat considering that Ken Bruce wasn’t there, although he was being filled in by Zoe Ball.

Zoe Ball

Jimmy was joined by one of his sons, James Webb, who were interviewed.  There’s a lot of mention of their extensive family of musicians, as well as talk of Jimmy’s work with Richard Harris.  They even play a couple of songs too.

Thanks to the magic of the internet, you can now listen to the show again even though it has already happened.  All you need to do is visit the BBC iPlayer (available until 03/11/09).

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New Releases! Mon 26/10/09

A steam-train of new releases choos and choos towards you today, including but not limited to:

Show Of Hands - Arrogance, Ignorance And Greed

 

Don’t Forget, The Clocks Go Back!

Obviously, as this is a music blog, we need to warn you that the clocks go back on Sunday.  (Ok, we didn’t have to but imagine if you turned up to a gig an hour late.  You would curse our very name.)  This means that we will once more return to the familiar grounds of GMT.  Wahey!