Saw John Cale on 'later' the other night, bashing away as if his life depended on it. He's 63 or something. I hadn't heard any of his solo stuff, apart from Songs For Drella with Lou Reed, and the Bill Bragg cover version of Fear (Is A Man's Best Friend). Anyway, bought the new one on spec, and it's pretty good - especially 'Perfect', which he did on Later. Better is the album 'Fear' from 1974, which I downloaded but will pick up from Selectadisc.
Angry old man shouting and beating the fuck out of a geetar, just the job at the moment.
best of 2005 cd is finished - wedding present, cale, fall, arctic monkeys, stones, malc middleton, martha wainwright, sufjan stevens, cuban boys, blind boys of alabama, x-press2, alabama 3, maximo park. i think that's about it...
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a slight oversight, which I realised as I was browsing for cheap red wine in Iceland in Clifton this evening - Kitty Jay is definitely on there, but there's no reason we should not both claim it!
I have Mr Peel featuring on a couple of occasions, it wouldn't seem right without him...
ok here's my 'so near, and yet so far' list (or some of it)...
Born Under a Good Sign - Teenage Fanclub, Camions Sauvage - Amadou and Mariam, E-Pro - Beck, The Rest Will Follow - Trail of Dead, Nothing Brings Me Down - Emiliana Torrini, Another Travellin Song - Bright Eyes, Bullets - Editors, Bonebomb - Eno, Pledge of Allegiance - Louis XIV (the last to go), some live Kraftwerk, I Drink - Mary Gauthier and many many more
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