Off Topic Gigs, Concert and Live Music

We saw him in Liverpool - it was flippin' brilliant.

 

Me and the wife drove up to Edinburgh today to see Bruce Springsteen at Murrayfield tomorrow night.

 

Remember the Amber Solaire Prof!!! We've got us a heatwave

 

lot of ginnners gonna get burned

 

It's dull as **** out there this morning, what's happened to the heat wave?

 

The news talking of basking in sunshine and hotter than Barcelona, not much sign of that in hull.

 

12c?


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Elton was on for 2 1/2 hours
Have to say he was excellent

 

Just one of those classic songs


Did it inspire Bowie’s Let’s Dance? How M made crossover classic Pop Muzik
The creators of the pop send-up reveal its own unlikely inspirations, from the Andrews Sisters and the Paris Métro, to the sample bottles of a travelling perfume salesman
Dave Simpson

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Robin Scott, singer, songwriter, producer
I had been a singer-songwriter in David Bowie’s Beckenham Arts Lab, and ended up working with my old art school friend Malcolm McLaren as punk started happening. I was in Paris making a live recording of the Slits when someone said: “Why don’t you do something yourself?” I asked an engineer if there was any downtime at the studio so I could lay down some ideas.


Pop Muzik started as a three-chord guitar strum. I tried rhythm, blues and funk versions before remembering that a friend, John Lewis, had a studio in London’s Covent Garden with very modern equipment and electronics. After we put the foundation of the track together, I wanted it to start with a big glorious fanfare, so John did the intro on an organ. Then I went back to Paris to finish it.

My brother Julian, who plays bass, and a French keyboard player called Wally Badarou popped in to play. I got Julian to lay down the bass drum and snare individually then a proper drummer came in to add some fills. I met Brigitte Vinchon, the backing vocalist, in a Paris nightclub – she was the last dancer on the floor. I asked her to sing “Pop, pop, pop muzik” like the Andrews Sisters, so she put down a four-part harmony one by one. Nothing was recorded in real time. It was all done very laboriously and sequentially. I was after that separated sound similar to Giorgio Moroder’s disco hits.

Let’s Dance.





Brian Grant, video director
I’d been a cameraman on The Muppet Show. I was friends with Animal! But after seeing Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, I decided I wanted to make videos. A guy called Scott Millaney had the same idea, so we formed a little production company.

We had no showreel, so I went into the MCA office in London and asked: “Is there anyone on your record label who’d be up for making a video?” Robin overheard and said: “I would!” I loved the record and Robin told me it was sung from the perspective of a DJ spinning records at a nightclub, so I came up with this idea of an exaggerated turntable. We got a scenery company to make a DJ desk that looked like a vinyl record and covered it with pop culture images. Within a couple of years, videos would cost millions, but our budget was £2,500.

Break the Silence, the first new M track in 41 years, is released on 23 June.

 

Whens taylor swift doing uk tour

 

Tenuous 'gigs' link.
Chris Hadfield (Astronaut, Commander of International Space Station) was at Bonus Arena tonight.
Wasn't sure about going, but glad I went. Excellent 'show'.
Not just astronaut stuff, but also covered minor issues like what actually is the Earth, how life on Earth started and were we came from (spoiler alert, it wasn't from A & E in the Garden of Eden), the Universe, some amazing FACTS, figures, stories .... all capped off with a story about him & Bowie and him performing his cover of Space Oddity.
Only downer was being stuck in Osbourne Street car park for an hour afterwards. Memo to self: park elsewhere, and not Prinny Quay as that was as bad, but if I am daft enough to park there again or somewhere similar, make sure I park with car nose pointing into the flow (thanks to the legend that allowed me to reverse out into the q otherwise i would have been even longer stuck there)

 

I’d not seen that was on until late yesterday evening. Might have gone.
On parking I always park in the train station car park for Bonus Arena. £5 I think but with only a short walk you’re straight out onto Anlaby Rd with no wait at all.

 

Park round porter st it’s free

 

Brian Cox next, Barbican York, February. (Might have been to Bonus previously? I didn't see it).
Sorry Den, but you missed a great show. Far exceeded my expectations.

 

Glastonbury.

 

I'm sure the bird ****e on the bottom flag will wash out, oh, it's a club crest.


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Saw Peter gabriel in glasgow last night...outstanding

 

Just watching cat Stevens do this and there’s definitely someone cutting onions in my front room
Father And Son


It's not time to make a change
Just relax, take it easy
You're still young, that's your fault
There's so much you have to know
Find a girl, settle down
If you want, you can marry
Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy
I was once like you are now
And I know that it's not easy
To be calm when you've found something going on
And take your time, think a lot
Think of everthing you've got
For you will still be here tomorrow
But your dreams may not
How can I try to explain?
When I do, he turns away again
It's always been the same
Same old story
From the moment I could talk
I was older to listen
Now, there's a way and I know
That I have to go away
I know, I have to grow
I was once like you are now
And I know that it's not easy
To be calm when you've found something going on
But take your time, think a lot
Think of everthing you've got
For you will still be here tomorrow
But your dreams may not
And all the times that I've cried
Keeping all the things I knew inside
It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it!
If they were right, I'd agree
But it's them they know, not me
Now, there's a way and I know
That I have to go away
I know, I have to grow