Off Topic - The Superhoops music thread

Great news they're bringing out a new album

 

I defy anyone not to guiltily enjoy this, especially 1:25-2:25

Likewise this

The old analogue guitar sound, amplified by the old analogue recording techniques of live TV, is magnificent.

 

See, you should drop in here more often and post little tit-bits like this!

God, I really miss live music and festival crowds.

 

The riff at the start of the Quo song always reminds me of this - not sure if Apollo440 actually sampled the riff or if it's just very similar, but it's another great tune

 

Striking similarity.

 

Promised myself I wouldn't buy any more tickets for gigs this year....then I got the email for these - oh dear...



Just couldn't help myself!

 

Any idea what the theme of their new album is Steels?

Looking forward to this one!

 

It's all about Berlin....

Public Service Broadcasting have been “teaching the lessons of the past through the music of the future” for more than a decade now. Bright Magic is an album in three parts (Building A City / Building A Myth / Bright Magic), their most ambitious undertaking yet. It brings the listener to Europe’s heart and de facto capital, the cultural and political metropolis that is the ‘Hauptstadt’ of the Federal Republic of Germany – Berlin. A very pro-European record, Bright Magic is ultimately not just about one city, but all centres of human interaction and community which allow the free exchange and cross-pollination of ideas.

I heard them chatting to Mark Radcliffe on Radio6 on Sunday morning, sounds like they have beem spending a lot of time there, and heavily influenced by some early Depeche Mode - even recording some stuff in a studio that they had been in back in the 80s.

 

Cheers Steels.

Sounds interesting. Will be cool to listen out for Mode influences as they have been a particular fave of mine for many, many years (excluding the last couple of albums which quite frankly are a bit cack. Finally ran out of ideas methinks, but what a great back catalogue)

 

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If you're near Manchester, pop in and see this....

Factory Records: Exhibition explores 'vitally important' early years
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A Vox Phantom guitar used by Joy Division's Ian Curtis will go on display for the first time

An exhibition charting the rise of Factory Records from punk-inspired start-up to "influential force" has opened in the city it called home.

The Manchester label grew out of a club night, which started in 1978, and went on to find global success with bands like New Order and Happy Mondays.

Former manager Lesley Gilbert said there still being interest in the label would have surprised its founders.

Items such as a guitar used by Joy Division's Ian Curtis will be shown.

The exhibition at the city's Science and Industry Museum looks at the early years of the label, from its formation out of the Factory night at the Russell Club in Hulme by the late Tony Wilson, Alan Erasmus, Peter Saville and Martin Hannett to the launch of the label's own nightclub, The Hacienda, in 1982.

The label's artists went on to have global success, but its ethos and approach eventually led to its demise and it was declared bankrupt in 1992.

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The label was founded by Tony Wilson (above), Alan Erasmus, Peter Saville and Martin Hannett

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Joy Division became New Order after Ian Curtis (second from left) took his own life in 1980

Gilbert said Factory was "so special" and became "such an influential force for Manchester", but said to begin with, it "was very punk".

"Nobody at the start would have, in their wildest dreams, believed that we'd be here still talking about it today, never mind talking about such an exhibition," she said.

• Peter Saville's sleeves for Factory Records
• How New Order heralded England's leap out of the dark ages
• Peter Hook: I am not living in the past

The former label manager, who was the partner of the late Rob Gretton, New Order's manager and co-founder of The Hacienda, said the early years were "vitally important".

"It set the scene for everything that followed with Factory; the way that the label and the bands were talked about, how it and they talked about themselves, the ethos and the look of what was produced," she said.

She said the show felt "like a homecoming", adding: "It could not be more fitting really."

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The exhibition includes all 50 of the first FAC catalogue items, including a cassette of Sex Pistols' interviews

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The first 50 FAC releases also includes Love Will Tear Us Apart, the single which brought Joy Division fame

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Co-curator Jon Savage said a unique combination of place, time and people made Factory Records the "perfect package"

Artist Linder and Lindsay Reade, Tony Wilson's first wife, are among five women who have recorded stories from the label's early decision-making process for the exhibition, which will also include the first 50 numbered Factory artefacts.

The label famously gave most items associated with it a FAC catalogue number and the list of the first 50 includes posters for The Factory club night, a film script, a cassette of interviews with punk band Sex Pistols and an advert for Joy Division's Closer album, alongside the usual record releases.

The show's co-curator Jon Savage said a unique combination of place, time and people made Factory Records the "perfect package" and it was "essential" that the artefacts that told the label's story were held by institutions, rather than private collections.

He said that if they were, they could "be enjoyed by everyone, particularly young people, who can use them to understand the unique personality of Manchester for themselves".

Use Hearing Protection: The Early Years of Factory Records runs until 3 January 2022

 

I am certain that this will feature somewhere on this thread already, but lately I have developed a strong addiction to this piece of music, and this version of it in particular, with live musicians beating the hell out of an already brilliant studio/synth generated tune and Maxi Jazz almost shamanistic in his hold over the audience/disciples. My favourite song of this genre by miles, I just wish it was an hour long. Played it on a loop driving up to the Toon yesterday, which might actually have been illegal, given the trance like state and euphoria (unmedicated) it generates.

 

Epic tune - seen them a couple of times, and this song is always a banger, but the euphoric highs this tune used to bring when everyone was off their tits in clubs during the late 90s/early 00s would be hard to beat - BCM Magaluf, The Arches in Glasgow, Opera House in Bournemouth - ah, the memories!