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hello. not that a particularly tight schedule is kept here at sb but even so, a mid evening tuesday post is unexpected.
no real reason for it - just felt like a catch up, make sure you’re ok…
the momentous tenth edition of franks friday.
huge thanks for all the congratulations (and the bouquet!). Read the rest of this entry »
if i were to focus-group myself on “mixtapes” tonight, the outcome would almost certainly be we are prostitutes.
stubru, switch mix
guestmix for boris dlugosch
lots of reforming chat tonight….the ‘definitive’ book is out next year carrying a large publishing advance and all of that, so it looks more likely this time. reni just now saying he’s not in though – it’s all or nothing surely. 
this recording is from when it was all wide-eyed and genuinely exciting…..(fogged stream-of-conscious recall via the ’read more’ button – warning; contains colloquialism & local minutiae. mon.)
the stone roses, park lane shrewsbury 25/05/1989 (soundcheck and gig – mediafire)
bootleg description quoted from the bootleg guide on excellent fansite thestoneroses.co.uk
“Sound Quality: B - Clear and steady, but distorts during particularly loud sections. Sound check is in marginally better quality than the gig.
Performance Quality: A - Very melodic performance. Squire’s jangling guitar with Ian and Reni’s great vocals. This is one of Ian’s best ever live performances – not even a glitch on the chorus of Resurrection.
Why should I get this bootleg? The best ever live performance of Made Of Stone is on here, and great performances of Where Angels Play and Standing Here are too. Also funny to hear Ian shout to someone in the audience “Sit down man – you’re making a spectacle of yourself” and hear the audience all laugh at him. This causes a fight, which Ian tries to calm down during the opening to Adored!”**
The Sound Check (20 mins):
1. Ian solo singing verses of I Am The Resurrection
2. Ian clicking some drum sticks
3. Mani solo playing: an unknown bassline, She Bangs The Drums bassline, Waterfall bassline (small bit)
4. Squire solo playing very small bit of Waterfall
5. Mani solo playing She Bangs The Drums bassline, Waterfall bassline, unknown bassline, funky bassline
6. Roadies/crew/band/promoter talking
7. Squire solo playing part of Made Of Stone (x2), Elephant Stone intro, and final solo on I Am The Resurrection
8. Whole band playing vocals part of Waterfall (no backing vocals)
9. Ian complains he can’t hear Reni
10. Reni sings part of Waterfall solo
11. Squire and Reni briefly mess about
12. Whole band play I Am The Resurrection
The Gig (55 mins):
1. She Bangs The Drums
2. I Wanna Be Adored
3. Elephant Stone
4. Made Of Stone
5. Waterfall
6. Where Angels Play
7. Shoot You Down
8. Standing Here
9. Sally Cinnamon
10. I Am The Resurrection
many thanks to whoever originally recorded/uploaded/etc
**i’ll say. sp.
all my vinyl is finally all in one place again and man i’ll tell you it feels….well, a bit underwhelming to be honest.
what was once the single most important thing in the world is now a nice looking backdrop to the living room.
absolute favourites have long been duplicated, first on cd, then a file. others in the collection will be, jesus, digitised eventually. the rest may never even be touched again, but they’re going nowhere. simply can’t be done. someday may come an urge to dig in, rediscover that one-off, weird mix, forgotten buy, unloved freebie.
but at last they’re all together again. as yet, no cataloguing or arranging, just quickly unboxed & banged on the shelves yesterday.
while doing that i did pull out a few i’d been thinking off recently.
here’s my first ever vinyl rip then: a 1999 nude promo 12″, from ‘head music’ by suede – that tricky 4th album. there was a lot of promo activity on the album but that there were suede remixes at all is still surprising; a shark-jumping rollo remix just seemed plain weird and/or lazy. unsurprisingly it sounds of the time (of about 3 years before actually) and does nothing different to any other rollo mix. it all comes together though and bretts vocal works brilliantly. it kind of laid the path for future twd-ish productions and anyway, i’ve always liked it – back then partly as it antagonised a few end of-their-tether brett fanboys, now because it’s a nice old toe tapper.
sorry it’s late. 
by about 3 weeks.
too busy diiiiiiging the 212 vid i guess
spector, what you wanted (S.C.U.M. remix)
ic1s, not perfect (demo)
work drugs, third wave (teeel remix)
the dont’s and be carefuls, the still favourites
the ep is released 21 november on hidden pony.
occasionally – ie here, now – i’m a total sucker for this sound. straightforward but hooky as fuck provinicial english indie made by boys with guitars and a clue.
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had totally forgotten about 120 days, and so it’s delightful to know they’re back. loved the 1st album, saw them around the time it was out – the gig should’ve been on a sparkling space ship, joyriding through the galaxy – however it was midweek, at the jug of ale in brum.
at the time i think the lp was ultimately through sony and, despite good reviews etc, it seemed destined to get totally lost.
but………. Read the rest of this entry »
