From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V8 #227 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Thursday, August 25 2005 Volume 08 : Number 227 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] Chronic Epoch [Fergus Kelly ] [idealcopy] OT: Simon Hinkler - Album Now Available! [Monochromatic Man <] Re: [idealcopy] Courtney Love Pregnant With Steve Coogan's Baby [Tim Subject: [idealcopy] Chronic Epoch CHRONIC EPOCH A ten week exhibition celebrating the south London Beaconsfield exhibition and performance space's 10th anniversary featuring artists they've worked with over the years, including David Cunningham, BRUCE GILBERT, Hayley Newman, and Tracy Emin, amongst others. The exhibition includes painting, film, performance and sculpture. London Beaconsfield, 14 September - 20 November Wednesday - Sunday, noon - 6 020 7582 6465 http://www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk Also of interest: BLURT play The Bull and Gate, 389 Kentish Town Road, London nw5 2tj, on the 15th of September, tickets a mere 5 snots http://www.bullandgate.co.uk http://www.wegottickets.com Fergus ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:27:40 +0100 (BST) From: Monochromatic Man Subject: [idealcopy] OT: Simon Hinkler - Album Now Available! - --- Simon Hinkler wrote: > Hello. > Well, the time has arrived. I'm very pleased to say > that my new album, "Lose > The Faith" is now available to order via my website: > www.simonhinkler.com > > There, you can hear a few RealAudio clips and see > the song lyrics before > deciding. > > I do hope you'll stop by. > > All the best. > Simon > (Apologies to anyone who received this in error.) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:39:22 +0100 From: Tim Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Courtney Love Pregnant With Steve Coogan's Baby Monochromatic Man wrote: > This makes me sick! First, working with Ben Stiller, > now this!!!! Ben Stiller was also one of the Hollywood stars queuing up to be on Ricky Gervais new Series 'Extras'. You're supposed to think they're a good sport but if it wasn't for the Golden Globes and The Office being a cult hit in the states they wouldn't be seen dead on BBC2. Much worse to turn this down than to not be asked.....Reminds me of Alan Partridge's quote, upon learning that he doesn't have a Spitting Image puppet.."Phew, thats a relief...they might make fun of me". Apart from Les Dennis who did an extraordinary performance...very hard to see where the caricature ended and the real Les began...and very clear that he was aware of that. He's either the best comic-turned-straight actor we never had (because he's Les Dennnis)...or a complete fruitcake...or both. > > Anybody want a Coogan dvd collection real cheap? Nah keep em! We'd all have severely depleted record collections if we binned every record by someone who had got it on with Courtney Love...she's started on Comics now. So what? Steve Coogan is clearly following the Peter Sellers, Peter Cook, Kenneth Williams, Frankie Howerd line of comedy greats with rather questionable personal lives. Eric Morcame he ain't. But he still makes me laugh....although he was way funnier before he had his teeth fixed. Alan Partridge isn't quite as funny without his buck teeth. A lot of funny characters have dodgy teeth. Dentists are the enemy of comedy..not Courtney Love. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:24:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Santa Cruzer Subject: [idealcopy] "Peeled" this from the local news! Sounds like a perfect tip of the hat to a really great music fan who could share his enthusiasm with others.. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050824/ennew_afp/afpentertainmentbritainmusicpeel RJH ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:17:32 +0100 From: "Keith Knight" Subject: [idealcopy] OT: The Green Man festival Back to the grounds of the Baskerville Hall Hotel just outside booktown Hay-on-Wye just inside Wales for another Green Man festival. Twice the size of last year - now 4,000 people - so the main stage is in the open rather than in a tent. But the ambience is still relaxed and quiet. This is the only festival I've ever been to and I think I've been spoiled. Wondering how to describe the music that takes place here - which is grounded in folk, but outside the traditional folk scene- I decided early on that it's music for people who sit down - both players and watchers. Such was the fortunate warmth of the weather and the torpor of the rest of my family I found myself uncharacteristically watching much of the proceedings from a prone position even though the musicians tended to perform standing up as the days wore on. Arriving on the Friday night in time for Diamh - a Scottish band who play jigs and reels rather well - one was immediately energised but then Adem came on with eight people sitting down. I've grown to really like his album 'Homesongs' over the last few months and it was good to hear this performed - subtle songs with catchy melodies. Even the kids like Adem - which was the last time they really expressed a preference for two says. Arrived mid-afternoon on Saturday specifically to catch Scatter, whom I had heard good things about. But I think they're a taste I need to acquire - trad songs played using bazoukis and the like and sung in a rather offputting caterwauling style. Perhaps best explored on CD. For a while after that a few bands came and went - Half Cousin, Lone Pigeon - - as I drifted off to sleep before raising myself to see Charlotte Greig indoors in the hotel in a small room. Although I've got a couple of albums they'd never really forced themselves on me but this was a really impressive performance - reworked trad songs in a crystal voice with harmonium and subtle guitar accompaniment. I went right out and bought her new album, Quite Silent. Back at the main stage, Malcolm Middleton - - the other man in Arab Strap, but just as morose and as talented an observer as Aidan Moffat - brings some Glaswegian downer spirit into the Eden with songs about how much he hates himself and how he'd like to stop singing crap songs if only he could find love. I'm impressed. Next up Alasdair Roberts. I've written enough about him here in the past and this was a set culled from Farewell, Sorrow, my favourite album of the last 10 years probably. So I'm happy. He's also a fairly accomplished performer these days, Alistair may be pleased to hear. Headlining tonight is Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. While recognising Mr Oldham's influence on many good things - not least Alasdair Roberts, whom he 'discovered' - his music has never really done it for me and this performance doesn't really help in that regard. The lyrics are clearly impressive in places but the musical structure - he's using a conventional line-up - is, well, dull. I hang around for an hour or so until he brings three children on stage at which point I leave, the full moon hanging over the tents and the Welsh hills. A lazy Sunday morning in Hay - the bookshop next to our B&B opens at 0930, which seems like some sort of definition of heaven - and we don't make it on site until mid-afternoon. It's even hotter. A couple of bands - Lucky Luke and The Memory Band - drift by without making an impact then I make an effort to move down the front for Jeffrey Lewis. Jeff is a late replacement for the excellent Micah P Hinson who's decided to go touring with David Gray (!) and few seem to know what to expect. Me, this is the second time this year and about the seventh time overall. Brother Jack opens the proceedings by singing a capella standing on a chair then Jeff takes over. And in half an hour he wins the entire audience over. This is almost inevitable once he sings the epic 'Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror', a song about what it's like to be a marginal musician on the NY scene, the influence of Will Oldham on his peer group, whether Jeff has wasted his life and ending with a symbolic sexual assaulted by a figure resembling the Bonnie Prince. But funny. Following this with 'Lo-Fi Video' (i.e a set of drawings) Champion Jim and a wig-out on over-amplified acoustic guitar, Jeff has the crowd realising they've been sat on their butts all afternoon and it's time to get involved. A standing ovation follows and the feeding frenzy for Jeff albums and comics is something to behold. I fear this may lead to difficulties getting into future gigs given that he traditionally plays the smallest venues in town - already the Windmill Brixton is sold out on Friday to my chagrin. After a gap to calm down (and a failure to get anywhere near the indoor stage to see The Broken Family Band - are they not a Walkingshaw favourite?) it's King Creosote who I haven't seen for two years when he played the delicately beautiful 'Lavender moon' in the ICA on the hottest day in British history and won me over. He has a band of Fence Collective colleagues this timeHoooo so the songs are more meaty. The Fence Collective are a bunch of musicians from the tiny town of Anstruther in Fife and seem to me one of the better things about British music, philosophically if not musically. And, even better, KC has just recorded an album with The Earlies who are also here. As there are 12 members of The Earlies and six Fence Collective people, not to mention Adem and others who turn up, the stage is so full by the end that it is literally impossible to count everyone from where I am. It therefore seems provocative that one of The Earlies has brought along a tuba for one song. The sound by this time is monstrous and the songs live up to it, catchy and expansive. That new album will be a required purchase. Then it's the Earlies by themselves. Always a band who exude bonhomie they're positively buzzing by this point which is just as well as they suffer three brief powercuts, which barely fazes them. Some first album classics, some new songs and they finish on the magnificent The Devil's Country, horns blazing. Even the kids have perked up again for this so it's time to leave on a high despite the intriguing possibilities of strangulated harpist Joanne Newsom to come. All in all, a fine weekend even if I didn't really discover anyone new. But given that much of the line-up consisted of bands I turn out to see regularly this didn't seem a problem. The biggest disappointment was in not seeing people on the small stage whose timings clashed - Tunng and James Yorkston especially. But such a fine setting and vibe, man. Chill. Another the Keith ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V8 #227 *******************************