From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V9 #271 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Sunday, October 29 2006 Volume 09 : Number 271 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] Lest we forget.. [Fergus Kelly ] [idealcopy] the new nightingales album... ["Keith A" Subject: [idealcopy] Lest we forget.. ...our dear friend Alistair, one year on from his untimely passing (checking my records it was Oct. 19th). Listening to 154 yesterday, when it came to A Mutual Friend, I was reminded. Various CDRs in my collection with Alistair's greetings scribbled on Post-its attached to the jewel cases remind me from time to time. The last one, of the 2005 Neubauten London concert, with the apology for being out of touch for a while.. "been off sick". Little did we know how ill he was. Here's to his memory. Fergus http://www.roomtemperature.org http://www.asullenrelapse.blogspot.com http://www.myspace.com/ferguskellyrecordings http://www.flickr.com/photos/55867717@N00/sets/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:12:44 +0100 From: "Keith A" Subject: [idealcopy] the new nightingales album... The the new nightingales album, OUT OF TRUE, has just been released on Iron Man Records. I've recently written a review of it for the Birmingham Post. I know there's other Nightingales fans here, so I thought I'd copy and paste it here... You never quite know what to expect from The Nightingales. A recent gig I caught saw them at their most uncompromising, with Robert Lloyd and the guys coming on all Captain Beefheart. This, their first proper album since they reformed a few years ago (and their first of new material for twenty years) may find them sounding somewhat more user-friendly than they did that night, but this is all relative of course. Tracks like Hard Up (Buffering 87% Completed) and the truly bonkers UK Randy Mom Epidemic ("You can't have too many Robin Askwith's" indeed!!) are full of wonderful intricate riffs that weave in and out of each other in the Beefheartian sense, and even one of the more poppy numbers - the re-recorded former single Workshy Wunderkind - now comes complete with an instrumental break that effectively consists of a wall of noise. These two areas also meet to good effect on Company Man which marries one of these slightly left of centre guitar lines with an almost irritatingly catchy chorus. It doesn't stop there, however, because as always with The Nightingales they veer off in all sorts of directions. Opening track Born Again In Birmingham has a riff that sounds like some demented bastard off-spring of Up Around The Bend, The Chorus Is In The Title opens with a Mony Mony beat and is the only song I can think of that mentions glam rock also-ran's Blackfoot Sue and - whilst we're on the subject of early 70's pop! - Taking Away The Stigma Of Free School Dinners is a seven minute slowed down glam anthem that is sure to bring a smile to your face. There's also a re-recorded version of the recent 45, Let's Think About Living; a fine rockabilly stomp which finds Matt Wood's neat, yet economical solo of the original replaced by a full-on frenzied attack, and whilst they always sound like The Nightingales whatever they do, it's a testimony to how little the band are living in the past when I say that only the relentless Fifty Fifty would sound really at home on one of their classic 80's albums. There's also a couple of splendid cover versions c/o Kevin Coyne (Good Boy), and Ray Davies (There's A New World Just Opening For Me where The Nightingales go acoustic and Lloyd adopts a low growl to good effect), but the highlight for me is Rocket Pool Via Rough Hills, which features some Silver Machine-like noises over an Eddie Cochran riff and a beat to die for from drummer Daren Garrett. Wonderful stuff! Personally speaking, I could do without the C&W duet with Gina Birch that is Black Country, but this is a small complaint because Out Of True is yet another superior release from Birmingham's finest. Indeed, you won't hear many better albums this year. ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V9 #271 *******************************