From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V12 #21 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Saturday, February 20 2010 Volume 12 : Number 021 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [idealcopy] THE NIGHTINGALES / HOTPANTS ROMANCE / GUILTY PLEASURES OF THE [MarkBursa@a] RE: [idealcopy] THE NIGHTINGALES / HOTPANTS ROMANCE / GUILTY PLEASURES OF THE... ["keith a" >Fair point, Mark, though probably a bit more conventional in the melody stakes!<< They've got melodies now!? It'll be Jazz Odyssey before you know it. I expect they might have got a bit slicker since I saw them (at least two years ago) though hopefully not too much so. Rob Lloyd's ongoing search for a new Fuzzbox is a never-ending quest. The singer out of the old Fuzzbox turned up the last time I saw the 'gales. Now a 40-something rock chick. Scary! M ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:18:09 -0000 From: "keith a" Subject: RE: [idealcopy] THE NIGHTINGALES / HOTPANTS ROMANCE / GUILTY PLEASURES OF THE... >>I really enjoyed them and their Spirit Of '77 abandon. One number sounded like The Slits attempting the Ronettes, but overall if you imagined the first Ramones LP with three Lydia Lunch's on vocals you wouldn't be far off. >Kleenex, Keith... Fair point, Mark, though probably a bit more conventional in the melody stakes! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:05:47 -0000 From: "keith a" Subject: RE: [idealcopy] THE NIGHTINGALES / HOTPANTS ROMANCE / GUILTY PLEASURES OF THE SNOW ANGEL Cheers Uri. Glad to report that it was C&W free evening! From: uri.b@talktalk.net [mailto:uri.b@talktalk.net] Sent: 18 February 2010 23:55 To: keith.indoorminer@virgin.net; idealcopy@smoe.org Subject: Re: [idealcopy] THE NIGHTINGALES / HOTPANTS ROMANCE / GUILTY PLEASURES OF THE SNOW ANGEL Thanks Keith, thoroughly entertaining review. As a long time Nightingales fan, it sounds like they've dropped the country & western style that was ruining them. I had no intention of seeing them again until I read that. U. - -----Original Message----- From: keith a To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sent: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:22 Subject: [idealcopy] THE NIGHTINGALES / HOTPANTS ROMANCE / GUILTY PLEASURES OF THE SNOW ANGEL I'd never been to a gig in Wolverhampton before, but as someone brought up on glam rock it seemed fitting that my first there was taking place in The Slade Rooms. And recalling just how ridiculous Holder, Hill, etc could look, it was also perhaps apt to enter and find two men, who were presumably Guilty Pleasures Of The Snow Angel, wearing silver masks doing robotics and quoting "n-n-n-nineteen" before finishing with a techno number that featured some thrashing guitar and a chant of "Doncaster, Doncaster, Doncaster, Doncaster on acid". As my 11 yr old said "I wouldn't listen to one of their cd's but they were quite enjoyable to watch". He had a point. I was looking forward to seeing Hotpants Romance, three young females with guitar bass and drums, and shouty out-of-tune voices. And I wasn't disappointed. Admittedly, they're pretty damn amateurish and you can bet your bottom dollar that muso's would break out in a cold sweat if they heard them. I heard someone at the bar saying something about "the worst band ever" and I couldn't help thinking he was likely to be moaning about the band he'd just seen. And yet...I really enjoyed them and their Spirit Of '77 abandon. One number sounded like The Slits attempting the Ronettes, but overall if you imagined the first Ramones LP with three Lydia Lunch's on vocals you wouldn't be far off. They might not have played the glorious shambolic Shake, the one Hotpants Romance track I knew before the gig, but they did put a big smile on my face. The Nightingales were operating tonight as a four piece (a well dressed one, too!) which highlighted what a useful guitarist Alan Apperley is. They opened with a few quickfire numbers that led pretty much straight into each other, with the almost Keith Moon-like drummer Daren Garret entertaining us from the start. I'd not seen The Nightingales for a few years, but although Robert Lloyd looked like he'd clearly indulged in a few too many sherbets, it was a performance that grew as it went on, taking in old numbers like Blood For Dirt and Part Of The Anchor and more recent ones like their cover of Kevin Coyne's Good Boy and Kirklees Men which he described as The Nightingales best song. It isn't - one can only conclude he'd ever released Urban Ospreys! - but it seemed rude to argue. It wasn't all plain sailing though. Lloyd managed just a couple of lines of the latest incarnation of Well Done Underdog when he started laughing before eventually telling us that the next line was great but that couldn't remember what it was. And Blood For Dirt had to be stopped a short time in too with Lloyd telling us it was out of tune. "Not that you lot would notice" he said to the crowd. "I would", said someone in the audience. "You didn't when you were in the band" said Lloyd drily. The encore was excellent, opening with a superb rendition of The Cramps classic The Way I Walk and ending with a revisit to Prefects land with a fabulous version of Going Through The Motions which was as good as anything I've heard in ages. It could have gone on all night as far I was concerned, but Garrett had given us his last thwack and left the stage before Lloyd had muttered the final words. The rest of the band followed leaving Lloyd, who looked like he wanted to say something but couldn't be arsed competing with Led Zep or whatever it was coming out of the PA, standing alone on stage, in suit and glasses, smiling at the audience filtering out, looking not unlike a pissed stand-up from a bygone age. A fitting end to an enjoyable night that veered from the almost farcical to the brilliant, but which was never less than entertaining. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:15:42 -0000 From: "keith a" Subject: RE: [idealcopy] THE NIGHTINGALES / HOTPANTS ROMANCE / GUILTY PLEASURES OF THE >Manic Beefheartisms with a touch of glam and a sprinkling of 60s garage rock all the way these days. Has been pretty much so since they returned. M And more than a hint of Krautrock, too! Somone pointed out to me that he thought there was a bit of a What Presence? vibe to Double Whammy Bar. I'd not thought of that, but I know what he means. My fave track on the last album incidentally. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:16:44 -0000 From: "keith a" Subject: RE: [idealcopy] THE NIGHTINGALES / HOTPANTS ROMANCE / GUILTY PLEASURES OF THE I can honestly report that slick is not a word that came to mind once during the HR performance! But underneath it all there's melodies there. Somewhere! ; ) RL later described them as the best band in the country! From: MarkBursa@aol.com [mailto:MarkBursa@aol.com] Sent: 19 February 2010 12:27 To: keith.indoorminer@virgin.net; idealcopy@smoe.org Subject: Re: [idealcopy] THE NIGHTINGALES / HOTPANTS ROMANCE / GUILTY PLEASURES OF THE >>Fair point, Mark, though probably a bit more conventional in the melody stakes!<< They've got melodies now!? It'll be Jazz Odyssey before you know it. I expect they might have got a bit slicker since I saw them (at least two years ago) though hopefully not too much so. Rob Lloyd's ongoing search for a new Fuzzbox is a never-ending quest. The singer out of the old Fuzzbox turned up the last time I saw the 'gales. Now a 40-something rock chick. Scary! M ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V12 #21 *******************************