From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V12 #53 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Sunday, May 2 2010 Volume 12 : Number 053 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] Fw: Sleeve Notes: How to handle being dissed on record [PAUL ] [idealcopy] Neu that's what I call musik [Fergus Kelly Subject: [idealcopy] Fw: Sleeve Notes: How to handle being dissed on record well it has to be said that paul lester's rather lame biographies of wire and the gang of four hardly set the world on fire , but the bands in question didn't take their criticism beyond a few choice phrases. mr lester has now ventured into the world of rap and it seems one act at least has offerred a more trenchant response to his witterings. take a look below to see more (and also to see what PL looks like lest you were curious) p - ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: guardian.co.uk To: "paulrabjohn@btinternet.com" Sent: Friday, 30 April, 2010 18:28:42 Subject: Sleeve Notes: How to handle being dissed on record Having trouble viewing this email? * Sleeve Notes: How to handle being dissed on record * Tim Jonze * guardian.co.uk , Friday 30 April 2010 16.36 BST Tune in next week to watch Best Coast cage fighting with Alexis Petridis. Photograph: Graham Turner/PR/Guardian The life of a rock'n'roll journo can be dangerous sometimes. Who can forget the time Joe Lean got riled with me near the pancake stall at Reading festival? Or that treacherous moment when Dominic Masters told me not to sit near him on the 56 bus to Clapton? Oh, everyone. Right. Paul Lester will find it harder to forget his run-in with Brooklyn hipster hopper Theophilus London, though, because it's been immortalised in song. "Hey, Mr Paul Lester, you're the Guardian man ..." goes the first line of Pyromilitia, referring to our esteemed New Band of the Day columnist . Theophilus then describes what he'd like to do to Lester with a fist and let's just say it doesn't involve punching him. Seems he wasn't happy with this piece , although we're not sure why as it was quite nice about him. Anyway, I don't know if Lester intends to write an answer song, but he has penned a response blog about the whole affair topped with my reliably shonky Photoshop skills. Five things we learned this week Men don't really listen to Can at home, they listen to Britney Spears (well, so says Steve Mason) Arizona's FAIL of an immigration law is no match for ... the She-Wolf! Liam Gallagher has been offered outside for a scrap There's a band who make Sunn O))) sound about as heavy as Belle and Sebastian It's possible to play piano like someone "missing the bottom step in the dark" Biffy in the Guardian studios. They weren't smiling when they tasted the tea from the machines How I Wrote sessions We teamed up with the Observer New Review to bring you exclusive live tracks from our fancy studios. The plan is simple: band introduce song, tell us how it came into being, then play it. This week Biffy Clyro joined a library of songs that already includes Vampire Weekend, Toumani Diabati and Laura Marling. They performed an exclusive, acoustic version of Many of Horror. Hey, what's that sound? David McNamee's awesome investigations into pop's tools of the trade continue with a look at the glockenspiel, which could well be the twee-est instrument of all time. It's certainly a lot more timid than last week's subject a piano made out of screaming, tortured cats . Vote for change, vote for the Guardian Music Twitter ! It has better policies than that posh fellow with the sweaty chin . * * You are receiving this email because you opted to receive the Sleeve Notes email from Guardian News and Media Limited. Click here if you no longer wish to receive theSleeve Notes email from the Guardian. Guardian News & Media Limited - a member of Guardian Media Group PLC. Registered Office: 1 Scott Place, Manchester M3 3GG. Registered in England No. 908396 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 17:19:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Fergus Kelly Subject: [idealcopy] Neu that's what I call musik The mighty Fall were back in Dublin last week, and played a blinder. Current line-up active for some years now, and still driving it really hard and relentless. MES the most 'relaxed' I've seen him, at one stage almost 'dancing' for a few seconds. Sauntering nonchalantly about the stage like some workingmen's club MC, he was master of all he surveyed. He casts his eye about the lively crowd almost as if they weren't there, staring off into some fixed point as though thinking about something completely different. Charismatically challenged you could say, yet he still manages to exude a certain stoic charisma which the over-eager audience just hoover up. Very strange ending - 2nd encore, they started playing Blindness. Brilliant, I thought, finish on a favourite. Nice one. Except about a minute in they suddenly stopped and just fucked off. Very odd. Whether it was MES suddenly changing his mind or security saying they'd run over time I don't know, but up to then it was terrific. My photos can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/55867717@N00/sets/72157623968065210/ Fergus http://www.roomtemperature.org http://www.asullenrelapse.blogspot.com http://www.myspace.com/ferguskellyrecordings http://www.flickr.com/photos/55867717@N00/sets/ ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V12 #53 *******************************