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[Oilrig]

Radio Scotty

Thanks GT!

There's a load of live shows coming from Rad Scot next week and the week after Tue/Thu/Fri nights from the Pacific Quay foyer. Next week for me is Session A9/The Gorgeous Colours/Naomi Bedford/Nuala Kennedy/Kathleen MacInnes. Should be good!

[johncorrigan]

Thanks GT!

There's a load of live shows coming from Rad Scot next week and the week after Tue/Thu/Fri nights from the Pacific Quay foyer. Next week for me is Session A9/The Gorgeous Colours/Naomi Bedford/Nuala Kennedy/Kathleen MacInnes. Should be good!

I really like Kathleen MacInnes.

[Paul Sherratt]

>>... The Gorgeous Colours/Naomi Bedford/Nuala Kennedy/Kathleen MacInnes. Should be good!

But who's taking the dog for a walk ?

[johncorrigan]

Imperial Tiger Orchestra are MA's guests tonight.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019765w

I'm looking forward to hearing the Harris/Prine song from the new Tribute record to Guy Clark - I've heard two or three great tracks from the record over the last couple of weeks - Guy Clark has some very fine songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZVsuaRkGfQ

I heard a great version of Homegrown Tomatoes done by Ray Wylie Hubbard from the Clark tribute last weekend. Here's a different one by RWH - spoiler alert Global - this could be construed by certain folks as constituting Country.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuppgBKo0a4&feature=related

[Globaltruth]

20/1/12 Show

Overall a really good show.

Almost any show that starts and finished with Martyn Bennett is bound to be excellent. I wonder if Radio Scotland has ever done, or plans to do, a whole programme on him and his family?

Then the Imperial Tigers.

As I've said before...there is something going on in Switzerland. Probably not a sufficiently exotic destination to send Dr. Lucy and her intrepid band (of 1 I think)...but definitely worthy of more investigation.
Are the Imperials just a band of earnest young musicians painstakingly recreating the true sound of Ethiopia? If so this would have sounded like an exercise in ethnomusicography - well, their performance gave the lie to that. They have effortlessly captured the true sound, and I look forward to hearing recordings of them jamming with some of the greats still extant (you know I mean Alemu Aga...) The interview was intriguing - they have a story to tell, and came across well. Less is sometimes more with the interviews.

I'll skip over my criticisms (in a Fotherington-Thomas sort of way) and focus on the positives -



I really liked the male Fado. I'll explore that particular album a bit further, and had never heard a male version before - even when in Lisbon.
I was always under the mistaken impression it was solely the domain of women.

The Emmylou Harris/John Prine track also worked well (Note to PS: this kind of thing is allowed on Wo3, just not on twitter )

A big thanks to Oilrig for bringing it to our ears.

[Paul Sherratt]

Darn it Global, is you sure Miss Emmylou is allowed 'round here ?

http://www.westernclippings.com/images/treasures/wt_dean_harris_jeffreys375.jpg

Btw I'm still not at all sure about this twitter business despite fortuitously getting that tremendous Etta track passed on
to those 35,000 people yesterday via that Mr Steel.

[Globaltruth]

Well Paul I'm not sure what you're trying to get out of Twitter?
Lots of followers? Information? Entertainment? Something else?
Once you know let me know.

Just off to listen to some Jimmy Rogers...Or is it Rizzle Kicks?

[johncorrigan]

As I've said before...there is something going on in Switzerland. Probably not a sufficiently exotic destination to send Dr. Lucy and her intrepid band (of 1 I think)...but definitely worthy of more investigation.

That intrepid young chap with his alpenhorn Mr AK was there for the Music Planet I seem to recall, Global, and much to his surprise he liked it.....and Kershaw even squeezed in a bit of the deZuriks in the process though I recall not Chemirocha.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y6lt6

[Lateralthinking1]

That Mariana Da Cruz cd is another that is Swiss produced. She is a Paulista with Bahian roots. The producer is called Ane H. Together apparently.

The band claim to merge Brazilian music, Electro, Afro Beat, Breakbeats, Ethiopian Grooves, Kuduro and other forms of dance music. Well, they manage this reasonably well on the track "Ethiopia" but it would be better described as crisp and as catchy as hell. I really like it for what it is.

Sad then that for every subtlety in the mix, and there is quite a bit, there is also a leaning towards the football chant. Just don't download the clip of them encouraging a crowd at the Montreux Jazz Festival to sing a Rod Stewart song. It was definitely not a good move on their part.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNZo4yIBXfg

[Paul Sherratt]

>>deZuriks

If I remember correctly I think it was Bergen's legendary Hugo, one-time scribe at the R3 parish notice board, who first supplied that particular DJ with some of those glorious yodelers' recordings.

[Paul Sherratt]

>> I'm not sure what you're trying to get out of Twitter?

Global,
Fame, fortune, celebrity - anything really that will feed a premier league narcissistic personality disorder ...

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Actually for me information from people and places where previously I've been to disorganised or busy to be able to keep up with.
Eg tours, exhibitions and so on. The ' something else ' would be a continuation and expansion of my now very long-term hobby of getting barely heard but wonderful artists, a little more awareness.
(The folk in this quiet corner are of course amongst the world's music super-rich, whereas ... )


I'll feel much better about being a twit when I'm confident that messages sent actually get received !!!!


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[Globaltruth]

>> I'm not sure what you're trying to get out of Twitter?

Global,
Fame, fortune, celebrity - anything really that will feed a premier league narcissistic personality disorder ...

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Actually for me information from people and places where previously I've been to disorganised or busy to be able to keep up with.
Eg tours, exhibitions and so on. The ' something else ' would be a continuation and expansion of my now very long-term hobby of getting barely heard but wonderful artists, a little more awareness.
(The folk in this quiet corner are of course amongst the world's music super-rich, whereas ... )


I'll feel much better about being a twit when I'm confident that messages sent actually get received !!!!


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Well you're going on the right lines then, although if you post to the hashtags for radio shows whilst they are actually broadcasting rather than an individual you will get more people seeing what you've said.
And hopefully listening to the great music you post.
Especially true on Radio 4, not so much on Radio 3. (could perhaps draw some demographic conclusions...)
you'll find u get lots more followers.
Whether you want them or not.
then you'll quickly find the block option...

I'm quite keen on the #latejunction hashtag which is a bit like a Tweeting version of this place but without the doughty stalwarts, blow-ins and invisible guests (or is it?) In fact even less tweets go on there than posts on here...

Now as to:




I'm not sure how to help with this possible send/receive prob. I'm not sure it is a problem. From what I can see you are just using the Twitter app in a browser so there shouldn't be a prob. (As ever with tech, there are a myriad options - stuff like Tweetdeck et al)

I have had 9 tweets from you since the 19th Jan. Does that help?


O crikey, we'd better get back to the music or FF will be withdrawing my licence....
so (so irritating the use of 'so' nowadays)
spotify:track:1v8FEfYamMuzVXOqtQcSTQ
takes us nicely to...
spotify:track:2ByWHZNzM5Ct8yukaSOkv6

and a quick plug for today's Desert Island Discs with Vikram Seth who showed an impressive breadth of musical enthusiasm and knowledge, including an amazing track, made in 1942 by the BBC, featuring the poignant liquid warblings of a nightingale as bombers flew overhead. You can hear it here and read the back-story...

http://www.retronaut.co/2010/09/nightingales-and-bombers/

A complete story in just those few seconds..

[johncorrigan]

And hopefully listening to the great music you post.

Talking of which, Paul, have you been cavorting again with that Ms Matthews - she played Slim Harpo's 'Tip on In' this morning - nothing to do with you by any chance? Marvellous Sunday a.m. listening.

[Globaltruth]

Slim Harpo's 'Tip on In'

another tip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKqGlAkd6CM

[johncorrigan]

another tip...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKqGlAkd6CM

Ma kinda tipple, G!