The exit of Waxy Maxy

[Martin Reynolds]

Thanks Lat! Anybody noticed you can play music with Google's latest doodle?!

[Lateralthinking1]

Yes, they say it would have been Les Paul's birthday. 96? You will get a tune out of it. When I tried it sounded like a mixture of The Fall and Harrison Birtwistle but with the merits of neither.

[Globaltruth]

Andy Kershaw is trailed as being on at Musicport this year. I'll maybe start a Musicport thread nearer the time - it's not on till 4-6 Nov.

(I'm sure Max won't mind his thread being interrupted for this announcement)


Festival line-up:
HUGH MASEKELA (South Africa)
MARI BOINE (Norway)
MERCEDES PEON (Galicia)
AMSTERDAM KLEZMER BAND (Netherlands)
ANDY KERSHAW
HUONG THANH (Vietnam)
CIGDEN ASLAN (Greece)
IAIN MATTHEWS
JUSTIN VALI (Madagascar)
KRAR COLLECTIVE (Ethiopia)
DELIREALITY (pyrotechnic extravaganza)
MARY COUGHLAN (Ireland)
ASERE (Cuba)
CLAUDIA AURORA (Portugal)
BOY WITH TAPE ON HIS FACE (New Zealand)
NAMGYAL LHAMO (Tibet)
GEOFF BERNER (Canada)
DEGLULEN (The Gambia)
DANTO AYA & TIM O'CONNOR BAND (Libya/Ireland)
JONNY KEARNEY & LUCY FARRELL
RANDOLPH MATTHEWS & BYRON JOHNSTON
TASHI LHUNPO MONKS (Tibet)
KIM RICHEY (USA)
CLOUDBASE
FLYING CHILLI BEATS
THE LEANO
SOZNAK
TRUMPETS OF DEATH
FRAN SMITH
WHISKEY DOGS
BROKEN GROUND
THIRD POLICEMAN - with Ergo Phizmiz

http://www.musicportfestival.com/

[Lateralthinking1]

This is very interesting. I have never been to Musicport. Does anyone know what it is like - ie festivals it could be compared to, if any?

[Lateralthinking1]

....oh, it's Brid too. N Yorkshire (ish) - even better - I was thinking it was Workington way.

[Globaltruth]

This is very interesting. I have never been to Musicport. Does anyone know what it is like - ie festivals it could be compared to, if any?

it's different, in a good way.

I go regularly, and so does/did JoeGBradford. And so did Max R. one year.

And so did that Jamaican female poet who was on the Verb the other night - my wife spent quite a while chatting to her in the Green Room at MusicPort.

I have quite a few special memories from there - Andy Cutting at an impromptu Sun. morning jam. Bumping into Baluji Shrivastav (quite literally) on a rain-soaked windswept promenade. the smile on his face.

Mitch Benn being surprisingly and uproariously funny - we went by mistake then went back again,
young folk groupies hanging around for a glimpse of Jim Moray (who'd a thought of such a thing)....Jim & Lynette Eldon doing almost anything. A host more.

Maybe Joe can add a few if he reads this.

more l8r as they say in the vernacular....

[johncorrigan]

Absolutely loved the two Cordelia's Dad tracks in the first hour of last night's LJ. That version of 'Katie Cruel' was just terrific. As excellent and different in its own way as the Karen Dalton version. Think I'll go search out some more.

By the way, am I the only person around here who didn't know you could go here?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F7497569

[Globaltruth]

By the way, am I the only person around here who didn't know you could go here?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F7497569

Maybe - however these old boards have a habit of dissolving into a cloud of dusty bytes, illuminated in a shaft of dying sunlight never to be seen again...

It was the couplding of Katie Cruel with King Tubby that did it for me. Think he listens to our stuff a bit too much maybe

[johncorrigan]

It was the couplding of Katie Cruel with King Tubby that did it for me. Think he listens to our stuff a bit too much maybe

Yep - I loved that coupling too Global.

[Globaltruth]

Absolutely loved the two Cordelia's Dad tracks in the first hour of last night's LJ. That version of 'Katie Cruel' was just terrific. As excellent and different in its own way as the Karen Dalton version. Think I'll go search out some more.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F7497569

We're agreeing too violently - but I did also love the Cordelia's Dad tracks; when music starts defying/transcending genres is often when it is at it's best...I can hear so many different layers, so much history, makes me want to go to Northampton. Home of Alan Moore and these boys. Shome mishtake shurely?

[johncorrigan]

We're agreeing too violently - Home of Alan Moore and these boys.

I put these two statements of yours together and came up with a couple of my old faves Global! ( I'm heading off piste againnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.........)

http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n21/n108347.jpg

[Lateralthinking1]

JC, You have discovered the poster I submitted to Saatchi and Saatchi. It is to promote the Coalition at the next election. Oddly, to date I have had no reply - Lat.

[Globaltruth]

Sonic Tonic

That's what Max is aiming for - or did he deliver a pound of pottage? Personally I think those were 3 good shows, in fact maybe some of the best.

Anyone out there who just couldn't be bothered to switch it off?

[Paul Sherratt]

Any top tweets for tonight, GT ?

[Paul Sherratt]

That big lad, 2nd in, RM Hubbert, will play for food, if anyone's interested