Here’s another adjacent take on this:
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Really nice one by @Hierbas up on TP.
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I feel quite bad for Robbie Williams now
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I disliked him then, I dislike him now.
As Sean Lock used to say “Put your shirt on, you’re not a builder”
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RW strikes me as someone who deep down knows he was indulged for a long time and could usually hide behind the persona. But irony is dead and now he has nowhere to hide. So anything of ‘substance’ won’t stand up because he’s an empty vessel, a product of therapy flailing around for new meaning. He needed to be savaged, for his own good.
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Dangers of bottomless digital consumption
Ultimately it’s overwhelming
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As someone who can get a bit overwhelmed at times, I think I’ve may have finally worked out why I like records and hate digital, you can never be overwhelmed by records (unless you have limitless cash).
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The story of Indeep
*used to love this version, which came out in 1990
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Not in my usual wheelhouse musically but all the better for it, lovely writing and a different approach to covering a pretty unique artist.
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Just got this as well ! Satie was a character.
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I had his ‘It Gets Me Home’ book to read but it got lost somewhere along the way… is the Satie one enjoyable or a slog?
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Here’s a small sample from the first part. YMMV but for me it’s that nice blend of historical and personal.
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It’s kind of in three parts so the bio bit is only about 90 pages and it chugs along nicely.
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“The most memorable mix I’ve ever heard Roy (Thode) do was that night. It was Tony Orlando’s ‘Don’t Let Go’ which is a very long record with a very long break. Over that break, Roy laid Stephanie Mills’s ‘Never Knew Love Like This Before’ in it’s entirety.”
This i’d love to hear.
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(Including a photo of a guy who * might * be the often naked Vague-goer mentioned by @jolyon in the Nightclub People thread)
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It’s been thirty plus years but I reckon so!
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Perfectly sums a lot of things up. Digital exhaustion…
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This is great. A love letter to Downtempo, with a solid accompanying playlist
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