When Cameron was in Egypt’s land…let my Cameron goooooo seriously Alan Ruck was great as Connor Roy in “Succession” as well…
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I don’t like any of the BEE film adaptations and I’m a big BEE fan generally. In fact, I’d add the film version of American Psycho to this thread.
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Fun fact - the Kirsty listed label is Kirsty Hawkshaw of Opus III (probably common knowledge tbf). Interesting that they went under the Chameleon moniker to release a track called “Links” but then went under the alias of Link to release further DnnB explorations.
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They’re remaking it with Austin Butler, i believe? I think he’s a good choice.
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that was around the time they remixed the Beloved I think?
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Maybe for another thread but as mentioned
Run DMC & Beasite Boys tour advert
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUYxd7sEeHJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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And there’s nothing wrong with that at all.
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Isn’t he Eddie ( mod yoda) Pilars disciple
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You might not like their music or their shoes or whatever but they seem to understand the definition of modernism better than sixties throwbacks like Freeman Weller etc
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This will conclude my reevaluation of Seaford Mods.
I have studiously avoided them up until recently and can’t say I like their music very much but have seen a few interviews/videos recently and am now even looking at getting a ticket for their brighton gig next month.
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They’ve done a few tracks where the music has been alright but then his vocals come in and for me it’s just so on the nose it instantly turns me off. I dunno it seems so try hard…
Another thing that they have in common with MOD is they never moved on. They haven’t changed stylistically in 15 years
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Lyrically I think they’ve said a lot that’s relevant to real people’s lives in the last 15 years.
Not a particular fan musically but the lyrical themes/the work they did with Cold War Steve etc says a lot more about the state of the uk than most do
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There’s listening bars and then there’s this stuff, which I confess I just don’t really get. Generally I find people talking to an audience in hushed tones about records pretty boring … everyone remember to take your shoes off and listen in reverential silence … and stroke yer chin to some deeep jazzzzz. Surely the temptation must be to break wind violently during a quiet passage, just for the LOLZ.
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I’d love to hear the system, playing something I’m familiar with. Confess I quite liked the Charlie Dark one.
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On the other end of this, you’ve got places like the “hi-fi cafe” I visited yesterday which was anything but…
Very expensive looking but ultimately very bad speakers, a record wall lifted wholesale out of Urban Outfitters (the obligatory copy of Rumours, that Tyler the Creator LP), seven euro coffee and some stale matcha cookies or stodgy banana bread - all to be enjoyed on a tiny steel stool whilst the queue (!) that has formed outside stares at you through the window. In fairness the DJ they had in was playing some nice stuff although obviously you couldn’t really hear it because why would you want that?
Won’t be long surely until the TikTokification of jazz kissa/listening bar culture leads to the big brands getting involved - Starbucks Selectors / Costa Crate Diggers anyone?
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It’s probably already happened. Never been to one but from what I have seen/read the Japanese jazz kissa is very different to these places popping up in the UK which are basically bars with an expensive sound system. Jazz kissa are labours of love, personally owned and sometimes even attached to someone’s house, usually really small places, with quite unique audio gear. That isn’t ever going to be deliverable in our country where business rates, rents, staffing costs force you to be commercial to pay the bills. Which is fair enough.
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there’s often a fine line between pretentious and informative musical seminars. eg I attended a talk here about the current state of flamenco the other week which was interesting in so far as it reflected the raging debate between trad purists and experimentalists. But then in the second part some musicians played something completely unlistenable and you were torn between respecting the ambition but disliking the finished product. I guess it depends on how ‘worthy’ it all is. I’ve been to enough listening sessions to feel a bit put off by the self-importance and I think it’s a shame that people over-intellectualise about these things
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I hear you. Im sure everyone has good intentions, but it gives off a depressing commodified look.
needs more squatjuice for sure.
as an aside, the guy that runs the label touch, Jon Wozencroft was (is?) a tutor at the RCA and used to do these really amazing sound lectures where he’d string together lots of different tracks and ideas over a few hours. I went to one years ago and it was really really special. so I’m not knocking the format, when done well.
just found this – Jon Wozencroft’s Sound Seminars | Touch
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