Jeff Elrod, Edited by Tom Hunt with Róisín McQueirns, Design and production by Matt Watkins, Photography by Peter Mallet, and Todd White, Print by Lecturis, Eindhoven, Published by Simon Lee Gallery, London, 2014 [Exhibition: London October 15 – November 23, 2013] [© Jeff Elrod]
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Album Review: Watkins Family Hour - Vol. II
With nine guests spread across 11 covers, Watkins Family Hour’s Vol. II spins like a various-artists release.
The inaccurately titled third LP from the brother-sister duo Sean and Sara Watkins (who play together in Nickel Creek; Sara is also a member of I’m with Her) is afraid of commitment. It instead swerves across the musical landscape, doing hit-and-run jobs that sometimes work - Fiona Apple on the hard country of “(Remember Me) I’m the One Who Loves You” and sometimes don’t - Madison Cunningham on Elliott Smith’s esoteric “Pitseleh.”
Jackson Browne, Benmont Tench, Willie Watson and Gaby Moreno are among the other contributors. The result is a ramshackle release ripe for song picking, but not repeat front-to-back spins.
Grade card: Watkins Family Hour - Vol. II - C
1/10/22
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It's not easy being green
WICKED
Birmingham Hippodrome, Wednesday 6th March, 2024
One of the most successful musicals of all time is on the road again and it’s a real treat to be able to catch it during its stay at Birmingham’s Hippodrome. If you’ve seen it before, you’ll recall the emotional highs and lows of the story, and the green-faced one belting out ‘Defying Gravity’, but perhaps like me you’ll be reminded just…
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list of song suggestions I've received so far:
BOLAS:
Na na na- my chemical romance
C'mon- Panic at the disco and Fun
Blacklight- one piece
Wolf within- Jonathan young
Eat your friends - jhariah
Heathens - Twenty one pilots
Try again- monochromenace
Wrecking ball - mother mother
2econd 2night 2eer - will wood
Break my mind-DAgames
6up 5oh cop out - will wood and the tapeworms
Red red red- Tom Rosenthal
What I've done - Linkin park
This is war - 30 seconds to mars
Le train du soir- Raphael and pomme
White happy - maretu
Join us and die - the guy who didn't like musicals
Shia labuef live - rob cantor
Where is your rider- the oh hellos
Cellbit:
Feast or famine- starkid (cellbit)
Jaiden:
Kara Kara no Kara - kikuo ft matsune Miku
Slime:
Rotting - sushi soucy
GREEN GAY NINJAS:
Darkness before the dawn - Caleb hyles
The riddle - Scarlet Pimpernel
We don't talk about Bruno but cursed - Johnathan young
TEAM SOULFIRE:
Come as you are - Nirvana
Killer in the mirror - set it off
Blood upon the snow - hozier
Voluez-vous - Abba
Orchids- gladd Beach
Genesis - ghost
River from the sky - the weepies
Take up your spade - Sara Watkins
The villain I appear to be- Connor spiotto
Bbh:
Voices in my head- falling in reverse
GENERAL/all:
Children of the night- Jonathan young
Some nights- fun (uncategorized
God of greed- Jonathan young
Your special!- Dan Bull
Your new home - gooseworx
Get your gun - dear hunter
I see fire - Jonathan young
Old King Cole - the mechanisms
Hell fire - the mechanisms
Skin and bone- the mechanisms
Red signal - the mechanisms
I'm sorry all my songs alarmingly begin with a bang- Daniel kendall
Dancing around in circles till my little feet fall off - spell casting
Knife knife knife - kikuo
Over and over - rio romeo
Tictoc - mother mother
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Desi Arnaz, Benedict of Nursia, Moe Berg, Ed Bournemann, Dale Bozzio, Larry Carlton, Karen Carpenter, John Cowsill, Daniel Craig, John Cullum, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Maxwell Street, Jimmy Davis, Becky G, Rory Gallagher, John Gardner, Mikhail Gorbachev, Laird Hamilton, Sam Houston, Bryce Dallas Howard, John Irving, Jennifer Jones, Léon Jongen, Jon Bon Jovi, Orrin Keepnews, the 1933 film KING KONG, Papa Lightfoot, BarBara Luna, Madonna’s 1989 single “Like a Prayer,” Chris Martin, Gates McFadden, drummer-producer Tony Meehan (The Shadows), Method Man, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Lauraine Newman, Jay Osmond, Ethan Peck, Elvis Presley’s 1956 single “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” Luke Pritchard (The Kooks), Dottie Rambo, Red Saunders, Dennis Seaton (Musical Youth), Shostakovich’s 14th Symphony (1969), Bedřich Smetana, the 1995 musical SMOKY JOE’S CAFÉ, Ludovico Spontoni, the 1965 film SOUND OF MUSIC, composer-trumpeter Derek Watkins (James Bond films), Kurt Weill, Tom Wolfe, "Théo" Ysaÿe, and the creative provocateur, poet, and singer-songwriter Lou Reed. He was the principal songwriter for The Velvet Underground and his solo career spanned 5 decades.
Velvet Underground were not commercially successful but are now regarded as one of the most influential bands in the history of rock. Brian Eno said that everyone who heard the first VU album wanted to start a band. Reed had a deadpan voice that, for me, required forgiveness as singers go (though he did step up on occasion, particularly when he sung with The Blind Boys on THE RAVEN album). Eventually I connected with his noir fiction, transgressive “eyewitness reporting” lyrics and songcraft. He neither approved or disapproved of the subjects he sang about and, in the end, he just wanted to write catchy rock’n’roll. Over the years I’ve performed at least 6 Reed/VU songs—recording 2: “What Goes On” and “Sunday Morning,” on which I was joined by members of The Badlees (who did a splendid job in one afternoon). Reed himself commended our cover and promoted it on his website in the mid-90s. HB and RIP Lou.
#loureed #velvetunderground #sundaymorning #singersongwriter #bretalexander #thebadlees #blindboysofalabama #raven #edgarallenpoe #noirfiction #poet #guitarist #eyewitnessreport #johnnyjblair #singeratlarge #birthday
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