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Anna Calvi
They wren't bad were they?! Intrigued by Band of Skulls too. Loved the MF AC song - no her voice isnt what it was even a few years ago, right at the start it sounded like she was swallowing it. Dont remember a fierce guitar break at the end …

Comment by wild_corgi September 2014 permalink
God bless the Union?
Hee: I know what you mean. And that's fair enough when the song (or the album it's from to put it in the wider context) is about sex, sexual desire, passion and pleasure. What bugged me about Miley Cyrus's sexed up act around Wrecki…

Comment by wild_corgi September 2014 permalink
God bless the Union?
Oh I'll bring him the bottle of brandy. I mean, finest whisky. I have the strange feeling he honestly didn't see it coming. Gordon Brown ... what can you say. The man used to be one of those history finals questions that wrote itself (&q…

Comment by wild_corgi September 2014 permalink
God bless the Union?
I like that map. Can we do one for the delusional Plaids/Welsh Nats? Or would it just be cottages on fire? BTW Salmond has just resigned as First Minister, and as leader of the Scots Nats. Didn't see that coming: I thought they'd have to…

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God bless the Union?
Otherwise known as Be Careful What You Wish For. I'd call Salmond's views on finances "voodoo economics" except that no self-respecting loa-fearing vodouist would spout that level of rubbish. Can't quite see Salmond reti…

Comment by wild_corgi September 2014 permalink
God bless the Union?
Agree with Sartori that Salmond is particularly pig ignorant when it comes to the realities of economics and money and finance. I'm stunned that his nonsense on stilts has gone down so well with the Scots who pride themselves on being canny wit…

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Anna Calvi
Good lord, her heels are almost as high as that - err, souvenir? prize? thingywotsit? Is it supposed to look like something you practise on with your sonic screwdriver?

Comment by wild_corgi September 2014 permalink
God bless the Union?
It's completely wierd to me that there's so little talk about this in London unless you're amongst Scots (especially ones who can't vote in this election) and other members of the Celtic fringe. My workplace is, umm, quite into p…

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Anna Calvi
Isn't it brilliant! It's so good to see a record nominated as it comes up to the end of the release/tour cycle - while it's been proven to have staying power. I'm still finding new things in it. I'm liking a lot of other…

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Invitations - working but max of 5 each
And me. Five left.

Comment by wild_corgi September 2014 permalink
RIP
Wasn't Freud dense about humans at times. Could he not get his head around the way in which absence and loss changes things more than presence? There everybody is, nibbling their funeral tea sarnies, uncomfortably aware they're inching clo…

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RIP
The rational subtext of Never Speak Ill About the Dead is because it says more about you than it does about them ... And I'd think she'd take those brutal things in her stride - epitome of tough old broad, Joan, - and throw them back wit…

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Royal Albert Hall - 18 Nov 2014
If I may geek out, too, perhaps Dietrich wouldn't have been a very good violinist. In all fairness to her, singing /acting was about her third choice of career. Personally I like to imagine hearing the air of another planet had she been abl…

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Anna Calvi
Well, that was possibly a bit cryptic, so apologies all round and let's try again. The news is/was that Anna has been booked as the support act for Morrissey on the GermanyBelgium/London/Ireland section (late November) of his arenas tour ... …

Comment by wild_corgi September 2014 permalink
Goldfrapp score Medea
Yes it was broadcast live from the National Theatre to cinemas, and no it didn't really feel like being in a theatre - at least, it didn't to me. ETA that's odd cos I've been to opera screenings in the very same theatre, and t…

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Royal Albert Hall - 18 Nov 2014
Or what the boys in the backroom would have! Actually ... now I think about it ... yeah I'd trade all that for Dietrich the Imperial Violinist of the Second Viennese School. Don't mind me, just geeking out, nothing to see here

Comment by wild_corgi September 2014 permalink
Anna Calvi
And new collaboration video/song with Marianne Faithfull - it's here Quite like it myself but not actually blown away yet. This could be the video itself mind you.

Comment by wild_corgi September 2014 permalink
Royal Albert Hall - 18 Nov 2014
Musical saw trivia (true) - early in her career Marlene Dietrich became a virtuouso on the musical saw after a wrist injury put paid to her aspirations to become a solo violinist. Alt Universe: Dietrich does not hurt her wrist, becomes a soloist, …

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RAAAAAAANTTTTTT!!!!
Isn't it an option in logic it's a tit malfunction? As in, she got new robotic ones and the chip has gone rogue leading to a SPANG!! moment? Hmm ... bug or feature ... bug ... or feature???

Comment by wild_corgi August 2014 permalink
Royal Albert Hall - 18 Nov 2014
Hmm .. ^^ in an ideal world rewak and Appy61's ideas could combine maybe?

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Royal Albert Hall - 18 Nov 2014
I honestly hadn't thought about them at the time of posting, rewak, but I could deffo make the time for a special Ten Minute Hate. Looking back I think I was trying to roll up into one neat but loathsome package two aspects of going to gigs t…

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Royal Albert Hall - 18 Nov 2014
In one of those "Yes Cinders, you SHALL go to the ball!!" moments, thanks to DC Baxter I will be there. Many thanks and phew. I'm noting the good feedback for stargreen, didn't know about them, will find out more. I do wonder…

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Royal Albert Hall - 18 Nov 2014
Oh well, long and boring story short, missed the presale totally, trying my luck with the general sale tomorrow. If that fails I'll be begging ... Can trade London sofa bed for ticket, know what I mean?

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Greenwich Music Time - 21 Aug 2014
I had family stuff on and had to resign myself to not going ... but as with many London gigs I've been to recently it's just as well, I would have started out in the wrong mood and ended up all Klaatu! Barada! Nikto! after the first song. …

Comment by wild_corgi August 2014 permalink
Royal Albert Hall - 18 Nov 2014
^True, but a lot of us don't actually use them as we have enough silicon-based stuff to waste our lives with/on ... Plus - I am sure I'm on the mailing list. But come to think of it - have I actually had any mail from that list in what p…

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Greenwich Music Time - 21 Aug 2014
Gnargh!!! and there was me having promised I'd leave tonight not tomorrow morning to get to the rellies not 10 mins earlier. Well jealous of you guys going and good luck with the tix keithw!

Comment by wild_corgi August 2014 permalink
Anna Calvi
Well hell yeah ... who wouldn't ... somewhere at the start of I'll Be Your Man, I believe. Meanwhile, in another corner of the woods, somebody more tech savvy did turn up, and Anna's set is now up for grabs here you might need to s…

Comment by wild_corgi August 2014 permalink
Anna Calvi
^ yeah I had to clasp my fingers over my eyes at that point because Not FAIR!!!! Portishead are another fave band I've never managed to get to see but being backstage to hear them - how jammy is that?? [/jealousy] Hope somebody is more tech s…

Comment by wild_corgi August 2014 permalink
Anna Calvi
Bump to add that tonight's AC concert at La Route du Rock will be streamed live at 19.20 CET. http://concert.arte.tv/fr/anna-calvi-la-route-du-rock CET is an hour ahead of UK time at the moment so in real money she's onstage at 18.20 /…

Comment by wild_corgi August 2014 permalink
Anna Calvi
I'm always looking forward to the next Marianne Faithfull record, even if they don't have Anna on them ... and now ... well. it's a really good trailer, that. Hope the rain holds off and the ground dries out for everybody going to…

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