The Ancients 2 supports any occasion, be it solemn (lovemaking, funeral), or unfortunate (stranded on a desert island/dateless night). The few times I tried to write this album up I hesitated. Street Funk was such a jam I just wanted to get down to it, revel in it and not have to think about it. [...]
Archive for the ‘yeah!!!’ Category
The Ancients 2/White Woods, Bellplay (Sensory Projects)
December 29, 2010
sails of oblivion
August 23, 2009
Did not attend for all (even most) of this show. What could be worse than spending a day at the Corner, regardless of the entertainment on offer? So only saw the last three acts, Brian Hooper who is not terrible and all the more terrible for that i.e. he is a character in a film, [...]
The Unth!nkables Untitled (Doublethink)
February 28, 2009
Certainly the names of Roger Grierson and Phil Judd are two you would tend never to have expected to see in the same place and the same time, though both men first came to prominence in the mid (for Judd) to late (for Grierson) 1970s, as members of Split Enz and the Thought Criminals respectively. [...]
Todd Rundgren, Arena (Cooking Vinyl)
February 13, 2009
You may recall the absurd joke a journalist for The Australian played on… who? … a few years ago by sending extracts from Patrick White books to publishers who (a) did not recognise them as White and (b) rejected the work in various ways. What this was supposed to prove is anyone’s guess – like [...]
Peter Escott, Slowcoach (No label) Randy Newman, Harps and Angels (Nonesuch)
September 6, 2008
Men playing pianos in pop/rock have to deal with the fact that the piano is never, in anyone’s language or conception, a cock rock instrument. (They may like this aspect of it, but they still have to deal with it). The man playing the piano cannot pretend, in the way that one hundred billion (at last count) [...]
Lurid Yellow Mist feat. Dave Graney & Clare Moore, We Wuz Curious (Illustrious Artists/Cockaigne)
July 16, 2008
Preamble: I recently had the audacity to take this grocery shopping with me on a Sunday when I had a bad headache. Not the smartest move. Whole excursion was doomed from the start. First the cart wouldn’t push properly. It seemed one of the wheels was bunk. Felt like I was pushing a mule upstairs. [...]
