My partner in crime is, as I’m sure you know, away at the moment besporting herself on sunny beaches on a beautiful sub-tropical island. I’m not, I’m stuck in the hills in the rain and murk ( as usual) with only a few straggly sheep and rustics for company. So I thought I’d take [...]
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The metaphorical cat is away, so…..
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Booze, China, Joyside, Punk on May 19, 2012 | 20 Comments »
Guide on Nominating and Donding for the Marconium
Posted in Readers Recommend, Uncategorized on May 18, 2012 | 24 Comments »
Some weeks ago on the main blog there was a discussion about how confusing the nominating and donding process can be for newcomers to RR. We discussed some of the techniques used and I volunteered to put together something in draft for further review here and to see if Marconius might have room for a [...]
‘it don’t mean a thing if it don’t got the go-go swing’ – Chuck Brown (1936 – 2012)
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Two in the same day and although not as well known as Donna, Chuck Brown has been hugely influential helping to create ‘go-go’ a variant of funk that has been popular in the Washington DC area for over 30 years. Starting in the early 70′s as the leader of The Soul Searchers giving us classics [...]
Celestial Dinner with Donna
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17, 2012 | 7 Comments »
This might not have been her best known or most innovative track, but it was the first time that I remember hearing Donna Summer’s music – and it struck a chord with my teenage self. It seems quite appropriate to me, as I can imagine her rejoicing in the opportunity to join that ghostly dinner [...]
Result !
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9, 2012 | 4 Comments »
The results are in for last week’s “Battle of the sexes”. Unfortunately there seems to have been some kind of error. Sakura won by 16 votes to 9 ! I’m not sure how this happened, I suspect vote rigging, possibly postal voting fraud or multiple clicking. I am at a loss as to how people [...]
Zalamanda Goes For A Walk
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8, 2012 | 2 Comments »
For those of you (maybe it was only me!) who may not have noticed that Zalamanda has a blog and has been posting updates on how she has been tramping all over the place in preparation fora 20k walk on Saturday at Goodwood in Sussex. Not only will she be getting fresh air and exercise, [...]
Tunes Of The Month – April
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2012, April, TOTM on May 3, 2012 | 4 Comments »
M.Ward, Great Lake Swimmers, Maps & Atlases, Cowboy Junkies, Black Mountain, Moonface & Sinai, Unsane, Killing Joke, Pinkunoizu, Yann Tiersen, oOoOO & Butterclock, Chromatics, New Build, Mirroring, Bersarin Quartett.
‘Spill Challenge, anyone?
Posted in Uncategorized on May 1, 2012 | 39 Comments »
Tuesday night and all that… All of us have discovered some wonderful music both here and on the mothership. This week’s challenge couldn’t be simpler, or harder: What’s your favourite RR/’Spill discovery? This is probably one of those where it’s best to go with the first thing that comes to mind, so here’s mine… I [...]
Bye For Now ! ! ! Ja Mata Ne ! ! !
Posted in Uncategorized on May 1, 2012 | 27 Comments »
I am going home for the month of May! ! ! So I will not be around for a while. But I will be back in summer to bother you all again some more ! ! ! My home Island is Miyakojima which is the largest Island in the Miyako Group of Islands which is between Taiwan and [...]
My 50th feat. Rocking Mitch Live At Leeds
Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2012 | 7 Comments »
I’ve been e-mailing RR people and using Facebook, but just in case I’ve missed anyone, here’s a party invitation ! It would be lovely to have some RR mates there, though I appreciate most of you are a distance from Leeds. If you can’t make the picture above big enough to read it, and want [...]
Updated dropbox: Now let someone view without a download
Posted in Housekeeping, Technology, Uncategorized on April 28, 2012 | 1 Comment »
A Dropbox update makes it easier to share direct links to files inside your Dropbox folders without using your Public folder. The new system allows you to “Get Link” by right clicking on any file or folder in Dropbox. Send the link so the recipient can view the photo, watch a video or read a [...]
Spam……
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2012 | 5 Comments »
It’s happened again I’m afraid, so some of you will be getting/will have got phishing e-mails purporting to be from me. Apologies to all & as far as Yahoo Mail is concerned, in the words of UB40 ‘If it happens again I’m leaving’.
Trouble Ahead? Trouble Behind!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 26, 2012 | 15 Comments »
For reasons I won’t explain here, my series of posts following the dates of the Grateful Dead’s 1972 European tour has ended on this site. For any of you wishing to continue my pseudo-historical journey, the remaining dates will be remembered HERE, starting today. All are very welcome. There will be something new there (ir)regularly [...]
He Said – She Said ~ The Battle Of The Sexes – Mr P and Ms S go head to head ! ! !
Posted in Uncategorized, World, tagged Chatmonchy, He said - She said, Laughin' Nose, Ling Tosite Sigur, The Blue Hearts, The Monsters-, YUI on April 25, 2012 | 29 Comments »
She Says: I am going home for most of the month of May so this will be our last post of a while but before we take our break we are going to have a battle of the sexes. Which one of us has the best taste in Asian Music ? ? ? And we [...]
Coming Soon – The He Said – She Said – Battle Of The Sexes ! ! !
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Hi everyone ! ! ! This Thursday Mr P and I are finally going to resolve who has the best taste in Japanese Music ! ! ! To celebrate the end of our first joint series, we are going to have a special edition of He Said – She Said where we will each present [...]
Mr Play In A Day
Posted in Uncategorized on April 20, 2012 | 7 Comments »
As the tributes deservedly pour in on the sad loss of Levon Helm, the departure of another great figure was announced: that of Bert Weedon. I don’t know if he’s still that influential but, for my generation of budding guitarists, his book, Play In A Day, was the manual for learning how to become a Rock’n’Roll [...]
He Said ~ She Said – We Speak Engrish ! ! !
Posted in Uncategorized, World, tagged Beat Crusaders, IN-HI, Indian Hi, J-Rock, Jun Togawa, Kegawa No Maries, Kenji Ueda, Kenzi and the Trips, Miwa, Scandal, Scandal Japanese band on April 19, 2012 | 15 Comments »
♪ ♫ ♪ She Says: Japanese borrows words from everywhere ! ! ! We have stolen words from Chinese, Portuguese and of course English and made them part of our language. We also learn English at school, so of course we can not resit showing of our English skills in our songs. Putting some [...]
Oooooh, I’m excited!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2012 | 12 Comments »
I just heard, through a friend on Facebook, that Paul Buchanan (of The Blue Nile) is about to release a solo album. I don’t know when I was last this excited about a new album release… Here’s a sneak preview of the title track.
Spill Challenge no. 34872394 – If it ain’t broke?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2012 | 36 Comments »
Afternoon all! Has anyone already nabbed this week’s slot? I do hope not. (And if they have, sorry…) And I hope this isn’t a question anyone’s already asked. It might well be… Anyway, yesterday I was listening to various tracks from Kate Bush’s “Director’s Cut” album, in which she overhauled material from two previous albums, [...]
New Frida!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged frida hyvonen, singer-songwriters, Swedish on April 16, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I discovered Swedish songstress Frida Hyvonen thanks to the Festive ‘Spill in 2009, and have been just-this-side-of-a-restraining-order obsessed since. She’s finally back after a long hiatus with an unlikely 80s-disco sound (wait! come back!). This is disco where hunters are shooting at bears in the forest in the dark depths of a Scandinavian winter. It’s [...]
He Said – She Said ~ Single Girls
Posted in Uncategorized, World, tagged Anna Tsuchiya, Inomoto, J-Rock, Japanese Girl Rockers, Jun Togawa, Kimura Kaela, superfly, YUI on April 11, 2012 | 16 Comments »
She Says: In this post we want to share some of the great things that Japanese women are doing in the music industry. This time we are concentrating on solo artists and we hope to show you some of the variety and creativity of Japanese women in what is still a male dominated industry. He Says: I suppose [...]
Rule Britannia…?…
Posted in Uncategorized on April 10, 2012 | 54 Comments »
A rare visit from me, with apologies to anyone planning on posting A Challenge this evening. Little’Un’s class at school is doing a project on all their different nationalities, and GHE and SV80 were a great help to me in getting a mix of Balkan/Afghan/ex Soviet pop together. Now Teacher has told me they’re going [...]
New The Heartbreaks!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 10, 2012 | 14 Comments »
I never really listen to the radio. Dunno why – I just don’t tend to. But the other morning, I happened to put 6Music on as I was doing the washing up and Shaun Keaveney played this chirpy little indie-pop song from Morecambe’s The Heartbreaks. My ears pricked up. I think it may be my [...]
How I discovered – ABBA
Posted in Uncategorized on April 8, 2012 | 53 Comments »
In 2001, when I was 14 years old my life changed for ever . . . . . I discovered ABBA ! ! !
Stereopony in the USA
Posted in Totty, Uncategorized, tagged J-Rock, stereopony on April 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Hi Everyone ! ! ! Stereopony are in the USA at the moment ! ! ! They played at the Sakura Con festival in Seattle on Friday and the concert was streamed live on Nico Nico If any Spillers are around the west coast you can see them here: ♪ ♫ ♪ 10 [...]
