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Tunes Of The Month – March
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2012, March, TOTM on April 5, 2012 | 14 Comments »
He Said ~ She Said – Cherry Blossoms Time ! ! !
Posted in Uncategorized on April 4, 2012 | 20 Comments »
She Says: Just about now the Cherry blossoms are blooming over most of Japan ! ! ! Sakura as Cherry Blossoms are called in Japanese, are really important in Japanese culture. They represent new beginnings, re-birth, the arrival of spring, optimism and from a Buddhist point of view the short but beautiful life they have, represent the temporary nature of [...]
Trinidad & Tobago
Posted in Uncategorized on April 4, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Hello all! I’ve finally worked out how to log in to WordPress. I did a piece on Trinidad & Tobago for the Guardian today. I’ve been meaning to write this one for a while because, even though it’s not somewhere that’s going to attract a lot of comments (or possibly any comments), it’s a country [...]
How Odd !
Posted in Uncategorized on April 4, 2012 | 62 Comments »
A Spill Challenge production – Stardate -310741.48663605546 Hello ! As no one else has posted a challenge this week I thought I’d contact my old friends the aliens and see if they had any ideas. Well they did ! Inspired by browsing through the Allan Lomax archive where they discovered the delights of songs like [...]
dodgy e-mail
Posted in Uncategorized on April 3, 2012 | 34 Comments »
WARNING WARNING DsD and Tin have had messages from the shanewantsbeer e-mail I use on the ‘spill this morning 3/4/2012 – they are not sent from me – be warned! get rid of them and don’t open.
APRIL FOOLISHNESS
Posted in 1980s, Randomness, Uncategorized on April 1, 2012 | 24 Comments »
This isn’t actually about April Fools, I wouldn’t participate in any of that nonsense. More of a coincidence that the other day I was reminiscing about some of the unsubstatiated tales I’d heard when I was a youngster about the crazy antics of these pop stars. These days there are no inaccurate stories circulating about [...]
Bad News Americana!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Earl Scruggs….yesterday….gone to Pickin’ Paradise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMTVV5Lwaw
Good News Americana!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Alan (Son of John) Lomax’ entire field-recordings back catalogue now made freely available on the web! http://research.culturalequity.org/home-audio.jsp What’s your favourite?
He Said ~ She Said – Japanese Lock Chicks ! ! !
Posted in Indie, Punk, Rock, Totty, Uncategorized, World, tagged Akiakane, GO!GO!7188, He said - She said, J-Rock, Japanesae Rock, Japanese girl rock bands, Japanese Rock Chicks, Jun Togawa, Moe Suzuki, Primitive Water, Red Bacteria Vacuum, rock chicks, Softball band, Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re on March 28, 2012 | 18 Comments »
She Says: We have wanted to this post for a long time and now at last we can ! ! ! Japanese girls are very active in all genres of rock, much more I think than girls in the west. We want to show you some of the great things Japanese girls are doing these [...]
A little birdie tells us….
Posted in Randomness, Uncategorized on March 27, 2012 | 34 Comments »
RR veteran Blue Peter is 65 today! Or, as they say in the bingo halls, ”65.. Old age pension ..65″ Happy birthday BP. Oh, sorry, I SAID HAPPY BIRTHDAY BP
Popropriation
Posted in Uncategorized on March 26, 2012 | 28 Comments »
Adam & Joe used to have a great segment on their radio show called ‘Popropriation’ which involved listeners giving songs that they had appropriated and adapted to fit their everyday life or a particular situation. I did this twice today without thinking about it. I was making a fine lunch of B.L.T and chips and [...]
I Give Up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged inxs, Sananda Maitreya, terence trent d'arby on March 22, 2012 | 12 Comments »
Looked high, low, crashed the browser a few times, and still these were the best recordings i could find on the interwebs. Is it possible that’s all there is?
He Said – She Said – KAWAII ! ! !
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged He said - She said, J-Pop, kawaii on March 21, 2012 | 35 Comments »
She Says: Welcome to the wonderful world of Kawaii ! ! ! But what is Kawaii ? ? ? The word actually means something like cute or pretty. One of constant characteristics of Kawaii is the association with animals. Bunnies, puppies, kittens are most common, and you see them everywhere. As we look at some [...]
regrets? – only after i’ve had a few.
Posted in Readers Recommend, RR Playlists, Uncategorized on March 18, 2012 | 6 Comments »
1 Lion’s Teeth The Mountain Goats 2 Under The Stairs De Rosa 3 Dead Men’s Cigarettes I Am Kloot 4 Woodcat (Viva Voce remix) Tunng 5 Sorry About The Doom Slow Club 6 Junk Bones Dark Dark Dark 7 Les Regrets Les Discrets . . 1 Sunrise, Sunset Bright Eyes 2 With a Heavy Heart [...]
He Said – She Said Reader Poll Result – It’s Kawaii ! ! ! !
Posted in Uncategorized on March 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It was a really close vote between Kawaii and Rocker Chicks but Kawaii just won ! ! ! We are really looking forward to making the post and we are starting to write it now. Kawaii is a very misunderstood concept in the west and many Europeans and Americans feel uncomfortable with some of the imagery [...]
Sinéad does Dylan
Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2012 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been listening to a lot of Sinéad recently, partly because she’s got a (patchy) new album out and partly because I’ve had a stressful few weeks (college stuff mainly), and she’s always been a voice I turn to in times of difficulty. She understands, you see. Anyway, yesterday I came across this video of [...]
He Said – She Said Readers Poll – To Close To Call ! ! !
Posted in Uncategorized on March 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
♪ ♫ ♪ The He Said - She Said reader poll is tied at the moment. Kawaii and Rocker Girls each have exactly the the same number of votes ! ! ! Please try and vote in the next days if you have not voted yet, as we will decide on Saturday. Thank you [...]
The Sound of the Charts in… Russia
Posted in Uncategorized on March 14, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Anyone wanting to know what yer av’rage Russian’s been listening to since this should pop over to SV80‘s latest feature in the Guardian! (I’m posting here at his request – Blimpy, if you’re about maybe you could send a reminder of how to log in?) Cheers! (Or should [...]
March 11 – THANK YOU ! ! !
Posted in Uncategorized on March 11, 2012 | 37 Comments »
I just wanted to say thank you to everyone from the RR community and The Spill for all the support and encouragement you have given me personally during this year. Today of course, my thoughts and prayers are with the tens of thousands of people who lost loved ones and their homes and businesses. I [...]
Down At The Original Doctors
Posted in Uncategorized on March 9, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Mickey Jupp has written and played rock’n’roll and rhythm’n’blues around Southend and beyond since the 1960s. In the late 70s he was on the second Stiff records live tour, with Wreckless Eric, Jona Lewie, Rachel Sweet and Lene Lovich; and got to support Elvis Costello. This is his original of the song that Dr Feelgood [...]
Win Valuable Spill Points – Participate in the He Said – She Said Readers Poll ! ! !
Posted in Totty, Uncategorized, tagged Asian indie, Asian Punk, Asian rock, He said - She said, rocker chicks on March 9, 2012 | 10 Comments »
She Says: Asian women seem to be very much more active in the Music industry than in the west and they play, write, and produce music of all genres. Mr P and I would like to celebrate the contribution of Asian women in a He Said ~ She Said post (or maybe more than one). But there really [...]
How I discovered . . . . . . Jim Croce
Posted in 1970s, Folk, Musing, Randomness, Rock, Uncategorized, tagged Cover versions, Jim Croce, rock, singer songwriter, superfly on March 8, 2012 | 16 Comments »
I wanted to start a series of occasional posts about how I came to discover some different artists and this will be the first of the series. So this series will be about how I discovered some different English language artists and I tell the story by including tracks by the artists that lead me to [...]
Spill Challenge – A-Z of Musical Genres
Posted in Uncategorized on March 6, 2012 | 167 Comments »
Right then you ‘orrible lot. Musical genres. A cappella to Zydeco. There are very few rules – just start at A and follow each other in a vaguely alphabetical fashion all the way through to Z. If you’re stuck for ideas you can be as tanned genital as you like. Oh, and HAVE FUN.
Help needed….
Posted in Uncategorized on March 5, 2012 | 12 Comments »
Yesterday I saw a great gig by Spinvis, one of the very few Dutch artists I really like, closer of the set was his new single “Kom terug” (with a great refrain that translates as “Travel far, drink wine, think, laugh hard, dive deep, come back”). However, the synth riff that runs through the song [...]
Tunes Of The Month – February
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2012, Feb, TOTM on March 3, 2012 | 17 Comments »
Sinéad O’Connor, Barry Adamson, New Age Steppers, Phenomenal Handclap Band, Saltillo, Apollo 440, Sleigh Bells, A Place To Bury Strangers, Disappears, Shearwater, Peter Broderick, Soap&Skin, Hanne Hukkelberg & Erik Vister, Damien Jurado, Lambchop, Perfume Genius, Tindersticks
