Produced by The Delgados’ Paul Savage, who cheekily gets his name mentioned in the title, this debut album by The Phantom Band saw widespread critical acclaim, but has been a little sidelined in recent years. I’m sure it’s because its various members have gone on to different projects lately. What a fully- formed masterpiece though.Continue reading “Overlooked Classic: The Phantom Band- Checkmate Savage (2009)”
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From The List Archive: You Tell Me /Odetta Hartman
Lorna Irvine The List Live review: You Tell Me with Odetta Hartman, CCA, Glasgow, Sat 2 Feb,2019 Live review: You Tell Me with Odetta Hartman, CCA, Glasgow, Sat 2 Feb Moving and eccentric double bill of folk and Americana Share: Moving and eccentric double bill of folk and Americana Eccentric American musician Odetta Hartman, tonightContinue reading “From The List Archive: You Tell Me /Odetta Hartman”
RIP Bonnie Tyler
The Welsh singer songwriter, born Gaynor Hopkins, we found out this morning, has passed away at seventy five. She seemed like a sweetheart, really funny and vivacious, like your favourite auntie. Here’s her first hit single, ‘Lost In France’, recorded before the operation on her throat that left her with that trademark raspy voice. SheContinue reading “RIP Bonnie Tyler”
Mediaeval Baebes Are 30 Today!
Blessed be to my witchy sisters, the wonderful Mediaeval Baebes who turn thirty today. In celebration of this milestone, founding member Katharine Blake performed today on Boudicca’s Mound in Hampstead Heath. They’ve also just announced a Wynter Tour across England. Head to: http://www.mediaevalbaebes.com
Album Review: Camille Camille – Enchanted Sea
Belgian singer-songwriter Camille Willemart has an effortlessly beautiful voice, perfect for emulating chanson -era material, a la Francois Hardy. But it’s what she does with her arrangements that so intrigue. They feel eerie and detached, even as they are quiet and lovely. There’s a sense of the calm before the storm to Camille Camille. ‘J’aiContinue reading “Album Review: Camille Camille – Enchanted Sea”
Overlooked Classic: Lisa Germano- Lullaby For Liquid Pig
Multi-instrumentalist Lisa Germano could have been dismissed as another “whisper singer”, but for the fact she can really sing, write and play. She always mines the saddest, most traumatic parts of her soul and turns them into eerie beauty. Dark night of the soul art can often be self-indulgent or mawkish, but Germano deals inContinue reading “Overlooked Classic: Lisa Germano- Lullaby For Liquid Pig”
Film Review: Crock Of Gold- A Few Rounds With Shane Macgowan
Crock of shit.
Film Review: A Complete Unknown
Another year, another music biopic about a problematic genius. James Mangold has of course got previous with Walk The Line. A Complete Unknown isn’t much of a departure from the Johnny Cash film, as it’s also a good character study. Here, the truculent rebel is one Bob Dylan, right at the start of his career.Continue reading “Film Review: A Complete Unknown”
Overlooked Classics: Nick Drake- Pink Moon
Everyone seems to like the other two Nick Drake studio albums- Five Leaves Left and Bryter Layter– but as much as I like them, for me it’s all about the quiet, sad, low-key gem from 1972, Pink Moon. Drake’s music, for me, reveals the kind of torpor of country life. It’s a paradox, a senseContinue reading “Overlooked Classics: Nick Drake- Pink Moon”
Album Review: Ora Cogan- Formless
The Canadian artist’s eighth album is a real labour of love, with contributions from Luz Elena Mendoza of Y La Bamba on the mellifluous, twisty duet’Ways Of Losing’ and LANKUM’s Cormac Mac Diarmada playing violin and viola on ‘Feel Life’. ‘Dyed ‘ feels like a folky jazz incantation with a psychedelic undertow and her newContinue reading “Album Review: Ora Cogan- Formless”
