Moe Tucker (Velvet Underground)
Published November 20, 2009 | 
Moe Tucker (Velvet Underground) spearedpeanut.com
In the mid-sixties, Long Island native Maureen “Moe” Tucker replaced Angus MacLise as the drummer in the fledgling Velvet Underground. With a beat-up four-piece drum kit and minimalist aesthetic, Moe brought an important like-mindedness to the VU. She shared, among other things, a disdain for hippiedom and a hatred for high hats. Her distinct, cymbal-less drumming style propelled the Velvets’ abrasive three-chord rockers, and anchored the band’s free-form sonic mayhem.
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The Velvet Underground’s 1967 ‘White Light/White Heat’ title track from the album, played against the 1966 “A Symphony Of Sound” Factory rehearsal footage. |
“This is going to sound like a cop-out,” she laughed. “But at first I didn’t have a clue what Lou was singing about. They played so loud, there were no monitors and I couldn’t hear shit. A couple of years ago I was up in New York and we were having a meal, and for some reason it came up. Lou said, ‘You know, I always wondered. How did you know when to stop playing?’ Because he knew it was all so loud. I told him, ‘I used to watch your mouth, never take my eyes off it.’ When his mouth stopped moving, I figured he’d stopped singing and hope that was the end of the song and stop playing myself.’ He seemed kinda shocked, but that’s what I did. What the hell, it seemed to work.” Moe Tucker – uncut mag (UK)
Band Of Skulls
Published November 9, 2009 | I’m listening to a track called ‘Fires’ by Band of Skulls and it’s a fresh soundmix of that clean | dirty | clean thang. The sound and the video are impeccable in fact. I like that there’s more spaces – even the dirty parts are minimalistic. Also, the video is crisp and it’s shot from the perspective of ‘the thing itself‘, which is rare for ‘official’ band videos, because it is the most difficult style of photography to do, without the end result being simply boring.
Singer-bassist Emma Richardson fave album: Tom Waits 2004 LP Real Gone.
“I listen to it at least once a week,” she says. “It kicks ass.”
MySpace | bandofskulls.com | flickr ::: | ::: Video: “Fires”
:::|::: Video: ”I Know What I Am”
The three members of Band of Skulls, Russell Marsden (guitar & vocals), Emma Richardson (bass & vocals) & Matt Hayward (drums), first met at college and quickly discovered that having two lead singers and three songwriters in a band was always going to present unlimited possibilities.
16 June 2010 – Beachbreak Festival, Pembrey Country Park, South Wales
18 June 2010 – Hurricane Festival, Scheebe DE
19 June 2010 – Southside Festival, Neuhausen ob Eck DE
26 June 2010 – Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton UK
03 July 2010 – Blissfields Festival – Bradley Farm, Basingstoke UK
04 July 2010 – Wakestock Festival – Cardigan Bay, Abersoch WALES
10 July 2010 – Bilbao BBK Live, Bilbao ES
15 July 2010 – Slottsfjell Festival Tonsberg, Tonsberg NO
16 July 2010 – On The Rocks Festival, Golling AUS
17 July 2010 – Gurten Festival, Bern CH
01 Aug 2010 – Splendour in the Grass, Queensland AUS
03 Aug 2010 – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney NSW AUS
04 Aug 2010 – East Brunswick Club, Melbourne VIC AUS
08 Aug 2010 – Summer Sonic Festival, Tokyo Chiba Marine Stadium JAPAN
27 Aug 2010 – Leeds Festival, UK
28 Aug 2010 – Reading Festival, UK
04 Sep 2010 – LCC Cricket Ground, Manchester UK (support for Muse)
Am-G-C-D
Published October 30, 2009 | It’s interesting how the corps. get kids involved in consuming music with product (Lego Rock Band) (I think they’re really training future generations here, unless it’s just an adult theme…) Either way, it is interesting from a consumer education point of view. Lego + Rock Band. There’s also a concert coming up at Hammersmith featuring: Blur, David Bowie, Iggy Pop for ‘Lego Rock Band’
Anyway, I mainly wanted to post this in the ‘retrospect’ category. Just a bit of history.
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White Rabbit
Urban Occult Esotericae - A young woman cloaked from her father at birth, sets out to find him and becomes a leader in a metaphysical world where good and evil are not the only choices.
