Now Playing?
Just out of interest, we have been listing our favourite artists etc: why not just pop in what your listening to anytime, give us all a clue what we listen to including Roxy/Ferry and all our other eclectic tastes etc:
Me I'm just getting into the new Depeche Mode & Lady GAGA albums now.
Me I'm just getting into the new Depeche Mode & Lady GAGA albums now.
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Permalink Reply by sharon on -
I Know !!...only teasing, if you tell staff you're willing to up the medication, they will give you a day pass !!!!
N.P the lunatics have taken over the asylum !!!
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Permalink Reply by Terry 'O' on -
David Gray - Draw The Line. More of the same from David, but quality always shines through. 5/5
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Permalink Reply by Jim on -
He is great to listen to but bloody awful to watch!
I often worry that his head might fall off when he is singing.
Being a bit different: N/P Angelique Kidjo--djin djin!
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Permalink Reply by Siobhan on -
haha Jim
Same here cant watch him He makes me dizzy just watchin when he head starts rocking from side to side I feel just thinkink in of it hahaha
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Permalink Reply by sharon on
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N.P Ole Blue Eyes ..My way...feeling older than the world itself today . and its dark outside.... ho hum. Still ,have pre-ordered 'the thrill of it all' DVD , so not all bad ,I suppose.
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Permalink Reply by Terry 'O' on
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Just booked my tickets for his Birmingham show in December. The guy is awesome live, with a powerhouse of a voice. Nodding head or not!!
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Permalink Reply by Jim on
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I found my self amidst the hustle and bustle of london tonight about 6pm. A lovely sunny evening, sitting in the paasenger seat of an open top sports car looking out at thousands of folk making their way home or out for the night as the case may be. We were near Trafalgar Square and I turned to my pal who was driving and told him that sometimes I loved the busy-ness of London-- although I couldn't stand it for too long!
Within the hour we were skelping up the motorway to Luton airport heading for the plane that would take me back to my house in the Scottish countryside-- a million miles from all those people and Trafalgar Square. With a couple of hours to spend in the airport and an hour's flight, the oul ipod was being well used-- Chuck Berry,Richard Thompson, Bryan, Roxy, Christy,Ryan Adams, Van the Man, Big Leonard,Streisand, Sinatra,Dr Feelgood,Revolver,The Clancy's,Radiohead, Coldplay--- and plenty others!
Anyway,it was after 10pm when we touched down and I had been on the go since about 8 this morning. As my car headed out of Glasgow towards the campsie Hills I tuned into BBC Radio Scotland to hear The Iain Anderson show. For those who are not familiar he plays a mixture of folk,country, blues, and all sorts. Roddy hart was sitting in for him this week, and I was only half listening when just before 11pm I picked up on this song half way through.
Lyrics,presentation,everything -- just beautiful. Amazing how a song can just go off and have a wee life of it's own. Just the right mood for a late night surrounded by the shadow of the hills, green fields and the moonlight. - Attachments:
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Permalink Reply by sharon on
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This is beautiful Jim...even more so, I would imagine in the moonlit countryside...would'nt it be great if auld Bry did a duet with lovely Lucy......(well would'nt it be great if Bry just did anything really) HElllooo Bry, is there anybody there ?
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Permalink Reply by Jim on
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Yes it is beautiful-- I was just knocked out with it, and reminded of being in a theatre listening to an Irish guy called Declan O'Rourke who wrote a song called Galileo which he played to Eddi Reader in a pub and said it was her for her to take the song off on the next stage of it's journey. A lovely image--each song having a life of it's own and different performers taking it different places.
Now, the lovely lucy is playing three or four wee concerts in the UK in the next week or so-- one of which is in Glasgow on 8th October so I might get to do a wee duet with her!!! Helen she is appearing in Manchester after that on Sat 10th October at somewhere called Band on the wall?
She has also released an album of covers which this track is taken from.
So there ya go--- none the wiser but better informed.
N/P Milk and Alcohol-- Dr Feelgood
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Permalink Reply by Helen on -
Hiya Jim
Yes I know 'Band on the wall' very well, its been stood on Swan Street for a million centuries, and is on my side of town, some good bands have appeared there too over the years, my uncle was a doorman there in the 80's, well before I was born though, its just what he tells me haha
Well if ever I do go out my night is Saturday, so you never know I will mark it down as a maybe and see who fancies it. I might have to listen to some more of her stuff first
Back to Beautiful songs, Declan O'Rourke....Galileo is something special, I can see our very own Morrissey doing that one it has his name stamped all over it, that would be nice to hear
Another Beautiful song that stands out is 'The Blowers Daughter'...Damien Rice.... I want to record that one!!!!! and I can see me and Moz duetting on that one too, instant stardom haha.....I can see a really corny video to promote it of us both sat on stools singing to each other, very Peters And Lee haha
Its too early for this and I have a cold, through not wearing a coat or Jacket last Friday night......Remembering when my Grandma used to say ' You'll catch a death of cold.....' I'm just beginning to understand what that actually meant.
NP: The Blowers Daughter.....Helen & Moz ..... see, It even looks right!!!!!
Back to my Lemsip!!!!
Ta-ra
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Permalink Reply by Jim on
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Hiya Nellie-- now where should I start?
With the fact that someone else on here has heard of Galileo ( now there is a set of lyrics to make ya think ) or even hairy Declan?????
With the conclusion that if you went out on your Wedding anniversary without the fur coat then by inverse logic you at least had warm underwear????
Or should we float a new reality show. Celebrity Duets? Ordinary members of the public team up with celebs and do a range of duets all the way through to the final? Strictly meets the x factor-- without the dancing right enough.
Who would do the duet with Bryan? Would Terry O team up with Beyonce? Is Katie price a duo in a T shirt in her own right? Would there be any point in anyone else turning up as Paddy Power would close his book once he realized that I had teamed up with Siobhan's Mammy to sing Voulez Vous Couchez Avec Moi Ce Soir , Galway Bay, Thank Heaven for Little Girls and My Ding a ling!!!!!!
Who would be the judges?
Has everyone else on this website cut their fingers off, locked themselves in a fridge, been kidnapped and held hostage by a tribe of voracious sex starved aggrophobiacs?-- or are they just bored?????
Anyway I got a text last night to say that we will hear two-- yes folks TWO-- new Bryan tracks in the next few weeks and that one of them will be shoving for the Christmas number one spot??????
Then again before I fell asleep I had to tell all those women from Pan's People to stop making such a racket in my bedroom and to get out and go make a bacon sandwich or something as I was trying to get some sleep!!!!!
N/P It's a big Old Goofy World
Let's talk dirty in Hawaiian------ John Prine
Crazy as a Loon
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Permalink Reply by Jim on
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Well as you can all see I have some time on my hands for the first time in weeks and have started to come on here and ramble as in days of yore.
In that vein, linking my thoughts on strange and unusual duets, songs with a life of their own and the odd story etc. Glasgow is sometimes a strange town. Christy Moore often tells the lovely story of hearing a song being sung by a strange looking folky called Hamish Imlach. If you have never heard of the late great Hamish then shame on you-- although have a look at you tube or something. Anyway the song was Black is the colour and Christy has sang it ever since-- and he and Big Hamish became great pals.
Rambling further, John Prine ( see above ) has written some great oul songs and you find the strangest of folk singing them in odd settings. One favourite is Hello in There-- and all sorts of people have covered it.
Amazing who you will find down by the river Clyde of a Saturday ( see the link below ). This was a freezing cold Saturday and the only thing that kept you warm was alcohol and the odd hug.
So, see who you can spot and don't look at the notes and remember-- THIS IS GLASGOW!!!!! Down by the Clyde of a saturday as Christy would say. A thousand years ago, in another life, a different universe called yesterday cause that is what it seems like! - Attachments:
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