The Listening Club - 1st March 2020

Pinch and a punch to you all.

Hope things are going fine wherever you are. A gentle Sunday here in Amsterdam, recovering after a long night of playing tunes, drinking and talking. And the rain has eased off for the first time in bloody ages, nice to see a blue sky again, for sure.

Advance notice that I'm going to be away next Sunday AND the Sunday after (blimey!), so looking for a volunteer to run things here in my absence, please let me know if you can help, thanks!

Last time on #LC, @akx was in the chair, lounging around with the sound of Tom Waits' "Small Change", which not surprisingly went down a treat. Thanks to Aarni for the pick, and for sailing the frisb across to @unmannedfuture, who, after the requisite amount of deliberation, has penned this by way of introduction to their debut pick...

"Virgin Frisbee catcher here. Armed with only the advice to not overthink this, I jumped nimbly over the first hurdle (The Smiths! Tom Waits! I’m back at uni and therefore it’s time for The The!) and landed on something new but old, west coast* but half a mile down the road from Bert Jansch’s place, from a whisper to a scream, “pastoral to unhinged” if you follow the critics’ line. It’s quite a trip. They opened a highly strange triple bill (to be revealed), which is how I found them, and played to about…. 3 people. Criminal.

#drinkingclub I’m all about sours (that’s the cocktails with egg whites) so - one of those. Maybe a sidecar, which you can make with brandy, or even bourbon if you have any left over from last week. Shake with lemon, cointreau & raw egg (ingredients a pleasing metaphor for this band, actually), lie flat and die a little.

*of North America. It’s lunchtime here."

Right then. Direct download is here, and the stream's below:


See you at 8pm GMT tonight.