The Listening Club - 21st November 2021

Greetings folks,

Hope you're all doing okay. Yep, @kleptones here, back from Le Guess Who with plenty of stories to tell, as you'd expect. Thought I'd experienced most everything a festival could throw up by way of chaos elements, but having a last minute government-panic-partial-lockdown kick in halfway through? Yeah, that's a new one. Enormous respect to the festival organizers, who shuffled artists, venues and staff with barely a few hours notice to get a new timetable together that was both punter-agreeable and lockdown-legal. It certainly made for a unique weekend, more early rises than late nights, though we still got our fill of quality music, food and drink, caught up with some friends, and even got to see "The French Dispatch" thanks to the nonsensical partial-lockdown rules that meant cinema was allowed late even when gigs were not! Yeah, fucking bonkers, but as the Netherlands covid numbers have now risen to their highest level ever and beyond (thank you anti-vax fuckers), I can understand the govenments problem, even if I can't understand their solution. Same the world over it seems, at the moment, innit?...

Anyhoo, back in the #LC bubble last Sunday, @SimonLandmine was getting all singer-songwritery with his pick of Thea Gilmore's "The Counterweight", which seemed to work out well for those attending, from what I can see, which was nice. Also nice to see @akx holding the frosted frisbee with this to say by way of introduction to tonight's pick...

"We just got our first few flakes of snow this morning - that reminded me of my favorite beverage-in-hand-sitting-by-the-window-looking-at-snow-quietly-falling wintermusik EP. (Depending on your location and time of day, you may need to imagine the snow.)

#drinkingclub: something warming, or a good whiskey or bourbon."

Download's here (gdrive) or here (direct), stream's below:

See you 8pm GMT tonight.