Sunday 23 June 2024

The Listening Club - 23rd June 2024

Greetings folks,

Hope you're all doing good. Feeling a bit heatwavey here in Amsterdam, which is nice as we're about to head off to the Somerset fields for a bit of the old tent, booze and music life, and the weather there doesn't seem that bad either (fingers crossed it holds out for the duration).

And yes, next week, whilst we're away will be the #LC annual summer (well it is on the western hemisphere where most of us are, afaik) #livevortex, helmed this year by @JimMcCauley - many advance thanks extended to them for taking care of things in my absence. So what we need from you sometime soon is one or two fine live performance recordings - dropbox details will appear on the mastodons later today for your selections.

Looking back at last week, we found @Saucer following up thematically from the previous week's pick, but under sad circumstances as we enjoyed Françoise Hardy's "If You Listen" from 1972, recorded in London with some fine (yet sadly anonymous) English musicians. Thanks to Mr S for the pick, and for valiantly getting the frisb across to @SimonLandmine, who's here with tonight's intro...

"As ever, on receipt of the frisbaton, a trawl through my increasingly-misnamed .txt shortlist was required. This one has been on there for an indeterminate while (with a somewhat inexplicable note
next to it saying "blame @wojsvenwoj", although I no longer have any idea why - I can only presume it was relevant when I wrote it!) This is an act I've seen live a couple of times, and this was their fourth
album, although opinion seems divided whether it came out before or after a change of name. (Wikipedia thinks it was after the name-change, but the sleeve on my CD disagrees, so it looks like it
might have been released under both.) In any case, the lineup remained the same throughout, it was only the name that changed. This album is out of print in either guise, regardless, but they're still going
quite a while later, occasionally getting some critical notoriety, and have another album out soon.

Drinking club recommendations are probably either a rich red ... or a warm can of weak lager."

Right then, download's here, stream's below:


See you 20:00 BST (GMT+1) tonight.

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