Feb 14, 2008
An interesting week again I hope you'll agree that it is an
interesting Suffolk 'n' Cool again. With surf from Finland to
accordion from France and much else besides, I hope you'll give it
a good listen and follow up on some of the music.
Vincent surprice - Ronnie and His
Twangin´ Little Fellow RHTLF (Finland)
Ronnie and his Twangin´ Little fellow was founded by Antti and Sami
in the beginning of 1995. We met by accident in Lahti City, when
Sami was on the way to sell his guitar amplifier. "After a short
conversation we decided to meet and test the amplifier in Sami's
train room. I was not going to buy it because of my financial
position, but of course didn"t tell that to Sami. In the same
evening after a little while testing the amplifier we realized that
we both are interesting in surf music."
ANTTI KUKKOLA Guitar
SAMI HUOTILAINEN Guitar and organ
MATTI VIRTANEN Bass
KALLE KOTIRANTA Drums
www.myspace.com/ronnieandhistwanginlittlefellow
Burn - Grace Valhalla (Nancy,
France)
From her Jamendo album Peak. I played Grace early in December and
since then I've listened to at least one track each day.
Grace is my alarm clock.
http://gracevalhalla.hautetfort.com/
http://myspace.com/gracevalhalla
Thanks to a neat little app on the Mac called Aurora which wakes the laptop up from
sleep at a time of your choosing and plays whichever playlist you
want from iTunes. Even sends you to sleep.
http://metaquark.de/aurora
Girls From Birkenhead - GK & The
Renegades (Liverpool, UK)
I played That's OK a
couple of weeks ago and mentioned this track.
ren·e·gade [ren-i-geyd] - adjective
1. an energetic, good-humoured, fun-filled experience. (i.e. "Last
night was so renegade!")
A charismatic, melody-driven band, Liverpool-based GK & The
Renegades continue to impress fans and critics alike with their
energy and ambition.
Fri 15th Feb Josephs Well - Leeds
Fri 22nd Feb Dry Bar - Manchester
Fri 29th Feb Carling Academy - Liverpool HEADLINE
SHOW
Fri 11th April Dry Bar - Manchester
Sun 13th Apr West Street Live - Sheffield
Wed 7th May Dublin Castle - London
They seem to have all bases covered with multiple sites. Do check
out the excellent video on the YouTube site:
www.gkandtherenegades.com/
www.myspace.com/gkandtherenegades
www.youtube.com/gkandtherenegades
The email beer alert Ale
Mail from the Three
Horseshoes here at Charsfield in Suffolk just arrived with a
comment from a regular at the Shoes:
In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 litre of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. coli) - bacteria, found in feces.
In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.
However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine & beer (or tequila, rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.
Remember: Water = Poop, Wine = Health
Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of shit.
Réveille le Hippie - Both (Metz, France)
Just love the way these voices work together. Played Simple Exercise on the show (#96) from Boulogne in mid-December.
Again on Jamendo
www.both-world.com
Good looking line-up at The Grapevine in Norwich on 5th March, Nordgarden, Cara Winter, Sean Redmond and Yum Yum a really nice venue and only £5 - book a table on 01603 666869 and check the MySpace at: www.myspace.com/grapevine4music
Meets Ya Bass (Preecha Version) - Lion of Joppa Soundsystem (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Ali puts it all together - synths, samples, loops - in Ableton Live 6.
www.myspace.com/lionofjoppasoundsystem
Note from Colin Gazeley of Ourobouros podcast www.ourobouros.co.uk who says "I've just listened to your shows from September last year onwards. Listening to SnC is like listening to PC Podcast with the weirdness increased by a factor of 10. You play some very … um … shall we say interesting music. A lot of it I wouldn't play myself, but having said that, I've lined up Luna Halo and Two Hours Traffic to play on my show."
Nothing weird on this show Colin!
Mazurka pour Chantal - Sylvain Piron (Steinbourg,France)
From one of his three Jamendo albums Par Coeur
Album at: www.jamendo.com/en/album/373
www.tradfrance.com
Death to Los Campesinos - Los Campesinos (Cardiff, Wales)
Played them before and I'll played them again. One of my favourite bands to emerge from the university scene over the last couple of years. They are on the excellent Wichita label.
The new single "Death to Los Campesinos!" is in shops February 18th on CD and 7" as well as a download.
The debut album, "Hold On Now, Youngster" will follow on the 25th of February and will be available on CD, LP and download. Promoting the album and single with another UK tour and a few dates in mainland Europe.
Feb
14 - King Tuts, Glasgow (tomorrow)
16 - Northumbria Uni, Newcastle
17 - Leadmill, Sheffield
18 - Club Academy, Manchester
19 - Concorde 2, Brighton
20 - Plug N Play, Reading
21 - The Works, Kingston
23 - Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
A couple of live 5pm in-store gigs in Manchester (Fopp in Brown St on Monday and in Brighton on Tuesday18th at HMV in Churchill Square Shopping Centre - now that has to be seen. Details of all gigs on the Wichita site.
www.wichita-recordings.com/artist.php/loscampesinos/
Pete Cogle has a promo video for his shows at http://pcpodcast.blogsome.com as he says "Only 11 minutes of your life to waste … what"s that between friends.?