Play podcast no 39 (right-click, then save as, to download to your computer or mp3 player). The podcast is exactly 30 minutes long.
Today's music:
The Movie Colony - Flange
Headlights - TV
Kate Miller-Heidke - Blah Blah Blah
Tragic Shell Suit Disaster - Written in Stone and Exhaled. Dave Kenny, for TSSD is he, is a good friend of the electrical language podcast. He composed and recorded the title music that I have been using since show no 11. His website deadmansclick.com is well worth visiting.
Soundbed music for today's podcast was provided by Torchomatic and The Electric Mainline.
5 comments:
Love the bands!!! Headlights and the Movie Colony are absolutely Fantastic!
Sadly, the Movie Colony's MySpace seems to have gone to the great webspace in the sky. It is an ex-page ! I really liked the song, though for some reason I heard a very rude word being repeated over and over again as the chorus... I'm sure it wasn't and I just have a filthy Scottidh mind ;-)
Tragic Shellsuit Disaster / Dave Kenny - very impressed with these tracks, which were verging on the avante-garde / experimental. They remind me of the route that Mark Hollis took TalkTalk down before he went solo; check out the 'Laughing Stock' and 'Spirit of Eden' albums to see what I mean.
Another brilliant show - even the 'cabaret' piece had my mood swinging upwards just as the bus drew up !
Grant, as I've said privately, I think it's just your filthy scottish mind :) I couldn't hear whatever you heard, or maybe I'm just so young and naive that I didn't know that somew word I think is innocuous is anything but. What do others think? I apologise if I've played something that has shocked you or family, workmates etc.
The Movie Colony myspace page works if you go to my myspace page (link on the right) then click on The Movie Colony who are in my top 8 this week. I'll try to fix the link in the shownotes.
I've now fixed the link to the Movie Colony's myspace page.
Thanks grant, i'll tell you a bit about the album, its kinda something that has a bit of a story. 'Dont Ask Me' started about 2 years ago, and was originally called various titles as i built up material. Its been called 'Aspects', so named because the songs were all varied in style and content, but all had aspects of me in whether that be things i had thought about, or done, or seen. then it started to get a bit polarised between happy and laid back, to totally agressive and political and angry at a lot of things, so it became 'bi-polar'. At some point or another i had a huge painful split from my ex, and my mind started to get cloudy, i just wrote and wrote, had no money left to do anything esle so i just churned out song after song after song. they were all individual tracks, not making any sense in album format, and so for a year i just amassed this collection of songs and part songs about 150 strong. eventually as i came out the other side of that year i realised that actually they were a pretty good guage of my state of mind through the year, and marked some significant changes in my life, and so i started to get serious about selecting an albums worth. i had just bought a keyboard and stolen some synths from the net, and so had the idea that i would tie the whole lot together with some instrumentals, some film clips, and some synth pieces. i wanted it to flow like the year i had making the main part of it.also there were 4 words i wanted to weave into it, 4 words that were engraved on a bracelet i had made in australia that marked that part of my life. Awake, Lucidity, Serenity and Understanding. Anyway the album 'Dont Ask Me' came out of the process, and left me feeling much clearer and calmer, and was a sort of therapy. Its called dont ask me because a) i really didnt have much of a handle on life other than my music in that year, and b) i really dont know how i managed to pull off the album and be as happy as i am about it.
The second album 'Dancing with the muse' is all about girls, whether they be observations made on the girl who works across the road from me (paper box) a lesbian friend (aint so blue) or someone i cant get out of my head shes so sexy (click of her fingers). Its a much much clearer album, reflecting my state of mind, much easier listening and guitarwise much more competent.
The next album is making progess but im finding it hard now that i live in a shared house to let my mistakes run so freely. i think im gonna hire a loft out so i can put my studio in there and not have to worry if my singing hits a bad spell.
i really appreciate the comment about avante garde, probably the best thing ive ever heard about my music, i do see it as art, and so to hear it described that way gives me a certain sense of achievement.
keep your eyes on my site, because im actually approaching it as a piece of art, which is to say that it is my place to put anything i find creative or interesting or fun. theres no reason for it other than i like doing it. i actually made 2 feature videos but i cant put them up cos a) id lose my job (the acid trip) and b) i dont have the room (2 men and a mountain).
www.deadmansclick.com
dave
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