Rainman - Frank Nuyens

It's the second night in a row I feel compelled to write about a great new song I've heard. It's 'Get you to come through' from the Rainman album by Frank Nuyens. I'm a big Q65 fan, so was looking forward to hearing this album, which is excellent. Another song is added to the great playlist in my head and I feel a cdr compilation taking shape.

Shuggie Otis - Jennie Lee

This song is in my head tonight. I heard it for the first time this afternoon and it instantly established itself in the rotating playlist in my head for the rest of my life.  I first became aware of Shuggie Otis because of his track on the CBS double album compilation 'rockbusters' that I bought at a market stall at least 25 years ago and probably more. For some reason, while hearing albums by almost all the other acts on the album I managed to miss Shuggie Otis' albums (apart from 'Al Kooper introduces') over the years.

Richie Havens - Something Else Again

I've been listening to Richie Havens tonight. I love his first four albums, which contain some of the most moving and life affirming music there is. My favourite will always be 'Something Else Again', which I bought more than half a lifetime ago in a shop in Woking, now long since gone. I think of this shop and all the other places that no longer exist where I found treasures full of sound.

Another random playlist

The Luxury - The Tragically Hip
Marquee Moon - Television
Waiting on a train - The Bottle Rockets
Late November - Pavlov's Dog
Mr Skin - Spirit
Give us a ring - John and Beverley Martyn
Stoplight - The Silos
Lowlands of Holland - Steeleye Span
House on the Corner - Fat
Walking Sideways - Spectrum

The Good Rats

A few days ago I heard the Good Rats 'Tasty' for the first time. I can't stop playing it. The Good Rats have been a band I've liked a lot since I first heard their music nearly 30 years ago(I remember buying one of their albums at a great, long since gone, record shop in Edinburgh called Ezy Rider). I was excited to finally find Tasty. The whole album is great and two of the tracks 'Injun Joe' and 'Fireball Express' have been addded to the great rotating random play list in my head. It's a refrain you will hear a lot from me, but why a band this great is not so much better known, I don't know.

Prometheon year one - 1

In an effort to start exposing more of the many hours of unheard Prometheon creations, you download some recordings from our first year from the link below:

http://www.zshare.net/download/137239862746e02f/

Sam Peckinpah

Last night I watched ‘Cross of Iron’ on dvd. This was only the second time I’d seen the film, the first being at least 20 years ago, when I watched it on video. Peckinpah has long been one of my favourite directors and I’ve been watching a lot of his films recently. Without doubt ‘Cross of Iron’, is one of his best and one of the best fims of its genre. A bitter, cynical violent film, that is not without its own optimism. I thought I’d list my favourite five Peckinpah films. In descending order. Here they are:

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
The Wild Bunch
Cross of Iron
The Getaway
The Osterman Weekend