I’ll be using this new Morrissey excuse at some point:
‘I’m not not turning up for my shift. Circumstances have rendered my attendance impossible…’
Chris Robinson giving major if Jarvis-Cocker-was-in-a-hard-grooving-Southern-rock-and-roll-band vibe here.
It really is
He's back in the summer 👍
Fair enough
'The drum kit is ingeniously deconstructed, its component parts worn by three people in the manner of an ice-cream seller at the theatre.'
I reviewed David Byrne in Glasgow, one of the best shows I've seen since, well, the last time I saw David Byrne in Glasgow...
spectator.com/article/davi...
He’s not playing chess literally. He’s not playing chess figuratively. He’s not playing chess on any level of abstraction whatsoever. I doubt he can play chess.
I'm not sure REM have cut through the generations, sadly...
But if you haven't been found out, then nobody is calling you a paedophile in print...
It's I Feel Alright, of course
*slaps head*
Indeed!
30 years this week since the release of Steve Earle's It's Alright. Post jail and rehab, he made one of his best records; its title is equal parts hope & defiance.
Reminds me of telling a 19-year-old work colleague in the late 1990s that I was off to see Elvis Costello that night. "The magician?" they replied.
Very weird.
New Adventures is properly great.
Oh God, yeah. Wanderlust sounds like The Wonder Stuff.
Not a bad idea to forget at least one of them...
5 albums post BB. Up and Collapse into Now probably the best.
It's nice seeing the footage of Stipe singing These Days last night, but my overriding takeaway is...man, Bill Berry was a great great drummer.
14 tracks, but well over an hour long, and mostly pretty slow-paced. But lots of beautiful music and I like it a lot.
Love Up, though it's overlong and struggles, often quite appealingly, to know how to fill that Berry-shaped space.
Very!
*Stares out of the window moodily as BBC 4 doc cameras roll* 'Does anyone really know Bill Berry...'
No, not at all! Just observing and appreciating from a distance his more public return to the fold.
I think they're fine. All done with the best intentions.
Just love Bill. Seeing him gently re-entering the REM orbit in recent years has been beautiful and, yes, just a little heartbreaking.
Oh indeed. Labour historically hugely culpable in this mess.
It's nice seeing the footage of Stipe singing These Days last night, but my overriding takeaway is...man, Bill Berry was a great great drummer.
It's just one thread in the ongoing degradation of Glasgow as a city of the arts, as this piece outlines www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
I was also reminded that the last time I saw DB, in June 2018, he finished (as he did last night) with 'Burning Down The House'. We then exited the Royal Concert Hall to the news that the Glasgow School of Art was in flames. Shamefully, that beautiful building is still a wreck, nearly 8 years later.
Ah. Commiserations.
