This week’s cultural misfeasance what is The Waiting Room, continues to stumble ever onwards toward a serious contravening of the Trade Descriptions Act (1968), what with persistently dashing promises of professional maturity. Such lofty notions & ambitions can, one is assured, be stuffed up The Man’s pock-marked arse.
To the Skylark!
Mr. Fisk (& his perversely odd view of just about everything) is back, as is The Toad (off of Song, By Toad) with a particularly potty-mouthed take on the history of genre Hip Hop (viewed, daringly, via a pair of white 30-something Middle Class eyes), as well as the perennially poorly one half of (This week? A cold. Man Flu. The sniffles, with a bit of a throaty cough. The wobbling, moaning gay).
Musically, you may get your self equal parts gristle-stiff & glisten-sticky over Man Man, Cloud Cult, We The They, Fleet Foxes, Deer Tick, Port O’Brien, The Social Services, Pattern Is Movement, Forest City Lovers & the very much in evidence many more.
That, then, as we say, is all (for, as always, now. At least).
x ½DC + Fisk
p.s. the promo fliers each contain a detail from L.S. Lowry’s Father & Sons (1950. Oil on canvas). Lowry is a particular obsession of one half of’s & it has taken him until now to worm one of Lowry’s works into an advertisement for the show. Still, you won’t forget those eyes in a hurry eh?
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DC/2: Thanks for the gentle correction re the UK and its parts, I was stunned by my ignorance and have since made up for it. Enjoyed Mr Toad, in particular because I agree with him whole heartedly re hip hop, even so his selections were very engaging. I find that one of the most pathetic examples of human behavior is when the “haves” pretend to be “have nots”. Mr Toad’s selection of a the Maritimes hip hop band was interesting because of the accordian/ folk quality mixed with the angry inner city hip hop nonsense. One of the best examples of the human mental affliction of trying to be “Bad” is the song “straight otta compton” by Nina Gorden, an angels voice singing the Devils opera. Mr Toad, I think finds the Maritimes band ( excuse me I cant remember their name) hip hop intersting for the same reason, the discordance, the disconnect maybe thats what Nina had in mind. I don’t care I dont listen to music to be shocked, but to think and relax.
Mr Nick Fisk produced the required synergistic energy that makes him such a valuable and highly entertaining member of the cast . His celebrity muggings are excellent. HH PS The usual show opening re tintinnabulation and “spiel” is highly appreciated keep it up it works very well.
Cheers H & thanks again for the nice things said.
This week, as you may have already seen, we have a rather lovely interview & wobbly recorded live session with Red Hunter of Peter & The Wolf infamy.
Squashed, as we were, in the room just off from the stage (where his support act were just about to go - & then were - on stage) I rattled off non-sequitor question after non-sequitor question & blathered on too tongue-trippingly fast because I was so conscious of the band striking up (which they did) & the sound bleeding into the interview (which it did).
The recording of the session is another matter altogether (broken mic, sound man pissing about with the equipment to let his girlfriend sit where I had set up, the motor of the MD Recorder very audible on the recordings, etc. & so on), so tune & find out how the hell I managed to hold it all together.
Ta.
½DC