Blackbeard's Delight

Arcade Fire

This video gave me goosebumps when i saw it.  The comment says it all:  the best band in the world at the best festival in the world.  Enjoy.

i cannot wait

photo courtesy of WeeRobbie

until Glastonbury.  it is just over 2 weeks away.  tent is sorted.  as are folding chairs with beer holder.  it is going to rock.

oh yes.

All My Friends

My good friend Greg sometimes sends me tunes he's loving as and when he comes across them.  Which is quite often as he's a cool music aficionado.  The latest song he's sent me is an absolute corker.   Never really listened to much LCD Sound System before but "All My Friends" is off their latest album, Sound of Silver and it is frigging awesome.

He pointed me to this line in the song: "you spend the first five years trying to get with the plan, and the next five years trying to be with your friends again".  Magic, and absolutely nails the feeling i think a lot of young people go through working in a "grown up job" for a while.  I couldn't find the rest of the lyrics online anywhere, but did find this article on the album, and the song, and the line.  It's from Marathon Packs, a cool but very clever music blog.  The author uses the words "insidious", "sinuous" and "motif" in the same sentence, but in spite of that Marathon Packs is now a new found favourite of mine. 

You can listen to it on their MySpace page.

Young@Heart

Last year More 4 screened a documentary following the Young@Heart chorus touring round Europe. 

This is no ordinary choir, all the members are above the age of about 75 (one of the first members had fought at the Battle of the Somme as a 16 year old) and they sing well known cover versions by the likes of The Rolling Stones, The Ramones and Frank Sinatra.  I wanted to write about this before but i couldn't find any footage of the documentary.  However, i received an email alert recently with a link to some footage on You Tube.

This is a clip of one of the most moving parts of a truly moving documentary.   Fred Knittle and Bob Salvini, two members of the chorus, were scheduled to sing a duet of Coldplay's "Fix You" during the tour but Bob passed away in the run up to the show, so Fred had to sing the song on his own.  I'm not a big Coldplay fan, but Fix You is a one of their best songs, which becomes even better in the context of Fred, Bob, and the whole Young@Heart chorus, who prove that it is never to late to do something great.

Magical stuff.  You can download the track, and learn a bit more about Fred Knittle, here.

 

Top 5 Sunday songs to chill out to

The original question asked by Joey was Top 5 songs, but as Nick Hornby realises this is a ridiculous questions.  So the question was re-phrased.

In no particular order:

1. Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lady
2. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get it On (this presupposes female company)
3. Jeff Bukcley - Hallelujah
4. Air - All i Need
5. Ocean Colour Scene - Robin hood

All spur of the moment, so i reserve the right to withdraw/change/ridicule at a later date.  It was actually quite hard without the opportunity to look at my CD collection.