This week’s episode includes songs for ewe from Kramer, QUINQUIS, Neville Staple, Ajay Saggar (King Champion Sounds), David Gedge (The Wedding Present/Cinerama), Andy Warren (The Monochrome Set) and Bitch (Kill Rock Stars)…
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Velvet Sheep’s top 20 tunes from 2021, including joint number ones by Blue Orchids “Speed The Day” and University Challenged “Choppers Over Negril” plus “song for ewe” of the year from Martin Bramah (Blue Orchids) and Ajay Saggar (University Challenged).
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“Colourbox were one of the greatest pop bands of all time, never too serious ever passionate and skillful. They experimented with everything they could get their hands on: synth programming, electroacoustic sound studies, pop songs, dub, sampledelia, culturjaming, beat editing, madness and style.”
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“There’s something very cinematic about this piece from the early 1930s, performed by Japanese geisha Kouta Katsutaro, like something out of a Maya Deren film. It‘s the kind of music you want to walk in the rain to.”
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“Merlin is a really special performer and artist, someone who I met earlier this year and was super inspired by because of her playfulness with voice, character, physicality and sound. Her performance was somewhere between performance art and live music show with so many different strokes in between.”
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“I spent a whole night driving around Belfast, eating chips and blasting this song out the window with one of my bezzies after a rough day this summer (singing along, dancing along, shouting along!) If that doesn’t make a song fucking awesome, I don’t know what does”
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“With the help of legendary TV producer and magazine collector/curator James Hyman, we came up with the madcap plan of filming the already veteran Holger frantically doing links to videos above the car noise on a tiny traffic island in the middle of Hawley Crescent while being mildly bibbed and heckled. It kind of worked!”
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“The fact that it’s called the “aborted first single” combined with the bad quality of it has always made me imagine it was sitting on a cassette for years on a shelf, and someone found it and cleaned the dust off of it and put it on the internet real quick before it was forgotten about forever.”
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“I wrote this song about the feeling of inadequacy that comes from comparing yourself to others, and the urge to bring those people down with you. Not really a nice thing to write a song about I guess. Its on our new album, out on Chapter Music!”
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“Tardis Cymbals” is something I keep listening to at the moment though, it’s really well done neo Krautrock by the modern master Tim Gane from Stereolab.”
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“No, Xander Harris from Buffy the Vampire Slayer hasn’t given up his day job and started to make dark synth music… This is a real dude called Justin Sweatt (signed to the band Mogwai’s ace record label Rock Action Records,) and I suspect we have many of the same influences.”
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“After hearing John Peel play Stereolab’s first single on the radio I got in touch and asked them to support us. It was their first ever concert!”
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