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KEROUAC

I must re-read 'On the road' again. Its one of those books that rewards such endeavors. I really like this interview, I was expecting the host to be a twat but he puts Kerouac at ease and gets a good performance out of him.

Cursed Sleep

Bonnie "Prince" Billy is Will Oldham. Will Oldham is a genius. This is the video for his new single 'cursed sleep' it has falcons and a fight with ET. Class.

Concert Review : Lambchop - Galway Arts Festival - Thursday 27 July 2006

I didn't think the setting of the Radisson SAS Hotel Ballroom was a venue that suited this band and they seemed to agree with references to "being reduced to playing the hotel circuit". They seemed to be in good humor otherwise and really got into the songs. I'm pretty confident the 'chop have a large following in Ireland because people were trying to outdo each other near the end shouting requests for obscure material, tho a call for them to play "up with people" got cheers from everybody in the room.
They played a lot of new material from the unreleased album "damaged" which on initial impression sounds like an improvement on their last release, the double album "aw c'mon / no you c'mon". To my ears that release sounded a bit contrived and the fact that they played no songs from it seems to indicate that they may think so too. Great versions of "Nashville Parents", "My Blue Wave" and "The militant" put me in an immensely good humor and kept singing the line 'and I guess it's right to love the girls who fight off our manly acts of desperation' from "The Daily Growl" to myself like a bloody mantra afterwards on the way to the pub.
They are a band that I will have to see again in a setting they are more comfortable with but this particular concert was worth waiting for. They got a standing ovation at the end too. You cant get much better than that...