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I’ll shut up about the Waterboys now, but there’s a great clip on YouTube here, of a Decemberists show in London last week, during the encore of which the band are joined on stage by Mike Scott himself, for what looks like a fabulous rendition of “Fisherman’s Blues”.
We’ve now had exactly 100 proposals emailed to pitches33@yahoo.com so thanks for all of those. The deadline for getting them in is the end of Wednesday next week, the 14th. And if you missed the call for proposals, scroll down the page a little – all the guidelines are there. Also (and perhaps this is
A review by Charles Mudede of Sean Nelson’s book about Joni Mitchell, in The Stranger. *** And what do we have here? A short book by Sean Nelson. And who is this Nelson? The man is a singer (most notably for Harvey Danger) and a writer (most notably for The Stranger). Until two years ago,
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Matthew Stearns, author of the at-the-printers Daydream Nation book in the series, has set up a blog based around the book, which you can visit here. For those of you who’ve noticed the gap between no.38 and no.40 in the series, this book will fill it.
Tomorrow evening, Thurs 8th, head over to Sonic Boom Records (Fremont store) in Seattle at 7.30pm, to listen to Mike McGonigal reading from his Loveless book and Sean Nelson reading from his Court & Spark book.
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Last Saturday a friend of mine had a birthday party / battle of the bands that involved everyone meeting at a bar, getting divided into “bands” consisting of musicians and novices, and being sent off to an apartment or practice space to learn a song from Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours.” We reconvened 4 hours later and
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I’m on a major Waterboys kick at the moment. The albums A Pagan Place, This Is The Sea, and Fisherman’s Blues in particular. The expanded CD reissues of those are all wonderful – so much extra stuff, and almost all of it priceless! I only saw the Waterboys once, in Oxford in 1989, with a
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Another of the newly published books in the series is Songs in the Key of Life by Zeth Lundy. Here’s an extract from Part IV of the book, “Death”. *** Wonder saw it all before it happened: his premature death, incomplete and inconclusive, as inexplicable as it was imminent. He began receiving fatal premonitions in
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Colin Meloy, a man famous mostly for having written a 33 1/3 book based loosely upon the Replacements’ Let It Be album, will be appearing today on NPR’s Fresh Air show. Tune in, and see if the book gets a mention!
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Good to see Greatest Hits Vol 1 on a pink-themed table at Bailey Coy Books in Seattle. (Thanks to Emma for the photo!) I read somewhere recently that more people are colour-coordinating their bookshelves at home. I’m still all about the alphabet myself, but colour-themed display tables seem like a smart move for cool booksellers.
