Life changing times!
Australia is great, and we should be thankful for it. We have an awful lot to thank them for too. Neighbours, Heartbreak High, Fosters? Cork hats, wallabies, great Australian cinema (Chopper, Mad Max) and of course, The Vines. The Vines debut album made me a bit dizzy for about three months when I was a bit younger – the divine riffs, the swooping harmonies, the unexpected time-signatures, the mesmerising outros, the shouty, buzzy, poppy delights of tracks like Get Free and Outtathaway! It had it all, and I won’t hear a bad word said about it. Now, after some troubled years in seclusion, The Vines are back with a brand new album - Vision Valley. This is exciting news in a world of third rate Chilli Peppers albums, half arsed MOR bizniz from Keane, and Snow Patrol, and James Blunt. The Vines provide something more for us dear listeners – they are painting in a great bright colours, and living their lives the only way they can – through music. It’s a healing force you know, and it seems, somehow to be working it’s magic on the band. Check out our Vines artist page for all the glorious details.
Now what do you make of this little one. Oasis’ 1994 debut album ‘Definitely Maybe’ has amazingly been voted the greatest album of all time by readers of the NME and The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and Albums. It’s quite astonishing really isn’t it. The Beatles ‘Revolver’? The Rolling Stones ‘Exile On Main St’? Sex Pistols anyone? How about Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’? No? Not to take anything away from the Gallagher brothers, I myself was a HUGE fan of that album, and I dare say it probably changed my life – so what conclusions can we draw from this.
Well, for a start, for an album to truly change your life you’d better be around 14-18 when it’s released. It’s well documented that a persons musical preferences are directly related to their earliest music experiences – and as most of us only really experience our first musical loves, as fully fledged humanoids when we’re about 13/14 it stands to reason that the greatest UK album of the 1990’s (which it was lets face it), should top a poll of people who most certainly will have been around their teenage years when it was released! Hooray! This is an extremely long-winded way of getting to the core of this little rant – so lets not beat around the bush. Oasis’ debut was a great album, but the fact that the poll was carried out among people who were probably only conceived sometime in the 1980’s will only ever yield one outcome. I only brought this up because the papers have been making such a HUGE deal out of it – who thinks they’re missing the point a bit? Come on, hands up.
Tour news – The Young Knives, including well monikered bassist ‘The House Of Lords’ have had to cancel their imminent Manchester gig on 6th June. The band have released a statement reading… “At our recent low-key show at the 100 Club alongside The Rakes, the producers of 'Later With Jools Holland' came down to see us and were so encouraged with the performance that - amazingly - we got offered the chance to appear in the last slot in the present series of the show...
Naturally, we were hugely honoured and thrilled at the opportunity, yet discovered that the shoot-date was to occur the same evening as we were set to play in Manchester on the upcoming tour. We were torn between what to do, not wanting to let anyone down”
Thankfully, the band have been able to negotiate a new Manchester date at the same venue, and punters can use their existing tickets to get in. If you can’t make the new date, get your refundies from the place of purchase – but you really should make an effort to get along, cos they’re great they are.
Track of the week: ‘The Fall – Lost In Music’.
More next week.
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