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The Magnetic Moment of the Antiproton by Cinema du Lyon

deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread) — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 08:31:15 +0000

Cinema du Lyon aren’t a cinema, they probably aren’t based in Lyon and they haven’t released an album in 15 years. However… this new one is a corker. Presently available on Bandcamp, rumour has it that physical copies will be produced (vinyl? cassette? cuneiform?) and that live concerts may be entertained. Live? In this day …

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Quincy Jones, Jacob Collier

deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread) — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 10:22:24 +0000

I read this excellent and frank interview with Quincy Jones, which has startled a few. Some questioned the veracity of some of this answers but it all rings true to me. A long time Quincy fan, since I heard his beautiful arrangements on Paul Simon’s 1973 album ‘There Goes Rhymin’ Simon’ – I particularly love …

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Rebel Rebel

deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread) — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 20:17:10 +0000

Bowie’s fabulous song, Rebel Rebel. What a performance, what a song, what a recording. Just wonderful. Tweet this Share on Facebook

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Do you remember the old times?

deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread) — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:32:05 +0000

A song called “Old”. I’ve coined a new musical genre, as you do, for this song – Plantagenet. It seemed both timely with the rescuing of Richard III from his carpark grave in Leicester and appropriate for this muse on mortality. The sounds of the clock chiming and the dog are from my childhood home. …

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Just Like London Buses

deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread) — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:34:52 +0000

Just Like London Buses, you wait a couple of decades and then two come along at once. My Bloody Valentine are by no means the most hasty of bands, with a twenty year lay off in their release schedule, but as if by magic they have produced and released a new album, tantalisingly entitled m …

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David Bowie’s Birthday

deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:40:44 +0000

I still can’t believe what David Bowie did on the 8th January 2013. Take a decade off for good behaviour, then show up unexpectedly and place the question “Where are we now?” into everyone’s consciousness. After so long a silence it is quite a remarkable achievement. Shut up for ten years, record a secret album, …

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Which is to say welcome once again

deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread) — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:16:26 +0000

Today I shall mostly be joining DJ Apecat at Radio Orakel, an FM radio station in Oslo. Live stream here, we’ll be on air at 13:00 GMT +1 It’s all streaming these days, as Mrs Noah observed shortly before they began to collect wood. Tweet this Share on Facebook

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If there’s nothing new in Rock ‘n’ Roll…

deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread) — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:57:30 +0000

The old adage, “there’s nothing new in rock ‘n’ roll” must be one of the most over-used clichés in the world, being used to excuse, to denigrate, to explain and to dismiss in equal measure. So what do I think of Janelle Monae’s new song and video? Well, though the vocal is very good, the …

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The Great Debate

deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:20:42 +0000

Let it not be said that music plays a side role in the great battle for hearts and minds. As the 9/11 anniversary coincides with a particularly shrill and vicious campaign by the American right, I bring you Burka Blue. The music sounds great, very art school frauenband, an almost industrial rock pop anti-protest. I’m …

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Swing Report

deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread) — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:13:53 +0000

How do you make a trio sound like a big band, and rock a club? Berliners Dirty Honkers played at the Old Street club I went to last Saturday, and did just that. In midday tropical heat at midnight, they bust up the joint with artful screeches and an entertaining set which veered like an …

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I Love Electro Swing!

deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:56:30 +0000

I used to run a DJ agency ten years ago, and since those crazed times, I’ve not really bothered to follow all the nuances and subgenres and sub-subgenres of dance music.. there are so bleedin’ many variations, and so tiny are the changes, except once every ten years or so, that the entire dance music …

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Can You Stand Upon One Leg?

deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread) — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:41:32 +0000

Not every comic song has the panache to carry the idea through to its musically logical conclusion, but The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannan is refreshingly un-selfconscious in this charmingly silly ditty. I recently returned from Norway and Belgium and left behind me new fans, many of whom were standing on one leg. From song to …

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Life Without Buildings

deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread) — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:26:05 +0000

This excellently odd song, The Leanover, was tipped me via Don Ratto from Unio and Petitio. You might not get it first off – as my pal Yana said, she didn’t dislike it, she didn’t like it. But I love its gently manic breathless stream of consciousness delivery. Once you grapple with them, the lyrics …

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Spotify

deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread) — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:35:58 +0000

Spotify has more or less replaced radio for me. I’ve been listening to it for the last year or so. It’s an interesting and mostly good quality service. Sound is far better than MP3 format music because it uses superior OGG encoding. Mobile, I have actually walked through a park, searching for tracks on the …

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Bed ‘O’ Roses

deanwhitbread@gmail.com (Dean Whitbread) — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:53:45 +0000

Ian Dury is one of my heroes. He was a unique person, a true bohemian, a painter who went on to make hit records with unforgettable lyrics, punk attitude, and irresistable funk, who performed and sang like a demented music hall artist. But along with his raucous, explicit, confrontational demeanour, Ian Dury also wrote tender, …

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