They may have achieved eternal glory on their US tour but even the mightiest still have to practice. Ahead of two shows at the weekend, CFTP see if they can remember how to play their hits or if they left their rhythm stick in the haze of the Texan dawn.
Track List:
Weather Channel
Weather Channel
Mobility Plaza
Wet Lands
Gracelands, Gracelands
Gracelands, Gracelands
I Am A Warrior
Fresh off the plane from Texas, CFTP take to the studio for some new live tracks plus a couple of records. Ben and Clare are getting over their jetlag but Scott and Michael are battling through on coffee and Berocca.
Track List:
Chips For The Poor: Love Hearts (live)
Lie Low Little Doggies: Sons Of The Pioneers
It’s About Time That We Had a Change: Youth Brigade
Chips For The Poor: Distant Chimes (live)
The Town That Broke My Heart: Bobby Bare
Chips For The Poor’s adventures in Chicago take them for a ride on the cinema’s famous ‘L’ train and to TV’s famous kids’ dance party Chic-a-go-go. Then an aeroplane takes them South, where they contemplate Texas from the sky. Arriving, still dressed for winter in the perennial summer of the Lone Star State, the band take to the streets of Austin for South By Southwest, the world’s biggest music festival (2,000 acts play on average 5 gigs each).
Hear their further cassette diaries as they wander the streets encountering bands, drunks and drunk bands, and play one burrito bar, a back garden and two car parks, one of which is a benefit for homeless cats.
Will they live the rock’n’roll dream and finally get given a free drink? Where is this free barbecue they’d heard so much about? Will they get out alive or fry on the chair? Tune in to find out…
Track list:
Wet Lands (live in a back garden)
Gracelands, Gracelands (live at Trophy’s Bar And Grill, Austin)
Pics:
See and hear at the same time, here’s some pics
Links:
Chic-A-Go-Go
South By Southwest
Further cassette diaries from CFTP’s American odyssey, in a clip originally broadcast on Resonance’s Hello GoodBye Show. Hear the band take in some contemporary art, charity shopping, breakfast burritos, jaywalking, numberplate observations, a Bobby Conn gig, a lot of police sirens and a werewolf attack.
Live in session on the show this Saturday lunchtime are the original dark-folk progenitors Comus, plus the virtuoso guitar skills of Jack Allett (formerly known as Spoono)
Emerging from David Bowie’s ‘Arts Lab’ in suburban Beckenham (South East London) at the tail end of the ’60s, Comus were the poison-cure to flower-power.
With a mutual appreciation for The Velvet Underground, it is hardly surprising that founding members Roger Wootton & Glenn Goring garnered inspiration from the darker side of life, with murder, rape and madness the preferred subject matter.
Like a musical incarnation of ‘Seahenge‘ the band bore fruit from deep within the underground folk scene, while the roots to their name were found in the upper reaches of Greek mythology and the writing of the 17th century English poet John Milton. Comus’ legacy grows more acute with each passing decade, with Swedish Death-Metal outfit Opeth and British Apocalyptic-Folk group Current 93 heading the roll call of admirers.
Jack Allett is a 26 year old guitarist from Camberwell, South London. As a member of Towering Breaker and under his erstwhile pseudonym, Spoono, he has – over the past 6 years or so – released LPs, 7?s and CDrs on a plethora of labels (inc. Blackest Rainbow, Great Pop Supplement, Chocolate Monk, Psykick Dancehall…) In 2011 he has a solo LP – the first under his real name – planned for release on Blackest Rainbow, and a collaborative LP with Cam Deas to be issued on Present Time Exercises.
Also, journalist / musician Neil Walsh conducts an interview with the author Jeanette Leech about her new book, Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid & Psychedelic Folk (Jawbone Press)
Track List:
Neil Walsh interviews Jeanette Leech, author of ‘Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid & Psychedelic Folk’
Comus – Song To Comus (LIVE SESSION)
Comus – Diana (LIVE SESSION)
Opeth – Circle Of The Tyrant
Comus – Interview
Linton Kwesi Johnson – Fight Dem Back
The Count of Chateau Noir – The Dead Language
My Elastic Eye – Mining Song
Jack Allett – Walworth Road Blues (LIVE SESSION)
Jack Allett – Frozen Music (LIVE SESSION)
Jack Allett – Interview
Performing live in session on HG this Saturday we have both Poino and fos.
London based avant-rock trio Poino sound like Darth Vader swallowing a swarm of hornets in a jam session with early Led Zep while hell-bent on a suicide mission to perform the very best of The Cardiacs. Their thunderous tunes surreptitiously twist and turn with all the grace of an effervescent HGV pirouetting in the eye of a tornado! Hear them trail blaze their way through a short set of live songs taken from their debut album ‘Moan Loose’, available now through Horse Arm Records.
fos is the contemporary folk music project of London based Greek artist Katerina Koutouzi. fos combines; accordion, glockenspiel, harmonium, piano, melodica, daouli (a traditional Greek drum) and conch (one of the oldest instruments on earth) with a subtle palette of crystalline electronics to create an altogether organic and melodic soundscape. fos has just recently released her latest LP ‘rock’.
…and also expect to hear a tour diary account from HG co-presenter Michael Garrad as he cruises the Burrito Bars of Chicago and Texas with his anarco-punk outfit Chips For The Poor. Follow their up to the minute exploits via Twatter: HERE
Track List:
Chips For The Poor – Weather Channel
Poino – Bad Bag (LIVE SESSION)
Poino – Complex Hammock Compound Swipe (LIVE SESSION)
Poino – Snakes Say Wow (LIVE SESSION)
Leila Adu – Fortuna
Poino – Interview
Wet Dog – I Can’t Say It
Pet Scenes – Living The Dog
Chips For The Poor – Audio Tour Diary From Chicago
Extradition Order – Your Brow Furrowed
The Count Of Chateau Noir – The Dead Language
Comus – Diana
fos – Un Coutral (LIVE SESSION)
fos – With The Seagulls II (LIVE SESSION)
Jack Hayter – I Stole The Cutty Sark
fos – Interview
Chips For The Poor kicked off their US tour in Chicago last week. Listen in to their cassette tape diary, live session on the city’s freeform radio station WZRD, their adventure on the “L” train and the first song from their first US concert.
Track listing:
Weather Channel (live at WZRD)
Mobility Plaza (live at WZRD)
Fistula (live at WZRD)
Gracelands, Gracelands (live at Pancho’s Bar)
Live music today from Outshine Family and The Magic Lantern plus Tim Burrows interviews Edwyn Collins about his recent exhibition of drawings.
Track list:
Outshine Family – Thunder’s Freshwater Tears (LIVE SESSION)
Outshine Family – Small Talking People (LIVE SESSION)
Outshine Family – Natural Diamonds (LIVE SESSION)
Skinjobs – Sunshine
The Puncture Repair Kit – Murder’s Probably Wrong
Outshine Family – Interview
The Astronauts – Lonely & Loaded (HG Archive)
Orange Juice – Poor Old Soul
Tim Burrows Interview with Edwyn Collins & Grace Maxwell
Edwyn Collins – Searching For The Truth
Woolf – Witch
Fos – Sunset
Alice Gun – Not Made For This World
The Magic Lantern – Somebody Told Me (LIVE SESSION)
The Magic Lantern – From My Window (LIVE SESSION)
The Magic Lantern – Cut From Stone (LIVE SESSION)
5 March 2011
First there was The Monkees living the d:rEam, then S Club 7 kem along like sun drenched squat-totzzers in yur haunted fishtank.
…Now in the year 20:11, the bronco-saw-arse wireless has been turned over like a dirty duvet to the sounds and minds of the rat burger shifty twitchers CHIPS FOR THE POOR.
We catapult your breadbox into the freshly turned over patio-OH-OH so switch hard to resonancefm.com at 10:30pm.
Episode 1 > Fistula
CFTP fly to Chicago next week and ahead of their appearance on kids’ TV show Chic-a-go-go! must record a lyrically clean version of their hit Fistula to mime to on the show.
Hear them play it live nine times back-to-back for 30 minutes with a live remix/reinterpretation/deterioration in the studio by James III.
Track listing:
Fistula
Fistula
Fistula
Fistula
Fistula
Fistula
Fistula
Fistula (space version)
Fistula (double time)
Performing live in session on HG today we had Design A Wave, Flame Proof Moth and Gerry Mitchell.
Taking time off as keyboardist in the mighty Faust meets Sparks mash-up that is Cleckhuddersfax, Tom Hirst performs intense, hypnotic electro music as Design-A-Wave, all warm analogue synths and reverb vocals. Design-A-Wave sounds like what the future used to sound like, when it was still mysterious and magical, before it became the present and then the past.
Flame Proof Moth is Tim Siddall’s new project following the retirement of The Boycott Coca-Cola Experience. Whereas BCCE set out to save the world after over-dosing on Resonance FM’s Max Keiser (The Truth About Markets), FPM is just trying to enjoy what little time we have left. Despite the seemingly left-field nature of his new album Women Should Be In Charge, Flame Proof Moth is convinced he’s ready for a brush with the mainstream. Hard-talking managers should apply to flameproofmoth@gmail.com.
Also, our resident poet Gerry Mitchell phones up to recite his – hot off the back of a fag packet – epic poem entitled; ‘The Empire Of My Heart’.
Track List:
This Heat – SPQR
Design A Wave – ‘Medley’ (LIVE SESSION)
Nought – Wet Sex Anesthetic
Design A Wave – Interview
Cove – Show Me Your Nature
Baaneex – Jumpin’ Chinese Restaurant
Gerry Mitchell – The Empire Of My Heart (LIVE TELEPHONE LINK)
Dear Puppeteer – The Magician’s Assistant (Episode 8 – Outtake)
The Monochrome Set – Alphaville (HG Archive)
Sergeant Buzfuz – Knock Knock Knock
Flame Proof Moth – Retail Opera (LIVE SESSION)
Flame Proof Moth – Thomas Rymer (LIVE SESSION)
Flame Proof Moth – Song Commissioned By Dept. Of Energy & Climate Change (LIVE SESSION)
Flame Proof Moth – Women Should Be In Charge (LIVE SESSION)
The Magic Lantern – The Bridge
The Outshine Family – Seven Tongues Tasting The Night
Flame Proof Moth – Interview
