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FIELD DAY – Victoria Park 6th/7th June 2015

Posted: June 2, 2015 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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Opening summer festival season in style, London’s most diverse festival festival,Field Day, returns to Victoria Park in East London this weekend.

One of this year’s headliners, Canadian electronic maverick Caribou, is sure to be bringing a blistering trademark audio-visual assault to match his sweet electro-tinged grooves. Another main act are reformed shoegaze legends Ride, who put Oxford on the guitar map when Radiohead were still just a twinkle in Thom Yorke‘s eye.

But headliners are just tip of the gigantic musical iceberg. As you might expect, there is a plethora of the hotly-tipped and devoutly followed indie acts around, from the kooky charm offensive of Liverpudlians Stealing Sheep to Django Django and Savages.

Both days also feature many of the acts GIITTV have been praising to the hilt of late. FKA Twigs‘ live show has seen her headline venues as illustrious as The Roundhouse, building on the critical and commercial success of her widely lauded (and minimally titled) debut album LP1. Imagine an unsettling blend of vocals reminiscent of Kate Bush and an exotic, sultry take on Massive Attack‘s slow motion breakbeat nightmares and you might start getting close to the enigma of FKA Twigs.

Ok, so we all know the Field Day line up is ridiculous and if you’re reading this it’s unlikely we need to instruct you to watch Caribou or Ride or Patti Smith because you obviously should. FKA Twigs, Hookworms, DIIV, Mac DeMarco, John Talbot,Savages, Matthew E. White and Run The Jewels are all amazing too. But we also wanted to share some of the less obvious picks you should make time for during the 6/7 June weekender in Victoria Park.

At the other end of the energy spectrum, US punks Ex-Hex should up the tempo with oodles of three-chord, three- minute garage rock pop charm executed with a don’t-give-a-shit snarl. Expect a sprint through some of the highlights of last year’s Rips LP, as the three piece set about making Green Day sound like one of Radiohead’s more pensive b-sides. The scratchy, wonderfully irritable sounds of Canada’s Viet Cong make for an altogether edgier experience. Or, if you’re in search of something a little more wry and humorous, the downbeat but uplifting sensibilities of Matthew E White might do the trick, combining an earthy folkiness and caustic lyrical wit with knowing nods to the sweet simplicity of original rock ‘n’ roll. As one his best known songs has it, ‘Rock and Roll Is Cold’; but his set will probably be one of the more heartwarming treats of Field Day.

There’s also a serious contingent of psyche to this year’s festival line up, for those looking to drift off to dimensions further flung than the portaloos and burrito stalls. Especially recommended by the GIITTV staff are Hookworms, whose trance-like guitar workouts boast echoes of Spacemen 3 or even veteran space rockers Hawkwind, with more than a dose of Krautrock minimalism. A trait they share with the equally lauded Telegram, whose Matt Wood actually spent 18 months working at Faust‘s HQ in Germany before forming the Anglo-Welsh outfit. And if that all sounds a bit fierce, then the more leisurely and serene sounds of Errors could be the remedy. A self-styled “post-electro” band from Glasgow, Scotland, they’re signed to Rock Action Records, the label founded and managed by the band Mogwai; and they clearly share a certain distinctive gliding sonic sparkle with their label bosses (as well as a love of referencing rave in their titles – ‘How Clean Is Your Acid House?’ being one). With a fresh album – their fifth – called Lease of Lifeemerging recently, the three piece will be showing why they’re one of the most celebrated new live acts around this weekend.

PATTI SMITH – ” Smells Like Teen Spirit “

Posted: March 3, 2015 in MUSIC
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Perhaps no tune moves here like Patti Smith‘s reading of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” with help from Sam Shepherd and John Cohen on banjo, Peter Stampfel on fiddle, and Kaye and Duncan Webster on guitar in a strange dreamscape driven by a standup bass. Patti Smith digs into the lyric and then offers a poem that is as much an early American folk song elegy to the environment Kurt Cobain grew up in as it is to what’s happening to America itself, but with current touches. Her poet’s heart not only complements the original but makes the song timeless and brings Cobain‘s mature spirit to flesh once more. It is the most moving track on the set and the most visionary. From the album of cover versions titled Twelve  an album by Patti Smith, released April 17th, 2007 on Columbia Records. As the title suggests, the album contains twelve tracks, all of which are cover versions. It debuted on USA Billboard charts 200 at number 60, with 11,000 copies sold in its first week. A promotional EP entitled Two More was also released, featuring two tracks that are not on the album: “Perfect Day” by Lou Reed and “Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect” by The Decemberists.

The PATTI SMITH GROUP – ” Capital Theatre Passiac New Jersey ” 5th November 1979

Posted: February 28, 2015 in MUSIC
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This is a brilliant video from Music Vault, an almost two and a half hour with The Patti Smith Group right after the release of the album “Easter”. What a band and what a great time for the band and Patti Smith. They tear through the songs, the band is as tight as they get and the power is immense. I can understand Bob Dylan’s admiration of this force of nature.

Patti Smith could not have been met with a more enthusiastic home-crowd, and it’s a really great performance. This is from the year I discovered this wonderful artist (from Rockpalast 1979) But it is here in New Jersey that Patti Smith is at home and the performance really feels like she is with a familiar bunch of people.

Patti Smith – vocals, Lenny Kaye – guitar, vocals, Richard Sohl – keyboards, Ivan Kral – bass, Jay Dee Daugherty – drums

Set list:
1 – Privilege (Set Me Free)
2 – So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star
3 – Dancing Barefoot
4 – I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (a bit)
5 – Redondo Beach
6 – Revenge (aborted)
7 – 5-4-3-2-1
8 – Citizen Ship
9 – Ask The Angels
10 – Poppies
11 – Lenny Kaye Intro
12 – Secret Agent Man
13 – Wave (incomplete)
14 – Revenge (take 2)
15 – Pumping (My Heart)
16 – Mr. Tambourine Man
17 – Broken Flag
18 – Till Victory
19 – Ain’t It Strange
20 – Cold Turkey
21 – Because The Night
22 – Frederick
23 – Seven Ways Of Going
24 – Gloria
25 – Pledge of Allegiance / Star Spangled Banner / My Generation

PATTI SMITH – ” Land ,Horses, Gloria ” Rio Theatre Santa Cruz 26th January 2014

Posted: February 2, 2015 in MUSIC
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Jesus died for somebody’s sins, …but not Patti’s! A zealous fan shouted “Bring it” when they came back out for the encore and Patti, who had been in a pretty good mood all night, said” Bring what? …snacks for everybody? I really just want to take a shit on the stage and walk off” she then lightens up and well,

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PATTI SMITH – ” Live at the Ace Hotel ” 29th January 2015

Posted: February 2, 2015 in MUSIC
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Looking out from the stage of the beautiful, impressive Moorish palace that is downtown Los Angeles’ Theater at The Ace Hotel, Patti Smith told a sold-out crowd on Jan. 29th that the beautifully renovated room was built in 1927 with “belief, hope, and rebellious ambition.” She could have just as well been describing her own career.
In the nearly 40 years since the release of her landmark debut album, “Horses”, Patti Smith has been a punky hellion, a declamatory poet, rabble rousing rocker, master elegy deliverer and comic/philosopher. But the slow simmer of Thursday night’s performance showcased the now 68-year-old grandmother’s longest-lived role: fan.
She dedicated songs to Dr. Who’s David Tennant (the extra-terrestrial fantasy “Distant Fingers”), Johnny Depp (“Pissin In The River”), her new grandson Frederick (a lovingly sung cover of John Lennon’s “Beautiful Boy”), and covering Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,. When she brings out former Black Crowe Rich Robinson to perform Bob Dylan’s “Time Passes Slowly,” she sat cross-legged off to the side, smiling broadly and mouthing the words. Her fine four-piece band — including original Patti Smith Group members Lenny Kaye and Jay Dee Daugherty, long-time bassist Tony Shanahan and recent recruit Jack Petruzzelli — showed off their fandom, dedicating their covers of Love’s “My Little Red Book” and “7 & 7 Is” to the late Kim Fowley and Elektra Records founder Jac Holtzman.)


While this performance couldn’t match the headlong, incantatory intensity of that made Smith a jaw-dropping, life-changing performer, it managed to build to a powerful climax. The final third of the nearly two-hour-long show was given over to “Gandhi”  An encore of the single chord vamp of “Banga” was accompanied by a red-haired young woman Smith pulled from the pit, adding guitar. “People Have The Power” and “Gloria,” which ended with Smith standing on a monitor, leaning out into the crowd and leading them in the call-and-response, fist-pumping chorus: “Don’t be afraid, you are a free people.”

In other words: Smith delivered a fierce, life-affirming show, and a reminder that as long as she continues to write, record and perform, the idea of rock and roll as a transformative, communal art lives on.

Set List:
Dancing Barefoot
Redondo Beach
Pumping (My Heart)
Distant Fingers
Beautiful Boy (John Lennon cover)
Time Passes Slowly (Bob Dylan cover)
Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana cover)
My Little Red Book (written by Bacharach/David, as performed by Love)
7 & 7 Is (Love cover)
Ain’t It Strange
Because The Night
Pissing In The River
Gandhi
Encore:
Banga
People Got The Power
Gloria (In Excelcis Deo)

PATTI SMITH GROUP – ” Live from Jazz Workshop Boston ” January 9th 1976

Posted: December 11, 2014 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Patti Smith Group live from Jazz Workshop Boston, After their initial four shows at My Father’s Place in Roslyn, Long Island (Jan. 1 – 4 1976) the Patti Smith Group (Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Richard Sohl, Ivan Kral and Jay Dee Daugherty) then played the Jazz Workshop in Boston, which was broadcast live on WBCN-FM, and included this then-newly released version of “Gloria.” another excellent live album available now from Amazon. Patti Smith’s show at Paul Mann’s Jazz Workshop in Boston, on 9 January 1976. From one night of a 2-3 night stand with 2 shows/night, this may be the early or the late show. The venue is also unconfirmed – there are two venues in Boston next door to each other: “Paul’s Mall” and “The Jazz workshop”. The general consensus is that The Jazz Workshop is more likely. The sound levels are very quiet, but Patti’s voice comes through loud and clear in what sounds like a small club – the recording was apparently made by the radio station WBCN, but if that is the case, the sound quality is certainly not what one might like to hope to expect. The first song played, “We’re gonna have a real good Time together”, is missing here, along with five others, “Child of Paradise”, “Birdland”, “Time is on my Side”, “Gloria”, and the encore, “My Generation”.

 

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PATTI SMITH – ” Dreaming Of The Prophet ” Live Broadcast 27th December 1975

Posted: December 11, 2014 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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This engrossing live broadcast captures Patti Smith at a pivotal moment in her career. Her stunningly original debut, ‘Horses’, had been released just a few weeks earlier. Although the record has since become a landmark release, and widely cited as one of Rock music’s greatest albums,  at the time Patti Smith was still performing in small clubs such as New York City’s 400-capacity Bottom Line, located at 15, West Fourth Street, and venue for this very gig. One of a string of seven sell-out performances Smith gave at this legendary Greenwich Village club in December 1975, they were intended as warm-ups for her first major tour of the USA, planned to begin in early 1976. In 1975 the group expanded to include second guitarist Ivan Kral and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty. The Patti Smith Group was signed to Arista Records by label supremo Clive Davis, allegedly on a recommendation from Lou Reed. Another ex-Velvet, John Cale, was bought in to produce ‘Horses’ at New York’s Electric Ladyland Studios. The sessions began in August 1975 and were completed the following month. Despite the records release being just a few months prior to this gig, the set features an eclectic mixture of material, opening with some quite extraordinary poetry recitals. From ‘Horses’ versions of Redono Beach, Free Money, Birdland and a medley of Land and Patti’s interpretation of Van Morrisons Gloria are included. Gloria was also issued as a single in 1976 together with a live version of The Who’s My Generation, a number that also closes this performance. The set also features two songs that would feature on 1976’s ‘Radio Ethiopia’, Ain’t It Strange and Pumping My Heart. Looking further ahead, both Privilege (Set Me Free) and Space Monkey remained unreleased until 1978’s ‘Easter’. There are also acknowledgements of Patti’s disparate musical influences in the shape of covers of the Velvets Pale Blue Eyes, Time Is On My Side, written by Jerry Ragovoy but immortalized by The Rolling Stones, and the perennial garage band classic Louie Louie. This is available through Amazon now.

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R.E.M – ” E-Bow The Letter ” with Patti Smith, Live at Uplink, New York

Posted: November 1, 2014 in MUSIC
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The New DVD  documentary Box Set R.E.M T.V  is set to tell the story of the band via their appearances on the network, which is will be released along with many of the groups sessions and performances in a new 7 DVD set,

Above we have R.E.M. performing E-Bow The letter at Uplink, which saw them joined onstage for the song by Patti Smith.

The documentary and a host of other material MTV will be released on the seven-disc I Want My REMTV on 24 November.

PATTI SMITH – ” Horses ” 40th Anniversary Concerts

Posted: October 8, 2014 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Patti Smith is to celebrate the classic album and her breakthrough debut  “Horses”  recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York and also featured Televisions Tom Verlaine and Blue Oyster Cult’s Allen Lanier and released in 1975 . Horses 40th anniversary with a series of Gigs and events in Paris, London and New York, the date is November 10th as its a true milestone recording the original album was due to be released on October 20th the birth date of poet Arthur Rimbaud the 19th century poet, but due to shortages of vinyl at that time the date was put back to November 10th which was the anniversary of Rimbauds death the album that contained the single “Gloria” and also concert staples like “Redondo Beach” and “Free Money” and “Kimberly” the band still features guitarist Lenny Kaye drummer Jay Dee Daughtery both of whom played on “Horses” , when the 30th Legacy edition was re-issued a second live album recorded in the The Royal Festival Hall at the Meltdown Festival in 2005 was include with the same running order.  Also Patti is finishing a new book a follow up after the “Just Kids” which profiled her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe  from 2010.

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Horses was one of the most important albums for me when I bought it I played it non stop for months, it has a great live feel to it too,

PATTI SMITH BAND – “Live at the Konserthuset, Sweden 3rd Oct 1976 “

Posted: April 28, 2014 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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this tour in 1976 was around the same time that the second album RADIO ETHIOPIA had been released and the follow-up to the critically acclaimed “HORSES” it features a small interview with Patti, and a near full set from the band in Sweden. One of the best document and records of the Patti Smith band there are two velvet underground covers.the Bands classic finale Van Morrison’s “Gloria” The band starts off with Were Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together, Redondo Beach, Free Money, the Velvets Pale Blue Eyes running into a version of Louie Louie, Ask The Angels, The Rolling Stones Time is On My Side, Ain’t It Strange, Patti then straps on guitar for Radio Ethiopia, Rock N’ Roll Nigger, Gloria, and Land. Radio Ethiopia had not been well received the Douglas production relying on a more heavier guitar sound smothering Smiths Vocals,influenced by the MC5 but many of the songs became regularly played in concert. Patti who was highly influential fusing rock and poetry. in January 1977 Smith accidentally danced and fell offstage into the concrete orchestra pit some 15 feet down breaking several vertebrae

 

 

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