I am officially excited now
Tonight I shall be playing records as I was boring you all about yesterday. My pal whose birthday it is tells me the legendary Andrew Weatherall is coming.

How much would you like to bet that I shall choose the moment he walks in to drunkenly take the record that is playing off the turntable instead of the last one, thus bringing the music to s screeching, embarrassing halt in front of one of the greatest DJs and musical icons of the late 20th Century?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 10:46, 15 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

who's that?
is he like a lost member of the Wu Tang Clan or something?
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 10:47, Reply)

Hahaha!

( Cawl, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 10:52, Reply)

if he is, he's very lost indeed
If only there was a way of looking people up, on the internet, say, so that one could avoid appearing ignorant....like some kind of online encyclopedia....

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Weatherall
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 10:53, Reply)

TAKING THE INTERNET TOO SERIOUSLY
RIGHT HERE
I hope you don't talk to your hero that way, he might think you're a prick or something
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 11:05, Reply)

We don't know each other
so you can be forgiven for not knowing that I AM A SARCASTIC CUNT AND TAKE NOTHING SERIOUSLY ON THE INTERNET.

you have fallen into my web-trap and now look slightly tetchy - and ironically like you have TAKEN A LIGHT-HEARTED DIG AT YOU MADE ON THE INTERNET too seriously.

Congratulations.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 11:19, Reply)

ha
ha ha
ha ha ha
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 11:24, Reply)

so what
kind of tunes will you be playing?

fodder?
freak out?
fuck you all?

there are a few tunes that i think should be played in every club, every night. and if they are not then the club is shut down, burnt, the ashes turned into bricks and the bricks thrown into the ocean.

in no order...

1. voodoo ray - a guy called gerald
2. help me somebody - byrne and eno

there may be more, but these will do fine to begin with.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 11:20, Reply)

mixed bag
I'll open with some dusty old funk breaks and take the tempo up into 70s car-chase type stuff, then my mate is going to play some rubbish disco records - when I go back on I'm going to kill all that and do some 60s garage punk and pychedelia, ending up on the 70s party-time heavy rock like Nazareth and AC/DC. To an empty room and my friend crying quietly in the corner.

Come along! It'll be ACE!!!


EDIT I may actually not do the final part and instead play some old raving classics like Voodoo Ray and Bombscare by II Bad Mice, and some N-Joi and 88 acid. Depends on the mood and the drugges I s'pose...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 11:23, Reply)

Nazareth - Ha!
We watched a gig of theirs on 'ITV through the night' in the early nineties, on purple ohms, and i did a wee in my pants, twice. Other idiots laughed at included, The Strawbs and the brain haemorrhagingly insane, 'Joe Cool'.

I've always fancied tearing apart a bunch of scenesters with a heavy duty, sanity worrying krautrock set... See them scatter!

Hope the car-chase stuff goes down well ;-)
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 11:30, Reply)

They're reissued all the Neu! albums
like they did with the Can ones a couple of years ago.

Fucking magic.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 11:32, Reply)

yes
shame about klaus dinger dying a few years back, a Neu! reunion would have been incredible.

I picked up the Neu! albums in Selectadisc, Nottingham back in 1994 and was blown away, still am, if truth be told. They were high quality bootlegs from vinyl.

I read the the SACD Can re-issues sound bloody marvellous, however they could be 'dangerous' if listened to in an altered state of consciousness, particularly the much maligned and frequently skipped, 'Aughm'.

Faust are my faves though, such a variance of styles, effortlessly switching from blissed out ambience to angels of death in the space of one track. Highly recommended!
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 11:44, Reply)

do you have Julian Cope's Krautrocksampler book?
It is invaluable for info - and actually quite valuable too as I believe there are no plans to reprint it.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 11:52, Reply)

yes, i do,
it is a fine read. good reference piece as well. prolly wouldn't sell it though, hand it down to my son, who at 13, doesn't too badly on the music front.

have you heard the first 3 kraftwerk albums, the pre-autobahn stuff?
quite possibly the three most overlooked albums of all time, stunning stuff
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 12:04, Reply)

I don't think I have
I must remedy this immediately. Even without knowledge of these LPs I rate them enormously. 'Numbers' is the finest electro (in the 80s breakdance sense) tune ever - apart from 'Clear' by Cybotron, I reckon.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 12:27, Reply)

The first three albums
are quite a bit more organic, none of the, 'we ar ze robots', style posturing.

Kraftwerk 1 - Contains 'Rucksuck', one of the best 'flute techno' tracks you will ever hear, also quite possibly their best ever track.

Kraftwerk 2 - Foreboding electronic ambience, decades ahead of its time. May take a bit of getting into to be fair!!

Ralf und Florian - Prepare for take off!! Contains 'Tanzmusik' (Dance Music), where handclaps and euphoric voices propel you into the stratosphere.

I envy you not having heard them, a bounty of revelations await. Listening to them really does give the rest of their catalogue more depth and meaning. 99% of folk will assume they started with Autobahn.

And how could i forget about 'Tone Float', their VERY first album. Purists kinda disregard it, but the concept is there, and Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger of Neu! fame played with them in this incarnation. Probably the weakest of teh pre-autobahn stuff, but still worth a listen.

Enjoy, and let me know what you think!!
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 12:42, Reply)