I'd Rather Not Jack

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

My weekend listening turned into a visit to 70s SOFT ROCK HEAVEN i.e.

FLEETWOOD MAC - Rumours
BREAD - The Story of BREAD.
The first Steely DAN album.
David Bowie - HUNKY DORY (this is not strictly 'soft rock' but followed on nicely from F Mac and is probably the most I've enjoyed listening to a Bowie album in 10 years!) (except perennial stinker Queen B1tch obv.)

What else should I be listening to in this vein? I am aware we are squarely in ROWLEY territory here!

NB any excursions into this stuff on Thursday night (that's POPTIMISM CLUB NITE people!) will be confined to the first set. Mostly.

When they're ajar.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

OK: Very high on my personal list of 'won't go there' bands come The Doors. This is due <b>entirely</b> to over-exposure to their work at school. Blasting Riders on the Storm through study-hall windows into the courtyard was a ritual cliche; along with further indicators of being a total tool: wearing a tie round your waist instead of a belt; wearing football socks (ideally in house colours) with long trousers; paisley waistcoats; joss-sticks;  drinking tea out of jam jars or similar. Half Stalky & Co, half sixties throwback, these tossers put me off the counterculture for life. Other offputting memories = my mum's defence of the Doors ('but they had good lyrics!'); Will Young's version of Come On Baby Light My Fire; lingering association with Vietnam films (c.f. The White Stripes who I associate with the war on Iraq, although I know this is a bit unfair).

Anyway, given Tom's attempt to bring the rock on poptimists today, are there any redeeming features in the work of the lizard-king and his devilish cohorts? Is this another prejudice I need to overcome, or should I retire in satisfaction that I have ALWAYS BEEN RIGHT?

The History Of Jop Part 10 aka I had a feeling I could be someone

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

1988 - and it's a winner! (Also possibly your only chance ever to vote, vote, vote for the Wilburys in a Poptimists Poll)

( I'm known to rock the microphone )

h bird this evening...

[augstone.livejournal.com]

hello-

i'm relatively new to this community. just wanted to mention that h bird will playing our last london show for a bit this evening at the horse and groom, 26 curtain road, shoreditch, london, as part of ellie panda's "moments of madness" mondays. we're on at 10:30. doors are at 8 and it's only £3. come along, should be a great evening. we're playing a brand new avengers-inspired song called "danger makers".

our first single is out and available as a free download at - http://www.dogboxrecords.co.uk/2.MAIN.html . we were recently described as "comes on like kenickie fronting belle & sebastian" by trakmarx.com to give you an idea of what it sounds like. plus we really like our saint etienne.

and if you haven't stopped by to say hello, please do - http://www.myspace.com/hbirdhq (proper website coming soon).

aug