A great performance from Blancmange at the Red Gallery in Shoreditch. Really enjoyed it. They played a range of stuff from Semi-Detached to Irene and Mavis. Long may they continue. I’ll keep going anyway.
Category: Music
Music is a huge part of my life so it’s almost certain that this category will have a lot of stuff in it.
Spiro: Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow
I first heard Spiro at WOMAD a few years ago and I’ve been enjoying their music ever since. I especially liked the versions of a couple of tracks with a Moog modular. Whilst their stuff is good it does sound quite similar a lot of the time. Not that it’s a bad thing. Not at all really.
But this album isn’t any different. It’s still good. Interesting to hear, but in many ways a lot like their other stuff. Again, it isn’t a bad thing. It has a place in my listening anyway.
My old tracks: Living in a very small moment
Also hoping to get this tonight …
Which is a new instrumental album from Neil Arthur called ‘Nil by mouth’ and apparently should go on sale for the first time tonight at their show.
I’m looking forward to hearing it.
Hoping to hear some of this later …
Whilst I’m all for Blancmange playing new things, I do of course want to hear some old favourites. There’s nothing wrong with that right?
So I’m hopeful of some classics getting trotted out alongside the new stuff from ‘Semi-Detached’, and also hopefully some bits from ‘Blancburn’ too.
It’ll be an interesting night I’m sure.
Today is Blancmange day!
Their latest album is great stuff, I’ve been listening to it quite a lot over the last few weeks since it came out. There are some really good tracks on it.
My old tracks: Another office daydream
Sakamoto’s Left Handed Dream
This is an album I’ve been meaning to get my hands on a this album for a long time. So I finally got a copy, and it’s really quite good after all.
I especially like that on the back of the LP cover there’s a credit for computer programming! You don’t see that very often these days.
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