The flyer said that people could bring their own records and the DJ may play them. I handed the DJ (the one calling herself The Hatster, who apparently came up with the whole night) a copy of the Field Mice's Where'd You Learn To Kiss That Way (disc 2), and she played Emma's House.
Also, someone there was handing out flyers for a band named The Charm Offensive, who are playing next Thursday at some place called the Betsey Trotswood, in EC1R (wherever that is). If I'm in town (as opposed to, say, being rained on in the Orkneys or something), I might go to see them.
Anyway, Bowlie Nite was fun. I don't think there's anything quite like that in Melbourne. (There are "UK-indie" nights in bars, but they tend to go for the lowest common denominator approach and lump in everything from Oasis to Fatboy Slim to northern soul to electroclash under the union jack banner.)
D'ya mean the old 80s Birmingham band Felt? Sigh. Their 'Final Resting of the Ark' was the anthem to my mispent youth, or was at least on the soundtrack. So beautiful. Check out the 'Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow' album.
Yes, that Felt. Would you know the name of their 3rd album?
btw, these BT web payphone keyboards are nigh-unusable.
And I think they only played their ba-ba-ba numbers. (I think they played Miss Modular.)
Typical.
Third album? Might it have been 'The Strange Idol Patterns & Other Short Stories'? I don't have this one any more, but I recall it being an intrumental album comprised almost completely of spanish guitar pieces.
I think. Does that sound right?
Bowlie Nite now has a web page at http://www.bowlienite.co.uk - it's terribly exciting.
this morning, I listened to 'Evergreen Dazed' (Felt's 1st album) on my walkman on the tube, during the rush hour.
It struck me, that within a populus of about 10 million people, moving around the city (that London) at the time, the percentage of people doing the same thing would be quite small...miniscule...whereas a few years back it maybe would have crept into double figures......
I don't mean I am celebrating my individuality, more that it's a bit sad in a way, 'cos Felt had eventually carved out their niche in the Indie world and got reasonably big...yet another good act disappear from view, although they (or more Lawrence)resurfaced with a seemmingly strong Record Company push as 'Denim'...showing a sense of humour, if nothing else.
The album I mentioned will always define Felt for me, songs being defined by Maurice Deebank's almost orchestral guitar work.
Ah well.....
an ageing, cack-handed quitarist remembers...
this morning, I listened to 'Evergreen Dazed' (Felt's 1st album) on my walkman on the tube, during the rush hour.
It struck me, that within a populus of about 10 million people, moving around the city (that London) at the time, the percentage of people doing the same thing would be quite small...miniscule...whereas a few years back it maybe would have crept into double figures......
I don't mean I am celebrating my individuality, more that it's a bit sad in a way, 'cos Felt had eventually carved out their niche in the Indie world and got reasonably big...yet another good act disappear from view, although they (or more Lawrence)resurfaced with a seemmingly strong Record Company push as 'Denim'...showing a sense of humour, if nothing else.
The album I mentioned will always define Felt for me, songs being defined by Maurice Deebank's almost orchestral guitar work.
Ah well.....
an ageing, cack-handed quitarist remembers...
...and, having looked again, I realised that I've said the 1st Felt album was called 'Evergreen Dazed', when, of course that's track 1.
On the 1st album - 'Crumbling the
Antiseptic Beauty'.
'Cos that's all I have time to play between South Ealing and Hammersmith.
Sorry for being anal.
the next bowlie night is on the 5th of december, since thats where all this felt discussion sprang from. i might just play some.
Looks like I'll have to find some way of moving to within a more convenient distance of London; these 24-hour A$1600+ economy-class flights from Melbourne do make things inconvenient.
Think I will be joining the masses down to the bowlie extranvanganza THURS 5TH DECEMBER. Might see Jim there if he can remove his head from his rectal passage.
Yeah, I'm gonna bring my Felt CD'S, and try and persuade one of the DJ'S to play'em. I will then consider Head/Passage seperation. I might bring along my stuff by 'The Passage', seeing as 'Electronica' is the new'guitaronica' nowadays. So at least then there will be 2 passages in use...
I guess the advantage of that sort of thing in London is that, ironically, the Little England "everything good is British" perspective is removed. So do they play the krautrockish Stereolab numbers ("Nihilist Assault Group" is a good one) at these things? Or just their über-bah-bah-bah numbers.