JosieJo's great Big Pair
of Tips
The JosieJo Show 22
You are very welcome to the
JosieJo Show. I really appreciate you listening. Each show I
present you with two great bands or artists that you may, very well
have not heard before, but I think they deserve some greater acclaim.
I go to gigs, I dig around on the internet and I ask other people
what they are listening to. The other thing I do is listen radio, a
lot of radio. Some of my favourite stations are based in the US
including www.scrubradio.com, www.qstarradio.com and the mighty
Songsmith's show on Hamilton radio www.hamiltonradio.com. One of my
absolute favourite shows though is on Forest FM on a Friday night. I
can't listen live, but the lovely Alan Dorey is good enough to post
the whole two and a half hours up on Mixcloud and I unashamedly
plunder his show the Musical Box for bands I want to share with you.
He often listens to my show and pricks up his ears at a band or two
and then plays them on his show. It's a cyclical, swirl of mutual
music love. My first band this week is, indeed, one of Alan's finds
and my second track is one of my favourite songs of all time. Stick
around, it's going to be a fun fifteen minutes. This is The JosieJo
Show and I'm very glad you're here.
So the first track was
played on Alan Dorey's Musical Box and what a good opener. This six
piece from London are called GoldHeart Assembly and they have
attitude in abundance, oh yes they have. They have a great sound and
top life affirming, crowd rousing, melodies that simply shout “let's
get dancing”. Very, very excitingly they will be playing their
debut album “Wolves and Thieves” live from start to finish at the
Lexington in Islington, London on 7th March 2014
This is not something that
they do very often so make the effort and then you can say you were
there. They also have an album called “Long Distance Song Effects”
out now, but better than that their single “Oh Really” is
available free on soundcloud. Even better than that is the fact that
if you wait just a little bit longer, that very single will be
available on vinyl.
Do wanna hear that single
right now? Oh course you do. It's punchy, swinging and purely
danceable to. It has great pace changes, gymnastic vocals,
machine-gun drums and a lovely buzzy guitar sound. It's a track
about releasing music and the whole music machine. In a world where
Cliff Richard, gawd bless him, has an article in what I always
assumed was anti-mainstream music magazine NME I wonder where all the
dissident music has gone. Maybe I'm out of touch, but I have to say
I love the pure balls of these guys. Without trying challenging
chord sequences or alienating spikiness these guys bring attitude in
the bucketload. Standby for this track. It dives you straight in
with a commanding count in. I'm guessing it begins with a “One,
two, three, four, ah, ah, ah,ah”, but I could be wrong and I can
only guess at the language it's in. Don't worry their London roots
come screaming out and their Camden confidence pushes through like a
speeding tube train. Brace yourselves. This Goldheart Assembly and
“Oh Really”
ooooooh yes! Thank you Mr.
Alan Dorey for dropping them in my lap. I like them a lot. Let's
stay just North of the Thames and bring you something perhaps more
understated. There is a quirky, eccentric, undefinable gentleman
from Clerkenwell who has a band called The Real Tuesday Weld. He's
been making tunes for a long time now and named his band after the
actress Tuesday Weld. Perhaps not surprisingly he received a desist
and remove order from the aforementioned lady he changed his name to
The Real Tuesday Weld. This guy is a real character. Live, I'm
told, the band sounds like a lounge suited, jazz outfit, but really
what this gentleman does is all well just quite different really.
Here's an example of just one of the myriad of projects he's been
involved in over the years. He was commissioned to provide music for
the Mark Rothko room at London's modern art museum The Tate Modern.
There is always something artistic and aesthetic he is entwined in.
You can check out his latest projects at www.tuesdayweld.com or buy
his latest crazy release, five tracks on an umbrella. What else
could you need? Three versions of the track “I Love the Rain”
plus “Snowballs” and “Golden April Showers” available to hear
on that epitomy of controlled English eccentricity, the gentleman's
black umbrella. Weather tunes as you defeat the weather. I don't
quite know how the mechanics of this works, but who cares? Resist if
you can, but why would you? Visit www.antiquebeat.co.uk
for more information and the whole of his back catalogue including
his solo projects under the name of the Clerkenwell kid. He recycles
and re-releases his tunes over and over again. For example, this
track, “Anything But Love” is available on the 2001 release “When
Cupid Meets Pysche” in the Uk and yet in the US the EP was similar,
but different and released under the name “When Pysche Meets Cupid”
Why am I playing you a tune that is essentially so old? Why?
Because it is, in my opinion, one of the best songs ever recorded.
It would almost be worth finding someone to marry me for just so I
can have it at my wedding. I am definitely having it at my funeral
and it's my mantra, my reset button and quite often my reason for
living some days. It pretty much says it all really. It's
understated, quirky, and pragmatic. Are you getting the idea yet
that it's one of my favourite songs ever? It's The Real Tuesday Weld
and “Anything But Love”
Brilliant, just brilliant.
That probably explains a lot about me. I'm going to play you out
with a new track by Thomas Dahl and his project Caddy. I played
Thomas on an earlier show. You can check out all the archived shows
by going to www.josiejoshow.com
and click “Listen To The Show” That'll take you right to the
Mixcloud page and you can choose a show or two or go right back to
show one and listen to them all in order. Each show is ten to
fifteen minutes or so long and they are all crafted with love and
care. Contact me by email josiejo@josiejoshow.com
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Thank you for listening. And finally here's Caddy and “Something
About Carina”.
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