I was surprised to find a copy of this in HMV - nearly 17 quid for the box set. If you have Out Here and False Start then you're really paying a lot of money for the third album of live tracks (eleven in total) gleaned from performances in London and Coventry in 1970.
There is little new here - the two studio albums' sound seems to have been cleaned up but I'd have preferred some new tracks to have been unearthed from the studio tapes. The live tracks have Arthur on reasonable form but most are too self-indulgent, glorified jamming sessions with five of the eleven tracks exceeding five minutes duration. Still I suppose it adds to the canon. The packaging and liner notes are nothing to enthuse over either. One for the completists.
I also hear that Arthur's solo album Vindicator has also been re-issued on CD. Cue the price of the A&M edition plummeting on ebay and Amazon.
What we need now is a long-overdue CD edition of Reel To Real though we won't hold our breath.
Elsewhere Robyn Hitchcock has released American tour dates commencing November that will see him Stateside till the beginning of December. He normally makes it to Glasgow early in the New Year.
Scouse Love acolytes Shack play Glasgow's Classic Grand on October 29th.
Love : The Blue Thumb recordings HIP-OSelect.Com Geffen RecordsB0007827-02
Saturday 22 September 2007
Sunday 16 September 2007
Double Top & Avant Pop
Celts And Gunners Hit The Heights
A fine day was had both sides of the border yesterday with the darnel setting the tone with a goal-letting loss to the maroon marauders at swinecastle.
Despite going behind to a free-kick strike which Almunia shouild have stopped Arsenal had too much style, quality, pace and nous for Totteringham whose army of apologists are now beginning to turn on poor old Martin Jol. If they achieve Top Four status in the Premiership this season then I'll start to support them. The Gunners remain a work in progress but (and this may seem contradictory) if Almunia had been in goal since the start of the season I'm convinced we'd have maximum points. I'm in no hurry to have Jens back in the team.
Which leaves Celtic. With the huns slipping up we were never going to have anything other than a convincing win over a Caley team who deserve credit for their positive contribution to the proceedings. I've been harping lyrical about the amount of own-goals our opponents are conceding this season. We are terrorising defenders. Our defence looked ropey at times and I expect similar worries in Donestk. I'd settle for a repeat of the match away to Spartak. Go go Celtic.
What is avant pop ? Interesting article in my music links. I suppose we've all got a few of the listed works. Life is good.
A fine day was had both sides of the border yesterday with the darnel setting the tone with a goal-letting loss to the maroon marauders at swinecastle.
Despite going behind to a free-kick strike which Almunia shouild have stopped Arsenal had too much style, quality, pace and nous for Totteringham whose army of apologists are now beginning to turn on poor old Martin Jol. If they achieve Top Four status in the Premiership this season then I'll start to support them. The Gunners remain a work in progress but (and this may seem contradictory) if Almunia had been in goal since the start of the season I'm convinced we'd have maximum points. I'm in no hurry to have Jens back in the team.
Which leaves Celtic. With the huns slipping up we were never going to have anything other than a convincing win over a Caley team who deserve credit for their positive contribution to the proceedings. I've been harping lyrical about the amount of own-goals our opponents are conceding this season. We are terrorising defenders. Our defence looked ropey at times and I expect similar worries in Donestk. I'd settle for a repeat of the match away to Spartak. Go go Celtic.
What is avant pop ? Interesting article in my music links. I suppose we've all got a few of the listed works. Life is good.
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