Category Archives: Music

Roots & Samba podcast

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Another in the podcast series from DJ Gilles Peterson in Brazil. While these are available free from Brahma to save you the time and trouble here’s the one on Roots and Samba. It’s an wma around 30mb so it takes a while to download – enojy!

The download function from the site doesn’t work at present, so I had to open in Windows Media Play and save from there. I did contact Brahma’s new Belgium owners to point this out, but no reply not surprisingly. However, it’s odd that the blog which supports the podcasts starts and stops after only a few entries, go figure!

My bands confession

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Anyhow, just to confess my own nerdish behaviour, with a few bands I have seen including:

  • Gary Glitter
  • The Last Poets (Toxteth, Liverpool)
  • Hair Cut 100 (Leicester)
  • Nina Simone (Albert Hall)
  • Showaddwaddy (De Montfort Hall, Leicester)
  • Ike Turner (Ronnie Scott’s)
  • Peter Gabriel
  • Edwin Starr (Stratford)
  • Downset (LA2)
  • Public Enemy (The Dome)
  • Black Grape (Brixton Academy)
  • Erasure (MK Bowl)
  • The Swinging Laurels (the Horsefair: also from Leicester; appeared on TOTP’s with Fun Boy Three)
  • The Buzzcocks
  • John Cage (at the Sydney Opera House)
  • Cornershop (pre-‘brim full of asha’ I booked them for Manchester Town Hall)
  • The Magic Numbers (Summer Sundae 2005)
  • The Dandy Warhols (Princess Charlotte, Leicester)

    • Plus numerous indie bands, most recently the Mile High Penguins (12 Bar Club)!

    Of course each of these comes with its own special anecdote, and thus so to the blogger’s dilemma. Whether to wax lyrical to an audience of 1 (including themself) or to move on to the next day’s rant?