Leon McDermott
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Have you heard Thalia Zedek (Come, Live Skull etc.) covering Dance Me To The End Of Love? She’s got the perfect ragged voice for it and the keening fiddle is worn and woozy and glorious.
youtu.be/B7LSQ2FZHWU
youtu.be/B7LSQ2FZHWU
Dance Me to the End of Love
YouTube video by Thalia Zedek Band - Topic
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Have you heard Thalia Zedek (Come, Live Skull etc.) covering Dance Me To The End Of Love? She’s got the perfect ragged voice for it and the keening fiddle is worn and woozy and glorious.
youtu.be/B7LSQ2FZHWU
youtu.be/B7LSQ2FZHWU
3 hrs, wow. We got a 15 min take on Indian Love Song which was just astonishing, plus some musings from Warren about being in Glasgow in the 80s and a rendition of the trad tune “The Muckin’ O’ Geordie’s Byre”.
December 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
3 hrs, wow. We got a 15 min take on Indian Love Song which was just astonishing, plus some musings from Warren about being in Glasgow in the 80s and a rendition of the trad tune “The Muckin’ O’ Geordie’s Byre”.
Saw them in Glasgow on Sunday and we got that! Also - they played for almost two and a half hours and it barely felt like half that. Gig of the year. Sadly no Lidl Christmas jumper though.
December 4, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Saw them in Glasgow on Sunday and we got that! Also - they played for almost two and a half hours and it barely felt like half that. Gig of the year. Sadly no Lidl Christmas jumper though.
Re no 1 you should watch this: m.imdb.com/title/tt0920...
Castells (2006) ⭐ 8.1 | Documentary
1h 28m
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November 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Re no 1 you should watch this: m.imdb.com/title/tt0920...
He properly churns it out (in the best possible way) and is also one of the nicest people you ever could meet.
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
He properly churns it out (in the best possible way) and is also one of the nicest people you ever could meet.
This one - heard him play some bits of it live in a barn in Fife, and then again a couple of months later in Glasgow and it’s ridiculously gorgeous. memotone.bandcamp.com/album/smalle...
smallest things, by memotone
12 track album
memotone.bandcamp.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This one - heard him play some bits of it live in a barn in Fife, and then again a couple of months later in Glasgow and it’s ridiculously gorgeous. memotone.bandcamp.com/album/smalle...
Getting more into shoegaze is good. Back then Swervedriver would have hated being called that. And right enough they were much more part of the Silverfish/Th’ Faith Healers/etc noise scene than Ride/early Boo Radleys/other Creation bands and so on.
November 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Getting more into shoegaze is good. Back then Swervedriver would have hated being called that. And right enough they were much more part of the Silverfish/Th’ Faith Healers/etc noise scene than Ride/early Boo Radleys/other Creation bands and so on.
That front cover is beautiful.
November 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
That front cover is beautiful.
Me and [redacted, not on bsky] were talking about this the other day - the green/red indicator being part of the light housing is probably a money-saving measure. Even if it’s totally antithetical to what people are used to.
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Me and [redacted, not on bsky] were talking about this the other day - the green/red indicator being part of the light housing is probably a money-saving measure. Even if it’s totally antithetical to what people are used to.
Had tagged you because I’ve read enough of your writing to know that you would know this one. (Also you wrote one of my favourite things about the God Machine). (Also also we both knew Keith and I know he loved this too.)
November 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Had tagged you because I’ve read enough of your writing to know that you would know this one. (Also you wrote one of my favourite things about the God Machine). (Also also we both knew Keith and I know he loved this too.)
Oh they were so good. I’d tagged you because I thought you might be into it but had no idea whether you knew them or not.
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Oh they were so good. I’d tagged you because I thought you might be into it but had no idea whether you knew them or not.
And that’s before we even get to the racism!
November 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
And that’s before we even get to the racism!
Obviously the environment cleaner (coal! Leaded petrol! factories dumping into rivers! etc)/ streets safer (Yorkshire Ripper and general disregard of sexual assault!)/ people happier (who did they survey? Only bin fetishists who were adults in 1975?) is all bollocks.
November 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Obviously the environment cleaner (coal! Leaded petrol! factories dumping into rivers! etc)/ streets safer (Yorkshire Ripper and general disregard of sexual assault!)/ people happier (who did they survey? Only bin fetishists who were adults in 1975?) is all bollocks.
It’s the Telegraph so it’s “who remembers proper binmen?” nonsense but interestingly in Andy Beckett’s When The Lights Went Out: Britain In The Seventies he cites ‘75/76 as the point where the UK was most equal, with the smallest gap between the most & least wealthy. 30 yrs of hard work led to that.
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
It’s the Telegraph so it’s “who remembers proper binmen?” nonsense but interestingly in Andy Beckett’s When The Lights Went Out: Britain In The Seventies he cites ‘75/76 as the point where the UK was most equal, with the smallest gap between the most & least wealthy. 30 yrs of hard work led to that.
Can “I’m So Green” > Pentangle “Light Flight” > Labi Siffre “Rocking Chair” is a great sequence. Also, I see that on side on is Camille Yarborough’s Take Yo’ Praise and am wondering if Camden Market is where Norman Cook got his inspiration from.
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Can “I’m So Green” > Pentangle “Light Flight” > Labi Siffre “Rocking Chair” is a great sequence. Also, I see that on side on is Camille Yarborough’s Take Yo’ Praise and am wondering if Camden Market is where Norman Cook got his inspiration from.
We were both right - it’s part of the Western and it is indeed a tennis court! maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We were both right - it’s part of the Western and it is indeed a tennis court! maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...
Pretty sure that’s part of the Western Infirmary (though not sure if that’s actually a tennis court).
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Pretty sure that’s part of the Western Infirmary (though not sure if that’s actually a tennis court).
Yeah LSR would be quite the jump! First one I got was Candy Apple Grey (Goldrush Records, Perth, Sept 92). I remember the green stapled-together mail order catalogue from Gema in Reading which had so many imports and was where I got Flip Your Wig and Zen Arcade.
October 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Yeah LSR would be quite the jump! First one I got was Candy Apple Grey (Goldrush Records, Perth, Sept 92). I remember the green stapled-together mail order catalogue from Gema in Reading which had so many imports and was where I got Flip Your Wig and Zen Arcade.
Oh, this is such a lovely piece. Copper Blue came out when I had just turned 15 and led me deep down the Hüskers rabbit hole (not easy or quick in 1992 rural Scotland). And props for the shoutout for You Can Live At Home!
October 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Oh, this is such a lovely piece. Copper Blue came out when I had just turned 15 and led me deep down the Hüskers rabbit hole (not easy or quick in 1992 rural Scotland). And props for the shoutout for You Can Live At Home!
Coming soon to an episode of In Our Time.
October 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Coming soon to an episode of In Our Time.
Totally feels like the kind of thing that, 30 years ago, would have had Tom Bell in a sinister behind the scenes role.
October 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Totally feels like the kind of thing that, 30 years ago, would have had Tom Bell in a sinister behind the scenes role.