The MC5 in full flight...
Rare C,S, N+Y version of down by the river: nice bit history and magic opportunity to see stills and young showing what different musical planets they came from...
Nick Drake, The La’s, The Teardrop Explodes, Duran Duran, Talk Talk, Wilco, Debussy, Terry Reily, Levitation, PJ Harvey, Will Oldham, Smog, Julian Cope, John Spencer, Ken Loach, Shane Meadows, e e cummings, William Blake, Mary Shelly, Mike Nichols, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Small Faces, Northern Soul, XTC, ...and you will know us, Sonic Youth, The TV Personalities, Hildegard de Bingen, John Clare, Steve Parker, Chloe Singer, The Divine Comedy, Andy Stirton, Sofalofa, Stockhausen, The Monkees...
'Tupelo' by JLH
John Martyn playing 'Small Hours' in 1978
This is where you can now hear music by BIGTOE and all of his projects: The Crabs, The Waking Shits, Hank Wygston, Jimmy Lazarus, The Incubators and a few more besides. You can catch previews of rare acoustic recordings by big tree as they come hot off the press as well as blasts from the past, maybe even some Headrush for those of you that remember, we'll have to see.
BIGTOE is a singer songwriter, radio DJ at PHONIC FM, polymath film-maker whose music has made it onto Radio 3's 'Mixing It' program, been screened at Cannes Film Festival, been performed and the Summer Sundae festival, Strawberry Fayre and numerous venues all over the UK. He's been signed to Stayfree Records as a memebr of the seminal Leicester scene trailblazers 'Headrush' contributing blistering guitar to the influential E.P. 'Five'. This year he has released music as BigToe in collaboration with the excellent Bathysphere Records and their producers Sofalofa and Asmo. Heady days indeed. In addition to this he's scored numerous short films, documentaries and is working on a range of moving image, music and workshop projects.
Currently unsigned he's working on new material, hunting gigs and any interested parties to collaborate with and promote Big Tree in all its forms. The music has been compared to Nick Drake, Nico, Syd Barret, Jon Spencer, Wilco and XTC. Live he's been wowing audiences from St Ives to Cylde St. with his unique acoustic show that has been known to make grown men cry and talk loudly at the bar.
Hello, we're back again with great new tracks on our page. This month we have some rural bleakness from The Roe Family Singers, the dark intensity of Eamon Dowd, a new song from roots legend Neal Casal and frenetic but compelling from Novillero on the delightfulyl titled but not-at-all-smelly Paco Rabanne. Hope you like them all.
Hello and a Happy New Year to you. An eclectic bunch of songs new to the site this month. The frankly uncategorisable Icelandic band Storsveut Nix Noltes, the sardonic lyics (plus ukelele) of Dent May. some dark folk from The Deep Dark Woods and emerging US singer-songrwiter Israel Nash. Hope you like them all.
Hello. For our final update of 2008 we have a track from the wonderful Todd Snider, classic sounds from The Snakes, the spellbinding voice of Kate Campbell, the atmospheric Iguanas and some leftfield rock'n'roll from Slithering Beast. Merry Christmas/Solstice/whatever and a Happy New Year!
Yes, it's that time of the month again when your listening pleasure can be enhanced by heading off to the AUK Myspace site where you will find folk whimsy from The Travelling Band, poignant thoughfulness from Waylon Jennings, The Butless Chaps (don't you just want to know what they sound like?) and the sweetly swinging (and singing) Tish Hinojosa.
New tracks are up on the website for your listening pleasure. We have the hopefully appropriately titled “Sunshine” from Grantura, a track from the new Catie Curtis album, 166 seconds of cosmic pop from Daniel Wylie and, lest you think we’ve gone all soppy on you, “Head Full Of War from Jackie Leven.
Don’t forget The Electric Dustbowl at the Musician in Leicester on 20 September: £8 in advance buys you Peter Bruntnell, the Redlands Palomino Company, Thomas Denver Jonsson, The Havenots and Jim Jones. Gig of the year!
Hi - good talking to you today i don't know why but I'm always surprised to find out people are living rich and fulfilling lives outside the machine. i should actually make an effort i suppose. lets go for a drink and argue about punk rock manifestos sometime - that is one of my absolutely favourite pastimes. Good luck in the new job too! Ben x
Thankyou for your message,we are heading towards more music land,less 9 to 5 and me gorra gig wiv mr fairly certain on thursday at donkey pub, big hugs in buckets of joy mwah mwah lurve xxxx
Hi Big Toe, how's it goin'? FRUIT FLY is cool, yet NOT SO BAD is stunning!!!! Well, just a preference, I just love this! How was your gig in Wulthamstow? Hope you had big fun!!!!! I hope to change some of the tunes on our space aswell, let ya know!!
all your silver all your gold is currency to me and my friend the doctor,hope to be a clever person and work less and be musicartlyness more DAMN!! I hate the tyrrany of the spellcheck underline.......grrrrrr grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I feel better now x
I'm afraid we're a bit like "Our Missing Guitarists" at the moment so I don't think we'll be doing anything too soon! A shame, I would have loved to done something, but we have a new guitarist now so maybe after August would be good.
