Another great song with the whole boy/ girl thing going on. One of my fave songs by The Vaselines - Son of a Gun. And, what makes it better is that I was there!
Monday, 26 March 2012
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Boy girl voices - Veronica Falls
To mark the return, a new series - this time favourite boy/ girl vocals. Here's a relatively up to date one. Veronica Falls and Found love in a graveyard.
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
New discoveries
Over the course of gig going, recent rehearsals and extensive radio listening, I have found three new-to-me bands that I want to share. Weirdly, they all begin with 'P'.
1. Peggy Sue - spotted supporting Wild Flag in Glasgow recently. Good voices and guitar action too.
2. Penguins Kill Polar Bears - overheard making a helluva noise at The Depot rehearsal rooms in Edinburgh. On the same evening Kid Canaveral were practising too - indie glitterati indeed!
3. Papercuts - yes, I know they have been around for a while, but that's ok! Sub Pop reckon the latest album is Belle and Sebastian crossed with Slowdive, recorded by Phil Spectre. How can that be bad?
1. Peggy Sue - spotted supporting Wild Flag in Glasgow recently. Good voices and guitar action too.
2. Penguins Kill Polar Bears - overheard making a helluva noise at The Depot rehearsal rooms in Edinburgh. On the same evening Kid Canaveral were practising too - indie glitterati indeed!
3. Papercuts - yes, I know they have been around for a while, but that's ok! Sub Pop reckon the latest album is Belle and Sebastian crossed with Slowdive, recorded by Phil Spectre. How can that be bad?
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Shredders in chiffon: Carrie Brownstein
Concluding the Shredders in chiffon series with one of the best guitarists I have ever seen - Carrie Brownstein. Formerly of Sleater-Kinney and currently touring with Wild Flag, the Portland-based musician often crops up in 'best female guitarists' lists.
Brownstein started playing guitar when she was 15 and stuck with it ever since. She attended the 'birthplace of riot grrl' Evergreen College in Olympia, Oregon at the same time as Kathleen Hanna and founded Sleater-Kinney with Corin Tucker in 1994.
Now with Wild Flag (a band that boasts another awesome female guitarist in the form of Mary Timony), Carrie's fluidity and speed up and down the neck results in some impressive (but usually fairly tasteful) solos. Combined with windmills plenty and some high kicks too, she's just so rock and roll.
And so to equipment: Guild S-100 with Bigsby and I've seen her use amps by both Vox and Fender. Pedal-wise, she uses a Line 6 Delay, Boss Blues Driver, Boss OD3 Overdrive and a Z-Vex Super Hard On. Thanks are due to Dr Mailbag Hickory for pedal ID skills - please visit the Mailbag Hickory photography blog or follow on Twitter - @stcstc.
Anyway, here is Carrie Brownstein ripping it up with Wild Flag in Glasgow recently.
Brownstein started playing guitar when she was 15 and stuck with it ever since. She attended the 'birthplace of riot grrl' Evergreen College in Olympia, Oregon at the same time as Kathleen Hanna and founded Sleater-Kinney with Corin Tucker in 1994.
Now with Wild Flag (a band that boasts another awesome female guitarist in the form of Mary Timony), Carrie's fluidity and speed up and down the neck results in some impressive (but usually fairly tasteful) solos. Combined with windmills plenty and some high kicks too, she's just so rock and roll.
And so to equipment: Guild S-100 with Bigsby and I've seen her use amps by both Vox and Fender. Pedal-wise, she uses a Line 6 Delay, Boss Blues Driver, Boss OD3 Overdrive and a Z-Vex Super Hard On. Thanks are due to Dr Mailbag Hickory for pedal ID skills - please visit the Mailbag Hickory photography blog or follow on Twitter - @stcstc.
Anyway, here is Carrie Brownstein ripping it up with Wild Flag in Glasgow recently.
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