ALL THE WAY TO THE LEFT BANKE

Wow. A TV footage from THE LEFT BANKE performing Shadows Breaking Over My Head! A song that was not even a single as far as I know. And with real vocals too! Thanks BEDAZZLED.

LA MELANCOLIE

I remember when this was on TV. Was it... seven, eight years ago?
Anyway, by the time I had set up the VCR and found a tape I could erase, I had missed the first two songs. Not that it would matter much today, all my video tapes are in the basement and I have no machine to play them.
Still, the power of these two songs struck me so hard, I remember everything so vividly. The shape of the room, the color of the couch, the clothes my girlfriend and my friend Rémi were wearing that night...
For years I've patiently waited for someone to upload these two rare LEO FERRE TV appearances. And now here they are:

THE FALL

It took YAKHYA FALL only two songs to pop up in my personal pantheon of the world's finest guitar players: dig the delayed solo on JANGAAKE, and the Sterling-Morrisonesque solo on NDAGA SEERI BOY.
Discovered both these gems by STAR NUMBER ONE DE DAKAR on THIS COMP containing exhaustive, interesting, historical liner notes on the thick booklet by Florent Mazzoleni.
On the blog linked to, I found the whole albums, featuring yet another magical guitar moment on yet another extra slow track: WAALO.

YOUR OWN WAY

That QUICKSPACE vid put me in a Cullinan mood. Time to share one of the most bizarre offering of this genius musician.
In 2001, under the name DOUGAL REED, he decided to imagine what the most classic album of YACHT-ROCK, FLEETWOOD MAC's RUMOURS would have sounded like, had cheap speed replaced pure coke. Yes, he actually did the whole album.
Here are TWO HIGHLIGHTS. But really the only reason I didn't upload the whole thing is laziness.

FAR AND BEYOND THE UK INDIE SCENE

Yes, in spite of having always been so ridiculously underappreciated, QUICKSPACE did manage to appear on television once (in Japan). And now it's on Youtube. Even though the video has only been watched twenty-two times, one of the Youtube users who commented it got it right: "Quickspace is", indeed, "great band ever".

NILSSON SINGS NILSSON

Blast!