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DJ fun at How Does It Feel live

November 27, 2011 by Tim Leave a Comment

Last Thursday I had the pleasure of spinning some of my treasured 45s in support of White Town and three other great acts, at How Does It Feel‘s live gig night at Brixton’s Jamm venue. A few people came up to me throughout the evening to ask what I was playing, so I thought I’d share a list of my choices with you. I particularly recommend the yodelsome Alice Babs tune if you haven’t heard her before.

Stereolab & Sonic Boom – Splitting The Atom Part Two (Duophonic)
Holger Czukay – Ode To Perfume (EMI)
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers – Egyptian Reggae (Berserkley)
Duane Eddy – Gidget Goes Hawaiian (London)
Ennio Morricone – My Name Is Nobody (General Music France)
Los Diablos – Un Rayo De Sol (EMI/Odeon)
Helmut Zacharias – Teatime In Tokyo (Polydor)
Les Souls Men – Allons La Caze (Soredisc)
Digno Garcia Y Sus Carius – Brigitte Bardot (Palette)
France Gall – Baby Pop (Philips)
Alice Babs – After You’ve Gone (Fontana)
Can – I Want More (Virgin)
Yamasuki – AIEAOA (UK Records)
Denton and Cook – Tomorrow’s World (BBC Records & Tapes)

I had so much fun choosing how to follow each record. If you put on gigs or clubnights, why not book me to play more weird pop nonsense?

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Tonight! Interview on BBC6music!

August 7, 2011 by Tim 2 Comments

Just a quick note to say that we’re being interviewed tonight on Tom Robinson’s excellent Introducing show, on BBC6music. For the next seven days it’ll be available to listen again via BBC iPlayer.

Here’s the programme page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0133r4w

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Scala Forever

July 27, 2011 by Christopher Leave a Comment

This week, we were delighted to find out about Scala Forever, “a season of films reliving the legendary Scala Cinema’s programming history and celebrating the current repertory film scene in London”. The season lasts from August 13th until October 2nd and is taking place at lots of different venues across London. Pretty much every single film that is showing is amazing, but here are some of our must-see picks:

Morgiana / Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders: a double-bill of classic Czechoslovakian dreamscapes.

Liquid Sky / Cafe Flesh: two bizarre and ultra-stylised sexy sci-fi films, as featured in our Bible, Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide To Punks On Film.

Profondo Rosso / Tenebre / Opera: three films by our favourite director and one of our biggest influences.

All three of these events are at The Roxy, a lovely bar/venue with a decidedly Lynchian vibe. We’d also strongly recommend the Portobello Pop-Up Cinema‘s screening of Russian/Armenian masterpiece The Colour Of Pomegranates and a stellar line-up of homoeroticism, sensuality and, erm, Glen Or Glenda at the Rio Cinema. All in all, should be a great couple of months. See you there!

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Fun at the Independent Label Market

May 22, 2011 by Tim Leave a Comment

Yesterday, to take a break from rehearsals for tonight’s gig with the High Llamas, we travelled up to Berwick Street in Soho to take a stroll around the Independent Label Market. The atmosphere was convivial and there were plenty of familiar faces to say hello to. Some stalls were more appealing than others, and we spent a lot of time at the Soul Jazz table – so many lovely items!

Soul Jazz’s Stuart Baker and some branded bunting:

The Tri Angle/Merok stall representing the shadowy hordes of hypnagogia:

Soul Jazz in closeup:

The Rough Trade boombox:

Merok goodies on display:

Our haul:

Let’s do it again next year!

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Visuals by Jade Boyd

December 18, 2010 by Mei Yau Leave a Comment

For our thoroughly enjoyable recent gig at The Outer Church in Brighton, we were lucky enough to have visuals done specially for us by video artist, Jade Boyd. Given that Jade had recently provided visuals for none other than the legendary Alan Howarth (when he performed at the Unsound Festival), this was really quite an honour for us. We very much hope to work with Jade again in the future. Here are some stills from the video she made for our performance:

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Bastille Day

July 12, 2010 by Christopher 1 Comment

Yesterday found Mei Yau and myself in the Expo ’70-esque, utopian splendour of Battersea Park.

As committed Francophiles, we were there to celebrate French nationhood a few days early at the second annual Bastille Day London Garden Party. Balloons were released in the French national colours, and we enjoyed classic chansons from Les Apaches – who we had previously encountered supporting Monade at the Brixton Windmill.

There were also performances by the legendary Bluebell Girls from Paris’s famous Lido cabaret. These stunning dancers were matched in flamboyance by a troupe of tutu-wearing Bichon Frisé dogs, who made a brief but memorable appearance.

A petanque tournament was staged and, for a personal highlight, I was able to meet French international rugby superstar Serge Betsen.

However, anyone who knows us will be unsurprised to learn that the true high points of our day came from the impressive selection of French food that was available. We were particularly impressed by the delicious macarons from (I think) Café On, and an absolutely stunning raclette. There was a huge queue for this last dish throughout the day, and when we finally decided to join it, the long and tantalising wait proved to be more than worth it!

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On the radio with Lucky Cat

February 8, 2010 by Mei Yau Leave a Comment

For those who missed our appearance on Zoë Baxter’s Lucky Cat show last week on Resonance FM, the podcast is now online. Listen to catch the first airing of our new song When You Were Dreaming.

HK60s on Lucky Cat, Resonance FM studio

We had a great time chatting about old tapes, nostalgia, food, Chinese music and our songs. Thanks to Zoë for inviting us!

By the way, if you’re curious about the Willow Pattern Blues song and video that I mentioned on the show please check out Durian Dave’s blog post on Soft Film.

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