Wednesday, December 23, 2015

John Peel Carol Concert ~ boxing day 1970



About time for a proper Christmas concert I think!

Here are the wonderful voices of "The Top Gear Carol Singers" featuring Marc Bolan, John Peel and wife Sheila, Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge, Rod Stewart, Kenny Jones, Pete Buckland, Romie Young, Sonja Kristina, Ian McLagan, Ronnie Lane, Ronnie Wood, Ivor Cutler and David Bedford (piano).

More info on YouTube.

Monday, December 21, 2015

The Unthanks Archive Treasures (2005 - 2015)



The Unthanks "Memory Box" (mentioned here) seems to be out of stock, but remember you may get your "Archive Treasures" CD, with a fine (instrumental) version of Robert Wyatt´s "Alifib/Alifie", and lots of other good stuff too!

The "Alifib/Alifie" track was recorded at Brighton Dome in 2012.

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Bristol Pound Mug



Great mugshot? I found it over at Stokes Craft China, where you may order one.

The picture is based on stencil artist Stewy´s Bristol £5 note.

Athelas Sinfonietta: Free Will And Testament



Another one from the evening of Athelas Sinfonietta playing Robert Wyatt and Nico in Copenhagen (23 October 2015).

Here is "Free will and testament".

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

A Beautiful Peace



Aaron M. Olson covers "A Beautiful Peace" (R. Wyatt/B. Eno) from "Comicopera" on his Bandcamp album "What Song I Should Sing​?​?​?".

Monday, December 14, 2015

Athelas Sinfonietta: Robert Wyatt





Remember the blog post on Copenhagen´s "G((o))ng Tomorrow" - festival in October, where Athelas Sinfonietta performed works by Robert Wyatt and Nico?

Here are some new videos from YouTube of Regine Petersen´s take on "A Last Straw" and Peter Bruun´s on "Sight of the wind", both sung by Jomi Massage.

Monday, December 7, 2015

TRICATEL XX



The Tricatel record label is celebrating it´s 20th year, and a new sampler called "Tricatel XX" is released 10 December.

One of the tracks on the CD is the wonderful and catchy "This summer night" written by Bertrand Burgalat, Alfreda Benge and Robert Wyatt (who is also singing).
May well be played while it´s still winter too!

And please note, this song is not on the vinyl version!