Song of the day - 123: Pulco

I'm a sucker for a Welsh accent.

Song of the day - 116: 5 String Drop Out

Via Facebook, dude sends me a link to some of his music. I like his music. I post a link to it here.

Song of the day - 96: Patrik Fitzgerald

To celebrate the fact my formative influence Patrik Fitzgerald has befriended me on Facebook, and was even nice enough to "like" a recent Thin Kids video, I figured it's long overdue that I pay tribute to him here.

Patrik Fitzgerald (the documentary)

So, damn it all, if I didn't miss alerting you all to Raindance's on-line première of All The Years Of Trying, Dom Shaw's DVD documentary of Patrik Fitzgerald (it was a few days back)...

Patrik Fitzgerald (the graffiti)

Torgeir writes...

Patrik Fitzgerald (the press clipping)

Patrik Fitzgerald (the tribute album)

...and so, I figured that I'm never going to get round to posting up all this news concerning Patrik's tiny corner of the world and... well, that bothered me. So what I figured I'd do is carry on reprinting emails from my correspondents. Not least because this one is so comprehensive!

This next one is from the very likeable Torgeir Lund, the man behind Crispin Glover Records (and Torgeir, you have my abject apologies for not doing a detailed run-down on this album like yours but really I felt is was unnecessary after yours, plus I just think the whole project is great, top-notch)...

Patrik Fitzgerald (an introduction)

OK. So it happened like this.

The Greatest Moment in Recorded History...

...in case you were wondering, and thinking that it's a competition, and perhaps felt lonely and bored and in need of succour or something...

ET Recommends - 12: Milk Kan

This is in anticipation of them finally sending me a copy of their album.

Solo, singer Scrappy Hood was one of my favourite live acts of 2007-8: genial, raucous, blessed with the same flair for songwriting that once made Squeeze so fine, and with a capacity for drink and adventure that I could only look fondly upon. He writes the sort of smart, lovable songs that you find yourself howling along to after one full frothing pint and no food. I've got a collection of his demos somewhere that I can't help suspecting the album won't best: equal parts Patrik Fitzgerald and Television Personalities, with a little of the bling of Mike Skinner thrown in. We loved it passionately and briefly for about two weeks and then moved on. So maybe Scrappy is a little smart-arse Mockney and corny and concerned with what passes for the zeitgeist in London and Brighton but fuck it. He's FUN!

Milk Kan have got a song on the recent Patrik Fitzgerald tribute All Sewn Up which - Benjamin Zephaniah's take on 'Work. Rest. Play. Reggae' aside - is the most conceptually perfect thing there: chirpy, cheeky, angry and sad.

Remind me to tell you about Patrik and the tribute later.

And if that bloody Milk Kan CD doesn't finally show up this week, I'm taking this entry down, y' slack bastards.

P.S. Less than 12 hours after this entry was made, it finally turned up! Yay!

Milk Kan vs Susan Boyle

I don't have any clear idea who Susan Boyle is, not being in tune with the masses.