New Year Podcast from Friends of the Stars
This just in from FRIENDS OF THE STARS…
Happy New Year from Friends of the Stars. Here’s wishing you a safe, happy and prosperous 2010.
As for us, we hope to have a new record to tell you about shortly..watch this space. In the meantime, it’s time for another installment of our ever-popular Podcast. Somewhat amazingly, we’re now clocking in with Episode 21.
FOTS-POD#21 - “A Robson in Winter” - DOWNLOAD MP3
Episode 21 finds Campbell and Craig tucking into a couple of afternoon beers during the recent post-Christmas lull. The boys discuss Craig’s recent fatherhood following the birth of his son, Mac Charlie, and also the joys of accompanying Executive Producer Robson on a fraught trip to IKEA. The podcast once again features swearing and also music from Kris Kristofferson, The La’s, Randy Newman, Bobbie Gentry and more.
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TRACKLISTING
Feelin’ - The La’s
Closer To The Bone - Kris Kristofferson
Trains to Brazil - The Guillemots
Fancy - Bobbie Gentry
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Who You Gonna Call on Judgment Day - Prince Far I
Lyla - Oasis
Raspberry Beret - Hindu Love Gods
Everyday - Slade
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
Baltimore - Randy Newman
Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) - George Harrison
LINER NOTES: (Now with Spotify links, where available)
Way too long for one of the best British bands ever (with obvious caveats, natch) to make an appearance on a FOTS Pod
Kris Kristofferson - Closer To The Bone
Bob Dylan is on this recent high watermark from the former Oxford Don and chicken murderer. A sanguine ode to getting old - makes songwriting sound effortless, right?
The Guillemots - Trains to Brazil
Pretty amazing songwriting chops on display again. We kind of knew Fyfe a while ago when he was part of marvellous Brummie oddballs The Courtesy Group, a band fronted then and now by Fyfe’s brother and good pal of FOTS Al Hutchins, who performed at our album launch party for Lighting & Electrical.
Bobbie Gentry is a bit of an unsung songwriting heroine - probably unsung because she was a looker too. But, in her own words, “”Fancy” is my strongest statement for women’s lib, if you really listen to it. I agree wholeheartedly with that movement and all the serious issues that they stand for — equality, equal pay, day care centers, and abortion rights.”
Man, Genesis and Peter Gabriel take a lot of liking but you can’t deny this tune. Amazing.
Prince Far I - Who You Gonna Call on Judgment Day
Scary Dub. The former Studio One bouncer’s first album “Psalm’s for I” features the Lord’s Prayer and various Psalms and was dedicated to the illiterate who could not read the Bible for themselves.
Oasis - Lyla
By a mile the best thing they have done in the last 15 years - great tune and confirms what all the cool people knew already, that they coulda been AMAZING (without the dough, the drugs, the genes)
Hindu Love Gods - Raspberry Beret
Warren Zevon and guys from REM give this classic Prince tune a nice Paisley (Park) Underground vibe
Slade - Everyday
Lovely ballad but if you was a burd, you wouldn’t want Noddy bellowing at you, wouldya? After a bottle of Mateus Rose, it would feel like the gates of hell were in fact mutton chops flecked with Banks’ bitter foam and pork scratchings.
When Whitesnake were pioneers of British heavy metal (which, at its best, was just great rock music made by Wilfred Owen and Beano fans), they made this awesome tune. Then David Coverdale nobbed off to America and remade it, with a supermodel and spandex. The first one was better
Randy Newman - Baltimore
Randy Newman is becoming a bit of an obsession, as was The Wire when I finally got around to it last year. This is a FOTS tribute to both.
George Harrison - Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)
All Things Must Past was the best thing any ex-Beatle ever made
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