Blue Caravan

I was always a huge fan of the Hull based band Red Guitars. They made some great records and I enjoyed there mixture of punk, blues, reggae and African rhythms. This is from their 1986 12-inch single and it makes still fun to listen to it again.

Enjoy and have a good week people.

Blue Caravan (Acoustic)

Jailbreak

Today's song showed up these days on my mobile phone and I couldn't get it out of my head since then. It is a version of a classical tune from Thin Lizzy from their 1976 album with the same title. I love the version by the Dropkick Murphys because of it's power. This song is still played by the Dropkicks in their concerts. I would like to present the original as well but I can't find it on my hard drive. Still a song you can't destroy.

Dropkick Murphys - Jailbreak

Inglan Is A Bitch

Let's start this week with an old reggae-styled tune from an activist for peoples aims and opportunities in the early 1980s. Linton Kwesi Johnson was the voice of a lot of black people in Great Britain these days and also immigrants from the Caribean sea. Telling us all, what it means to life and work as a man with migration background. Seems like nothing happened since then....

Linton Kwesi Johnson - Inglan is a bitch

I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day

My brothers musical distinction is a lot different to mine. But both of us agree on Irish style punk music like The Pogues or Dropkick Murphys. I remember several concerts we both went and had many fun. We've seen The Pogues back in 1982 when they promoted their first album 'Red Roses For Me'. Seldom seen such an intensive concert before. We both wondered also how much Shane MacGowan and Cait O'Riordan could drink along their appearance. How it ended we've seen a couple of years later when he fall down the stage and couldn't get up again so that Joe Strummer had to take over the vocals. This is one of the rare songs from the Pogues when O'Riordan took over the vocals.

The Pogues - I'm a man you don't meet every day

Dancing In The Moonlight

Back in the days of my youth we had a location for special events. It was downstairs in a cellar downtown in my hometown. We celebrated new years day and several bank holidays at our little club. What made fun to us in the late 70's were Thin Lizzy with their great live record. Sometimes we played one whole side at a row. For me Phil Lynott was great at this time and no one could touch his great presence. 'Dancing in the moonlight' might be his heritage to us.

Thin Lizzy - Dancing In The Moonlight

The Head Of Dead Surfers

Long Fin Killie was a Scottish experimental rock/post-rock band and nearly famous in the mid 90s. They published a few albums and EP's, got a lot of good critics but less airplay on the radio (except John Peel of course). The band's sound, though diverse, was influenced by the likes of dream pop mainstays A R Kane, Cocteau Twins, and Slowdive, 1970s German krautrock groups like Can, and labelmates Moonshake, Pram and Laika. Mark E. Smith of The Fall contributed "guest rants" to the song "The Heads of Dead Surfers," which appeared in 1995 on the EP of the same name, as well as on Houdini. Found this CD in my archive last evening, listened to it and was to lazy to rip it. Therefore you get the collaboration with Mark E. Smith.

Have fun - weekend is very close

Long Fin Killie & Mark E. Smith - The Heads Of Dead Surfers