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published: 13 / 11 / 2006



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Hello and welcome to the November edition of the Pennyblackmusic magazine and the official start of Pennyblackmusic Radio. The radio station will will be run by our in-house DJs and writers Maarten Schiethart and Jamie Rowland. Both

Hello and welcome to the November edition of the Pennyblackmusic magazine and the official start of Pennyblackmusic Radio. The radio station will be run by our in-house DJs and writers Maarten Schiethart and Jamie Rowland. Both are experienced DJs. Maarten for many years was a regular host on Rataplan, a radio station based near his native Nimijen in the Southern Netherlands, while Jamie has been experimenting with radio technology since school. They will initially each be putting on air at least one two hour show a month and will be playing both some of the music that we write about in the magazine and also a lot more stuff that they feel alternative music fans should hear. To hear the radio station, you will need Real Player which can be downloaded for free from www.real.com. Please make sure that you download the free one, rather than the expensive range of “business products” that Real Player also have available, and enjoy happy listening. In the magazine, we have another very extensive edition. Our lead interview this month is with ex-Strangler Hugh Cornwell who talks to us about his recent autobiography , ‘A Multitude of Sins’, and his new triple live CD, ‘People, Places and Names’, and single CD, ‘Dirty Dozen’, which features twelve of its highlights. There are also interviews with former Wilco multi-instrumentalist Jay Bennett ; Finnish/French folk rockers and recent Young God signings Mi and L’au, and self-confessed “danceable, shed-rehearsed guitar music” musicians and rising stars of the indie scene, Good Shoes. There is the third and final part of Anthony Strutt’s interview with Dave Jackson, the frontman with Liverpool bands the Room, Benny Profane, Dust and the Dead Cowboys, and the second part of his interview with Bobby Wratten and Beth Arzy from Trembling Blue Stars. Beth also appears in her own interview to talk about her other band, Californian indie rockers who released two singles on the Sarah label in the mid 90’s, and then six years after splitting in turbulent circumstances reformed to record an album ‘Homesick and Happy to Be Here’. We have interviews too with American singer songwriter and political folk rocker Jefferson Pepper ; Nottingham-based alt. rock group Seachange, and in an interview from 2003, which has never been published before in English, Tommy Gunnarsson chats to Rachel Blumberg from the Decemberists and Norfolk and Western about her early indiepop group Boycrazy. In our new ‘Profiles’ section we have reviews of films and DVDs about the Pixies, the Levellers and Love, and there is also a review of the new musical, ‘Monty Python’s Spamalot’. We have live reviews of the Archie Bronson Outfit, the Raconteurs, Beirut, the Divine Comedy, Ben Taylor, Hey Negrita, Hold Steady, Superkings, iLiKETRAiNS, Howling Bells, Sound Team, Jolie Holland, New Rhodes, the Regulations, Embassies of Denmark and Matchbook Romance. In our features section, we have a new column, ‘Ghost in the Machine’, in which Adam Wood will look at bands using the internet as a means for releasing music. He begins with the Kleptones, who cannot release records conventionally for copyright reasons. In our ‘Soundtracks of Our Lives’ column, in which writers write about the importance of music at memorable times in their lives, Olga Sladeckova tells of an evening at her parents’ house in her native Prague spent watching with her late father Eric Clapton perform ‘Tears in Heaven’, while new writer Andrew Hare imagines dancing to Cat Power at his wedding. Elswhere in his ‘Condemned to Rock ‘n’ Roll’ column Ben Howarth looks at ‘Greatest Hits’ albums, while in her ‘Photoscapes’ column Anna Gudaniec shoots new British group Dartz. There is also the second part of professional sound engineer Phil Vincent’s hilarious account of a disastrous weekend spent working at the TDK Cross Central Festival in August. In our ‘Re :View’ section, in which we re-examine albums from the past, Jonjo McNeill examines the Boo Radleys 1996 album ‘C’mon Kids’, while our Website of the Month is ‘National Capital Rock’, the music blogspot of our writer Andrew Carver. We are also running 32 album and single reviews. In our mid-month up-date in October we ran a further 26 reviews. As well as Andrew Hare, who is an American-born student and long term music fan currently based in Lancaster, we have also been joined by another writer, Emma Dawson, who is a music fan based in Manchester. Emma has contributed the Badly Drawn Boy single review and also the Superkings live review. Thank you and welcome to both of them. Thank you to also to Malcolm Carter, Andrew Carver, Daniel Cressey,, Dixie Ernill, Anna Gudaniec, Tommy Gunnarsson, Alex Halls, Ben Howarth, Adrian Huggins, Sarah Johnson, Chris Jones, Geraint Jones, Jonjo McNeill, Mark Rowland, Olga Sladeckova, Anthony Strutt, Helen Tipping , Phil Vincent.and Adam Wood , all of whome have contributed articles and reviews to either this edition or the mid-month up-date. Special thanks to Richard Banks at Pennyblackmusic HQ and Jamie and Maarten, who have both put in a lot of late nights into getting the radio station on-line. We will be back in mid November with our regular mid-month reviews up-date and then in December with another full magazine. We hope to be running interviews then with the Brakes, Harper Lee, Tunng, the Early Years, Palace Fires, Kelley Stoltz and Francis MacDonald. There will also be the third and final part of our interview with Trembling Blue Stars, and an interview with Egg Records. There will be more from the Profile slot. We will also have another Re : View and Website of the Month and more features, live reviews and album and single reviews. Thank you as always for reading. John Clarkson Magazine Editor www.pennyblackmusic.com




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