Miscellaneous - March 2010

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published: 6 / 3 / 2010

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Hello and welcome to the March edition of the Pennyblackmusic Magazine. Our lead interview this month is with Peter Yarrow from the 60’s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary. He talks wi

Hello and welcome to the March edition of the Pennyblackmusic Magazine. Our lead interview this month is with Peter Yarrow from the 60’s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary. He talks with Lisa Torem about the constant political nature of his song writing and, after the death of Mary Travers last year, what will probably be the last album of the influential group’s career, which-a collection of reworked versions of their best known songs- has been recorded with the Prague Symphony Orchestra. Our other main interviews are with German shoegaze-influenced musician and producer Ulrich Schnauss who has ‘Missing Deadlines’, an album of remixes due out shortly on Rocket Girl, and also 60’s influenced garage rock trio the Len Price 3 whose latest album, 'Pictures', has come out on Steve Van Zandt’s Wicked Cool label. There are interviews as well with former Hanoi Rocks singer Michael Monroe who has recently started out on a solo career; Chicago bluesman Barrelhouse Chuck; Manchester-based alt. rock outfit Last Harbour who have recently returned with their fourth album ‘Volo’; singer-songwriter Andy Robinson who has just released his debut album ‘England’s Bleeding’, and bedroom artist and electronic musician Paperplain. With our Bands Night coming up at the Half Moon pub in Herne Hill, South London, there are also interviews with three of the artists on the bill. In a two part interview Jamie Rowland speaks to Adam Easterbrook about his psychedelic trio of Arrowe Hill’s four albums and there are interviews as well with Cambridge and London-based indie pop consortium the Pony Collaboration and distorted country blues singer The Rebel. With the fourth band on the bill and our headliners, the legendary Television Personalities, there is already an interview on-line. We are also in our ‘Profiles’ section running two other interviews as well for this month, the first with Dr Haze, the founder of horror-themed and self-proclaimed rock and roll freak show the Circus of Horrors,and the second with Kenny Paterson, a studio engineer from the mid 1980's to 1990's at Glasgow's Park Lane Studios, who has recently put together a retrospective CD, 'Park Lane Archives', which compiles together tracks from many of the artists who recorded there. In the 'Profiles' section also Jeff Thiessen examines the death of the music video, and there are articles on ‘Yellow Bittern’, a DVD film which is a biography of the late Irish folk ballad singer Liam Clancy, and on-line fanzine Mudkiss’s second book, a collection of all their interviews from last year. In our ‘Live’ section there are reviews of gigs from Pere Ubu, Willy Vlautin, Owen Pallett, Nancy Elizabeth, Vivian Girls, I Am Kloot, Leatherface, Anais Mitchell and Erin McKeown, Danny and the Champions of the World, Isa and the Filthy Tongues, the Circus of Horrors, Charles Hayward and Simone Felice. In our 'Features' section, Pennyblackmusic poet Spencer Robertshaw writes of consumer television and ‘The Shopping Channnel’. Jon Rogers in two instalments of his column ‘Hitting the Right Note’ writes both about the government’s proposed bill to watershed all music videos of a sexual nature until after 9 p.m. and also the Brit Awards. Ben Howarth in ‘Condemned to Rock ‘n’ Roll’ writes of the uniqueness of Seattle-based singer-songwriter Laura Veirs. In ‘Rock Salt Row’ Lisa Torem talks with Jamie Rowland about the different seasons and which one makes for the best rock lyrics, while Jeff Thiessen in ‘This Metal Sky’ examines the case for both Queens of the Stone Age and Black Label Society. There is also a ‘Photoscape’ from Anna Gudaniec of a live gig in London from young power pop trio Twenty Twenty. In our ‘Re:View' section there are articles on Jay-Z’s 2001 rap album ‘The Breakthrough’ and San San Francisco-based experimental rock band Faith No More's 1992 fourth album, 'Angel Dust'. Our Websitte of the Month is on-line music magazine, ‘Rock 3 Music’. There are also 32 album and single reviews. We put on-line another 32 album and single reviews in our reviews up-date in mid February. As always, this magazine is is put together through the hard work and enthusiasm people. Thank you to Peter Allison, Carl Bookstein, Malcolm Carter, Andrew Carver, Anthony Dhanendran, Dixie Ernill, Russell Ferguson, Benjamin Howarth, Adrian Huggins, Fiona Hutchings, Sarah Johnson, Anthony Middleton, Chris O’ Toole, Spencer Robertshaw, Jon Rogers, Jamie Rowland, Mark Rowland, Maarten Schiethart, Dominic Simpson, Anthony Strutt, Lisa Torem , Denzil Watson and Rachel Williams, all of whom contributed articles to this edition. Thank you too to guest writers Sue and Freddie Taylor-Shearer who who contributed the Nancy Elizabeth live reviews and Alan Taylor-Shearer who contributed photographs for both of those articles. Thank you also to photographer, Anna Gudaniec for the Twenty Twenty ’Photoscape'. Special thanks to our webmaster Richard Banks at Pennyblackmusic HQ without whom none of this would be possible. Our next Pennyblackmusic Night will take place on Saturday 20th March at the Half Moon in Herne Hill, London and will be headlined by the Television Personalities (single launch) with support from of Arrowe Hill (album launch), the Pony Collaboration and The Rebel. Tickets are available in advance from www.wegottickets.co.uk/event/71527 for £5.00 (+50p booking fee).They will also be available on the door on the night for £7. Doors will open at 8.00 p.m. First act on 8.15.p.m. We will be back directly after the Pennyblackmusic Night with a reviews up-date and then at the beginning of April with a full edition. We hope then to be running interviews with the Radio Dept, Erland and the Carnival, Grand Funk Railroad, Xiu Xiu, Musee Mecanique,David Grisman, Anthony Reynolds, the Jim Jones Revue, the Electric Pop Group, Jack Rabbit Slim, Dakota and music documentary maker John Edgington as well as the usual range of features, live reviews, profiles and more album and single reviews. Thank you as always for reading. John Clarkson Magazine Editor www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk