Miscellaneous - August 2010

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published: 16 / 8 / 2010

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Hello and welcome to the August edition of the Pennyblackmusic magazine.We are a few days later than usual getting this magazine on-line this month because of holidays. Despite that we have got another very full edition and are putting on-line a massive

Hello and welcome to the August edition of the Pennyblackmusic magazine. We are a few days later than usual getting this magazine on-line this month because of holidays. Despite that we have got another very full edition and are putting on-line a massive fourteen interviews with this edition. Our lead interview is with the singer Eric Burdon, the singer with the 60’s blues rock outfit, the Animals. Burdon is currently on a world tour with a new line-up of the Animals. He has gained a reputation during his fifty years in the music business for blunt honesty. In an interview with Lisa Torem he talks about the group’s 60’s heyday which saw them have several Top Ten hits and reach number one on both sides of the Atlantic in 1964 with ‘House of the Rising Sun'. He also corrects several of the myths and stories that have substantiated around the band since their original split in 1967. Our other main interviews this month are with Ben Weinman, the guitarist and founder of experimental metal outfit the Dillinger Escape Plan who speaks about his band’s four albums to date; folk singer and adoptee Mary Gauthier who talks about her sixth album, ‘The Foundling’, which was inspired by her failed attempt to meet with her birth mother; Simeon Coxe, the surviving member of 60’s pioneering electronic outfit Silver Apples, and rising Norwegian singer-songwriter and former teenage star, Maria Mena. There are also interviews with leading indie pop outfit Tender Trap who are back with a third album ‘Dansette Dansette'; 80’s Liverpool new wave outfit the Lotus Eaters in what is the first part of a two part interview; Stuart Moxham, the songwriter and guitarist with Young Marble Giants, who has just released a compilation of his thirty years of solo work, ‘Personal Best’, and David Fishof, the founder of Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp, which give fans the opportunity to write and perform with their musical idols. Elsewhere we are running interviews with Indian-American musician and drummer, Sunny Jain, who fronts bhangra-influenced nine piece orchestra Red Baraat; New York dance punk duo the Hundred in the Hands; Michigan-based singer-songwriter Tony Lucca; Mammoeth; the “sour pop” project of Edinburgh-based multi-instrumentalist, Russell Kostulin, and Sean Birdsall, the founder of the North Yorkshire-based Limetree festival, who speaks about its focus on green and family issues. In our Profiles section, there are articles on the early history of Irish rock band the Frames, whose first three albums have been just re-released in expanded editions and Julien Temple’s film biography of Dr Feelgood, ‘Oil City Confidential’, which has just come out on DVD. In our Live Reviews there is a two part review from Andrew Carver of this year’s nearly two week long Ottawa Cisco Systems Blufest. There are also reviews of shows by Bonnie Prince Billy; former Bauhaus front man Peter Murphy; Silver Apples;, the Legendary Shack Shakers; F**ked Up; Neil Halstead; Paul McCartney; Young Rebel Set, the Blanche Hudson Weekend, a five band indie pop bill headlined by Tender Trap, and Mick Travis, the solo project of Jamie Holman, the one-time singer with Tompaulin. In our Regular Features section, our columnists have all been busy. Jeff Thiessen writes in ‘This Metal Sky’ of fourteen things he has learnt about Wilco after listening to their entire discography in a nine hour session. Jon Rogers in ‘Hitting the Right Note’ examines the candidates for this year's Mercury Award and Jamie Rowland in the second of his new series ‘Gimme Indie Rock’, which looks at the best in alternative music, writes of enigmatic Texan-band Zykos. Spencer Robertshaw in his ‘Evidently Spencertown’ poetry column tells in ‘Pissed’ of a disastrous drunken encounter. Ben Howarth with the London Electronic Dance Festival taking place shortly asks what the future holds for dance music in 'Condemned to Rock 'n' Roll', while Lisa Torem in ‘Rock Salt Row’ talks with Jon Rogers about the effect that the issue of change has had on musicians and songwriters. In our ‘Re:View’ section, in which our writers look back at albums from the past, there are features on Dusseldorf electronic band Propaganda’s 1985 debut album,‘A Secret Wish’; R.E.M,’s ‘Fables of the Reconstruction’, also from the same year, and Glaswegian indie rock outfit AC Acoustics’ third album from 2000, ‘Undertsanding Music’. Fiona Hutchings meanwhile has found for us another Website of the Month, which this month is 'Ukelelehunt' , a site all about ukeleles. There are also 32 new album and single reviews. We ran a further 15 album and single reviews in our reviews only up-date at the end of July. Thank you to Peter Allison, Malcolm Carter, Andrew Carver, Dan Cressey, Dixie Ernill, Tony Gaughan, Ben Howarth, Adrian Huggins, Fiona Hutchings, Tara McEvoy, Chris O’ Toole, Spencer Robertshaw, Jon Rogers, Jamie Rowland, Mark Rowland, Maarten Schiethart, Anthony Strutt, Jeff Thiessen. Helen Tipping, Lisa Torem, Paul Waller and Rachel Williams, all of whom contributed articles to this edition or to the reviews up-date in July. Thank you too to Neil Bailey for the photographs that accompany the Peter Murphy article. Special thanks to our webmaster Richard Banks at Pennyblackmusic HQ. We will be back with a reviews up-date in late August and then at the beginning of September with a full edition. We hope then to be running interviews with Blonde Redhead, Swans, Fish, Plumtree, John and Justin Russo, F**ked Up, Susie Hug, Avi Buffalo, Spectorbullets and the Screening. There will also be the second part of the Lotus Eaters interview. and 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