Peter & the Muslims on The Waiting Room
My weekly appearance on The Waiting Room included a very scant intro to The Fence Collective this week, and was entirely overshadowed by DC’s lovely missus, and also his interview and live recordings with Peter & the Wolf. In fact, my bit on Fence was by necessity so cursory and superficial that I may actually do my whole podcast on them this weekend, and give a full review of the weekend at Homegame in the process. Yes, why not, let’s do that.
There’s a bit of a competition going on as well, because apparently there is a unique, hand-drawn copy of Peter & the Wolf’s new CD The Ivory Palms up for grabs. To enter all you have to do is listen to the podcast, answer the following question: What’s the name of the war photographer Red Hunter (ie the P&tW chappie) cites as his major influence? and email DC at thewaitingroom AT btinternet DOT com by Sunday 13th April.
The Waiting Room, Wednesday 9th April 2008
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As a further act of generosity DC has emailed me a couple of technically almost* flawless live recordings from that very night to share with all you lovely people:
Peter & the Wolf – My Gray Overcoat
Peter & the Wolf – Anna Maria
Also, I found this song which seemed incredibly appropriate – DC, you’re welcome mate!
The Twentymen – The Waiting Room
And as a salute to DC’s frankly silly assertion that Barack Obama is in fact a Muslim, I have a couple of other songs that seemed, erm, well about as appropriate as anything on this farce of a website:
The Muslims – Extinction
The Muslims – Right & Wrong
*By almost, he means may contain all sorts of pops and crackles and things like that.
I can’t believe you found the Muslims! They’re such a painfully local band over here, and such nice guys, too. How exciting that Barack’s Kenyan father could prompt such a post.
24 hours ago i had never heard of The Muslims – but since then I stumbled onto them – possibly at http://somevelvetblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/muslims-want-you-to-rock.html and -as I’ve since said there- I have been delighted ever since.
And that was before I even read anything about them. Just the bandname was enough for me – and possibly other things copped in the nanosecond it took me to go and hear their music: the lack of dayglo clothes; the lack of a studied SXSW-friendly scruffiness; the promise of something not beholden to Radiohead or Hot Chip; the superbly sussed name in this era of very irritating ones; and the fact that I hope they won’t be busting a gut to be pals with Lightspeed Champion and and…
And a few minutes ago I finally let my eyes take on some words at the aformementioned blog and the delight continues thanks to the quote: “We don’t know what the fuck we’re doing. And that’s why it sounds like The Velvet Underground.”
Why did it never occur to me to say that all these years?
Amazing how refreshing The Muslims sound. No wonder perhaps since I write this in a office sat next to someone blasting the some crap R&B pop, who was just asking me about last nights American Idol, and i am steeling myself for hate campaign since today’s national paper here in Singapore has quoted me saying not-nice things about Mariah Carey after i was asked for a quote w/ regard to her somethingsomething sales something means she ‘beats’ Elvis…
Anyway, ramble ramble to share that Velvet quote with you. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing.
And all i really meant to say was how much i prefer The Muslims to The Christians.
Thanks China – I downloaded some songs of theirs ages ago, which I really liked, but know virtually nothing about them. Time to investigate further I think. I think that every time I hear their songs.
Hello Ben, Some Velvet Blog is actually not one I read, not out of any sort of judgment call, just because there are lots of blogs out there and you just can’t read them all. I’ve pinched the mp3s you mentioned though and am currently working my way through some older posts. Those Muslims quotes were superb – what normal, down to earth, decent lads they came across as.
Much better than The Christians.
Did you know The Christians are Muslims?
*Head explodes*
Wha?
Actually, if you trace the migration of the human species we’ll more than likely find most, if not all, of us are Muslims. Or Egyptians. Definitely fish, though. Disabled, lesbian, black, Muslim, fish.
I think humans expanded out of Africa and beyond the Middle East well before Islam was invented. But definitely not before lesbianism.
At the end of the day we all shit out of the same hole.
Oh absolutely about too many blogs – especially for non-computer owning me – so how very lucky I feel for my random stumble-on that I am happy to share with you.
Song by Toad I found while researching Edinburgh music recommendations for a pal moving there, and I since try and make it a point to remember to have a look ever since I was delighted by the first couple of minutes I got to hear of your Valentines podcast. That, to me, was great radio.
Of other blogs I notice most of the good ones for me are based in Scotland, Scottish associated and the like. And they don’t have day-glo pictures and an overload of Hot Chip or overwhelming Radiohead adoration.
I can’t recall any Christians songtitles. Were they from the same time as Hue & Cry?
Mister Toad: collected some video of The Muslims here
http://tajmall.livejournal.com/126998.html
Comments welcome. Thanks.