This follows yesterday’s Venus of Avenue D and will conclude tomorrow with Just Your Friends.
Point of this mini-series is not that it’s the greatest music ever … it’s very good as far as this indefinable genre goes … but that it appeared when it did, written and sung by a gruff, asocial mess of a Latino … and yet it had/has a cult following on the Continent and in many corners of the UK … interesting.
(1035) Replying to an act of stupidity by two supposedly intelligent “leaders”. (1039)
Eff off, Argentina and Trump
What a stupid move by both:
(0632) Greetings all. Having done the necessaries to commemorate the Day, onto our own doings. The sky out there currently has chem trail planes criss-crossing it, laying their poison. (0655)
5. Scumbags like Hermer
4. Steve at 1363
3. In the light of Sat 1 … this
2. DAD at 1363
a) Paris and wider France is being shaken to its core by serious allegations of sexual abuse within Paris’ after-school care system (“périscolaire”).
b) Europe’s quiet acceptance of Euthanasia as Routine Medical Practice. (JH: Thank goodness for the Lords two nights ago.)
c) More than €100,000 of European Union money has been spent on an electric vehicle charging station that currently sits in the middle of a meadow with no access road, rendering it unreachable by car.
1. Woke left Fabian females are most certainly consigned to hell
… completely brainwashed, incapable of anything useful. Woke Males too of course but they’ve been about far longer.
Gallipoli was fought between the Allies — Britain, France, Australia, NZ, India and Newfoundland — and the Ottoman Empire/Germany.
If 1901 formalised Aus, 1915 blooded her. Lest any forget or the globopolitical class try to kill off their sacrifices, which the deep state is trying to do.
(1726) Evening all.
18. Yes, we’re now in the realm of ethical versus unethical
… pretty clear which is which:
17. A quiet read for all
16. Over at NOWP 1363 just now
Going to arrange this differently this time:
5. IYE, Sonia Poulton, Esther Rancid….
4. Torquaymada on those ‘disappeared’ scientists….
3. Steve: Hearts of Oak: Pastor Steve Maile – UK Police Handcuff Pastor for Preaching: A Disturbing Sign for Free Speech….
2. Andy and an interesting article about the benefits of humming. Particularly for those who suffer from shortness of breath.
1. Torquaymada and the seafarers that drop into the Tavern from time to time.
The radio play version of this I think was the original episode … this is the film version:
“Send for Paul Temple (1946) is a British “quota quickie” mystery, directed by John Argyle and featuring Anthony Hulme as the famous radio sleuth. It is generally reviewed as a charming, fast-paced “B-movie” that effectively brings the Francis Durbridge radio character to the screen, focusing on a, “Green Finger” diamond heist plot.”
This is what I call another hiding to nothing post but there are certainly elements of interest to singer, band, venue and that he’ll be dead one year later. Why a hiding to nothing? Well, just as most men and some ladies will simply not go for this music, just as happened to Willy de Ville himself, as in a Wiki comment:
American Hit Network said of the (debut) album hin 77), “Under-promoted, under-appreciated and ultimately under-sold, Cabretta is a sleeper masterpiece that sounds as good today as it did in 1977.”
… also mentioned was that the singer was tough but tender, lived on the street but wore his heart on his sleeve, as can be seen and heard in the songs … melodic, Spanish style, redolent of westside story, very 50s but released right in the punk era … the music is one thing and in this recording late in his life, he has a super band behind him, reminding me of The Wrecking Crew, but on tour …
… trouble is, the drug and booze addled life has caught up, a harsh voice for such songs, even if written by him … and they just did not grab the public quite enough in the “modern” era, certainly in America, he had some currency in Britain but where his main base was increasingly found was on the continent, esp. in Germany. This recording is from 1988 at the Rockpalast, Bonn:
… and the lady posting it is Agnes, whom I think can be seen right at the end of the third song (coming up Sunday), front row … I’d put her in her mid 40s, a very nice age. There are all sorts of elements … he seems shy, asocial, no graces, does not engage the audience, yet throws flowers to them at the end (Sunday). At one stage, he readies the guitar and a roadie tries to plug it in, W looks back, gruffly … this whole tough-tender-unaware motif.
Frankly, there are too many discordant elements to satisfy us and our musical preferences … and yet the band is very good. One of his regular openers was Venus of Avenue D, tomorrow is a mid performance Spanish Stroll, Sunday finale is Just Your Friends, run a few times at the old N.O.
(Midday) Afternoon all. (Midday)
15. Torquaymada at 1363:1
For the seafarers that drop into the Tavern from time to time. Very well written. I particularly like ‘Rumors of Dragons’.
14. Moo corner
13. Respect plod today … please?
12. Scrap Digital ID
11. For those on X
