Category Particular platters

GIVING IT ALL AWAY

April 19, 2019 · by · in ACROSS THE DECADES, ALBUM FOCUS, b) Seventies [1970 - 1979], Particular platters · 14 Comments

My mate Steven (writer of the Vinyl Connection Hendrix posts) passed on a copy of the ‘Old Grey Whistle Test’ DVDs. For those unfamiliar with this revered TV music show, it ran from 1971 to 1988 in the UK, featuring an eclectic array of rock artists performing in a tiny studio. The DVDs include comments […]

FROND FRIENDS: INTERVIEW WITH NICK SALOMAN

April 12, 2019 · by · in ALBUM FOCUS, f) Tens [2010 - ], Interviews, ODDS & SODS, Particular platters · 8 Comments

Coinciding with the recent-ish release of Bevis Frond’s latest album, We’re Your Friends, Man, Vinyl Connection was delighted to have the opportunity to chat with the band’s founder and well-spring, Nick Saloman.   VC: Hello Nick. Thanks for talking to Vinyl Connection once again. NS: Always a pleasure, Bruce VC: Congratulations on the latest release. A […]

BEVIS IS BACK, MAN

April 12, 2019 · by · in ACROSS THE DECADES, ALBUM FOCUS, f) Tens [2010 - ], Interviews, ODDS & SODS, Particular platters · 19 Comments

As mentioned recently, Vinyl Connection was delighted to have a chance to meet and greet the latest Bevis Frond album. We’re Your Friends, Man was released late in 2018 and is a genuine old-fashioned double album containing 20 slabs of fresh Frondness spread across two CDs or four sides of vinyl.  For those not familiar […]

THE FUTURE’S SO BRIGHT

March 29, 2019 · by · in ALBUM FOCUS, c) Eighties [1980 - 1989], d) Nineties [1990 - 1999], Particular platters · 26 Comments

When it came to writing songs for his first solo album after leaving Steely Dan, Donald Fagen heeded that timeless advice to authors, write about what you know. The record was The Nightfly and the year was 1982, though you wouldn’t know it from the cover. Fagen is photographed in a Peter Gunn era radio […]

FIRE DOWN BELOW

March 22, 2019 · by · in ACROSS THE DECADES, ALBUM FOCUS, f) Tens [2010 - ], Particular platters · 16 Comments

You know how in Facebook there are those little numbers in red squares that magically appear? What are they about? Some appear to be called ‘Notifications’ but often are just FB trying to sell marketing tools. Others seem to be congratulating me on someone liking something. It all seems so trivial and pointless I usually […]

COLOURS OF EDEN

March 3, 2019 · by · in ACROSS THE DECADES, ALBUM FOCUS, c) Eighties [1980 - 1989], Obituaries, ODDS & SODS, Particular platters · 27 Comments

A breeze skating a frozen pond.  A face that doesn’t match its name.  Wonder and anguish entwined. The task of capturing the elusive, strangled beauty of Talk Talk. I could try to net these butterfly phrases, compile them, pin them, offer them to you in a month or two as a display-board eulogy for Mark […]

A BOX AND A HOLE

February 25, 2019 · by · in A PERSONAL APPROACH, ACROSS THE DECADES, ALBUM FOCUS, b) Seventies [1970 - 1979], Memoir with Music, Particular platters · 24 Comments

I don’t often pre-order records. Has to be something pretty special and I have to be feeling expansive (pre-ords are always expensive) and patient (the lead time is usually considerable). But having missed out on the multi-CD issue of Bowie At The Beeb back at the turn of the century, I was determined not to […]

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