BLOGGER: paul vickers
LOCATION: edinburgh
PAUL'S BANDS: paul vickers and the leg, dawn of the replicants
LABEL: sl records
LOCATION: edinburgh
PAUL'S BANDS: paul vickers and the leg, dawn of the replicants
LABEL: sl records
Saturday 17 May 2008
Tuesday 13 May 2008
THE ADMIRAL'S JUNKBOX May 08
BLOGGER: cameron jack
LOCATION: scottish borders
BAND: the stark palace
LABEL: shark batter records
I've noticed (courtesy of The Times obituary column) that this past few weeks has seen the demise of two pioneers of electronic music.
Tristram Cary (son of novelist Joyce Cary) helped develop the VCS3 synthesizer, which was used on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon and by Brian Eno, amongst many others. It was seen as the only serious competitor to the better known Moog. He also scored the first episode of Dr. Who to feature the Daleks,The Dead Planet, and contributed to further episodes and series, including The Daleks Masterplan. His music, along with that of Delia Derbyshire and the rest of the B.B.C. Radiophonic Workshop more than made up for any shortcomings in the prop department!
Also the recently departed Bebe Barron, who is credited, along with her husband Louis with composing the first ever music on tape. I was impressed to discover that they wrote the score for Forbidden Planet, the first for Hollywood to be completely electronic. I wonder what Shakespeare would have made of it! They had previously set up their own studio in Greenwich Village, where they would frequently record for the likes of Henry Miller, Tennessee Williams and Aldous Huxley, and were approached by M.G.M. after their production chief discovered them by chance at a Beatnik club.
You can find out more about Tristram Cary at tristramcary.com, and Bebe Barron at, wait for it, wikipedia, amongst many others whose addresses are too convoluted to reproduce here!
LOCATION: scottish borders
BAND: the stark palace
LABEL: shark batter records
I've noticed (courtesy of The Times obituary column) that this past few weeks has seen the demise of two pioneers of electronic music.
Tristram Cary (son of novelist Joyce Cary) helped develop the VCS3 synthesizer, which was used on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon and by Brian Eno, amongst many others. It was seen as the only serious competitor to the better known Moog. He also scored the first episode of Dr. Who to feature the Daleks,The Dead Planet, and contributed to further episodes and series, including The Daleks Masterplan. His music, along with that of Delia Derbyshire and the rest of the B.B.C. Radiophonic Workshop more than made up for any shortcomings in the prop department!
Also the recently departed Bebe Barron, who is credited, along with her husband Louis with composing the first ever music on tape. I was impressed to discover that they wrote the score for Forbidden Planet, the first for Hollywood to be completely electronic. I wonder what Shakespeare would have made of it! They had previously set up their own studio in Greenwich Village, where they would frequently record for the likes of Henry Miller, Tennessee Williams and Aldous Huxley, and were approached by M.G.M. after their production chief discovered them by chance at a Beatnik club.
You can find out more about Tristram Cary at tristramcary.com, and Bebe Barron at, wait for it, wikipedia, amongst many others whose addresses are too convoluted to reproduce here!
Sunday 4 May 2008
VACUUM SPASM BLOG May 08
BLOGGER: charles s bravo
LOCATION: scottish borders
BAND: vacuum spasm babies
LABEL: shark batter records
"Blimey Charlie!" my brother in rock Malcolm said to me as I brought him the news that within 24 hours the title track from our new E.P. had been played on BBC Radio 1 and had a review in The List. ‘Punch in the Face’ is taken from The Thin Man E.P - Vacuum Spasm Babies four track release from our friends at Shark Batter Records, home of The Stark Palace, The Stone Ghost Collective and Mike and Michi amongst others.
So that means that Vacuum Spasm Babies have been played on the radio, and had a mention in the press. Even if nothing else happens, I’m happy with that. The Radio 1 play came from Vic Galloway on his show he does from Scotland. I’ve known Vic a while, he was a plugger for Human Condition records in Edinburgh and in a band called Huckleberry, so I played his records when I did a new music show for Radio Borders. We’re telling people South of the border that The List is the equivalent of Time Out for Glasgow and Edinburgh.
We’ve made a video for this single release. Although, it’s probably going to take some sort of prize for being the cheapest, shortest and fastest put together video on youtube this week. The song is only just over a minute anyway, and the video is made of stills of scribbles done in an afternoon, photographed, loaded into some kind of free movie software and made to fit around the song.
This week I’m reading The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, watching the Spaced box set, drinking cinzano on ice and staying clear of the new Coldplay single.
LOCATION: scottish borders
BAND: vacuum spasm babies
LABEL: shark batter records
"Blimey Charlie!" my brother in rock Malcolm said to me as I brought him the news that within 24 hours the title track from our new E.P. had been played on BBC Radio 1 and had a review in The List. ‘Punch in the Face’ is taken from The Thin Man E.P - Vacuum Spasm Babies four track release from our friends at Shark Batter Records, home of The Stark Palace, The Stone Ghost Collective and Mike and Michi amongst others.
So that means that Vacuum Spasm Babies have been played on the radio, and had a mention in the press. Even if nothing else happens, I’m happy with that. The Radio 1 play came from Vic Galloway on his show he does from Scotland. I’ve known Vic a while, he was a plugger for Human Condition records in Edinburgh and in a band called Huckleberry, so I played his records when I did a new music show for Radio Borders. We’re telling people South of the border that The List is the equivalent of Time Out for Glasgow and Edinburgh.
We’ve made a video for this single release. Although, it’s probably going to take some sort of prize for being the cheapest, shortest and fastest put together video on youtube this week. The song is only just over a minute anyway, and the video is made of stills of scribbles done in an afternoon, photographed, loaded into some kind of free movie software and made to fit around the song.
This week I’m reading The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, watching the Spaced box set, drinking cinzano on ice and staying clear of the new Coldplay single.
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