This week it was once again back on my own in the studio, but it gave me a chance to celebrate a previous week of musical moments. I had the pleasure of catching with friends on various occasions and each time brought either new music to my attention or great memories of old favourites. On a warm evening in Shoreditch I managed to watch two great gigs, first of all catching up with Yinka at a boutique bar, which led me to play Emperor’s New Clothes from his band Sabatta, then there was a rocking gig at the Underbelly where Michael Jablonka’s band The Dark Tides were playing. Michael has been in a few bands, including playing bass in The Dustaphonics. Now though he is the front man in this exciting three piece and I’m looking forward to them joining me in the studio in a few weeks.
At a friend’s birthday over the weekend it was great to catch up with Dan Shears who was also in attendance. He is such a nice guy and we enjoyed his impromptu performance during the proceedings and I couldn’t resist playing the beautiful Lily tonight. Speaking of catching up with friends, on the 5th of May I’m looking forward to a crazy one day mission to Paris to see Iron Maiden during their anniversary Maiden England tour which brought an appropriate playing of Can I Play With Madness? tonight. Staying on the heavy metal theme, I was catching up with some news and spoke about Jeff Hanneman who died on May 2nd. He was the guitarist and one of the main songwriters in Slayer and it was upsetting to hear that he had left us so young. Slayer were one of the most visceral and powerful of the 80’s ‘big four’ metal bands, which included Metallica, Anthrax and Megadeth.
Here is the playlist for 28th May 2013 (Albums in brackets)
1. Led Zeppelin – We’re Gonna Groove (Live At The Royal Albert Hall – 1970)
2. The Beatles – Here Comes The Sun (Abbey Road)
3. Queens Of The Stone Age – My God Is The Sun (…Like Clockwork)
4. The Cortège – Homo Empathicus (Triangle EP)
5. The Dark Tides – All I Want
6. Sabatta – Emperor’s New Clothes (Emperor’s New Clothes EP)
7. Dan Shears & The Velveteen Orkestra – Lily (The Eternal Mystery Of The Human Heart)
8. The Smiths – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (The Queen Is Dead)
9. Herida – Refrain (Ghost Of The Sun)
10. Slayer – War Ensemble (Seasons In The Abyss)
11. Iron Maiden – Can I Play With Madness (Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son)
12. The Prodigy – Voodoo People (Music For A Jilted Generation)
13. Dust & Whiptongue – Da Blah (VA Momento Demento)
14. Ital – Pure Air (Goa Neo Full On And Progressive Trance Vol 7)
15. Fagin’s Reject – Dirty Random (Degenerate EP)
16. Insane Creatures & Ivanelic – Alien Dreams (Fractal Dreams EP)
17. Archaic – Vortex (Wildness)
18. Ritmo & Zen Mechanics – Imprint (Phrase A)
