LTW Newsletter 88

Dear Warriors,

Thanks for your subscriptions - invaluable in keeping us going!

Sadly, it seems like it’s bad business as ever as already the year has an apocalyptic vibe to it. We hope our friends in LA, a city we have many connections with,  are ok in these current testing times. 

Back in the UK it's sleepy January, the month that always feels like a hangover but it’s one of my favourite months as I like to count it as very early summer - a brittle, cold and grey summer but you have to keep your glass half full in these times if you can! 

Every day may be a different shade of grey, but every day gets a little bit lighter, and we get closer to things happening again and the tree of life and music and culkture to explode in its life affirming beauty!  Sometimes, there is a desolate beauty to wandering around an off-season city late at night when everyone else is safely tucked up in bed and the cimmeran stillness and darkness can be entrancing. 

This is also a good time of year for GETTING STUFF DONE and I’ve been typing like a maniac writing a big Oasis book which will be coming out in May. It will be an interesting read no matter what you think of the band and their success - I have some interesting angles on the story!

Speaking of which!

Neu Musik Alert: Andy Bell Teams Up With Michael Rother and Dot Allison

Sometime Oasis bassist and Ride member Andy Bell is involved in a fascinating project with Michael Roth from Neu and Dot Allison. It all sounds rather random but makes sense upon further investigation…

' a truly wonderful song has come into our orbit'

 https://louderthanwar.com/neu-musik-alert-andy-bell-teams-up-with-michael-rother-and-dot-allison/ (Si apre in una nuova finestra) via @louderthanwar 

Former Fall members in the craftily titled House Of All have announced their third album and this one includes the enigmatic drummer Karl Burns to their house - a house that seems to be turning into an old people’s home for former Fall members! Albeit one with a great soundtrack - and the new album is another great work! 

We spotted John Cooper Clarke on BBC Breakfast TV this morning, and to celebrate his upcoming big show at the 20,000-capacity Manchester Co Op arena, we have posted our ten favourite poems from the Bard of Salford. 

Also, in the time-honoured limericks that don't rhyme, so beloved of the bard of Salford, we have written the following…

We heard Cooper Clarke was doing the arena,

And we decided it was about time we seen ya,

We compiled a list,

And gave it a twist, 

And looking forward to the event in April,

Last week's first festival of the year was in Bognor Regis Butlins. The holiday camp is right next door to a house that William Blake once lived in which might explain the air of Magik around the event. It was a great bill as ever and brilliantly curated with a mixture of the old and the new and we enjoyed ourselves thoroughly as Team LTW reports back from the festival…

The beginning of the year is always a good opportunity to peer into the crystal ball and make predictions over what could be the bands to look out for as another year stretched beyond us. We managed to make a list of 25 interesting bands that will be worth keeping an eye out for…

With lyrics for tackling love, intimacy, anxiety, and alienation, trading the allegorical approach of much of her previous work for something she says is ”pointed into my human heart,” on Cabral’s fourth album as SPELLLING, the Bay Area artist transforms her acclaimed avant-pop project into a mirror.

Denude: A Murmuration Of Capitalist Bees - Review - ALBUM OF THE WEEK!

Bringing together a shared history of musical chops in the American Midwest, Denude release their debut album: A Murmuration of Capitalist Bees https://louderthanwar.com/denude-a-murmuration-of-capitalist-bees-album-review/ (Si apre in una nuova finestra)