Music Room

Friday 30th March 2007, 21:00 to 22:00 Hawkwind - Do Not Panic.The inside story of Hawkwind, one of Britain's wildest acid rock bands, who emerged from the Ladbroke Grove underground at the end of the 60s trailing the radicalism of the counter-culture...

The first two albums are great IMO but the new one is even better still. It really feels like an album with a musical journey as opposed to a collection of tracks bolted together. The playing is super tight and really melodic. These boys have been my...

Shawns Colvin's rather excellent cover of the Gnarles Barkley hit is available on to be listened to, in full, on her myspace page. It is also on i-tunes and there is talk of a physical release. On her website this is slated for the end of January but...

Does anyone know where I can find Christy Moore records on Vinyl?I am particularly looking for "Graffiti Tongue". jim..............

The BBC One Sessions on BBC 4Friday 20th April 2007, 22:00 to 22:50Amy Winehouse.Series of unique, intimate performances by some of the greatest legends and contemporary stars around. Hot from her triumph at this year's Brits where she won Best...

Any ELP fans out there?Hearing Tarkus for the first time was the most significant moment of my musical life. I was 13 or 14 at the time. Having only recently taken down my posters of The Sweet and graduated to the more 'mature' and 'interesting' 10cc,...

Eric Clapton recently announced that he was staging the second Crossroads show in Chicago on July 28th.Allman Brothers, Robert Randolph, Buddy Guy, BB King, Jimmie Vaughan, Jeff Beck, John Mayer, and many others will perform.The first show was held in...

Can someone tell me which one this was?Cheers,Steve

If you want to go you have register and email a photo within the next 48 hours on the Glastonbury web site. It still makes the ticket purchase a lottery on April 1st but without registering now you cannot apply. These are the current bands set to...

quote:Grinderman - Debut Album Out 5th March 2007Foul-mouthed, noisy, hairy, and damn well old enough to know better, Grinderman are Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos.Born of babbling lyrics hatched from Bosch eggshells in the...

Listening to the track 'L.A Woman' this morning I was struck by the observation that Jim Morrison sounds just like Homer Simpson for most of the song!Could it be they are related? (impossible, I know). We should be told.Graeme

Any other devotees here?I've just received the new album:- Beautiful stuff, and possibly my favourite RS album yet. It contains delightfully alternative takes of Springsteen's 'Born in the USA' and Gabriel's 'Mercy Street'.Add to that Eliza Gilkyson...

Well,I've been to quite a few gigs, but my chest cavity has never shifted /vibrated so much with the physical bass that it did last night.Top concert - high points were; a very tight band, sister bliss actually playing the majority of keyboard parts...

as these recordings are authorized by the bands/artists recorded (ie: bootleg friendly bands) hopefully this thread won't cause Naim concern - I defer to their judgement.to the point .... if you haven't experienced www.archive.org .... amazing site....

Should I buy the new box set?Jono

There was a bit of an Over the Rhine thread pootling away on 'What are you listening to now....' so i thought i'd bring it together and see if it widens out.I've been looking to order a few of their cd's but they are pretty difficult to get over here....

Try 'This is Stina Nordenstam' by Stina Nordenstam.Fabulously engineered to show the complete dynamic capabilities of your system and exellent music to boot. Leaves Bjork standing IMHO.Trevp's post re. 'Source First??' prompted me to post this as back...

I am a recent convert to Fairport/Richard Thompson. So should I go? Should I take the wife? Should I take the kids? What's it like?Many thanks

Saw a review of this chap in the Guardian today, which was highly complementary. Had a listen to some of his stuff on MySpace and it sounds cool in an edgy, New York, David Byrnesque way. Listen here if you wish Anyone listened to his stuffRegardsDiccus

JWM - asked if I'd considered a compendium of Prog rock. Well I'm probably not up to the task and as I'll probably drift in to Pysch and Folk and Euro and Space Rock without even noticing, I've titled the thread accordingly. So I'm afraid it's a case...

I just picked up Joshua Redman Elastic Band "Momentum." Wow! I particularly like track 11, Double Jeopardy, with Redman on alto, Brian Blade on drums, Flea on bass, Sam Yahel on organ and Peter Bernstein on guitar. Flea can groove like anyone, and...

Joni Mitchell is putting together her first album of new songs in over 9 years. This interview with Amanda Ghost is on Radio 2 at 8.30pm on Tuesday 20th MarchNow if she toured the British isles that would be something.RegardsDiccus

A smallish ‘guilty secret’ of mine is a liking for Joss Stone.So I was quite looking forward to her new album ‘Introducing Joss Stone’.However, since it arrived a week or so ago I have been completely under whelmed.The music...

I mainly listen to rock etc but have a few poorly recorded classical CD'sI have done some up-grading recently and fancy hearing a good classical CD that will extend my system (mid / top end Naim)Any suggestions?I prefer a melodic sound not too harsh -...

I'm very grateful to Tam for opening my ears to two Operas in English. Smetana - The Bartered Bride and Janácek - The Makropulos Case These are just wonderful to listen to. They stand up us stories/plays, but when one adds great musical...