Anyone in the vicinity of London on Wednesday night has something to look forward to. Whatever plan you may have made already, unmake it. You just had a better offer.
Groanbox are back on tour, and next week they reach the capital, with a gig at the Slaughtered Lamb in Clerkenwell. If you don’t know the band and their work, it’s high time you did.
Tom Waits can do the sales pitch a whole lot better than I can…
Drat. It looks like the last couple of weeks of blue skies and springy sunshine are coming to an end. This morning, in this rainy corner of rural Oxfordshire, it’s probably no surprise my thoughts are turned towards Brazil…
Here are a couple of tropical tunes about the rain, performed by two amazing lady singers, Elis Regina and Miriam Makeba.
From the release of her first record in 1965, Elis has been one of the best-loved singers in Brazil. Variously known as “furacão” (hurricane) and “pimentinha” (little pepper), she played a central part in the Tropicalismo movement of the late 60s and early 70s, which pioneered radical new music, art and social resistance. Elis was an outspoken critic of the vicious military regime at the time, and only her massive popularity saved her from jail.
Elis died of an overdose in 1982 at the age of 36. Here she performs perhaps the best-known bossa nova of all, Águas de Março (Waters of March):
Greetings, and thanks for taking the time to mouse around the Livestock website. Don’t it look just dandy? It’s been lovingly assembled by Rob Stokes, so a big round of applause for Rob please!
Allow me to introduce myself. I’m Malachy, and I put together the festival, helped by a talented and tireless team of volunteers. Your other host at Livestock is the landlord of the Red Lion, my uncle Frank. I trust we’ll all get to get acquainted when the summer comes around.
For now though, there’s this blog, the plan for which is twofold …
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