Under The Floorboards

A quick reminder...

2009-08-25T22:20:00.005+01:00

While I'm here, I might aswell repost this, just in case anyone's actually reading this who might also be free on Thursday night.

Best twitter yet

2009-08-25T22:14:00.004+01:00

SHIT MY DAD SAYS

It's self-explanatory. A man called Justin has a Twitter purely for things his 73-year-old Dad says. I only wish my own father came out with gems like this on a regular basis. This has replaced the fake Nick Cave as my favourite Twitter account.

Waking Up

2009-08-23T00:29:00.005+01:00

To those who say that Britpop gave us nothing, I say that it gave us Elastica on mainstream TV. Complete with Damon Albarn pretend-playing the keyboards (you're still not as cool as Kurt though, Damon). Justine Frischmann is shit-hot.

The Number to Heaven

2009-08-21T23:51:00.008+01:00

I just LOL'd at this

Phil

NEW POSTERRRRRR

2009-08-15T21:50:00.002+01:00

I'm sharp this week - poster for the next night on the 27th:

WEEK THREE PLAYLIST

2009-08-15T00:04:00.003+01:00

Maybe our most successful night yet. Turns out James the barman likes it when we DJ because we play better music than the random juke box. That's a relief. Also, someone asked me what a song was, which means he must have liked it, right? Or perhaps he wanted to make sure he never heard it again. That was during my 2003 garage rock section, but earlier in the evening Phil had soothed everyone into the evening with the slowest tempo song we have played so far - the Twin Peaks theme. It worked beautifully, so maybe more slowies to come in the future...

Twin Peaks Theme - Angelo Badalamenti
Baby - The Dynamics
Raven in a Cage - Zalman Yanovsky
Found 2 Photos - Dino Felipe
Cybele's Reverie - Stereolab
Help The Boy - Daughters of Eve
I Want Your Love - The Pussycats
Bubblegum - Sonic Youth
Bad Man - Oblivians
Negative Creep - Nirvana
Search and Destroy - The Stooges
Shot By Both Sides - Magazine
Spread Your Love - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Rockaway Beach - The Ramones
New Rose - The Damned
She Cracked - The Modern Lovers
Everything With You - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
If I Had A Soul - Comet Gain
Quick As Rainbows - Kitchens of Distinction
Kaleidoscope - Ride
Heavenly Waters - British Sea Power
Disorder - Joy Division
Lost In Music - The Fall
Party Hard - Pulp
Virginia Plain - Roxy Music
Metal Guru - T-Rex
Whip It - Devo
Raspberry Beret - Prince
Hey Boy - The Blow
Atomic - Blondie
Rock Lobster - The B-52's
Forest - The Cure
Handsome Devil - The Smiths
Tell Me When The Light Turns Green - Dexys Midnight Runners
Party Fears Two - The Associates
Faint Praise - Luxembourg
So Young - Suede
Enola Gay - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Der Model - Kraftwerk
Ceremony - New Order
Departure - Crystal Stilts
Old Mother Reagan - The Violent Femmes
Princes and Princesses - Cay
Pick Me Up - Dinosaur jr
Feel Me Loud - Be Your Own Pet
Bad Kids - Black Lips
The Day I Was A Horse - The Vaselines
White Light, White Heat - The Velvet Underground
Leader of the Pack - The Shrangri-Las
There's Too Much Love - Belle and Sebastian
New Town - Life Without Buildings
Felt Tip - Love Is All
You Killed A Boy For Me - Henry's Dress
Cannonball - The Breeders
Steal My Hair - Whitefolkz
The Professional - Pulp
Ever Fallen In Love - The Buzzcocks
Rock'n'Roll Motherfucker - The D4
Outsmarted - The Hives
Hangin' On The Telephone - Blondie
Michael - Franz Ferdinand
Apply Some Pressue - Maximo Park
4men - Kitchens of Distinction
Bigmouth Strikes Again - The Smiths
Remember Me - British Sea Power
Shine On - House Of Love
Wash Off - Deerhunter
Soma - The Strokes
Hair - Ganglians
What I Like Doing Best - Algebra Suicide
AXTXTXIXTXUXDXE - Lovvers
Tom Courtenay - Yo La Tengo
Cool Jumper - Wavves

CRAIG.

WEEK THREE COMING UP

2009-08-11T02:39:00.003+01:00

Apologies for the late poster

Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore

2009-08-04T01:34:00.000+01:00

Mark Leckey's beautiful 1999 short film about clubbing, now available to watch online. It captures wonderfully the bizarre romance of nightclubs, their central place in modern British youth culture (aswell as the peculiarly British nature of them), and the anxiety and confusion that comes when the club is closed, and the scene moves on - both at the end of a night, and at the end of an era. Thanks to whoever made this available.

Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (Mark Leckey) from Anon. on Vimeo.

Phil's Pulp of the Week - #1

2009-08-03T22:28:00.001+01:00

Evenin' all. So since we've got this blog up, I thought it would be a good idea if we filled it with some musings/ramblings now and then. Make it more of an actual blog that people might read. So with that in mind I present to you the first in an irregular series of postings where I choose one song from Pulp's extensive, varied and altogether ace back catalogue and yak about it for a couple of paragraphs. With a format lifted entirely from another blog, this'll attempt to highlight some of the lesser known gems lurking in the band's past.

So we'll begin at the beginning, with 'Blue Girls' from the band's very first record, It.

Now despite what Jarvis might have said about Pulp's long pre-Island history (and there is some atrocious stuff in there), they did make some excellent music in the 80s. You can't keep true talent down. The first album might be a bit sappy and bad-twee in parts, but this one has a spare, melancholy beauty to it that they would have been almost unable to do in the glossy, high-budget 90s. It evokes chilly, damp school halls in winter in the way that Belle & Sebastian and the Smiths went on to make careers out of in their own ways (this came out in April '83, remember, predating Morrissey's band's first release by a month.) And it goes to show that so-called 'twee' music only really works when tempered with a bit of darkness, a bit of sadness.

His lyrics might be lacking a little bite, and his observations might seem a bit on the hazy side compared with the sharpness of his later years, but Jarv wasn't even out of his teens when this was made. It took years of watching and waiting, of frustration and experience, to bring that. What we've got here is a beautiful melody, an eye for detail and taste for metaphor, and some serious homemade charm. Those things never went away for him. Plus, that's his sister playing the flute. Keeping it in the family...

WEEK TWO PLAYLIST

2009-07-31T22:06:00.001+01:00

No major drama this week - no one's CDs were stolen, and I think I only managed to play the wrong song once (less than a minute of a USPS [unidentified Sex Pistols song] slipped itself into the void in airspace where Another Girl, Another Planet should have been). Of course, playing Beat Surrender is also wrong, but that was intentional. Apologies to anyone who heard it. Prizes for guessing how many Luxembourg songs I will play next time - one night I'm going to try and get the whole of their album in.

Dead Funny - Archie Bronson Outfit
In A Hole - The Jesus and Mary Chain
Public Image - Public Image Ltd
Faint Praise - Luxembourg
Blockbuster - Sweet
20th Century Boy - T Rex
The Leper - Dinosaur jr
One Chord Wonders - The Adverts
AKA Idiot - The Hives
Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue - The Ramones
Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone...) - The Buzzcocks
She Cracked - The Modern Lovers
Macbeth - John Cale
Search and Destroy - The Stooges
Echo Beach - Martha and the Muffins
Letter From An Occupant - New Pornographers
Hangin' on the Telephone - Blondie
24 Hours - Joy Division
Just Like Heaven - The Cure
Here Comes Your Man - Pixies
Date With Ikea - Pavement
Brain Burner - No Age
Just Like Honey - The Jesus and Mary Chain
Nick The Stripper - The Birthday Party
Because You're Frightened - Magazine
I Found That Essence Rare - Gang of Four
Darts of Pleasure - Franz Ferdinand
3rd Time We Opened The Capsule - Kitchens of Distinction
What Difference Does It Make? - The Smiths
Relief - Luxembourg
Animal Nitrate - Suede
Always Wanting More - Jay Reatard
She's So Refined - The Lazy J's
Stroll On - The Yardbirds
Walkin' Away - The Fifth Order
Fire Engine - 13th Floor Elevators
Not A Problem - Black Lips
Underground Lady - Kim Fowley
Cherry Bomb - The Runaways
Mystery - Wipers
Sun Of A Gun - The Vaselines
All The Rage - The Royal We
Do You Remember The First Time? - Pulp
A Girl Like You - Edwyn Collins
Graffiti - Maximo Park
Heard About Your Band - Brakes
Old Mother Reagan - The Violent Femmes
Beat Surrender - The Jam
Atomic - Blondie
Fists Up - The Blow
'Til You Say You'll Be Mine - Olivia Newton John
Give Him A Great Big Kiss - The Shrangri-Las
Until The World Stops Spinning - Saturday Looks Good To Me
Jackie - Scott Walker
Do The Strand - Roxy Music
Blister In The Sun - The Violent Femmes
Suffragette City - Daaavid Bowie
Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones
Shower Curtain - The Ant Farmers
Departure - Crystal Stilts
Ceremony - New Order
The Spirit of St Louis - British Sea Power
Luxembourg vs Great Britain - Luxembourg
Jet Boy Jet Girl - Elton Motello
Purr - Sonic Youth
Sugarcube - Yo La Tengo
Bronx Cheer - Mercury Rev
Young Adult Friction - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
Camp Carnival - Plaaydoh
Make Out Fall Out Make Up - Love Is All
Punks, Get Off The Grass - Edith Massey
New Rose - The Damned
Editions of You - Roxy Music
Shame on a Nigga - Wu Tang Clan
Pass The Shovel - Gravediggaz
Falling - Angelo Badalamenti
Under Pressure - Xiu Xiu
Pink Glove - Pulp

CRAIG

SECOND NIGHT - THIS THURSDAY!!!

2009-07-26T01:28:00.000+01:00

COME ON DOWN KIDS

WEEK ONE PLAYLIST

2009-07-17T08:01:00.000+01:00

Disastrous start! I had my bag stolen a couple of hours before the night started. But luckily Craig's record collection has enough good stuff to keep us going, and it was a riot after all that. Even if we did start repeating ourselves a bit near the end. But whatever, you can never have enough Bowie, that's what we say. This is what we played:

Shot by both sides - Magazine
New Rose - The Damned
Bite Hard - Franz Ferdinand
Fragile Awareness - The Pattern
Shenna is a punk rocker - The Ramones
Idea Track - Idlewild
The Concept - Teenage Fanclub
Laid - James
The Cutter - Echo and the Bunnymen
Blue Monday - New Order
Reward - Teardrop Explodes
Enola Gay - OMD
Party Fears Two - The Associates
Heart of Glass - Blondie
Close to Me - The Cure
Sweet & Tender Hooligan - The Smiths
Metal Mickey - Suede
Giddy Stratospheres - The Long Blondes
Modern age - The Strokes
Everything with you - The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
Crystal Stilts - Crystal Stilts
California Girls - The Magnetic Fields
April Skies - The Jesus and Mary Chain
Pink Frost - The Chills
Kaleidoscope - Ride
Debaser - Pixies
Mr November - The National
Graffiti - Maximo Park
Old Mother Reagan - The Violent Femmes
Search and destroy - The Stooges
My Coco - Stellastarr*
Carrion - British Sea Power
Modern World - The Modern Lovers
Freak Scene - Dinosaur jr
Liars Beware - Richard Hell
Celebrate Your Mother - 80s Matchbox B-line Disaster
Direct Hit - Art Brut
C'mon C'mon - Von Bondies
Pick Up The Phone - Brakes
Freain' Out - Graham Coxon
If I had a soul - Comet Gain
Cherry Bomb - Runaways
Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
Editions of You - Roxy Music
Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
Transmission - Joy Division
Into The Drink - Mudhoney
I Wanna be your Dog - The Stooges
Suffragette City - David Bowie
AKA Idiot - The Hives
One Note - Ikara Colt
I found That Essence Rare - Gang of Four
The Light Pours Out Of Me - Magazine
What The Housewives Don't Tell You - Luxembourg
Moscow Olympics - Orange Juice
Departure - Crystal Stilts
Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Navajo - Black Lips
Just like heaven - Dinosaur jr
Rock n roll motherfucker - The D4
Never Stops - Deerhunter
Remember Me - British Sea Power
Embassy Row - Pavement
Statement - Boris
Ace of Spades - Motorhead
Sink Venice - Ikara Colt
Suffragette City - David Bowie
Metal Guru - T Rex
They always come - Dinosaur Jr.
Is this music? - Teenage Fanclub

Phil

OPENING NIGHT

2009-07-17T04:00:00.001+01:00

Is Winchester ready to rock?