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Undiscovered Gems on 00:23 - Mar 29 by DannyPaddox
Every time I play this I hear new things. Indefinable. Though some call it Jazz-Twitch.
I just entered Uttoxeter Bludgeon Party into my YouTube Music app and it reduced the poor thing to a quivering wreck. With smoke pouring out the back of my iPad all it could do is offer me a selection of the following: Venga Boys - We like to Party, Vangagays - We like to Gach (that one can stay undiscovered ) and some group called The Lancashire Hotpots singing the austerity blues - Live.
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Undiscovered Gems on 11:35 - Mar 29 with 2005 views
Undiscovered Gems on 20:31 - Mar 28 by Sonofpugwash
Great bunch of lads. Did a tour with them (as Spreadeagle roadie) and Lindisfarne. Tony Connor brought the house down no sticks drum solo wielding a huge brass hand bell which he smashed the f*ck out of the stage boards.
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Top marks for obscurity Pug. It's like a kind of Zep/Heep/Tull mishmash. I quite liked it!
You may be familiar with It Bites from their big hit ("Calling all the heroes") in the 80s. The Cumbrian prog/art rockers combo split up in 1990 but reformed in 2006, with John Mitchell replacing singer/guitarist Francis Dunnery; Mitchell also performs with Frost, Kino and Arena.
I only recently stumbled across the most recent album, "Map of the past," and I reckon it's very decent. The band have retained their distinctive sound and the work is very varied and tuneful.
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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Undiscovered Gems on 16:33 - Mar 29 with 1822 views
ignored by most of the general public - loved passionately by a few. and loads of musicians from D'Angelo, Elton, Aaliyah to broadcasters like our own Bob Elms
I think this definitely fits the bill. Undiscovered? 87 views on Youtube, 20k listens on Spotify... but this is gorgeous, smoky, lyrical, late night jazz from the Lorenzo De Finti quartet. Perfect on a rainy night in London town...
This band should be much bigger than they are (although in a way I'm glad they aren't)!
They were relatively popular at the time, no? They were regularly in the music magazines I used to read and remember seeing their set from somewhere like Reading or Glastonbury on TV once.
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Undiscovered Gems on 12:57 - Mar 30 with 1454 views
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino are not well known here but they're almost an institution in Italy. They've been going for nearly 50 years and are more of an extended family than a band. I believe some of the members are now children of the original line up.
Live they're unique and utterly brilliant, producing one of the most joyous atmospheres I've ever experienced at a gig.
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Undiscovered Gems on 13:50 - Mar 30 with 1408 views
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino are not well known here but they're almost an institution in Italy. They've been going for nearly 50 years and are more of an extended family than a band. I believe some of the members are now children of the original line up.
Live they're unique and utterly brilliant, producing one of the most joyous atmospheres I've ever experienced at a gig.
Jugglers, face-painting, action-painters with wireless-headsets. I’d be getting out of that abandoned abattoir double-pronto!
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Undiscovered Gems on 13:54 - Mar 30 with 1403 views
They were relatively popular at the time, no? They were regularly in the music magazines I used to read and remember seeing their set from somewhere like Reading or Glastonbury on TV once.
Yeah I suppose.
Just thought this one was an album that seems to have passed the majority of people by.
Beautiful songwriting, excellent production, superb surname. Should have conquered the world. Or something. 'Catch the Brass Ring', his debut album from 2007.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
This band was a YouTube suggestion for me and I am glad I bothered to take a listen. Their music sits at the intersection of stoner rock and prog, I would say:
This is musically similar and a great collaboration between two bands:
When grunge and jazz (!) collide...
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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Undiscovered Gems on 16:28 - Mar 30 with 1264 views
yeah, just listened to the full album.....very good.
think he formed/joined this band after shack.
Great that you listened to Waterpistol mate. It's absolutely brilliant, and the rest of his stuff is too, although for me it's the "coolest" sound of his.
Check out Michael Head and the Magic Of The Strands, another masterpiece. How this guy isn't a superstar is a mystery.
Yes, saw The Red Elastic Band at Shepherd's Bush Empire in the summer, it was brilliant.
Cheers.
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Undiscovered Gems on 20:35 - Mar 30 with 1209 views
Many (most) people only know Georgie Fame from the days of his big hits but this album with star guests like Robert Cray and Boz Scaggs is excellent. “I'm a cool cat with a thermostat”