guacamole

i'm eating guacamole, courtesy of my fair companion, and goddamn it's doing me good.

according to the super furry animals, guacamole is a cure for insomnia, which is not something i'm in a position to confirm or deny. wikipedia is no help, although it does provide an extended digression about peter mandelson, hartlepool and mushy peas, if that's your sort of thing.

listen to the song, at least.

super furry animals - 'guacamole' (b-side to 'if you don't want me to destroy you', 1996)

sunday morning: jerk chicken, drum'n'bass

if any of GMS' readers are holding it down in the dirty south, may i recommend hudson's caribbean and good food restaurant, st mary's street, southampton? their jerk chicken runs the show.

i wonder if jason pierce had some?

spiritualized - 'sitting on fire' (live, boston, 2007; original on songs in a & e)

bobbies on the beat

favourite types of police:

1. natural pol-lice
2. murder po-lice
3. bad cops

and in pop:

1. dream police
2. karma police
3. jazz police

john vanderslice - 'karma police' (radiohead cover, from okx)

leonard cohen - 'jazz police' (from i'm your man)

cheap trick - 'dream police'

i had a friend who had a friend in jesus

babies know what's up. if i had the choice, i'd be one of those dancing babies, with an intense look of concentration.

what would i be dancing to? damn right:

richard & linda thompson - 'mole in a hole' (from hokey pokey)

RIP Cool Hand Luke

the flaming lips - 'plastic jesus' (from transmissions from the satellite heart)

the best thing GMS saw at this year's ATP festival was hud. think on, indie rockers.

dexys week: new material

last year, kevin posted a demo of a new song, 'it's OK joanna' on his myspace. it's brilliant. who knows what'll come of it? watch his space ...

in the meantime, looks like he's keeping busy. children, avert your eyes:

dexys week: the 2003 comeback

in 2003, dexys returned to the stage. GMS caught them in sunny basingstoke, and it was fine as fuck, if you'll pardon the expression. kevin's voice wasn't what it once was, but he was ably backed up by pete williams, re-creating billy adams' side-man role from don't stand me down. the lounge sound and theatrical interludes had a lot of the audience heading for the doors. for my money, it was the best reunion gig i've ever seen.

you don't see my bloody valentine or the pixies in pinstripe suits, after all.

'c'mon eileen'

'geno'

dexys week: reanimation

a new century saw a new generation of british tv comedians finding humour in dexys. this is from series two of the underrated big train. that's simon pegg as igor, and 'the artist' kevin eldon as kevin rowland. and here's the mighty boosh, doing what they do:

dexys week: thong edition

in 1996 kevin signed with creation records. three years later, he released the lush covers album my beauty. that year, the open-minded reading festival crowd bottled off our kev and his cross-dressing strippers. funnily enough, they seemed to dislike rowland's gender-bending karaoke even more than they disliked 50 cent's commercially-oriented homophobia.

GMS readers are a tolerant bunch, or at least i hope so. here's the thong-tastic video for his cover of unit 4+2's 'concrete and clay'.

service announcement

GMS interrupts dexys week to direct you to the consistently high-quality mixing desk blog, who have a dutch bootleg (so to speak), of dexys from 1981.

it's mostly young soul rebels-era high-octane northern soul, with a couple of handy non-album songs - 'breaking down the walls of heartache' and 'show me'. but the inclusion of 'soon' and 'plan b' shows the way to the incredible five-songs-in-one second side of too rye ay.

while i'm at it, here's a clean-shaven dexys performing the irish-american traditional 'kathleen mavourneen'. this sort of thing used to happen on telly, you know.