#Boo Hewerdine

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The Bible - Honey Be Good

Music Video

Artist

The Bible

Composer

The Bible

Produced

Steve Earle

Credit

Boo Hewerdine - Voice, Guitar Greg Harewood - bass Dave Larcombe - drum Neill MacColl - guitar, mandolin Tony Shepherd - Keyboards, Percussion

Released

1988

Streaming

#the bible #boo hewerdine #greg harewood #dave larcombe #neil maccoll #tony shepherd #steve earle #1980s #1988 #music #Youtube

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king chicago, the bible (1986).

i'll meet you in summer i'll meet you on the longest day we'll remember the great big world say, "i love you, i love you, i love you, i love you..." i love you a little bit more than i love myself and that's scary, i've never really loved anybody else

#the bible #boo hewerdine #walking the ghost back home #1986 #king chicago #summer solstice #happy summer solstice #cherry red records #backs records #indie pop #indiepop #sophisti-pop #neo-aco #neo-acoustic #jangle pop #Bandcamp #sing a song

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Video: Vlado Nosal & The Avedons - Cold Cigarette

Video: Vlado Nosal & The Avedons – Cold Cigarette

Vlado Nosal is a Bratislava, Slovakia-based singer songwriter and the former frontman of Slovak indie rock band Queer Jane. He has just released his debut solo single, but he’s not done it alone. With support from international collaborators Ken Coomer and Boo Hewerdine, as well as his backing band The Avedons, Vlado is set to take the world of indie by storm with Cold Cigarette. (more…)

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#Acoustic #Boo Hewerdine #Bratislava #Cold Cigarette #debut #electronic #Indie #injustice #intimate #introspective #Ken Coomer #Queer Jane #quirky #resignation #rock #Slovak #Video #Vlado Nosal #Vlado Nosal & The Avedons

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Simon and The Astronauts: From a Longshot to a Moonshot

BY JORDAN MAINZER

When Simon and The Astronauts first came together in 2019, band leader Simon Wells’ goal was to find “people willing to sit in the room with me and interpret my mad lyrics.” In 2022, he’s gotten that, and more.

Really, the band formed when Wells’ mentor Boo Hewerdine (of English rock band The Bible) introduced him to his son, Ben Hewerdine, as well as producer and musician Chris Pepper. The three released an EP and their self-titled debut album in 2019, and it encapsulated both the prolific Wells’ penchant for waxing on various themes (the war in Afghanistan, Oscar Wilde) and the band’s ability to back different unmistakable vocalists and reshape them in a pop rock context (Scottish folk singer-songwriter Karine Polwart, Americana singer Darden Smith). According to Wells, it was “quick” and “interactive.”

Fast-forward to a day in the studio when Wells stepped out to make a cup of tea. Pepper casually put on Weezer’s “I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams”, a song from Rivers Cuomo and company’s infamous unfinished rock opera that was supposed to be their second album. (“I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams” ended up being released instead as a B-side to Pinkerton’s “The Good Life” single.) 

“I know this voice,” Wells said to the other two. “Who is it?”

“It’s Rachel Haden,” said Hewerdine.

“[From] that dog.?” replied Wells. The other two, much younger than Wells, didn’t know what he was talking about. After all, the power pop band formed in 1992 and disbanded five years later to reunite only eleven years ago. To Wells, Haden occupied a sort of legendary status. When that dog.’s self-titled debut LP came out in 1994, Wells fell in love with it, particularly the track “She Looks at Me”, and he was also listening to Quartet West, the band of Haden’s father, jazz bassist Charlie Haden band.

But sometimes, there’s a benefit to not being entirely familiar with someone. Pepper had long thought Simon and The Astronauts needed a female vocalist. So Ben said, “I’ll get in contact with Rachel, and we’ll get her to sing on the album.” Initially shocked by the suggestion, Wells quickly realized: What did they have to lose?

Haden said yes to recording vocals for two songs, spacey rock jam “The Kiss That Landed” and jangle pop ditty “Chess”. “We fell in love with Rachel and her ability to improvise,” Wells said. “I just said to Chris and Ben, 'We should write the next project for Rachel. That would be the whole focus.' We thought Rachel would just say, 'Who are you guys?' We were overjoyed when she said yes.”

Haden was supposed to come to Cambridge and record in person, as another one of her bands, The Haden Triplets, was going to play the eventually cancelled 2020 Cambridge Folk Festival while touring their sophomore album The Family Songbook. Alas, the group had to record remotely, connecting between Pepper’s studio in Cambridge and Haden’s base in Los Angeles. It was certainly a challenge. Neither Wells nor Haden had recorded a full album remotely; Ben would send Wells telephone recordings during the process, and many of the songs needed some workshopping. At the same time, Haden’s fit was natural, her ability to adapt her voice to almost any song proving to be key. “When I hear something I love, I automatically connect and start singing,” Haden told me over Zoom. “When I heard the first couple songs that Simon and The Astronauts wanted me to sing on, they felt so familiar to me. I connected immediately to the melodic pop sense that I’m really attracted to. It was so easy to just sing along to...When I connect to it, it’s really easy to come up with harmonies and different parts.” Indeed, as much as the catchy melodies stand out on Simon and The Astronauts, the band’s second self-titled album, released in April via Ring Records, Haden’s stamp is all over it, from her vocoded ear candy on “Oxygen” to her trademark California affect on “Parallel World”.

The timing for the release of Simon and The Astronauts could not have been better, especially for fans of Haden’s music and Haden-adjacent projects. Along with The Haden Triplets’ January 2020 release of The Family Songbook, that dog. only a few months prior released Old LP, their first album since reuniting. that dog.’s Anna Waronker scored the band a new generation of fans last year when she and Craig Wedren collaborated on the soundtrack to Showtime’s hit series Yellowjackets, including the theme song “No Return”, a grungy dirge that could fit right alongside Simon and The Astronauts’ chugging “I Have A Name” and darkly melancholy “Pay It Back”.

Still, Simon and The Astronauts is varied, with no shortage of inspiring pop. “10 League Boots” was chosen as the first single after the band took a poll from their friends; it was the only one in the top 3 of everyone’s choices. Wells described it as “a song for personal and collective change,” referencing everything from European folklore and Giants Causeway to Greta Thunberg, with the skyward synth arpeggios to match its ambitions. The penultimate track, “I Do”, is another favorite, the one that Haden contributed the most to that Wells compares to the Cocteau Twins. “It feels like maybe the way the next record would go, where Rachel would be more part of the writing and we would get a more ethereal sound in some of the songs,” he said.

And then there’s the orchestral tunes, the slow marching band strummer “Athena” and band favorite and closer “Lost in London”. When coming up with the idea for the former, Wells thought the album was missing strings. “It was a case of, 'Can we be The Beatles?’ he said. “‘Athena’” was very driven by the idea that it would be George Martin orchestral production piece...It blossoms because of the orchestration.” As for the latter, Wells was talking to Boo, and said, “I want a song that finishes the album and stands still so that you get lost.” It was an imagined journey throughout English musical history, and a physical one that Wells was hoping to take Haden on when she came to London, from the iconic Alexandra Palace where Pink Floyd played in the 60′s to even just a bench nearby where Ray Davies used to sit. “It’s such a beautiful lullaby,” Haden said about the song. “It just soars.”

Whether Simon and The Astronauts play these songs live is up in the air. After all, it would require Haden to be with them. “It could only ever happen with Rachel,” declared Wells. “It’s for Rachel, and it would be wrong to do it without her.” Haden has repeatedly asked Cuomo to bring them on a tour with Weezer. “10 League Boots” interpolates “Surf Wax America”, with Cuomo’s blessing, and for Weezer fans to hear that tribute from an opening band would be pretty exciting. For now, unsure of the future of that. dog and The Haden Triplets, Haden wants to focus on another Simon & The Astronauts album. She also has a project with Pepper under the name Haden & Pepper (previously bLUSH) that has released a few songs. For the most part, she’s thankful for Simon and The Astronauts. “Simon has been such a good help for me and my self-confidence,” she said. “I’ve had a rough couple of years, before COVID hit, and then COVID hit. Simon has been really helpful and really inspiring me to continue writing and not fall into this hole of shame and depression, which is what I’m used to doing. My default is to be depressed and sad. Simon lifts me up. Every time I see a text from him, or [an] email, or [a] YouTube video, it brings me so much joy.”

What started out as a shot in the dark ended up finding light in the darkness.

#interviews #simon and the astronauts #rachel haden #ben hewerdine #chris pepper #boo hewerdine #rivers cuomo #ring records #pinkerton #simon wells #the bible #oscar wilde #karine polwart #darden smith #weezer #that dog. #charlie haden #quartet west #charlie haden's quartet west #the haden triplets #cambridge folk festival #the family songbook #zoom #old lp #anna waronker #yellowjackets #craig wedren #giants causeway #greta thunberg #cocteau twins

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Masterpost of “Bentley’s Blog” -John Bentley of Squeeze

Alright, in addition to the “Bentley’s Blog” collection of naughty journal entries from the mischievous bassist from Squeeze on his website ( https://www.johnbentley.tv/Blog52.html ), there’s some older entries that site doesn’t go back to, archived on packet of three.com, which is Squeeze’s archive site. For the small Squeeze fandom, it seemed like it would be nice to have them all in one place. Unfortunately, I do not know the actual order they go in, or what numbers they correspond to (as John Bentley’s site only goes back to Blog Entry 30, and there aren’t enough of them on packetofthree to cover the discrepancy), but I have the packetofthree links in order from oldest to newest based on when they were added to the site. (Not embedding the links, because I tried, and they made the post gigantic and tried to crash my browser… oh well.)

https://www.packetofthree.com/2010/09/22/bentley-the-blagging-blogger-returns/ This one involves hilarious little story snippets of John traveling with his band mates in the early days -and maybe getting up to just a little too much trouble with Glenn.

https://www.packetofthree.com/2010/09/22/hi-hi-and-velcome-to-my-smorgasblog-resistance-is-futile/ This one is mostly an announcement regarding Stephen Large’s hiatus from Squeeze in 2010, but then turns into John rambling with every possible lyric and song title pun in the book (somebody stop him, please!)

https://www.packetofthree.com/2010/09/23/welcome-to-bentleys-blog-where-everything-you-know-is-wrong/ John tells stories of past times in the band, and meeting Johnny Depp… with more over-the-top puns and jokes (this is pretty much every single blog)

https://www.packetofthree.com/2010/10/02/bentleys-blog-the-answer-to-everything-or-just-false-prophecy/ John lists his made of “The Ten Commandments of Rock”

https://www.packetofthree.com/2010/10/09/oh-no-its-bentleys-blog-dont-just-do-something-lie-there/ John tells tour stories from the then-current time of 2010, jokes about Chris Difford getting VERY emotional when he did Songwriter’s Circle with Justin Currie and Boo Hewerdine (John, shame on you!), and then provides a quiz on Squeeze history.

https://www.packetofthree.com/2010/10/16/bentleys-blog-calling-planet-earth/ John talks a little bit about the time he was auditioning for Squeeze

https://www.packetofthree.com/2010/10/23/bentley-in-blow-up-bedlam/ John teases about rehearsals with temporary Squeeze member Steve Nieve (filling in during Stephen Large’s hiatus) and makes a long joke out of a mishap while staying at Simon Hanson’s house.

https://www.packetofthree.com/2010/10/30/you-must-be-blogging-joe-king/ John tells a story from his time before Squeeze, and shares from scrap books, Chris Difford’s top favorite songs over the years

https://www.packetofthree.com/2010/11/05/always-expanding-like-the-universe/ This time, John gives us Simon’s top ten favorite songs, then recent performance stories, and more to the story around when John first joined Squeeze

https://www.packetofthree.com/2015/03/03/bentleys-blog-50/ John’s 50th blog, which is also available on his website, but it’s the next one available on packetofthree.com -occurring 5 years after all the others, so that’s all there is to it there. Still, linking this one here because it’s a trip -detailing the story of the time Squeeze had a run-in with the Mafia in New Jersey!

#Squeeze #uk squeeze #squeeze band #John Bentley #Bentley’s Blog #shitposts from before shitposts were cool #John is a trip #he’s insane and I love him #endearing shenanigans #though teasing Chris for getting emotional makes me mad! #Poor Glenn Tilbrook in the first one though #I’m not sure what he was on

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Saturday, 3 February 2024:

Little Victories Darden Smith (Chaos) (released in 1993)

When i repurchased a copy of Yelling At Mary, an original 1995 sealed copy with hype sticker, I padded the order with a second Karlzen CD seen here and a Darden Smith album. The Yelling At Mary album was the primary piece in this three CD order I made only to discover it was severely water damaged and the dealer rightfully wouldn't send it. I then no longer wanted either of the other CD's I ordered but alas, he wouldn't cancel the order.

My purchasing a Darden Smith album may seem strange especially in light of my recent rant about his catalog when I ordered a bundle of his work under the influence of greed, desire and Shiner Bock. But my thoughts were if I'm suddenly infatuated with Mary Karlzen's work, maybe there is hope for Darden Smith (whose lone album with Boo Hewerdine, Evidence, is still one hell of a grand album). Besides, at a $1.99 it helped me to pad my order and it was chronologically sensible since Smith had sent me his 1996 album Deep Fantastic Blue and Little Victories precedes that album that kick starts that bundle of ten albums. Now suddenly I'm on the hook for 11 Smith albums and I've even gone so far as to pull them out of the attic and put them on my CD shelf. (Of course, ask Pretty Things and Primal Scream and The Mighty Lemon Drops if that is truly representative of anything other my own refusal to understand I have only a specific amount of days in which to actually play all these discographies I have invested in, not an endless amount of days.

Above you see the cover and the back of the jewel case. Astute viewers can tell that the back cover was upside down in the shrink wrapped jewel case, because of the shadow it casts... Below is the gatefold of the set.

The booklet is a multi-fold booklet. I've only bothered to unwrap it minimally and I've shown you a truly random bit of the booklet below. (Spiffy suit, Darden, I like that.)

The CD closes the entry.

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2 January 2024: Ten Darden Smith albums:

Deep Fantastic Blue (Plump, 1996)

Sunflower (Dualtone, 2002)

Circo (Dualtone, 2004)

Field of Crows (Dualtone, 2005)

Ojo (self-released, 2006)

After All This Time: The Best of Darden Smith (self-released, 2009)

Marathon (self-released, 2010)

Love Calling (Compass, 2013)

Everything (Compass, 2017)

Western Skies (self-released, 2021)

Back in February of 2022 I revived my interest in Texas-born singer-songwriter Darden Smith, whom I first learned about when I read a review of his 1989 collaborative album with Boo Hewerdine, Evidence, in Rolling Stone magazine when it was new. Through a series of purchases over the past two years, most of which are documented elsewhere on this page, I now own Smith's entire album catalog. This was facilitated greatly by a $50 bundle on Smith's website of the ten albums you see in this post. The stack you see above represents the 6th through 15th Smith albums. When I start buying ten-album bundles, it's a clear sign that I am doing a catalog study. In 2023, I covered the 1st through 5th Smith albums plus a 1990 promotional album of otherwise unavailable material. I never intended to buy the man's whole catalog, but after revisiting his CBS years that I enjoyed in real time during my college years, I wound up getting his first album (Native Soil, 1986) and then I wanted to hear his 1988 self-titled Epic debut again to see how he developed upon stepping up to the major labels. I'm doing that this month, and in February I will leap ahead to his first album after the majors, 1996's Deep Fantastic Blue.

Below we see the front covers of the ten albums, in the same sequence as I list the titles above, running from left to right in two rows. The 1996-2005 albums are in jewel cases; his 2006 self-released live album Ojo just comes in a simple slipcover, and then his 2009-2021 are in digipaks of various types.

Next, the back covers of each.

Last, here are the discs for each.

Field of Crows is the lone album among the ten that had a hype sticker, so here it is.

I will admit that this seems like a whole lot of Darden Smith after spending time with just six of his albums this past year, but I'm more enthusiastic than my brother, who mysteriously also ordered this bundle in some sort of fever dream; see his discussion at https://lastchancevillagegreen.tumblr.com/post/738537154265874432/tuesday-2-january-2023-the-darden-smith-bundle.

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ICYMI: Jenny Sturgeon & Boo Hewerdine release new album 'Outliers' - @hudson_records #JennySturgeon #boohewerdine @boohewerdine http://dlvr.it/T0WWY3

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ICYMI: Jenny Sturgeon & Boo Hewerdine release new album 'Outliers' - @hudson_records #JennySturgeon #boohewerdine @boohewerdine http://dlvr.it/T0WRGC

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Rules Free Radio Nov 22

Tuesdays 2pm - 5pm  EST Rules Free Radio With Steve  Caplan bombshellradio.com On the next Rules Free Radio with Steve Caplan, we'll hear new music by Boston’s Jay All and The Archcriminals, Heather Trost, Rayland Baxter, Quinn Christopherson, The Lone Bellow, a brand new single from Sunbirds. Also Fitz and The Tantrums, Jeb Loy Nichols, Gun, and a few more. Classics from Willie Nile, The Grateful Dead, Psychedelic Furs, Chuck Berry, Hubert Sumlin, Mercy Dee Walton, The Pretty Things-Yardbirds Blues Band, The Jasmine Minks, The Kennedys, The Mastersons, The Ramone, Lynne Arriale Trio, and Bryan Ferry. A listener request for Crack The Sky, plus a bunch more. Chuck Berry - Beautiful Delilah Hubert Sumlin (w/James Cotton, Little Mike & The Hurricanes) - Bring Your Love To Me Mud Morganfield - Short Dressed Woman Mercy Dee Walton - Romp and Stomp Blues The Pretty Things-Yardbird Blues Band - Long Tall Shorty Joe Beard (w/ Duke Robillard and Friends - Give Up And Let Me Go Billy Branch & Hubert Sumlin - Take You Down Town John Primer - My Sugar Mama Willie Nile - Vagabond Moon The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink The Ramones - She's A Sensation Jay Allen and the Archcriminals - Be Mine Tonight Mike Wilhelm & The Frisco Jammers - Chimes of freedom Gun - Backstreet Brothers Bryan Adams - Summer of '69 Suburban Key Party - Funhouse Crack The Sky - She's A Dancer Heather Trost - Despoina Aoife Nessa Frances - Geranium Rayland Baxter - Graffiti Street Quinn Christopherson - Uptown Bryan Ferry - Day For Night Sunbirds - Every Road The Grateful Dead - Uncle John's Band Darden Smith & Boo Hewerdine - Out Of This World The Lone Bellow - Unicorn The Mastersons - Eyes Open Wide The Flamin Groovies - it won't be wrong The Jasmine Minks - don't wait too long The Kennedys - Perfect Love Fitz and the Tantrums - Steppin’ On Me The Christine Spero Group - Blackpatch Steely Dan - FM (No Static At All) Bill Frisell - Claude Utley Hermanos Gutiérrez - Los Chicos Tristes Jeb Loy Nichols - Big Troubles Come In Through A Small Door Michael Franks - Living On The Inside Lynne Arriale Trio -  Hope John Martyn - Head and Heart Ray Wilson - Alone Mark Knopfler - A Place Where We Used To Live Read the full article

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HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY INDIE CHRISTMAS (VOLUMES I & II) RELEASED TODAY

Volume I includes The Lilac Time, Dodgy, Sally Shapiro, St Lenox, The Boy Most Likely To, Suzzy Roche The Green Pajamas, The Long Winters, Armstrong, Green Seagull, Trembling Blue Stars, White Town, Jagged Jaw and Record Heat

https://v4velindre.bandcamp.com/music

Volume II includes Helen Love, bis, Girl Ray, The Pocket Gods, Pete Astor, Eddi Reader, Shinyribs, Boo Hewerdine, BOB, The Suncharms, Ballboy, and Tot Taylor.

https://v4velindre.bandcamp.com/music

Every penny I raise through album sales goes to https://www.crisis.org.uk/, but if you buy Have Yourself a Merry Indie Christmas on Bandcamp Friday the 4th of November, then Bandcamp waives its commission, so 100% of your money goes to help the homeless.

Huge thanks to all the contributing artists and labels. More thanks to the podcasts, websites, radio stations, particularly Sunshine Music iRadio, Radio Wales, Dandelion Radio, Brum Radio, BBC6 Music and all the individual presenters involved in supporting the label - way too many to mention here, but including Dr J, Dermot, Adam, Kath, Gareth, Adrian, Bethan, Sandra and Alice. Lastly, thanks to Jim at Christmas Underground - man, what an entertaining and comprehensive collection of music and music writing you can find on Jim’s site.  

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Glasgow Americana at Websters Theatre...A wonderful night with Boo Hewerdine, Jill Jackson and Martha L Healy.

#glasgowmusic #bandphotography #musicphotography #americana #webstersglasgow #boohewerdine #jilljackson #marthalhealy

[iwilldisguisemyself]

and he would buy her roses on the streets that he now knew his eyes would try and find her she was looking too in Paris after the war

#someone go to paris with me when all this is over? #Boo Hewerdine #in paris after the war

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#SoundCloud #music #Boo Hewerdine #Blues

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Independent Venues Week: 4 great gigs at Kingskerswell Parish Church

For Independent Venues Week, Kingskerswell Parish Church will four very special shows between January 30 and February 4.   (more…)

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#Boo Hewerdine #Independent Venues Week #Kingskerswell Parish Church #Lyndon Morgan

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Boo Hewerdine the other half of State of the Union performing at wickham festival on Sunday. #boohewerdine #wickhamfestival #folkmusic #folkfestival #festival #musicfestival #guitarist #musician #drawing #sketchbook #sketch #art #originalartistsoninstagram #originalartists #artwork #digitaldrawing (at Wickham Festival) https://www.instagram.com/p/B016J1Rn5NS/?igshid=1f65f9hlkv469

#boohewerdine #wickhamfestival #folkmusic #folkfestival #festival #musicfestival #guitarist #musician #drawing #sketchbook #sketch #art #originalartistsoninstagram #originalartists #artwork #digitaldrawing