New Radiators from Space album: Sound City Beat

[Clash Cadillac]

I am thinking a Rads show around September 14-15th within in a days journey from Paris would fit into my schedule nicely. How about yours Philip?

[philipchevron]

September 8 in Dublin is the closest I can offer, sorry!

[Clash Cadillac]

September 8 in Dublin is the closest I can offer, sorry!

Damn, already booked our flight for the 9th.

[johnfoyle]

DAVE FANNING SHOW

RTE 2FM

Saturday 7th July

Listening to this now on podcast via this -

http://2fm.rte.ie/fanning/

[Heather]

I am very miffed tonight. I got home, took my copy of Sound City Beat out of the CD player in my car to discover, horror of horrors, half the paintwork had been scrapped off. How the hell did that happen? It's never happened before and theoretically it shouldn't happen at all. I know I play it a lot but I play lots of CD's a lot.

[philipchevron]

I am very miffed tonight. I got home, took my copy of Sound City Beat out of the CD player in my car to discover, horror of horrors, half the paintwork had been scrapped off. How the hell did that happen? It's never happened before and theoretically it shouldn't happen at all. I know I play it a lot but I play lots of CD's a lot.

Does it play still? And are you sure it's not the part of the design that's supposed to look like that?

[Tal]

[philipchevron]

Yes, the part that's in white in the helpful graphic above is actually just plain silver on the disc itself. It's a kick-drum [bass drum] pedal.

[Heather]

After further inspection, I realise now that you are right. How silly I feel now. I'm just wondering how I never noticed it before.

[Tal]

I kind of like the idea you can play a cd so much that you wear out the artwork.That would be an art in itself.

Up until recently I thought the kick drum foot pedel was an old record players needle arm with one of those useless cleaning arms.
Sadly I think I once worn a button down shirt with a very simliar paisley print but it was more blue/purple.

[philipchevron]

After further inspection, I realise now that you are right. How silly I feel now. I'm just wondering how I never noticed it before.

Well, that's because it's been in your car CD player all this time!

[johnfoyle]

12 Turn Out The Light (Derry Lindsay) The Creatures 1966
a bit here in later years -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EP-EQYxLT8

The newly released documentary of The Rolling Stones in Ireland in 1965 includes footage of The Creatures . The were a support act on one or more of the shows. I'm looking forward to seeing it , for the background detail as much as the musical content.

http://www.charlieismydarling.com/sneakpeek/


http://www.soundstagedirect.com/rolling ... ords.shtml


http://www.irishrock.org/irodb/bands/creatures.html

[johnfoyle]

http://www.shitenonions.com/blog/?p=3664

(extract)

Sound City Beat is out on the legendary Chiswick Records and the Radiators are joined by Henry McCullough (the only Irish man to play Woodstock and who was Paul McCartney’s guitar man for years) who add licks on the version of Eire Apparent’s – Yes, I Need Someone – Henry was Eire Apparent guitar player but unfortunately got booted from the band prior to their debut album being recorded with Jimi Hendrix twiddling the knobs – so a nice opportunity to complete some unfinished business for Henry.



Henry isn't well - here's hoping his indomitable spirit carries him through.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-20239245

[philipchevron]

Michael Mary Murphy, Village (Irish current affairs magzine) Feb/Mar 2013

Album of the Year: Worldwide

Radiators from Space: Sound City Beat

The most incredible thing about the Radiators is the palpable respect between members of the band. I interviewed three Radiators (separately) recently. The reverence, honesty and sheer joy they evidently find in each other was unmatched in my experience. This camaraderie may explain why they chose to honour the forgotten warriors of original music in Southern Ireland. These were the toilers in obscurity working away from the Tan-tastic glare of the showband uniforms. It was a chaotic sub-culture daring to bring colour and the slang-language of rock and roll into the hair-shirted Republic.

Three names stand out in accounts of the early days of rock in the Republic – Horslips, Thin Lizzy and Rory Gallagher. Yet the environment that sustained their early careers was created and maintained by artists no less talented yet often unheralded. To my shame, many of the acts on this homage, respectful yet never constrained by reverence, were new to my ears.

Eamon Carr’s perfectly nuanced reading of Phil Lynott’s piece of composition ‘Dublin’ provides a fitting context for the album. Carr and Lynott’s mastery of both rock and traditional music and the combination thereof proved pivotal in the development of Irish rock. They both understood the power of the avant garde too. So too did, Ted Carroll whose pioneering work deepened the fruitful underground railroad linking Ireland with international advances. This album is another testament to how he shaped Irish rock. The Radiators deliver the goods on Rory Gallagher’s Taste song ‘It’s Happened Before, It’ll Happen Again’ and Van Morrison’s Them tune ‘Gloria.’ The latter version stands out as a particular highlight on the album. Embodying the wildness of the era in the face of conservatism, Ian Whitcomb and Bluesville’s ‘You Turn Me On’ allows Irish rock to take a deserved bow, ukulele and all.

The Radiators have the ability to place these acts in context. They rescue them from obscurity. This is not just a fantastic collection of songs; it is an incredibly important piece of social history. Anyone wondering how Ireland arrived - after a long and arduous detour - to modernity needs to listen to this. It is hard to think of any Irish band who would construct such a testimony to their forgotten predecessors. It is impossible to think of any Irish band who could do it better.

Liberty can be equated with the fraternity of artists and citizens enjoying freedom of expression. The Radiators have always been revolutionaries pushing against pillars; picking the locks on fire-escapes. On this album they release the shackles of creative souls denied the opportunities they deserved. They bring a torch to dusty cellars and dark, damp rehearsal rooms and uncover gold and musicians who never ceded their sovereignty.

Ireland has produced few better documents of the road to freedom. It has never produced one as rewarding to listen to.

[shitenonions]

Sound City Beat on Vinyl anyone?

Shite'n'Onions who released Trouble Pilgrim in the US on vinyl a couple of years back are working on a vinyl release of Sound City Beat. It's going to be a double album with gate-fold sleeve and the full sleeve notes by Philip & Ted Carroll. Given the economics of doing a limited edition (250 copies) high quality vinyl double album Shite'n'Onions is trying to fund it as a kckstarter project - the details are here:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/135 ... -on-glorio

If your not familiar with KickStarter its a crowd funding site for artistic projects. A target amount is set to be raised to cover the cost of the project, individuals pledge amounts towards meeting the goal, If the goal is met then your credit card is charged for the amount pledged and in return you receive an "award" in this case SOUND CITY BEAT on vinyl plus other goodies. If the funding goal is not met then project is not funded and your credit card is not charged and nothing happens!!