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Wilco is in town tonight, playing the “Lokerse Feesten” ; an open air 9 day festival here, a mere 5 minutes bicycle ride from home.
I’m not counting on it, but it would be great if I could see, hear and feel “Impossible Germany” live …
Update the day after; they did play Impossible Germany, as always impressed by Cline’s (improvised) solo.
About #Eurovision; Loved Croatia, Finland and I’m happy my fellow-Belgian #Gustaph did (very) well. But my favorite by far this year was Spains #BlancaPaloma
Flamenco-ish, intense, great voice, beautiful act, uncompromising electro-track that completely avoids the standard 4 to the floor beat that is way to present in Liverpool.
So much to like & discover, I’ve got it on repeat!
Thoughts & prayers or Thoughts & actions?
Someone uploaded an amateur recording of an entire (?) Jeff Buckley solo concert at the Sin-é from July 1993 (one year before Grace was released). A gem!
My friend and #WordPress performance guru Bariş is from Turkey and is asking for help from the WordPress ecosystem. Share as widely as possible!
Although I removed the “twitterless twaddle” byline from this blog years ago and I was present on Twitter with my @futtta-account, I’ve never been an avid user. That means I have no “social capital” there and given the Musk shit-show it has quickly become, I revisited the Mastodon account I created in April this year (when Elon declared he wanted to buy Twitter) and as instructed by God I happily “archived” my Twitter account by removing all my follows, protecting my tweets, changing my name and gently closing the door behind me (and I finally deactivated my FB account as well).
So if you want to get social with me, I’m https://mastodon.social/@futtta. Not that I’m good at doing the socials, not that I’ll have much to say there, not that Mastodon solves all problems with social media, but it does feel good to be on a federated/ distributed social network using open source software, not owned by one company or one person.
Long time no Radiohead here, so let’s fix that shall we? Here’s Thom Yorke solo in Zermatt (Switzerland) playing songs from Radiohead, his solo-records and his new band (The Smile). If anything this is a testament to the great songwriter the man is! Also remarkable; he seems so much more at ease on stage now, maybe having accepted the spotlights which sometimes seemed too much for him to cope with. But then again the period of the great hype has passed and the spotlights now are likely very different from the ones he had to cope with in the nineties? Anyway, what a concert, no? I hope Yorke will perform solo in these parts one of these years!
There are not enough movies that really floor me. Everything, Everywhere, All at Once did. Go see it!
Wow!
But I can’t seem to find who’s playing that bass, is it all keyboard, even in the beginning where you here the snares of an upright?
When watching Eurosong a couple of weeks ago -while having a tapas-like dinner for hours and having great fun- one song stood out for me but I did not really enjoy the arrangements. But then a couple of days ago I heard “Saudade, saudade” (by Maro) in a complete live version and I was almost crying. So Eurosong not only is good for an evening of kitsch, fun and food, now and again it also lets the world get to know a beautiful song;
