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| whilst we're trying to find out how you can buy the single "driving somewhere" from our new album "runout groove" by stephen duffy and the lilac time (out next week folks) we've put up 2 new songs here & now - bring it x | ||
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| driving somewhere film © bogus footage | ||
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here you go x ps just mixing the girl who waves at trains from the hereford show - very amusing. . . |
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| old nipper | ||
| the bogus frontage/fruitcake shop will be open on tuesday - if you can't wait and have exhausted your independent routes you could try this old nipper. you will actually receive the single as it looks on the myspace music player. it's heavy weight vinyl i assure you x | ||
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| attention to the life that is interior for the beloved love that's always greater | ||
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hello interviews pass in a blur of not really saying what i wanted to say and just waffling on about beards – there are so many things to say about great & important things and i just keep on talking about facial hair – it was great to see tony benn in trafalgar square - more of you should have come down – it is refreshing to be out there and not looking in. on the drive back from birmingham i thought about how i seem to have spent most of the last 30 years on dark motorways inbetween singing one song or another. i didn’t manage to drink myself to death at 29 in between watford gap and luton in a homage to hank williams – of course when i’m in the studio i think i’ve spent most of the last 30 years in those dark places - & then there were the 3 or 4 years at the end of the 80’s when the lilac time seemed to just play endless games of badminton getting stoned outside our 17th century farmhouse in the middle of nowhere herefordshire - that doesn't fit into either of the above categories – but for someone who finds singing live as painful as people find listening to it i seem to have done a lot of it – & it never gets any easier. poor thing. the single is out on monday – we haven’t set up anything yet for you to get the 7 inch – bogus frontage at it’s most efficient – it just adds to my nostalgic attachment to the idea of making a record and people opening boxes and putting it in the shop so folk can ignore it and then some of you can pick it up in the remainder bin and become lifelong fans. talking to janice long i reminisced about being on her radio one evening show and playing return journey by dylan thomas – an obscure scratchy bbc transcription disc – how unlikely that such a thing would happen now – also this week i’ve thought of how gary crowley and i played burn it down (was that originally called dance stance?) on capital radio one balmy evening and suits rushing in reprimanding us for playing a song with fuck in it – did they really threaten to throw us onto the street? - and we thought things were bad then – little did we know we were on the brink of ever more bland nonsense – & that the eighties would last forever and dylan thomas wouldn’t even be able to say bugger all backwards even if he was close to a wireless. ah nostalgia – nostalgia for the present as we used to say – i spent most of the yesterday trying to give radiohead ten pounds for their album – haven’t quite managed it yet. i usually read a few books simultaneously until one demands to be finished but due to the proliferation of oxfams second hand book shops things have got completely out of control. . .shirley collins’ america over the water – michael foot “a life” – claire tomalins thomas hardy (the time torn man) – thomas hardy selected poems - eric hobsbawms globalisation democracy & terrorism – fred raphaels glittering prizes – on the road “the original scroll” – country by nick tosches – the year of magical thinking by the great joan didion – in search of blind willy mctell by michael gray – the british folk revival by michael brocken – i’m using the cover of franz kakas the wedding preparations in the country & other stories as a grooming aid (it’s a detail of munchs evening melancholy) actually one of the other stories is josephine the singer a story i mention in rockland and now can’t remember why. . . anyway keep me out of the bookshops at least until the weekend. murray lerner’s the other side of the mirror – bob dylan at the newport folk festival 1963-1965 - arena special this coming sunday on bbc4 starting at 9.00pm. today i’m in the studio mixing the green man set for the film soundtrack & soundtrack album – i’ve never mixed live lilacs before. the film is very exciting – you’ll be able to see some of it in the driving somewhere video maybe even later today if we can make it small enough for the small screen – it’s shot in widescreen lilacscope – by bogus footage of course. it’s 7 26 on a bright and beautiful thursday morning - becalmed by brian eno from another green world sounds beguiling – before that bert & john were noodling – and now mick taylor and the stones are making 1969 sound like a very forward thinking and optimistic place to be – must be why i never left. . . x |
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| when your death takes it's toll all the money you made will never buy back your soul | ||
| see you there - peace on x | ||
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