tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59307732042521196992024-03-14T06:15:11.460+00:00SaloonLo-Fi Sounds, Hi-Fi Heart: The ArchiveWebmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11517378473554217507noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930773204252119699.post-70142972973683020592018-02-18T10:56:00.000+00:002018-02-18T10:56:08.422+00:00Interview with Alan from Bearos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Dr Alan Farmer from <a href="https://www.discogs.com/label/39888-Bearos" target="_blank">Bearos</a> Records recently recorded an interview with Brum Radio which you can catch up with on <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/BrumRadio/dave-travis-freak-scene-dr-allan-farmer-promotions-and-j-rock-15022018/" target="_blank">Mixcloud</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Back in 1999 Saloon were incredibly excited by the noises coming out of Birmingham from bands such as Pram, Avrocar, Plone and, of course, Broadcast which is why we made a concerted effort to try and get in on the action. We played numerous gigs in Birmingham at The Jug of Ale for Alan and Arthur from The Catapult Club. We also made some good friends. 'Electron' our single for Bearos Records was probably the most effortless record we ever put out, and I still list is among my very favourite Saloon releases. Bearos also saw the debut of my ongoing project <a href="https://www.happyrobots.co.uk/rodney-cromwell" target="_blank">Rodney Cromwell</a> with the track 'Radaghast the Brown' featuring on their Lord of the Rings tribute album. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Rodney Cromwell will be coming to Birmingham as part of the Ohm from Ohm tour, and on the opening </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">night on 15th March, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Alan will be DJing for us playing entirely Japanese indie and electo pop. Details on the <a href="http://www.ohmfromohm.co.uk/" target="_blank">Ohm from Ohm</a> website.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Adam Saloon</span>Webmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11517378473554217507noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930773204252119699.post-65284756092856282482017-03-15T09:50:00.001+00:002019-04-15T21:28:28.598+01:00Now my moogs are in the loft (again)<span style="font-family: inherit;">After a flurry of activity when I re-launched the Saloon website as this blog, it has been fairly quiet on here for a while. The reason has really been because of too much musical activity in our lives rather than too little.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Matt and Alison’s projects go from strength to strength. Matt’s band <a href="https://www.facebook.com/theleaflibrary/?fref=ts" target="_blank">The Leaf Library</a> have released three albums in two years and Alison and her husband mark, as well as a flood of activity with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/theleftoutsides/?fref=ts" target="_blank">The Left Outsides</a>, have also a new band <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TrimdonGrangeExplosion/?fref=ts" target="_blank">The Trimdon Grange Explosion</a>. Make sure to look them up on social media.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am going to talk about myself now though (Matt, Alison – as ever, do send me stuff and I will post it up).</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb4u66450Vd9A4RW4OzEg63ENKTm9x-uc8y93IccNk0pVRwalN-ssKlftAFerKFYbuUNzw5g0aaGOXO8cE_6eNbXD-AjCKCL1AqWZCBC3A_8f-R-p2jubbPY_YELcv6e9qNxJKxTx5-_4/s1600/anxiety+ST2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb4u66450Vd9A4RW4OzEg63ENKTm9x-uc8y93IccNk0pVRwalN-ssKlftAFerKFYbuUNzw5g0aaGOXO8cE_6eNbXD-AjCKCL1AqWZCBC3A_8f-R-p2jubbPY_YELcv6e9qNxJKxTx5-_4/s320/anxiety+ST2.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">It has been just over two years since I released the Rodney Cromwell album ‘<a href="https://rodneycromwell.bandcamp.com/album/age-of-anxiety" target="_blank">Age of Anxiety</a>’ on <a href="https://www.happyrobots.co.uk/" target="_blank">Happy Robots Records</a>. When I last posted about it in April 2015, I was pretty downhearted. Although at that stage it had received some radio play I was struggling to get anyone to write about it. But, following its very slow start, with barely a tweet from anyone on the day it came out, the album ended up being surprisingly well received.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the end I took on a press agent <a href="https://www.shamelesspromotionpr.com/" target="_blank">Shameless Promotion (PR)</a> from Canada and between us we were able to get great coverage in NME, Huffington Post, the Electricity Club, Electronic Sounds Magazine, Record Collector, Louder Thank War, Impose Magazine, SoundsXP, Overblown and loads more. It also had a lot of ‘grassroots’ coverage and I ended up doing more interviews than I had ever done in my career. It was particularly great to get positive feedback from a few synth ‘legends’ with Mal Holmes from OMD saying nice words and Rusty Egan from Visage / Rich Kids saying great things and playing the record loads on his shows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I also got a load of terrific radio play from the likes of Gideon Coe and Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music and on several shows on RNE3 in Spain. And it hasn’t stopped; the album and its singles are still getting constant play on specialist indie and synthpop shows and stations. I did a few radio sessions too – the highlight perhaps being a <a href="http://mvod.lvlt.rtve.es/resources/TE_SDISGR/mp3/0/7/1488560984570.mp3" target="_blank">session </a>with Julio Ruiz on RNE3 in Madrid. Julio previously interviewed Saloon back in 2002 when we played in Contempopranea Festival, so it was lovely to meet him again and play some songs on the show. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUbbJGedtsDQJP6BZDoYef6ArWkdjXnlxnpyk7gKu8aWWHKS81NGsQidJmNroJ2Qy_R5CtkqyNtgICDdK5prT03_a2aLD2iaOX5Jpw_6OgQEKLkXbeThew-DbKZ6-m3AP7IkB0JRiD_Yw/s1600/12694671_1052250721499698_5356771366154435737_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUbbJGedtsDQJP6BZDoYef6ArWkdjXnlxnpyk7gKu8aWWHKS81NGsQidJmNroJ2Qy_R5CtkqyNtgICDdK5prT03_a2aLD2iaOX5Jpw_6OgQEKLkXbeThew-DbKZ6-m3AP7IkB0JRiD_Yw/s320/12694671_1052250721499698_5356771366154435737_o.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">If I posted links to all the radio sessions, interviews and reviews is would take me all day, but – if you care – all the links are available on the <a href="https://www.happyrobots.co.uk/rodney-cromwell-impact" target="_blank">Happy Robots Records website</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I also never thought I would play live again – in fact I sold much of my gear in 2014 at a boot fair. But by Summer 2015 I was playing my first shows for five years. Almost every gig we played was great. There were almost too many highlights to mention but clearly playing with the bands Marsheaux, Death and Vanilla, and Snookerstar DJ Steve Davis, plus the festivals Indietracks and Madrid Popfest, have to be near top of the list. It was great organising another Happy Robots gig in November 2016 and really great that some of the old faces who used to come and watch Saloon came out to show their support. The call of the Travelodge, terrible service stations and tiny back room venues will always be there for me. I can’t ever see that going away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is impossible to thank everyone who has helped me out, but many thanks must go out to those who played in the heavily rotating Rodney Cromwell band over the last year and half – Adrian Taylor (from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/controllersband/?fref=ts" target="_blank">Controllers</a>) and Matt Saloon / Leaf Library all deserve a massive thank you! A slightly bigger thank you should also go out to Alice (Martha of Arthur & Martha fame plus <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Cosinesmusic/" target="_blank">Cosines</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/massdatura/" target="_blank">Mass Datura</a> and more) and Richard Salt (also Controllers) who played the lion's-share of gigs. We spent many enjoyable hours in our rehearsal rooms talking about guitar pedals, synths and how shit Brexit is, as well as practicing occasionally. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And to the point of this lengthy post, well after a most enjoyable trip to Spain, where Matt from Saloon joined us on guitar, I feel things have come full circle and I’ve achieved all I wanted to accomplish in terms of promoting ‘Age of Anxiety’. It's time to put the synths back in the metaphorical loft and let my ears recover. It feels like a good time to think about future projects but also to spend a bit more time with my incredibly supportive wife Alison and our two kids, who have had to endure me being away for many weekends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is not to say there won’t be any gigs or releases in the future. Rod Cromwell will be appearing on a couple of great compilations soon, and in terms of gigs I am always up for offers. I just won’t be actively looking for opportunities. I do hope to play at least one more London gig in 2017 (and you know where I am if you need me.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But I want to spend a bit more time with the family while concentrating on the label, probably arguing with strangers about politics on twitter and, maybe even, writing some new songs. I also have a couple of great new releases out this year on Happy Robots Records, so do stick with us, follow us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/happyrobotsrecords/?fref=ts" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and sign up to the <a href="https://www.happyrobots.co.uk/" target="_blank">Happy Robots Mailng List</a> if you haven’t done so already.</span><br />
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Webmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11517378473554217507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930773204252119699.post-35346953890186964192016-12-21T21:49:00.001+00:002016-12-21T22:12:19.518+00:00Rodney Cromwell's Post Truth Pop Party<div>
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Up at the moment on <a href="http://stereoembersmagazine.com/rodney-cromwells-post-truth-pop-party/" target="_blank">Stereo Embers</a> website, Rodney Cromwell (aka Adam Saloon) lists his top 48 songs of the year as his 'Post-Truth Pop Party.</div>
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For your audio delight, here is a link to the Spotify playlist and what Adam has to say about the mix...<br />
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<i>Despite it having being a miserable year for many in terms of the global political arena with the ascendancy of post-truth politics, there have still been some decent records released in 2016 to cheer us up. This mix is my attempt to soundtrack the spirit of 2016 through those new releases – it is no coincidence that it includes songs with titles such as ‘Play with Lies’ and ‘The Dictator Decides’ and that the mix is <a href="https://open.spotify.com/user/robot_rocker/playlist/3ddLQhHVnzy3TRsR0r3UX9">48 tracks long</a>.<br /><br />There have been some decent synthpop and electronica songs from the likes of <b>Computer Magic</b>, <b>Train to Spain</b>, <b>Hannah Peel</b>, <b>Porches</b>, <b>Hologram Teen </b>to name a few, with also the release of my favourite <b>Pet Shop Boys</b> album in years. Many of my most-loved tracks of 2016 have though come from the psychedelic and krautrock tradition: my three favourite gigs being by <b>Vanishing Twin</b>, <b>Camera</b> and <b>Cavern of Anti-Matter</b>, all of whom feature here in one way or another. There have been a load of great re-issues this year too, my favourite being ‘Venezuela 70: Cosmic Visions of a Latin American Earth’ an album of Venezuelan experimental rock from the 1970s. Admittedly, it is probably not everyone’s cup of tea.<br /><br />In this age of anxiety and political hypertension, the dark electronica of <b>Pye Corner Audio</b>, <b>Vile Electrodes</b>, <b>Essaie Pas</b>, the <b>Stranger Things</b> soundtrack and the epic ‘Sphynx’ by <b>La Femme</b> seem the perfect soundtrack. However, to stop the party getting too dark, I try to pull it back with some lighter and more uplifting pop by the likes of <b>Rémi Parson</b>, <b>Belbury Poly</b> and a certain Mr <b>Rodney Cromwell</b>. <br /><br />It wouldn’t be 2016 without a bit of narcissism thrown into the post-factual bubbling pot now, would it!</i><br />
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Webmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11517378473554217507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930773204252119699.post-45616055864497255622016-11-18T11:40:00.001+00:002016-11-18T11:41:16.610+00:00Somewhere in EuropeThe world seems to be in a pretty miserable place right now. Here is something that may cheer up some of you Saloon fans.<br />
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Found it on a video tape labelled simply 'Somewhere in Europe' and now uploaded to YouTube, a full Saloon live set. It's the band playing in Paris at The Guinette Pirate. Not entirely sure when as we played there at least three times, I think this was probably us playing on 14/04/02 where with Satan’s Fingers (who featured members of Herman Dune). Pretty sure we headlined. The video and the sound are a bit out of synch, and I think two of the songs I've posted onto YouTube before, but hey, it gives a great flavour of the band at the time. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBnvQC7Fq2m2D-QnVz7d4-WUjzPuMYHpV5ElzqDA9AMka7_-OyHKiKQ0mCjwerkq4AlgN1EoIOmyttt7hFp6jLS3wevZfPIYM4CCJ1Q3pS_x-soZmjOmZm0GUlM8AmGmeB2Kwmo5hwqPU/s1600/leafy2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBnvQC7Fq2m2D-QnVz7d4-WUjzPuMYHpV5ElzqDA9AMka7_-OyHKiKQ0mCjwerkq4AlgN1EoIOmyttt7hFp6jLS3wevZfPIYM4CCJ1Q3pS_x-soZmjOmZm0GUlM8AmGmeB2Kwmo5hwqPU/s400/leafy2.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">Matt's band <a href="http://theleaflibrary.com/" target="_blank">The Leaf Library</a> have a new album out soon, made up of remixes of tracks from 'Daylight Versions' by some absolutely terrific artists. I probably won't be able to do the description justice, so here is the press release in full...</span><br />
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<i>The Leaf Library are pleased to announce Versions, an album of remixes by various artists including <a href="http://www.cavernofantimatter.com/">Cavern of Anti-Matter</a> (Tim Gane from Stereolab), <a href="https://isnajdui.bandcamp.com/">Isnaj Dui</a> (Katie English of Littlebow), <a href="https://soundcloud.com/greeenlinez">Greeen Linez</a>, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/far-rainbow">Far Rainbow</a> (Robert Barry), and <a href="https://soundcloud.com/a-new-line-related">A New Line(Related)</a> and <a href="http://www.thedecliningwinter.com/">The Declining Winter</a> (Hood alumni Andrew Johnson and Richard Adams, respectively) amongst many others.<br /> <br /> The remixes are all based on tracks taken from The Leaf Library’s acclaimed 2015 album Daylight Versions and will be released as a download and a limited edition CD. Each CD will feature handmade artwork by a different artist or writer, acting as a remix of the original artwork.<br /> <br /> The ten tracks twist the original’s melancholy seaside drones into new and further out-there shapes. Cavern of Anti-Matter turn the droning flood epic Acre into a skipping, bright trip along the autobahn towards Harmonia’s forest retreat, whilst Greeen Linez (Matt ‘A Taut Line’ Line, and Chris Greenberg from Hong Kong in the 60s) shift Slow Spring into a Balearic, two stepping gem.<br /> <br /> Two ex-members of cult Domino band Hood provide their own takes, with A New Line (Related) bringing a gauzy club throb to Evening Gather’s shimmering drift, and The Declining Winter (with Chris Tenz) adding speaker-busting dub weight to Slow Spring. Far Rainbow and Isnaj Dui both bring the droning and textured best out of Evening Gathers and Acre, respectively.<br /> <br /> Other remixers include Deerful, Firestations, Bit Cloudy and Pilgrm.<br /><br />Pre-order the album here: <a href="https://theleaflibrary.bandcamp.com/album/versions">https://theleaflibrary.bandcamp.com/album/versions</a> </i><br />
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Definitely worth a trip to bandcamp methinks. Loon fans, make sure to pick you your copy soon! <br />
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<br />Webmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11517378473554217507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930773204252119699.post-15293069110653077702016-10-26T15:10:00.004+01:002016-11-18T14:18:11.076+00:00New album by The Leaf Library: Versions <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBnvQC7Fq2m2D-QnVz7d4-WUjzPuMYHpV5ElzqDA9AMka7_-OyHKiKQ0mCjwerkq4AlgN1EoIOmyttt7hFp6jLS3wevZfPIYM4CCJ1Q3pS_x-soZmjOmZm0GUlM8AmGmeB2Kwmo5hwqPU/s1600/leafy2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBnvQC7Fq2m2D-QnVz7d4-WUjzPuMYHpV5ElzqDA9AMka7_-OyHKiKQ0mCjwerkq4AlgN1EoIOmyttt7hFp6jLS3wevZfPIYM4CCJ1Q3pS_x-soZmjOmZm0GUlM8AmGmeB2Kwmo5hwqPU/s400/leafy2.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">Matt's band <a href="http://theleaflibrary.com/" target="_blank">The Leaf Library</a> have a new album out soon, made up of remixes of tracks from 'Daylight Versions' by some absolutely terrific artists. I probably won't be able to do the description justice, so here is the press release in full...</span><br />
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<i>The Leaf Library are pleased to announce Versions, an album of remixes by various artists including <a href="http://www.cavernofantimatter.com/">Cavern of Anti-Matter</a> (Tim Gane from Stereolab), <a href="https://isnajdui.bandcamp.com/">Isnaj Dui</a> (Katie English of Littlebow), <a href="https://soundcloud.com/greeenlinez">Greeen Linez</a>, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/far-rainbow">Far Rainbow</a> (Robert Barry), and <a href="https://soundcloud.com/a-new-line-related">A New Line(Related)</a> and <a href="http://www.thedecliningwinter.com/">The Declining Winter</a> (Hood alumni Andrew Johnson and Richard Adams, respectively) amongst many others.<br /> <br /> The remixes are all based on tracks taken from The Leaf Library’s acclaimed 2015 album Daylight Versions and will be released as a download and a limited edition CD. Each CD will feature handmade artwork by a different artist or writer, acting as a remix of the original artwork.<br /> <br /> The ten tracks twist the original’s melancholy seaside drones into new and further out-there shapes. Cavern of Anti-Matter turn the droning flood epic Acre into a skipping, bright trip along the autobahn towards Harmonia’s forest retreat, whilst Greeen Linez (Matt ‘A Taut Line’ Line, and Chris Greenberg from Hong Kong in the 60s) shift Slow Spring into a Balearic, two stepping gem.<br /> <br /> Two ex-members of cult Domino band Hood provide their own takes, with A New Line (Related) bringing a gauzy club throb to Evening Gather’s shimmering drift, and The Declining Winter (with Chris Tenz) adding speaker-busting dub weight to Slow Spring. Far Rainbow and Isnaj Dui both bring the droning and textured best out of Evening Gathers and Acre, respectively.<br /> <br /> Other remixers include Deerful, Firestations, Bit Cloudy and Pilgrm.<br /><br />Pre-order the album here: <a href="https://theleaflibrary.bandcamp.com/album/versions">https://theleaflibrary.bandcamp.com/album/versions</a> </i><br />
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Definitely worth a trip to bandcamp methinks. Loon fans, make sure to pick you your copy soon! <br />
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Interview for Hybrid Magazine (October 2000)</h2>
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While clearing out my computer I found this Saloon
interview with Hybrid Magazine from the States from way-back in October 2000
before we recorded the first album. It doesn't seem to be on the web
any more so I thought I would post it here. Enjoy, as they say.
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1. How long has saloon been around?</h4>
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<b>Amanda:</b> We’ve been together for about two and a half
years now, which is quite a long time for five people to stay together when you
think about it. We've known each other for so long it seems weird looking back
on the early days when we were all so different (some of us were a lot shier
then!). Yet, as a band we haven't really changed that much at all. Although our
musical tastes and influences have developed, our jobs, hobbies, friends and
where we live have changed; we have never lost the reason why we are in the
band or why we enjoy making- music together. That's my excuse for making an
absolute racket anyway!</div>
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2. How did you guys form, meet up, start the band?</h4>
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<b>Amanda:</b> The idea for the band was born in late 1997, but
the line up wasn't officially completed until early 1998. Originally, Adam and
Mike had the idea to start a band. They knew of Alison who was playing viola in
another band and did a bit of what Adam calls "inspired poaching"!
They advertised for a female singer (having as many girls in the band as
possible was definitely their main priority!), And this is how I met them. Matt
joined a couple of months later, similarly through an advert. We did our first
gig a month or so after Matt joined and we haven't stopped since.</div>
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<b>Adam:</b> One of the things I’m most proud of is that our
sound arrived fully formed and we’ve literally just been nurturing and feeding
it. I’d written a handful of songs that were too good to play in my old band,
so Mike and myself put together a group that could do them justice. Some of
those songs like “Spacer” and “I am the cheese” we still play now.</div>
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<b>Matt:</b> I stumbled in one day with my guitar, unable to
play a note, but pretty handy with a bit of feedback. I got the job.</div>
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3. I hear Stereolab, Velvet Underground and Tindersticks
in your singles, what are the actual influences that produced your sound?</h4>
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<b>Adam:</b> Well we like all three of those bands, we’ve played
with Stereolab which was great because we definitely share the same sort of
audience. In fact live we must even look quite a bit like them (girls, guitars,
moogs) although according to one magazine we look like The Corrs!</div>
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I have a really fond memories of us in our first year
sitting around the kitchen table with a bottle of red wine listening to the
likes of Etienne deCrecy, Spiritualized, Fairport Convention, Graham Coxon
while stuffing envelopes. I think evenings like that, listening to loads of
different music, really helped to give us our voice.</div>
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<b>Matt:</b> All of the above and more. Adam’s choice proves
that we’re influenced in equal parts by electronic and guitar music. Most of it
resides in the leftfield, my influences at the moment include stuff like
Tarwater, Plaid, Yo La Tengo, DJ Shadow and Broadcast.</div>
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4. What's a typical audience at one of your shows?</h4>
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<b>Adam:</b> Sad old men, weedy indie boys, shy indie girls with
plastic hair-clips. People like us really.</div>
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<b>Mike:</b> A few of my mates who’ve come straight from work
propping up the bar and heckling.</div>
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<b>Matt:</b> People on the fringes of music (and good taste).</div>
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5. How helpful is it to be played on John Peel's show?</h4>
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<b>Amanda:</b> We've been very lucky because John has now played
three (or is it four?) of our singles. It's a dream come true
actually. It really gives me confidence that all the hard work does eventually pay off sometimes and that people are finally able to hear
our records. It is a brilliant way of getting your music heard by people who
are on the same wavelength as us. It's a great way of attracting attention and
gaining fans (we have had lovely responses from people all over, even in
America who heard the songs via the Internet). Unfortunately, it doesn't seem
to have the same effect on the industry as it has on the fans.</div>
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<b>Matt: </b>It’s really fantastic and it gives us loads of
confidence. When I was at college I used to tape the John Peel show each night
and listen to each tape for weeks after. I couldn’t even tell you the amount of
bands that I’ve got into through his show, and if someone gets into Saloon in
the same way then that’s amazing.</div>
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6. Has the Internet benefited the band at all?</h4>
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<b>Mike:</b> We set up virtually all of our tour with Mahogany
and Curtis Newton on e-mail, we met Alan (Bearos) through the web, and we’ve been
visited in the UK by Dan from Germany who met me on the Broadcast website, and
has recently set up a Saloon chatroom for other fans.</div>
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<b>Matt:</b> It’s easier to have an argument via email than on
the telephone. There are generally less recriminations.</div>
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<b>Adam</b>: Email is a godsend. It means I don’t have to talk
to anyone all day. Fantastic!</div>
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7. Is Saloon destined for stardom?</h4>
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<b>Adam:</b> It’s strange because occasionally now we get
recognised, people shouting at us on the tube or coming up to us at gigs. I
think our music has got quite a crossover appeal; indie kids like it, some
dance fans like it (probably because it’s electronic with no pretence at being
indie-dance urgh!) Because 90% of the stuff has got a good pop tune that you
can sing in the shower, I’m sure there is more appeal for the man on the street
than say Add N to (X) or Spiritualized (i.e. the stuff we listen to when we go
home.</div>
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But stardom is not our aim, we’re too proud of our
integrity. At the moment we’re into making pop music but if the urge arises to
make something in another form – say a double album of feedback and ringing
power-drill noises- then we will and we could still call it a Saloon record.
Despite how hard-working and reliable we are, it would have to be a brave record
label to sign us but I know we’ve more than enough faith and ambition to make
it worth their while.</div>
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8. Are there any plans for a debut album?</h4>
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<b>Amanda:</b> Plans for the album are currently in the
pipeline. I think that we are hoping to have a finished recording in about six
months time. We are negotiating with Andrew from Mahogany about helping to
produce it with us, which would be great fun. But we are very eager and very
inspired to get something done, it is merely a matter of sorting out studios
etc</div>
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Mike: It’s going to happen.</div>
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9. Are you a better live band or studio band?</h4>
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<b>Amanda:</b> I think that our music has developed so that it
does work very well live. We do have the usual and occasional problems that
every band experiences, such as bad sound, bad engineers, quiet vocals and
loud guitars, but as far as performance goes we gel a lot better
when we are on stage together. We are getting better, but in the past we
have found the studio more of a challenge, probably because we have more
experience on the stage than in the studio. That is not to say that we have
given up on recording though. It is very important to us. Playing live is great
fun, but the best way of getting yourself heard is getting your records out
there. The album is definitely of precedence to us all and we are all
determined to crack the recording process.</div>
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<b>Mike:</b> I think we’re a better rehearsing band.</div>
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<b>Mike:</b> Look after yourselves, and each other.</div>
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<b>Matt:</b> If you see a new band, or hear a new band then buy
one of their records, email them, let them know that you’re into them. This is
the way that unique and individual music survives.</div>
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<b>Adam</b>: You only live once, so make it worth your while.
It’s human nature for someone to fuck you over for their own gain, just keep
your head down, stay resolute, keep pushing at it and your time will come. Most
importantly, get an alarm clock.</div>
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</span>Webmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11517378473554217507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930773204252119699.post-76176345378806253382015-11-20T12:45:00.000+00:002015-11-20T12:45:17.520+00:00Winter Light<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It has been many months since I last posted on here, not
because of how quiet things have been, but because we have all been so busy.
2015 has been a great year for ex-members of Saloon, with Alison, Matt and
myself all having released well received records this year.<br />
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But any success is always tempered by a degree of sadness,
as we think about the friends and family we have loved and lost on our travels;
none more so than at this time in November, when we remember Mike and his wife
Sara who are no longer with us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAxeDdh57xBprskS2wAGFzzb3ZjU3GtoR6I0OMRJfsfsdp9DaJqsGGKUJWJstNAtcZpql_fqlcHkSbECI6K8qstdB7AH_Bbfvym5QYotbr4KB4M25Fu8MESpdyBblUHgtjymtC4KRNi2w/s1600/Letter1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAxeDdh57xBprskS2wAGFzzb3ZjU3GtoR6I0OMRJfsfsdp9DaJqsGGKUJWJstNAtcZpql_fqlcHkSbECI6K8qstdB7AH_Bbfvym5QYotbr4KB4M25Fu8MESpdyBblUHgtjymtC4KRNi2w/s400/Letter1.jpg" width="400" /></a>A few weeks ago Paul from Track and Field sent me a copy of
a letter from his archives. It was the letter that Mike sent to Track and Field
as an introduction to Saloon; at the time we badly wanted to play their club
because it was so damned cool and we were sick of playing terrible gigs every
time we came to London. Little did we know that Track and Field had already
seen us when we supported Stereolab and couldn’t really see the point in
Saloon. Still, the letter must have made a difference, as within the next few
years we went on to play countless Track and Field shows and release three
albums with them. Anyway here is the letter for you to enjoy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It has been a busy few weeks. My new album has been out for over a month now and I have still not officially announced the release on here. I tried writing a lengthy blog post about it, but just can't find the time to finish it, so here is the quick version.<br />
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So you know, the album is out in the shops, called RODNEY CROMWELL 'Age of Anxiety' released on the Happy Robots label on CD and digitally:<br />
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The limited CD is distributed by Cargo Records <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cargorecords.co.uk%2F&h=mAQH3v-eq&enc=AZPh0eoUFLiFTGc9J6jo0PFAN_mifwf8RtqtekT9VWqhHDdEpk1RKK4l67IuyTx6APv68qzv5bIdrl6qK9jsQE02IY0KTzhxHfZ-5kBUkZRJV4XgyZZpFs_4s7YsojvDQwyJQL_GJdylCwi4krNFSAlD40v5j0EsK00CUFfHozq1Q3F8bDLKWiB8ZCh-lK8NIsg&s=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.cargorecords.co.uk</a><br />
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Also download on iTunes <a href="https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fitun.es%2Fgb%2Fbspm5&h=SAQFeipSh&enc=AZNF2fTmy4dzcuCQDA6OtxzBCjqYw6SaR4J3Tg-8urNrd-8eNSmdyF5X4tXlBFKHxvOVXP5-J-9wEwADpgAyY3EoBf-9CP-dwPbJc0hBiM5w_CyTShc0x3_7K3YSV3WCIe9-jlXVNWbshbQxNWcmzDkQi3BqQBCJAnZaIq8pZkzRiEZlXzlOWKSuJOYcUUMn-6o&s=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://itun.es/gb/bspm5</a> <br />
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It has been favourably compared to early-OMD, Giorgio Moroder and Krafwerk (I think in terms of its sound rather than its cultural impact). The record has had really good airplay, with plays on the Gideon Coe show on BBC 6 Music, multiple plays on several Radio 3 in Spain and on loads of synthpop shows and other radio shows (all of whom I will thank again properly at a later date). Oh and somehow two songs are on heavy rotation on Croydon FM. So muchos respect there. <br />
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Thanks to everyone who has played, bought and said nice things about it. It has been very much appreciated! I will write some more about it I'm sure. Oh and feel free to follow Happy Robots on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/happyrobotsrecords?fref=ts" target="_blank">the Facebook</a>. You can hear it on Spotify too, although obviously we would prefer you to buy it. <br />
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What else to report:<br />
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Alison's band 'The Left Outsides' have a new album 'The Shape of Things to Come' out on 8th May which itself is getting some great airplay. Follow all their news too on <a href="https://theleftoutsides.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Facebook</a>. I've not heard it yet but I'm sure it will be really good.<br />
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Matt I know is in the studio at the moment with The Leaf Library working on their new album. And both The Leaf Library and Rodney Cromwell will be appearing at the <a href="http://www.indietracks.co.uk/" target="_blank">Indietracks</a> festival this 24-26th <br />
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July. It's the first announced gig for Rodney Cromwell so many thanks in advance to Indietracks for taking a punt and booking me. <br />
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On the Saloon front, I've renewed the <a href="https://soundcloud.com/saloon" target="_blank">Soundcloud </a>subscription so all the old stuff is available again. Gideon Coe played two songs from the first Peel Session <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pmv9g" target="_blank">last night</a> (that is the 16th April 2015). Gideon has played that session several times so many thanks for that Gid. <br />
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Lastly I've been emailing a chap James who was in the band Postalowa who we played with once in Norwich. As well as having a great Mixcloud show Tall Ships Radio Club, he has a band <a href="http://broadsofnorfolk.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Broads</a> who Saloon fans may be interested in. Our chat also enabled me to find the details on the 2003 gig in Norfolk which I've added to the Saloon timeline. As keeper of the archives and master of the data this stuff matters OK.Webmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11517378473554217507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930773204252119699.post-88849864139899312122015-02-06T16:17:00.001+00:002015-02-06T16:23:31.514+00:00Kicker Without Conspiracy<br />
Our friends and former label mates Kicker, with whom Saloon played countless gigs, have finally gone and got themselves a Soundcloud. Their great singles album is up there already.<br />
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Their 'Get Rid of Him / Turning Left' single still is one of my favourite 7"'s, which I still spin on the rare occasions when I can get the wife and kids out of the living room.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7U7S9b_wE_qaEI2ZE1RZKWKUUf7pGteGPkAYNU5NNw9j5Qv9HRThIri8wDd2_wyXJ8yzBCbF5ioDqs4j3TMmaTgaTRrb6UqwcScv2FbZdpkQJpZlIc2m4wPG4mjaobRQgIK8L54-zE3g/s1600/for+soundcloud.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7U7S9b_wE_qaEI2ZE1RZKWKUUf7pGteGPkAYNU5NNw9j5Qv9HRThIri8wDd2_wyXJ8yzBCbF5ioDqs4j3TMmaTgaTRrb6UqwcScv2FbZdpkQJpZlIc2m4wPG4mjaobRQgIK8L54-zE3g/s1600/for+soundcloud.JPG" height="199" width="200" /></a>Other 'news' I have done a bit of work on the various Happy Robots websites - the full Happy Robots back catalogue is now available from our <a href="https://happyrobotsrecords.bandcamp.com/music" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>, there has been a fair bit of activity on our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Happy-Robots-Records/24390180984?sk=info&tab=page_info" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, we have a label <a href="https://soundcloud.com/happy-robots" target="_blank">Soundcloud</a> that includes unheard before rarities and we have a new <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ZvCbaApGUVuQA7m7jaJtg" target="_blank">YouTube</a> (because I lost the password to the old one.) We don't have a Twitter as the last one was compromised by Russian hackers. I can't really be arsed with twitter anyway.<br />
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years is finally finished. It is very much an extension of sonic area explored with
<a href="https://arthurandmartha.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Arthur & Martha</a> (it features Alice / Martha on a couple of tracks too). It
is an album of ten songs propelled by hissy analog synths, cheap vocoders, toy
instruments, crackly samples, bass riffery and – errr - more analog synths. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Although the title is a nod to 80's electro (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Chance" target="_blank">Age of Chance</a>
and/or <a href="http://www.discogs.com/Bronski-Beat-The-Age-Of-Consent/master/33859" target="_blank">Age of Consent</a> by Bronski Beat) its themes are those of love, loss, grief,
paranoia, euphoria in our modern post millennial world of over connection and tribulation
That sounds quite ominous - it’s really just a silly indie disco record. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m releasing it under the Rodney Cromwell name – which is a
moniker I used once before, during the Saloon days, when I recoded a song
Radaghast the Brown for a <a href="http://www.discogs.com/Various-Journeys-Without-Maps-A-Tribute-To-The-Lord-Of-The-Rings/release/1707173" target="_blank">Lord of the Rings tribute album </a>on <a href="http://www.discogs.com/label/39888-Bearos" target="_blank">Bearos</a>. It is to
be released on CD / digital download on 9th March 2015 and distributed by the good people at
<a href="http://cargorecords.co.uk/" target="_blank">Cargo Records</a>. The lovely cover was designed by ‘our Matt’. And it will be the
first release in five years on the Happy Robots label; hopefully – if we break even – we will be able to put out some more releases (by other bands) in the near future! …oh and
you will be able to buy it on our <a href="http://www.hapyrobots.co.uk/" target="_blank">website</a>
as well as in the shops and on iTunes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Second album time! We’re halfway through recording another
album at <a href="http://www.studioklank.co.uk/" target="_blank">Studio Klank</a> in north London – it’s a lovely place, and they’ve even
let us build a little shrine on the wall above the mixing desk (the full Happy
Robots back catalogue to the first person to name them all...).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s all shaping up nicely thanks with tons of guitars, a
bit of synth and some piano, lots of drones, some pedal steel and a ride cymbal
orchestra all recorded so far. It’ll hopefully feature contributions from some
of our mates too including members of <a href="http://www.theclientele.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Clientele</a> / <a href="http://www.mergerecords.com/amor-de-dias" target="_blank">Amor de Dias</a>, The Drink,
<a href="https://theleftoutsides.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">The Left Outsides</a> and <a href="https://singingadams.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Singing Adams</a>. And horns! There are definitely going to
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The album is called ‘Daylight Versions’ and is inspired by
(variously) the sea, commuting, the Suffolk coast, Walthamstow marshes and
death. It’ll be out on vinyl via <a href="http://wiaiwya.com/" target="_blank">Where It’s At Is Where You Are</a> some point this
year. Happy listening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That’s all for now. <span style="font-family: inherit;">Hopefully more soon. D</span>o get in touch if </span>you need to
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Webmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11517378473554217507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930773204252119699.post-10751619841555103742014-10-26T14:53:00.001+00:002014-10-26T14:53:28.304+00:0010 years after, a dream sleeps here<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />As it is the 10 year anniversary of John Peel's death, this means it is also the anniversary of a far less momentous occurrence, the split of out band Saloon, a band was much championed by the jovial DJ. We officially announced Saloon's split two or three days after the Peel news, but in truth the band had fallen apart at least a year before.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">As a way of marking the date, I am posting here a set of real rarities; a collection of ideas recorded, mostly in 2003, and were a work-in-progress towards our third album. An album we referred to as our folk LP, also known as 'Speak Softly a dream sleeps here.' </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I issue thee songs with a 'health warning'; although written for Saloon I am somewhat loath to really give them the Saloon name. Our band was a very much a collaboration - nay collective - of five people, and it is telling that as soon as one of the five left, then the band fell apart. These recording are mainly just Matt and me; Amanda sings and plays on four of them, but there is not much of Mike and Alison on these recordings. Nevertheless, if you are or were a Saloon fan, I hope you enjoy these tracks despite the rather dour tone of some of them.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br /><iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/4838253&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe><br /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">If you want to know a bit more of the backstory behind these recordings, I have written a much more comprehensive post on <a href="http://salooncouk.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/speak-softly-dream-sleeps-here.html" target="_blank">another page</a>.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">On a cheerier note, I'm happy to say (to those who don't already know) that earlier this month I became a father for a second time (which explains why I am up typing this at 4am</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">. Alison has a new record coming soon from The Left Outsides (lots of activity on their website), Matt is recording a new record with Leaf Library and I'm happy to say my synth-heavy solo record - under my moniker Rodney Cromwell - has been mixed and mastered and is being polished off right now for, I hope, a release after Xmas. Lastly talk of a vinyl re-release of Saloon's our first collection of recordings - <a href="http://www.discogs.com/Saloon-4-Track-Demo/release/5592829" target="_blank">The Blue Demo</a> - is gathering pace, so keep looking out here for an inevitable crowd funding request soon.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Keep on moogin people!</span>Webmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11517378473554217507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930773204252119699.post-14983756078225750602014-10-26T14:40:00.001+00:002014-10-26T14:40:58.575+00:00Speak softly a dream sleeps here<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Posted here, perhaps one of the few remaining treats from the archives for Saloon fans.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit;">There were always plans. In 2003, before the
release of the second Saloon album, ideas were coming together for what might
follow. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were getting tired of the pick-and-mix
approach, where our records would contain elements of electronica, krautrock
and folk all thrown together in a big melting pot. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit;">By mid 2002 I was already thinking that
album <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">four </i>should be a big pop
record, focussing on pop hooks, more synths and a move away from the post-rock
slant. While gigging in Spain in 2002 I came up with the idea of writing a
Kraftwerk influenced song called ‘Autovia’ to open the fourth record. Of course
the band split and none of that ever happened. The Arthur and Martha album was
something akin to what I saw Saloon #4 would have been like, and <a href="http://youtu.be/nHkppM58m4Q" target="_blank">Autovia</a> ended
up opening that record. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit;">Before any of that, was a consensus amongst
the group that the <i>third</i> album should be something smaller in scale than the
first two records, and should concentrate exclusively on one part of our sound,
notable our ‘folk’ side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit;">“There has always been a [complete as is
currently fashionable] element to our music” is a classic band interview
cliché. But folk genuinely was a big influence, from the start for Saloon. In
1998 Mike brought a load of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Denny" target="_blank">Sandy Denny</a>-period Fairport albums into the house,
and we regularly spun those on the communal stereo along with Pentangle and the
ubiquitous Nick Drake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was never an
obsessive fan of folk, but I was really into all of those records, and I
did have a formative and enjoyable evening at the Reading Folk Festival – although the real ale was the main attraction. On the first
two albums, folk was one of the influences in songs like ‘Static’, ‘Dreams Mean
Nothing’ and, most overtly, ‘<a href="http://youtu.be/ogX8DpR8QfE" target="_blank">Bicycle Thieves</a>’. In many ways it was the folk
influence, coupled with Alison’s viola, that stopped us sounding like a total
Stereolab / Broadcast / <a href="http://www.discogs.com/Various-NME-C96/release/2973948" target="_blank">C96</a> rip-off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit;">So in early 2002, at the same time as
mixing ‘If we meet in the future,’ Matt and I began sketching ideas that might
make up the third album, and it is some of those very rough ideas that are heard
here. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit;">Now these are not even demos; they are
pre-demo sketches and I am loath to really call them Saloon songs. While clearing
out the archives I found a minidisc containing recordings of 9 these ideas. There
was only one song that featured Amanda and there was no contribution at
all from Mike and Alison. In many ways that was a true reflection of the state of the band in 2003. Mike had a new girlfriend and, mainly as we still hadn’t made it to America,
his interest in the band was waning. Alison was playing in several other bands,
most notably Tompaulin. And Amanda was busy with her university studies (she got a first).
It was really Matt and I who were driving forward this project, which is why
most of the recordings were just the two of us. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit;">But, like stumbling upon a missing vintage
Pat Troughton Dr Who treasure in the archives, my brother found alternative
versions of ‘Castle’ and ‘Demonology’ with Amanda singing on them. With the
addition of ‘Brockley Cross’ from roughly the same period and which does feature Mike, this little collection of
ideas, which oozes wth atmosphere, started to feel a bit more Saloon, and gave
an indication of how Saloon #3 might have shaped up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit;">The four ‘fragments’ plus ‘The Maze’ are
all ideas that Matt had. ‘Brockley Cross’ was an improvised jam recorded to
tape recorder in our dining room (Mike, drums; Amanda, gloch; Matt, guitar; me, bass) possibly recorded before a La Jette rehearsal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit;">The other four songs are all based on riffs
I put together. ‘Castle’ was the only song of these that we ever played as a full
band. Much inspired by American Analog Set (who at the time we hadn’t yet
played with) and Galaxie 500, we performed it at a wonderful gig with <a href="http://damonandnaomi.com/" target="_blank">Damon andNaomi</a> and <a href="http://www.theclientele.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Clientele</a>. That night was recorded onto video, and there may be a
record of it out there somewhere, but sadly not in my archive. ‘Cathedral’
features Amanda singing with both Matt and I on guitar, which was kind of rare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was just me and Amanda. This recording, made by my brother Dom, along with ‘The
Castle’ was from the only session we did in the year between Mike,
Alison and Matt leaving and the official split. I had completely forgotten
about this little semi-acoustic session (and I still don’t remember why we
recorded it) which also featured rather poor versions of ‘2500 Walden Ave.’ and
‘Victor Safronov’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Demonology’ was
inspired by reading “The European Witch-craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries” by Hugh Trevor-Roper, although I think the actual title came from
within “100 years of solitude” which I know was on our bookshelf.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: inherit;">Almost every Xmas holiday, I would lock
myself away and try and write a song. The final track here ‘The Sleep Laboratory’
was written over the Xmas break 2003. I remember the joyous ‘<a href="http://youtu.be/R2FXtFoXHhg" target="_blank">Nina Says</a>’ came
from my Xmas writing session in 1998. But in 2003, following the band
falling apart and with my mother becoming seriously ill, I was incredibly down
and suffering from terrible anxiety. It was a miserable
Christmas, as can be heard from this song, written for what </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">looked to be
a doomed project. I thought the use of electronics (in the vocoder) at the very end of this
album would move nicely into Saloon #4 (if that ever happened). The final
vocodered refrain ‘Burn Burn machine’ was a play on the band name ‘Bang Bang
Machine’ the other band that came up for criticism after a ‘controversial’ Peel
Festive 50 #1.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
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contribution. When we came to name the first album, none of us could come up
with anything decent. Alison made two suggestions ‘This is what we call
progress’ and ‘Speak softly, a dream sleeps here’ (it may have been 'tread
softly', but lets not knit-pick.) Both titles we thought were brilliant
and this project became known as ‘Speak softly’ from an early stage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Summer is almost here and my strawberries are coming along
nicely. It feels like a good time to post a mix of the stuff I have been listening
to at the moment to get me in the mood for summer.<br />
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Obviously I can’t claim this is a Saloon-mix (it’s an Adam
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Fujiya and Miyaji, The Horrors, Ulrich etc). I am looking forward to
picking up The Soundcarriers new album from the post office-tomorrow.<br />
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I also had also to include Carice Van Houten (Melisandre
from Game of Thrones –sigh) and Stromae (who says that Saloon don’t like French
Rap, OK he’s from Belgium and only raps occasionally but still...) as I have
played their albums to death over the last few months and I’m still spinning
them. <br />
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Webmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11517378473554217507noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930773204252119699.post-8050483753404938912014-05-09T15:31:00.000+01:002014-05-09T15:31:22.572+01:00The Shape of Things to Come<span class="userContent">Alison posted onto her Facebook earlier this week a link to the <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=230070463854" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Left-Outsides/230070463854" id="js_12">The Left Outsides'</a>
unreleased album The Shape of Things to Come. Recorded several years ago by <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100000957224184" href="https://www.facebook.com/simon.trought">Simon Trought</a> at Soup Studios with appearances from Ben Phillipson, Karl Sabino & Matt Ashton (aka Matt from Saloon) & mixed by Martin Noble & Graham Sutton. </span><br />
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<span class="userContent">I've not had a chance to listen to it all, but what I have heard sounds great. Criminal that it was never released, but hey that's the music biz these days (grumble grumble etc etc). I am sure it will be much enjoyed by all you Saloon fans. </span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/261894&color=000000&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true" width="100%"></iframe><br /></span>Webmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11517378473554217507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930773204252119699.post-17541552476243729982014-04-07T16:27:00.001+01:002014-04-07T21:32:30.635+01:00Stock Take Time<span style="font-family: inherit;">After the plays on Gideon Coe and the setting up of the Arthur and Martha <a href="http://arthurandmartha.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">bandcamp</a>, there has been a bit of movement with shop sales so I thought it was time to do a stock take.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a list of everything we have left. I'm afraid the prices have gone up a little due to a) extortionate UK postage b) People buying off me at uber-reasonable prices only to then re-sell them for much higher on eBay </span><br />
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<b><u><span style="font-family: inherit;">MERCH</span></u></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Electron T-Shirt: Dark and Light Blue (Medium in dark blue and Large in light blue) (no XS or XL left - sorry) <b>£4.99</b></span><br />
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<b><u><span style="font-family: inherit;">7' SINGLES</span></u></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.discogs.com/Saloon-Girls-Are-The-New-Boys/release/1440581" target="_blank">Girls are the new boys</a> - 7' single (new in box - despite being the Festive 50 smash! I have still got a box of new copies. This was limited to 500) </span> <b>£0.99</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.discogs.com/Saloon-Lazer-Guided-Futurismo-Forget-To-Fade-Out/release/1592200" target="_blank">Saloon / Lazer Guided Split Single</a>. (I just unearthed 2 of these - very rare [250??] and unplayed. Saloon's track Futurismo our first 7" release on purple vinyl. Very nice. </span> <b>£4.99</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.discogs.com/Arthur-And-Martha-Autovia/release/1609775" target="_blank">Arthur and Martha: Autovia 7' single</a> (Despite glowing reviews from likes of NME, I still have a box of these too) </span> <b>£1.99</b><br />
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<b><u><span style="font-family: inherit;">CD's</span></u></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.discogs.com/Saloon-This-Is-What-We-Call-Progress/release/567173" target="_blank">SALOON: (this is) what we call progress.</a> (On Track and Field, new and unplayed. Stock running low now - about 10 copies left) </span> <b>£4.99</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.discogs.com/Arthur-And-Martha-Navigation/release/1744605" target="_blank">ARTHUR AND MARTHA: Navigation</a> (New and sealed.) </span> <b>£4.99</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">SALOON: if we meet in the future. (CD Test pressing. I have 2 copies only.) </span> <b>£4.99 <span style="color: red;">Only one left</span></b><br />
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<b><u><span style="font-family: inherit;">CD COMPILATIONS</span></u></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.discogs.com/Various-Readipop-1/release/3561547" target="_blank">Readipop No.1</a> Includes Pink by Saloon (our very first release!! Still have about 10 of these) </span> <b>£0.99</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Readipop No.2 Includes Nina Says by Saloon (never released anywhere else. Rare. Still have about 10 of these) </span> <b>£0.99</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">SALOON: LP Demo (3 tracks from the debut album uber rare blue CD handmade sleeve demo. No idea if it works, but looks nice though - one to show off that you own on Discogs. I have one copy) </span> <b>£2.99 <span style="color: red;">Gone</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.discogs.com/Laudanum-LaudanumRemixed/release/1369878" target="_blank">LAUDANUM: Remixed</a>. (Includes SALOON's only ever remix the wonderful 'Russian Moon' also never again released. I have two copies of the promo version left. Cover starting to look a bit dog-eared though) </span> <b>£4.99</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.discogs.com/Various-Little-Darla-Has-A-Treat-For-You-V20-Summer-2003/release/244659" target="_blank">Litte Darla has a treat for you no.20</a>. (Includes 'Happy Robots' from second SALOON album. <span style="color: red;">Last 2 copies</span>) </span> <b>£2.99</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.discogs.com/Various-Little-Darla-Has-A-Treat-For-You-V24-Summer-2006/release/863175" target="_blank">Litte Darla has a treat for you no.24</a> (Includes SALOON 'Suivez La Piste Remix' - I think a slightly different mix from the 'Resonance 7" - certainly the only way to get this song digitally. <span style="color: red;">Last 2 copies</span>) </span> <b>£2.99</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.discogs.com/Various-Botpop-Volume-One/release/2685406" target="_blank">BOTPOP vol 1</a>. Compilation album from the Happy Robots label that I ran with Alice. Lovely sleeve by Andrew. Includes ARTHUR AND MARTHA: Ultra Alliance [perhaps our best track] as well as loads of other great tracks by the likes of Hong King in the 60's, Katsen, Jupiter etc. </span><br />
<b>£4.99</b><br />
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Please email me [adam.cresswell [at] gmail.com] with the stuff you want and I will send you postage details. Payment by Paypal please. First come first served on the limited stuff. Apologies if I do take a day or two posting stuff out - this will be due to me not being an amazon sized multinational conglomerate.<br />
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like the last few weeks have been a (relative) </span>hive of activity for the ex-members of Saloon
and their extended families, with our Rock-Family Tree seeming to spread its
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the
things I had been putting off for ages was getting the two Saloon synth
serviced. The guy I have been using for almost 15 years now is the best in the
business; the moog rogue is playing better than ever and the Moog Opus 3
finally has a working string section. The strings have never worked so this is
a big deal to me (but probably not of much interest to anyone else reading
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Three tracks
from the July 2001 Saloon Peel session were aired again by the brilliant Gideon
Coe on his 6 Music Show. Someone emailed Gideon to say that he had fond
memories of us at Truck Fest (hopefully from the great 2003 show as opposed to
the ropey 2000 one where we were compared to The Corrs).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Saloon
ex-members have spoken a fair bit about setting up a Saloon Bandcamp, giving
fans the chance to buy enhanced versions of the albums with extra bits and bobs.
Hopefully we can make that happen soon. In the meantime I have set up a
bandcamp for <a href="http://arthurandmartha.bandcamp.com/">Arthur and Martha</a>
which is looking quite nice. No rarities on there yet (as there aren’t really any)
although you can get the singles at a bargain price, as well as downloads of
the three A&M videos. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Alison and
Mark have started recording their new album for The Left Outsides. News and
links found on their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Left-Outsides/230070463854">Facebook</a>.
They are also playing in a band The Trimdon Grange Explosion which has a new <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TrimdonGrangeExplosion">Facebook</a> page also.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know how the pair of them find the
time to be in so many bands!</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHwssF3v_fShR1E38-oE0Nt7vx6iXcADqP45V3b6nEOxiwQWnj2rdWB0wpo72gl7z7wO2UWEVw4_vFf_dQZwgmh-gSJfNZA54nNdXpg4CJ1CsJsYRQsApe-zZIdyydDOrgJkB94WYdR0I/s1600/leaf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHwssF3v_fShR1E38-oE0Nt7vx6iXcADqP45V3b6nEOxiwQWnj2rdWB0wpo72gl7z7wO2UWEVw4_vFf_dQZwgmh-gSJfNZA54nNdXpg4CJ1CsJsYRQsApe-zZIdyydDOrgJkB94WYdR0I/s1600/leaf.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">Matt has been
doing some work with his other band <a href="http://theformgroup.bandcamp.com/">The
Form Group</a>, in demo-ing some new songs towards a proper album. He is also writing
songs for a new <a href="http://theleaflibrary.bandcamp.com/">The Leaf Library</a>
album and they have a new <a href="http://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/the-greater-good">7" single</a>
coming out in June. A picture disc no less. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mike’s
brother Rob with his Hot Chip hat on, posted a link the other day to a great
cover of William Onyeabor’s ‘<a href="https://soundcloud.com/luakabop/william-onyeabor-vs-hot-chip">Atomic
Bomb’</a> that he plays guitar on and will be released for a forthcoming remix
album which I think will be out for Record Store Day. Nice moog on the cover
too. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWLWQ4IKc2GUPhkVmTXbXSTg4miJrMhfcndOmwxohHwh2Px_vA7pPheoKNasgjZRA3CsIbpjIg1jiV-ItAtwb2wbmGuNyMVpPFje3HVpik0k0rdqqyCQCcdmf7n5jco6LDBBqw_90BgHM/s1600/lord_of_the_rings.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWLWQ4IKc2GUPhkVmTXbXSTg4miJrMhfcndOmwxohHwh2Px_vA7pPheoKNasgjZRA3CsIbpjIg1jiV-ItAtwb2wbmGuNyMVpPFje3HVpik0k0rdqqyCQCcdmf7n5jco6LDBBqw_90BgHM/s1600/lord_of_the_rings.gif" height="150" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">The news for
me is that although I <a href="http://salooncouk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/gigs-gatherings-and-other-gossip.html">hinted</a>
previously that there might be another Arthur and Martha album in the pipeline,
Alice and I have agreed that the record I have been slowly working-on, probably
shouldn’t be an Arthur and Martha record. This is in part due to Alice’s
commitments to her band Cosines, but perhaps more due to the fact that it
really is an Adam solo album, and it’s very hard to pretend that its anything
else. So instead I will probably release it under my solo-<a href="http://www.discogs.com/artist/1407012-Rodney-Cromwell">Rodney Cromwell</a>
moniker. Rodney Cromwell was the name I used back in 2002 when I recorded a
song– Radaghast the Brown – for the Bearos Records <a href="http://www.discogs.com/Various-Journeys-Without-Maps-A-Tribute-To-The-Lord-Of-The-Rings/release/1707173">Tribute
to The Lord of the Rings</a> (my song was inspired by the Spectum Lord of the
Rings game). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I mentioned
Alice’s band Cosines who played last night (which I missed due to family
commitments / general flakiness) well their new single <a href="http://cosines.bandcamp.com/album/commuter-love">Commuter Love</a> is out
now via Fika Recordings and it’s a glam rock, glittertastic stonker. She
originally wrote it for A&M, which might explain the name-checking of the
old Moog Rogue, but obviously due to my aforementioned flakiness I never got
around to doing anything with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway
I hope you enjoy it along with everything Alison and Matt are doing – hopefully
one day I will have something new to contribute. </span></div>
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Here is another gig recording from the early days, this time
of our second gig. I posted this on Soundcloud a while back but have been too
ashamed to talk about it before. Matt spoke about this gig in his interview
last year, specifically about what a horrorshow it was; but I did say that I
would post everything on here, regardless of quality control, so I must not shy
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So having played a decent debut gig, there was a bit of a
buzz on the Reading scene about us. Somehow we got ourselves booked onto a gig
at The Alleycat which was Reading’s premier 500 capacity venue. (Over the next
year we played a lot of gigs at the Alleycat, including an enterprising and lucrative
show the Thursday of the Reading festival, and a night supporting our heroes
‘the lab’ – which was witnessed by our latterly friends from Track and Field
who ‘couldn’t see the point’ in us). Anyway on this occasion we were booked to
support a band called <a href="http://www.discogs.com/artist/2576622-Blue-Seed">Blue
Seed</a>, who I think had had some Lammo airplay, and another band called
Enertia (currently residing in the ‘where are they now’ file (along with the
rest of us)).<br /></div>
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Clearly as soon as we got on the big stage we were totally out
of our depth; we didn’t know what monitors or DI’s were, and what were these
things called ‘BV’s’ that the sound men kept talking about? We also found it
very hard to persuade the soundman to let us put our pocket Theremin through
the PA. Anyway, despite this somehow we managed to get set-up and play a
semblance of a gig.<br /><br /> </div>
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Rather than play safe and drop the same set that we played a
few days before (this would be a running theme throughout out ‘career’) we
dropped one of our catchiest songs (Fuzzy Felt) (y’know the one Earworm wanted
to release a year later) along with the AA side of our first single
(Conquistador) and we added a new track, Nina Says. (For each of first five
gigs we kept adding a new song to the set further complicating things).</div>
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As you can hear, our playing was a shambles, with things out
of tune even more than normal, feedback all over the place and beats missed
right, left and centre. The crowning glory was a capo related incident which
meant we couldn’t play Spacer and led to much frantic messing around between
songs. <br /><br /></div>
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I can’t remember exactly how we felt after the gig. I know
our glowing review in the Reading Chronicle didn’t make us feel much better
about it (I am pretty sure a friend wrote the review anyway). I do remember
getting home and listening to the tape of the gig that had been recorded off of
the PA. Rather than sounding like a messy embryonic VU (which I had hoped) the
reverb and delay that the soundmen had added, made us sound like the world’s
worst Corrs tribute band.<br /> <br /></div>
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After regrouping, working on the Blue Demo and rehearsing, thankfully
the Alleycat had us back a couple of months later, this time supporting the
band of Garthie from <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096545/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1" target="_blank">Birds of a Feather</a> (at this stage, a career highlight for
us). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
Webmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11517378473554217507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930773204252119699.post-28352769176869602192014-02-07T11:16:00.000+00:002014-02-18T09:50:07.315+00:00MOSKVA The 4/4 project<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First gig featuring members of Whispering Bo</span>b</td></tr>
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In 1999 – 2000, as well as doing Saloon, we were also
putting on a lot of gigs (culminating with the <a href="http://drownedinsound.com/news/1518">Happy Robots festival</a> in 2001).
Although we had no problem getting headline acts, we struggled to find decent local
support bands and Saloon could only play so- often before everyone would be sick
of us.</div>
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From that came Saloon offshoot-band Moskva.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matt and I had always
been keen to pursue our Krautrock side, but Mike just wasn’t into it - we could
never persuade him to just play the drums from ‘<a href="http://youtu.be/-ICsoINapqs">Mother Sky</a>’ for 20 minutes. Initially
working under the title the ‘4/4 project’ (although strictly speaking 2/4 would
have been more correct) with Matt on guitar, me on synth and with my housemate
the brilliant avant <a href="http://www.philipnewcombe.com/">visual artist</a> (and
occasional piss-artist) Philip Newcombe on bass, we threw together three ‘songs’
and Moskva was born.</div>
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Before we had even rehearsed, I earmarked us to support
Oxford band Whispering Bob (who included the founders of Truck Festival and who
morphed into the successful (by our standards) band <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldrush_%28band%29">Goldrush</a>). The one
problem was that Moskva had no drummer and time only for one rehearsal before
the first gig. Matt met some guy in the Purple Turtle who had ‘band-hair’ and
claimed he could drum. Unfortunately we discovered during our one-rehearsal
that the guy couldn’t keep a beat at all. He could just about shuffle through
an approximation of the funky drummer – badly. But what we wanted was something
between Jaki Liebezeit and Volkswagen building industrial automaton. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So Matt sacked the drummer on the day of the
gig and we turned up to the venue with just a just a Casiotone MT-60, and the
plan to use the ‘rock’ setting as the drums for each track. </div>
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Thankfully after Whispering Bob finished their sound-check, Robin
the lead singer asked if we wanted to borrow anything. I cheekily replied ‘Your
drummer please!’ and they agreed! With the Whispering Bob drummer (sorry I can’t
remember his name) and with Robin improvising and adding extra melodies on the
flute, Moskva muscled our way through a 3 song set of noise, 2/4 beats and errr
more noise. It was a great gig, with an audience of about 20 people there to
see it.</div>
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It was at least six months before we played again, this time
to support the fantastic <a href="http://www.electrelane.com/">Electrelane</a>
who we put on at the Rising Sun 2<sup>nd</sup> March 2001. This time we were
more prepared and made sure we had a drummer of our own, this time Clare a
friend of Amanda’s from Reading College. With a new song in the repertoire (the
originally titled Neu-One) and with Amanda completing the line-up on the
melodica, we played another barnstormer of a set. Although there is no
recording of this gig either, we do have a recording of the rehearsal which I
have included here.</div>
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at the Rising Sun. By this time most of Saloon were living in London and busy
enough with the main band so, despite not having even been in the same room for
at least 6 months, we didn’t bother having a rehearsal. Someone did video it and
clearly we got through it without hiccups somehow. God knows who had the bright
idea of dressing us all like Italian waiters (probably me). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once I stopped putting on the Rising Sun gigs
and once the Saloon album came out there was no time for side-projects, and
Moskva never happened again. I wish we had gone into Wired Studios and knocked
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Moskva reforming. I suppose you’re never too old to be in a Krautrock band,
right?....</div>
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DIETRICH<br />
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SAFETY CUT<br />
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And here is a playlist of a few of my own Krautrock faves.<br />
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Following the <a href="http://salooncouk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/shoot-for-moon.html" target="_blank">news</a> about the essay influenced by <a href="http://www.discogs.com/Saloon-Shopping-Song-For-Hugo/release/452687" target="_blank">'Shopping'</a> that is being published, I thought it would be a good time to post some of the related rarities and make a few reflections about that particular record.<br />
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I must say I am a bit ambivalent about this aspect of the blog. Part of me thinks that it is good to post this stuff before I forget it, or lose the recordings, and also I know a couple of people are interested to read this. But at the same time, I always loved bands like <a href="http://www.neworderonline.com/" target="_blank">New Order</a> or <a href="http://www.mybloodyvalentine.org/" target="_blank">MBV</a> who were difficult, did few interviews and had an air of mystery about them. But I suppose as we're operating in a culture where artists tweet every minutiae of their lives, and as you can now buy two movies about New Order at the local supermarket (sort of) perhaps I am worrying too much about this. So on that note, my thoughts on the Shopping / Song for Hugo single by Saloon.<br />
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Shopping / Song for Hugo (Amy13) </h3>
After the immediate rush of excitement and creative bounce from the '<a href="http://www.discogs.com/Saloon-Lazer-Guided-Futurismo-Forget-To-Fade-Out/release/1592200" target="_blank">Futurismo</a>' spit 7", all the members of Saloon really wanted was to release our own full 7" single (our ambitions were very humble). But our first full 7" didn't come that easily. Firstly we needed to find a record label. We sent demos to three labels; the first was <a href="http://www.discogs.com/label/5008-Bad-Jazz" target="_blank">Bad Jazz</a>; I had a long phone chat with label boss Joff, he was impressed by the amount of gigs we were playing and genuinely seemed like a nice guy, but he didn't see us fitting in with what he did. (I had a brief email conversation with Joff last year, this time on eBay - it seems we both collect vintage Star Wars tat). The next label was <a href="http://www.discogs.com/label/3260-Earworm" target="_blank">Earworm</a>; they liked it, and wanted to put out a record. But they wanted to pick the tracks to put out and specifically 'Fuzzy Felt' from the Blue Demo as the A-side and (I think) 'Lisa Millennium' as the B-Side. None of us were that excited about this; creatively we thought we'd moved on from the more twee sound of the demo and also we wanted to decide what songs to put out. So naively we declined the offer - I think the guy from the label was as shocked as we were bloody-minded and stupid. Of course Earworm (which was cool enough at the time) is now remembered as perhaps<i> the</i> defining cool indie label for 7" singles of the period. Why we didn't just say yes of course, particularly as the songs were already recorded, I do not know. I would love to hear Fuzzy Felt on a 7" now, but that was just one in the catalogue of ridiculous management decisions we made, based upon a notional idea of 'What would Lou (Reed) do.'<br />
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The third label we sent to, <a href="http://www.discogs.com/label/43836-Amberley" target="_blank">Amberley Records</a> and their boss Kristen had also been in touch. Amberley not only said they would release a 7" but we could do whatever we liked, which very much appealed! Kristen promised us the moon, and we were ready for space-travel.<br />
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Our relationship with Amberley went a long way in the end; including the tour and single with <a href="http://www.discogs.com/artist/79322-Mahogany-2" target="_blank">Mah*gany</a> and the co-organised gig nights at the <a href="http://www.risingsun-artscentre.co.uk/" target="_blank">Rising Sun Arts Centre </a>in Reading and The Weekend of Happy Robots that put Reading on the indie map.<br />
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But back to the record. I had always felt our first single should be 'Suivez-La Piste;' it was fast, poppy and immediate. But, I don't think anyone else was as keen and we could never reconcile the song with our more experimental interests and, after two paid visits to Wired Studios we ditched Suivez and decided to buy our own mixing desk. We went for a Yamaha minidisk 8 track (MD8) which was very similar to my tried and tested 4-track and just got down to recording as much of our live repertoire as we could, including 'Plastic Surgery', 'Electron' and both of the songs on this single.<br />
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'Shopping' had been knocking around since late 1998; it was based around a simple D-shape riff that I had, an Amanda melody and the single repetitive one-note pulse from the moog, but like most of our songs, it was brought to life by the rest of the band and constant rehearsals. I can't remember where we debuted it - perhaps the Fez and Firkin - I am sure Matt will remember. The lyrics were crushingly simple French; to do with the purchase of a blue chair. I am pretty sure that they were all Amanda's work with perhaps Gildas from Popnews correcting our French. I wanted this record to be the sonic equivalent of Magritte's '<a href="http://uploads7.wikipaintings.org/images/rene-magritte/the-treachery-of-images-this-is-not-a-pipe-1948(2).jpg" target="_blank">Ceci n'est pas une pipe</a>'<br />
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'Song For Hugo' had been also part of the repertoire for the same amount of time. Debuted at Lost the <br />
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Plot a drum-and-bass night that our friend Hubert organised and booked us for. Technically it should have been called Song for Hubert but I kept getting his name wrong and it stuck. I wrote this in the living room in Essex Street one night when Mike and Dylan were out. During rehearsals, while Amanda and Alison were making the tea, I would start tapping away at the piano riff until Mike and Matt had no choice but to join in with what became for us at the time our loudest loud-bit. On the finished recording Amanda plays the piano, we had no sequencer then so she literally had to play the same four chords over-and-over in the same pattern for 6 minutes, and Alison is viola and melodica. Playing this song was probably always more fun than it was for the listener - certainly the punters in the pub beneath our rehearsal room really hated it (and occasionally told us in no uncertain terms).<br />
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Rather than attempt any fancy re-recording, Amberley were happy to to put out the MD-8 versions. It was a catch-22 situation; those versions were still a bit sloppy and the MD-8 didn't have an especially warm sound, but from experience we would probably just gone into the studio and attempted to re-create the lo-fi sound while paying about £500 for the pleasure. For the sleeve after much deliberation we went for a De-Stijl design which to us at the time seemed crushingly original. (No-one had heard of the <a href="http://www.discogs.com/White-Stripes-De-Stijl/release/2594164" target="_blank">White Stripes</a> then). The design did finally move us away from the 60's / playbill aesthetic of our early releases and with the total lack of recording details have us that air of mystery.<br />
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On record I think both of these songs still sound pretty OK. Andrew from the 'Hog asked us about our drum reverb which we had to tell him was just the sound of the big old pub room we recorded in. The guys from <a href="http://www.discogs.com/artist/1321443-Lazer-Guided" target="_blank">Lazer Guided </a>really liked Song for Hugo which was cool since they did that sort of thing so much better than we did. And Peter Strickland of Sonic Catering / Berberian Sound Studio fame (as mentioned in another recent post) once told us that 'Shopping' was his favourite Saloon record, which was pretty cool by me.<br />
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I don't think many bands put out as their debut record a double A-side, recorded at home, with both tracks around the 6 minute mark, with no details / photos of the band anywhere and the only lyrics sung in a foreign language. So for that level of bloody-minded difficulty alone, I am still pretty proud of this record.Webmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11517378473554217507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930773204252119699.post-9005387925260050592014-01-05T09:57:00.000+00:002014-01-05T09:57:45.200+00:00Happy New Year, Missing Lou Already<div class="MsoNormal">
Happy New Year all. I hope you had a good Winter break and
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Lou and the Velvets were a massive, massive influence on the
band. We had a full time viola player for one thing and songs like ‘I have
found the way’ and – even more obviously – ‘Nina Says’ were shameless VU / Lou
steals. So as my small tiny tribute, some YouTube links, firstly to the
recorded version of ‘Nina Says’ (now something of a rarity as this didn’t make
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Webmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11517378473554217507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930773204252119699.post-20243171636409935272013-11-30T15:02:00.001+00:002013-11-30T15:03:54.210+00:00Shoot for the moon<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">So it has been a while since my last update; I have had a big deadline at work, a skip to fill and I have even started working on a novel (laughs), that is if a rambling, notional-idea and two sentences count.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A number of anniversaries have passed; the anniversary of 10 years since Saloon's final gig and the effective split of the band, and of course, the never-welcome sad anniversary of Mike’s death. Our thoughts, as ever, are with his family and friends.<u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So what to report, firstly we had a nice email from a guy called Joshua. He had an article, published in the Journal <a href="https://gulfcoastmag.org/" target="_blank">Gulf Coast</a> (18.1 Winter / Spring 2006), which we had never heard about before, and was inspired the Shopping 7” single. He is going to be having a collection of his essays published in a book called Annotated Mixtape and he asked for the song Shopping to be included on an accompanying CD. We of course were happy to agree, and I think this will be the first Saloon (re)release since Lo-Fi Sounds in 2006. Details of the project and an excerpt from the essay can be found on his <a href="http://annotatedmixtape.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">website</a>. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj37jSQSZONoIPvkLQuC7RAMFV3E1_SWmgyyAPk0NlzVBIGlYm2Hv_iU5Ot_s-fFjr30eUO3Vvzb7L7qz2xD8e2Csq9qh2tn50QISSpitA1bfaU5tMr9NDk_0Inga4qho44r_927BLdPTs/s1600/Berberian-Poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj37jSQSZONoIPvkLQuC7RAMFV3E1_SWmgyyAPk0NlzVBIGlYm2Hv_iU5Ot_s-fFjr30eUO3Vvzb7L7qz2xD8e2Csq9qh2tn50QISSpitA1bfaU5tMr9NDk_0Inga4qho44r_927BLdPTs/s320/Berberian-Poster.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">I finally got around to convincing my wife that we should watch <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BerberianSoundStudio" target="_blank">Berberian Sound Studio</a> , the most recent movie by Peter Strickland with wonderful soundtrack by <a href="http://futurecrayon.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Broadcast</a>. Peter was the main man behind Sonic Catering Band, with whom we shared the ‘<a href="http://www.discogs.com/Saloon-Sonic-Catering-Band-The-Impact-Body-Pop/release/1592194" target="_blank">Impact / Bodypop</a>’ single and played a couple of gigs with, notably I think a RoTa show. Anyway I really loved it; it reminded me a bit of of Persona by Bergman, Repulsion by Polanski with a touch of Godard / Brecht / Vampyros Lesbos thrown in for good measure. What I think annoyed some people, but what I really loved was the fact it didn’t fall into becoming a slasher / horror flick at the end, which was the obvious route. And I love films that don't make any obvious sense. Anyway I loved it although my wife thought it was ‘a bit out there’ for her liking.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">we recorded the blue demo, Chromosomes and a few other things), a Yamaha 8 track minidisc recorder the MD8 (on which we recorded the Shopping & Electron singles, Solitude, HYST Light plus TIWWCP demos) and the AKAI DPS24 on which we recorded IWMITF and The Project’s album Let’s Get Static. I am not planning on getting rid of the MTX4 because it is too close to my heart, but it is time to get rid of the other two. I have backed-up everything from the MD8 and plan to do the same with the DPS24 very soon. They will both be going on eBay, but if anyone wants them – and at a reasonable price – do let me know, as we need the space.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">The various members of Saloon have been in email correspondence. Alison has been playing a few gigs with The Left Outsides. We have also chatted about doing some recording together, or at least polishing up some of the old unfinished recordings – such as those for what </span><span style="color: #222222;">would have been </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">third album. Who knows perhaps they will hear the light of day one day.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As Mike used to say, ‘Shoot for the sky and you might just hit the moon.’</span></div>
Webmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11517378473554217507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930773204252119699.post-1387679946015575672013-08-23T11:32:00.002+01:002013-08-23T11:32:17.820+01:00Spotify<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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It has for a while been an annoyance to someone as anal as me, that the <a href="http://open.spotify.com/artist/3h00RMzcSJRXjGtduYr7Bq" target="_blank">Saloon Spotify profile</a> was such a mess. Our songs and albums were somehow mixed up with those of a French white-rap band also recording under the name Saloon. After just two emails to the nice people at Spotify though, they have set up a new profile for us which includes just songs by the white middle-class indie Saloon from Reading, England.(i.e. us.) <br />
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So if you are a Spotify user, you may now listen to our songs free of the taint of French hip-hop. And feel free to share the link and 'follow' the band, God knows where our Spotify royalties go to of course, a <a href="http://www.shamballaschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/black-hole9.jpg" target="_blank">big black hole</a> in the sky would probably be most appropriate.<br />
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<br />Webmeisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11517378473554217507noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5930773204252119699.post-6505941063527972052013-08-16T15:43:00.000+01:002013-08-23T09:17:22.484+01:00An audience with Matt AshtonIt has been a few months since the last post - I am getting into bad habits again. <br />
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This afternoon, I stumbled upon an interview that Matt did a few months ago with the folks from Readipop . If you are in any way a fan of Saloon, the John Peel show or the Reading band scene in the late 90's / early noughties, then you may might to give it a listen.I for one was interested to get someone else's take on our Festive 50 success, as in 10 years we have never really spoken about it.<br />
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I hope all our readers and listeners are having a great summer. <br />
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year anniversary of the release of the second (and last) studio album by Saloon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A combination of passing time and failing memory has been
unkind to our second album. I can’t
speak for the others, but it’s fair to say that I have never looked on it as fondly
as (this is) what we call progress.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH3RFDygRmDYERNVexGsUGRS7KcOC-WVoUjNcKCaP59Q86eRE_kmBUrLa1g03JyU4j3va4UMXDdjvq6Vqfl5xeIvJfmnmROoulEA5gXHEKKz4cWwCGdo7eZSfGveeyPGTxSxa7mcF1zFQ/s1600/5929482.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH3RFDygRmDYERNVexGsUGRS7KcOC-WVoUjNcKCaP59Q86eRE_kmBUrLa1g03JyU4j3va4UMXDdjvq6Vqfl5xeIvJfmnmROoulEA5gXHEKKz4cWwCGdo7eZSfGveeyPGTxSxa7mcF1zFQ/s200/5929482.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are loads of reasons why. The plan had always been to
make a fast and noisy record that was more like our live sound, but by the time we had
finished the second record it had become a lot more restrained and polished and more of a tiwwcp part 2. This
was partly because of the track listing; some of the louder songs we were
working on (like ‘I have found the way’ and (the unfinished and unreleased) ‘World
War III’ we just couldn’t get to work right. Perhaps it was because it was a slightly
somewhat more rushed affair as we didn’t want a long gap between albums,
certainly where with tiwwcp we demoed all the tracks before, with iwmitf we didn’t
have the chance. So instead of being a collection of fast noisy ones, we fell
back to the more polished and restrained type of song, like ‘Dreams Mean
Nothing’ which we knew we did well. Also, as control freaks, we chose to record
and mix the album ourselves and, in hindsight, that was perhaps too much work, particularly for Amanda, who did the brunt of the work. I certainly still can’t listen to it without
thinking about all the little things we should have changed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We also felt a massive amount of pressure after the whole
Festive 50 thing to deliver something really special, although now we had even less
time to write and rehearse due to all the gigs people wanted us to do, and we had no
more money and support than we had ever had. We still had full-time jobs
to hold down, which many of our contemporaries didn’t. Of course the real reason
I like this album less, was the fact that we split up so soon after it; the tour
to promote the album was a horrible slog and I don’t think any of us were in
the best of places at the time – at least with the band.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But, as ever on this blog I am accentuating the negative.
The record still sold pretty well, and at least half of the songs production-wise are as good as anything else we have done. I think ‘Vesuvius’ ‘Kaspian’ and ‘Intimacy’
are up there with the best things we ever did. The sleeve – which I was not
that keen on at the time – I think looks pretty cool now especially the
gatefold vinyl version. If the sleeve of ‘progress’ (recorded in May 2001) was
about building an optimistic future, the sleeve of ‘if we meet in the future’ (recorded
post 9-11 and depicting something akin to a ravaged nuclear wasteland) captured
a far more period-appropriate dystopian aesthetic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Also the reviews were for this album were almost entirely
glowing, with 8/10 in the NME which for us at the time it was all that mattered
(finally making up for the terrible live review in 1999). I’ve posted on here
the best reviews – the NME – and the worse (from something called Branded
magazine). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In terms of audio goodies, I do have some demos from this
album but we only demoed 6 songs and all are without Alison’s viola and many
without vocals. So instead I have posted a session we did at the time, recorded
live in our own studio, for Aligre FM (French radio station) which includes
some decent versions of several of the tracks from that album. I have also
posted two remixes done by AUW (aka Dom Cresswell, my brother).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Unbelievably I have now sold all the remaining copies of ‘If
we meet in the future’ but I am quite sure you can track it down on ebay for a
few of your hard earned pennies.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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