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    October 13, 2006

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69 Love Songs book now out
over 2 years ago
  • Artist:
    The Magnetic Fields
  • Album:
    69 Love Songs

LD Beghtol has written 69 Love Songs — A Field Guide, an illustrated history of the album. LD was a member of The Magnetic Fields for the recording of the album, singing on several of the songs. He has also contributed several comments to the 69 Love Songs wiki that I started a few years ago. So you are warmly encouraged to buy his book (Amazon UK, Amazon US).

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Alasdair Roberts and Mary Hampton in London, 2006-12-05
over 2 years ago

The venue (The Fly on New Oxford Street) wasn't the best place to see Alasdair Roberts, but happily the audience were really paying attention, so it turned out well. He must have played seven or eight songs from the forthcoming album Amber Gatherers, and was bemused that people were calling out requests for songs that weren't out yet, including Firewater (which I don't think he played) and Wher...

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Sonic Boom and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
over 2 years ago
  • Artist:
    Spacemen 3, Sonic Boom, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire

I've seen Sonic Boom a few times, playing with Yo La Tengo, Luna, and (back in the '80s) as part of Spacemen 3. But I've never caught on to his approach as well as I did last week at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop event, where he played solo for half an hour or so. To be honest, I'd assumed that most of the fuss about the most famous Radiophonic Workshop staff, Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire, w...

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