Entertainment For Lively Minds
From the Basement - magnifico!
I've just discovered From the Basement:
http://www.fromthebasement.tv/home
I came across it courtesy of the one and only Steve Bowbrick: http://bowblog.com. And Retroman mentioned it in a comment to a post a while ago.
I'm sure I'm late to the party, and the good readers of this blog have been popping round to each other's houses to watch it from the last couple of years, but it's gloriously good, and if you haven't come across it, it's well worth checking out. The performances I've seen so far on there - Dead Weather, The Kills and White Denim - have been fantastic.
It was put together by Nigel Godrich and broadcasts on Sky Arts. Here's a bit more information about it for those who want to know more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_basement
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Perfect music TV...
no inane presenters, no embarrasing interviews and no host playing Chas & Dave piano all over the shop. Just three (or four) well matched bands per episode in simple but powerful live performances.
Some of my highlights were The Stooges, The Fall, White Stripes, Sparks, E from Eels, Neil Hannon, Sonic Youth and Beck.
Great show and it deserves a wider audience - kind of like the BBC's red button coverage of the music Festivals - which is far superior to their regular output, no Rufus Hound, Edith Bowman or whatever other trainee Blue Peter presenters they churn out - it's just the music.
Retro Man, are we the only ones who get it?
Or are we so far behind the curve that everyone else is avoiding this thread because we're The Word Village Idiots?
Obviously, I'd like to think the former.
Nah, they don't like it 'cos there's no
Fern Cotton or Jo Whiley presenting...!
;-)
We'll just have to keep this thread going between us ...
... until we get it up onto the Hot Topics in the sidebar ---->
and then more people will see it and they'll realise that we were the cool ones all along and they'll bow down before us and we'll get festooned with gifts and riches and our lives will never be the same again.
That's what happens, right!?