Video in genuine originality shock
Posted by David Hepworth on 24 September 2008 - 10:21am.
Remember when the best video was the most expensive one? Nowadays it's the most ingenious one. This new clip for David Ford's "Go To Hell" is a contender. It's played live, he plays all the instruments and it's done in one take. Ought to be impossible.
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Nice
microwave. Is it a Panasonic?
Wow
That's really very clever. Not a bad song either. And this is perhaps the dullest post in a very long time.
No its not
I posted a crap story about a couple being run over by a train while having sex couple of days ago. This is way better.
The thread is fine
I liked the video - indeed I immediately sent the link to the GLW and will be showing it to my year 11 history class this afternoon - it was the quality of my own response that was dull. I felt I needed to comment, but really had nothing of any worth to say.
And I really enjoyed the train story as well.
Not at all
I found the train story quite amusing. That couple are contenders for the Darwin Awards. I must check the Darwin site later to see if they have made it.
To be honest
I worried about the poor taste part of it as soon as I posted it. Will worry less in future.
I liked your train thing.
Just couldn't think of anything to add that's all.
There. That's duller than Matthew's surely?
I saw Gruff Rhys do that on his last tour
That's all well and good
and it is quite good (at least he can sing), but shouldn't you be posting something else today? A hint: it's Wednesday.
Drugs?
Maybe "hash Wednesday"!
Sod the post and the comments....
Admire the song. My top new artist of 2008. And he's from Lewes.
What is there to quibble about?
Looping
Everybody's doing it and David Ford does it with more imagination than most.
Isn't this....
....the same sort of thing that we saw KT Tunstall do with "Black Horse In The Cherry Tree" on Jools Holland Later a couple of years ago?
If you think THATS impressive
you should see the mighty Mr Ford perform it live in front of a paying audience.
Tamara Williamson
Has anyone seen Tamara Williamson live? She's been doing that live looping for some years; in fact, the only person I saw do it before her was the late Rainer Ptacek. Anyway, Tamara is a wonderful songwriter with a poetic, cinematic style, and in concert the combination of her songs with her mastery of live sampling make her unmissable. Sadly, she lives in Canada, and rarely visits these shores. I haven't even bothered looking on youtube, but if I find anything I'll post it here.
jane Siberry
Saw the genius that is Jane Siberry in Manchester two years ago do a whole brillant show with loops and echoes. Now there's a god-like one who needs a re-visit. Has now in true wacky Siberry fashion changed her name to errm, "Issa". Oh Well.
Musician's Union
If it wasn't conference season, they'd be on his case.
Ah...
... he seems to be wearing a wedding ring and yet he's allowed to put all his gear up in the front room...he must be good.
Loop loopy........
Doesn't matter who did it first, where it is good, it's good. Where it's clever, it'e often only that. DF fits more the latter, carried, praise be, by the magnificence of the song, better, actually, on the CD, with a strings led arrangement.
Jim Moray is another clever one: he did a very clever and very annoying song, mainly on lap top, on the Oysterband collaborative of some years ago.
One you may not have heard of is a fella called John Lester, who is a solo singer-songwriter who plays stand-up bass : he can loop and multi-track into a whole string section. I can't, damn it, find a you tube example, but I did find a fairly poorly recorded recording of him playing more conventinally, shown as much for the pleasure that is BJ Cole on steel, as for the rest of it.
These are good songs too:
http://www.myspace.com/johnlestermusic