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Another Month, Another Book Club

This is, again, a public service announcement, with guitars.

Recent additons to the MP3 player include:

Amjid Ali Khan - Raga Bapu Nauns
Basement Jaxx - Red Alert
Beirut - Brandenburg
The Birthday Party - Release the Bats
B-Movie - Remembrance Day
Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Stagger Lee
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Deanna/Oh Happy Day
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Jack the Ripper

[[having a bit of a Nick Cave-thing this month, cleary]]

Catatonia - Mulder & Scully
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Lovers Walk
The Cure - A Forest
Darts - It's Raining
james - Johnny Yen
james - Chain Mail
james - Burned (all three on account of finally having tracked down One Man Clapping on CD)
Killing Joke - Follow the Leader
Orange Juice - A Sad Lament
Orange Juice - Bridge
Orbital - The Moebius
The Ruts - In a Rut
Scissors Sisters - Take Your Mama Out
Patti Smith - Horses
The Sundays - Here's Where The Story Ends
This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
Neil Young - Tonite's the Night

And now, the important stuff for the month: Last night's Book Club - Show 20 for those keeping notes - is, as of this moment, available on Listen Again. Go to

http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/content/articles/2007/01/08/radio_newcastle_book_club_feature.shtml

and click on the "July" link.

The books featured are:

Andrew Marr - A History of Modern Britain (MacMillan)
John Major - More Than a Game (Harper Collins)
Ann Widdecombe - Father Figure (Orion)
Daniel Blythe - This is the Day (Allison & Busby)
Hugh McManners - Forgotten Voices of the Falklands (Ebury Press)
Don DeLillo - Falling Man (Picador)

Meanwhile my exceptionally talented mucker Jeff Hart - http://www.ipass.net/jhart/jh02main.htm - whom you all should know through his seminal work with Jeff Hart & the Ruins and the Brown Mountain Lights - is currently playing in a Neil Young tribute band, the splendidly named Young Neil & the Damage Done(!)

Rehearsal MP3s of some of their oeuvre are currently available on Jeff's MySpace site. Check 'em out ... I can't wait for their version of 'Revolution Blues'.

http://www.myspace.com/youngneilthedamagedone
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