Hello folks,
A few bits for you this week including Billy Childish DVDs, T-shirts and cassettes. We also have the forthcoming Piney Gir album available for pre-order. Also back in stock on vinyl are a couple of classic Holly Golightly albums! As always click on the pics to purchase via our online shop.
Billy Childish - Chatham Super 8 DVD
We have a limited quantity of DVDs courtesy of L-13 Gallery, available while stocks last. (This item is limited to 1 copy per order)
This lovely item contains the full back catalogue of all films made by the
Chatham Super 8 Cinema
Billy Childish, Julie Hamper, Wolf Howard and Simon Williams
DVD issued by the L-13 Light Industrial Workshop
1. the impossible shoulder leap of death
2. smoking yoga
3. the excelsior shaving and emergency shaving mirror
4. medwat wheelers
5. death letter blues
6. punk rock ist nicht tot
7. i love that girl ammonia
8. troubled mind
9. brass monkey
10. every bit of me
11. the bull's nose chatham cockyard
12. the man with the gallows eyes
13. maconechie's stew
14. the proferssor of confessional art
14. interview with billy childish
Billy Childish & CTMF - Limited edition cassettes & T-shirts!
There are still some copies of CTMF's Acorn Man available on limited edition cassettes. A choice of colours, take you pick from orange, turquoise or cocoa brown!!
With summer on the way be the envy of your friends with a CTMF T-shirt! There are 2 designs available on all sizes!
Piney Gir - pre-order mR. hYDE'S wILD rIDE!
Set for release on June 29th is Piney's new album mR hYDE'S wILD rIDE!
There's a deluxe i-tunes version containing 3 extra & rare Amazing Radio Session tracks though if you like physical copies you can pre-order via the DG shop now!
The album collates twelve pop stories about a young woman coming to terms with the hope and regret that accompanies love and loss. Piney's easy way with melody belies an album of new and different shades. Album opener ‘Gold Rules’ is a finely-honed, heavenly tune even as the song celebrates unreachable riches and glibly states the fact, “you can’t take it with you anyway.” First single, Keep It Together, deftly channels 60s beat pop and Stereolab all at the same time - a lover's lament laced with urgency and optimism, piped-in directly from her space-age, bachelorette pad.
Other stand-out tracks include ‘Tilt A Whirl’, a piece of fairground philosophy that dates back to Piney’s childhood years when she would accompany her grandmother on something akin to the Waltzer. As the song spins, with Farfisas swirling around life's ups and downs "like a shooting star or a hope combustible..." become metaphors among the lights and sounds. ‘Mouse Of A Ghost’ fuzzes up like Pineys-in-Toyland channelling her inner riot grrl, with boxy guitar blasts that remind us all that you can rock just as hard, if not harder, in a gingham dress.
Piney has pulled together a stellar band for this release, with members of Gaz Coombes and Emiliana Torrini's touring band jumping in on guitar, bass and drums alongside The Smith Brothers & regular collaborator Garo Nahoulakian taking a seat in the producer’s chair. Andy Ramsay of Stereolab makes an appearance on drums, and the bulk of the album was recorded in his South London studio. The rest was whipped-up in Piney’s little Hackney Studio, small and perfectly formed like a musical toy box, chock-full of space echo, marimba, omnichord and pocket piano, which combine to create a euphoric indie-starshine. Think Yoshimi-era Flaming Lips alongside sparkling tableaux of Mercury Rev., the tunefulness of Grandaddy and riff-led counter-melodies like Pixies.
After a decade spent in the UK it feels like Piney's finally made England hers by rediscovering America, re-imagined from London's rainy streets, channelling her inner Jekyll and Mister Hyde. These tunes beautifully stitch together English folk, American pop, mariachi moments, trail songs and baroque beats. Sometimes it's like an alternative musical history of a storybook amusement park ride. And need we mention, it's a wild ride you're going to love.
Classic Holly Golightly vinyl back in stock!
Holly Golightly has a new album Slowtown Now! set for release later in the summer. It will be available for pre-order soon. Until then content yourself with these two glorious reissues. They've been out of print on vinyl for several years but are back stock now. Singles Round-Up is a 2LP compilation that contains all Holly's early singles. The Good Things is Holly's debut solo LP that sounds as good today as when first released back in the mid-90s, if not better. Check them out!