Covering the interesting underbelly of music, technology art and culture. Featuring unique performances from a.P.A.t.T. and many other groups and artists.
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Many drummers, much shouting, many different noises,many different people. Lots and lots of fun… no guitars, no laptops”sax, double bass, oboe, mics, keyboards, and of course, DRUM KITS
He’s one of Britain’s most influential artists but now David Bowie stands accused of starting one of the nation’s latest trends: The credit crunch. As implausible as it seems, the Daily Mirror has today accused the pop legend of inspiring ‘securitisation’, one of the key factors behind today’s economic fallout.
Back in 1997 Bowie came up with the idea of selling his projected royalties income in the form of ‘Bowie Bonds’.
In other words, Bowie realised he would have a steady stream of money coming in from the sale of his music but rather than wait for it to accrue, he sold the rights to the future earnings so he could withdraw a large cash sum there and then. This became known as ‘securitisation’.
Towards the end of the 1990s, the banks began to adopt a similar model but on a much much larger scale.
But instead of selling royalties in the case of Bowie, they began to sell on mortgages that they had loaned to their customers.
The premise was that the buyer of the loans would have a guaranteed income from the interest on the repayments and the banks would take an upfront cash sum in return.
Banks were lending out huge bundles of loans in the guise of contracts, giving the buyer the rights to the future repayments on those loans.
The problems began when loans were given to people who were then unable to pay them back. This caused many of these contracts to be rendered worthless and a lot of this bad debt had to be written off, causing the financial system to lose billions of pounds.
Did Bowie cause the credit crunch? No. But inadvertently he set the paradigm.
Liverpool has always had a long lineage of musicians and artists. In fact, there can’t be many people who aren’t aware that Liverpool’s artists have reached the coverted Number 1 spot in Britain more than anywhere else. Well whoop-de-doo!
What on Earth does that mean ? We have better P.R. companies ? Better haircuts ? What’s the relevance?
Who knows! What I do know is that there is large amount of music being made in Liverpool that will never sink into ‘average Joe’s’ CD collection.
Music that seems to be intrinsically trying to put the listener off can only be liked to a threshhold point by the normal music listening public!
So, there must be something that binds a lot of bands together in Liverpool; well, progressive is one aspect…hmmm and it’s safe to say that simply the music MUST must be a little Wonky.
Wonk may refer to:
Wonk, slang for a person preoccupied with arcane details or procedures in a specialised field
Wonky may refer to:
Wonky, slang for off -kilter. Wonky face , Wonky throat etc
What else could these bands have in common? It’s safe to say all the bands embrace a DIY ethic. However, it’s not something to be surprised by, and it’s not just complementary to the music but indicative of it.
This is a collection of the Liverpool practitioners of Wonk and their goods!
. “There’s a kind of bullishness to just DO stuff. Everyone seems to be always scheming things which is a very healthy sign. Of course, there’s the occasional whinger but they seem to be outvoted by those who just go out and grab some action – that’s very inspiring sometimes.” -Shooman, Spank
“This is for us, this is ours, this is what we’re going to do, so some sponsor is not part of what we’re involved in.”
- Foxy, SS
“The minute we started it, it was slightly anti-music or something like that, but it’s absolutely guaranteed, set on, to be our life’s work, whatever goes on with it, this is what we’re going to do, even if it’s just goes back to giving out CD-Rs to our friends or something. And it’s me learning, the band learning, it’s us all learning together, and that’s why we enjoy it loads.”
-GM, a.P.A.t.T.
“We try to make what we consider to be good pop music with a progressive mindset. We like to make music which is melodic, innovative and sometimes needlessly complicated”
-Indica Ritual
“Crazy noise, granted, but nothing quite prepares for the flamenco-featuring random meandering, enthusiastically ploughing through unhinged rhythms, bewildering Henry Mancini-isms and Mclusky spikiness” .Rum N Brass. Dis. A semi-abandoned café, bring your own booze, donation entry, crusties, arties, old men with harps. THIS IS THE UNDERGROUND MUTHAFUCKERS.The Stig Noise Soundsystem start as we’re likely to go on with intense, overwrought sounds. Based around brass and drums, it’s a fast improvised exploration of something approaching tribal doom jazz. As they batter their instruments with force and feeling, there’s odd wonderfully brain-searing moments. Class A Audio. - Drowned In Sound.com About Stig Noise Sound System
Already by the 19th century, Liverpool was a centre of musical innovation, in particular the development of the sea shanty. Many shanties specifically refer to Liverpool, such as “Heave Away”, “Liverpool Judies”, and “Maggie May”, which was later performed by The Rutles.
“A gleeful, Technicolour zombie stomp through the dark, B-movie underbelly of music. And if you don’t like the sound of that, well, you’re clearly too alive”
- Drowned in Sound about Zombina & the Skeletones
Let’s simply list more of these D.I.Y. timewasters shall we :
