Music of the 2017 Summer – TrailerTrashTracies – Simon Yorkshire's All Dayer at DIY Space SE14- with Lofe, Ted Milton, Elliot Galvin, Rabbit, MeinHaus, Yorkshire vs Essex
There has
been plenty of music to behold in this traffic jam junction of SE(14) London. The
best was at the Montague, last week. I wander in, there’s about 12 people
watching the band, August is the slowest month. But TrailerTrashTracies are
special. The young vibes player gives the mellow mood the extra element, the
something special, the goddamned X factor. This lot have got it and you would
be best advised to listen. So I did, and there is so much of interest to get
your ears around. I then got the CD, Althaea, released through Domino. Its wondrous
at times; cross Goldfrapp with Lana Del Ray with Bobby Hutcherson laying down
the top line tunes, with synth pop & electronic percussion filling on top
of a slow drum and bass bed. Eden Machine is a suave warning about clones, and
much of the CD is filling a sci-fi void in the music world. Well why not?
Havent you heard enough love songs? They aren’t the finished article but they
are not far from it. The female swoon washes a gentle groove across your mind,
and the intricate backing track brings your brain to attention and then fills
it with wonder. Pay attention, new band to seek.
Simon Yorkshire
held an all-day music festival at the DIY space just off Ilderton road. Well
attended, the acts were a cross section of what we regularly witness on the
stages of the watering holes of Southwark & Lewisham. Elliot Galvin , Ted Milton
& Sam on laptop – always entertaining – Lofe (local legends were many peoples best
act of the day), MeinHaus, Rabbit, Yorkshire versus Essex and Simon’s other act,
Nightmare on Old Kent Road all were weird and sometimes wonderful. There’s
another event coming soon , keep your ears and eyes out .
TV – The State is currently on Channel 4. This has been a shocking tale of Brits going to Syria to join Isis, and the reality being somewhat to different to the idealised version of the struggle they’ve been lead to believe. The woman doctor who takes her 8 year old son is just one character among many who witness atrocities no person should see, let alone a young boy. Must see TV.
Film- Life,
starring Jake Gyllenhall, was well done but ultimately disappointing because
the tale of a nasty alien killing the crew of a spacecraft has been done
before, not least by Ridley Scott years ago with Alien. The best film so far in
2017 has to be Personal Shopper, starring Kristen Stewart as an anguished
American living in Paris, whose brother has recently died of a genetic heart
condition. Surrounded by the accoutrements of her wealthy boss, her life is a
strange mix of rushing from one designer shop to the next picking up clothes
and bags worth thousands for her celebrity boss to be seen out in. She seems
unimpressed by these things but at the same time she puts the glitzy dresses
and shoes on when asked to break a rule by a mysterious suitor. The man
contacts her by text, and then pushes her buttons and boundaries on and on to a
bloody climax. All the while she is obsessed with contacting her brother in the
afterlife. This movie works on many levels, held together by Stewart who is ever
earnest but not dislikeably self-obsessed. Olivier Assayas already has some
great movies on his cv. Carlos was superb and surprised me with how well it
held together. The Clouds of Sils Maria was another classy arthouse movie from
yet another top class French film maker. Watch it.
