Showing posts with label Fantasy Festival number 12. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fantasy Festival number 12. Show all posts
Monday, 10 August 2020
PJ Harvey Let England Shake Open'er Festival Live
This is PJ Harvey performing 'Let England Shake' at Open'er Festival in Poland in 2016. You can watch her full set from Øyafestivalen festival in Oslo, Norway, in 2016 here.
Regina Spektor - "Blue Lips" (Live at WFUV)
This is Regina Spektor performing 'Blue Lips' as part of her 2019 live session for WFUV. Other songs from this session are available on YouTube if you search under WFUV and 2019, but not alas as one stream. In the meantime, here's Regina's full live set from Soundstage 2016.
Sunday, 9 August 2020
Tracey Thorn - Sister (Official Video) ft. Corinne Bailey Rae
Despite releasing her solo album, Record, in 2018, I don't think Tracey did a lot of gigs that year. If she did, they weren't filmed, so I'm going with the excellent promo video for 'Sister' instead. That said, there's a lot of Everything But The Girl live stuff on YouTube, and this clip of 'Temperamental' from November 1999 is a good one.
Cat Power - Metal Heart (Glastonbury 2019)
This is Cat Power performing 'Metal Heart' at Glastonbury 2019. You can watch her performing in a more intimate live setting as part of NPR's Tiny Desk series in 2019.
Saturday, 8 August 2020
Laura Gibson - Goners (Live on KEXP)
This is Laura Gibson playing a live version of the title track from her most recent album, Goners, back in 2019. You can watch the full KEXP session here.
Half Waif - Keep It Out (Welcome Campers)
Nandi Rose Plunkett recorded this live track as part of a welcome pack for some US kids going away to camp over summer last year. It's a nice clip, featuring as it does a live version of 'Keep It Out' plus a short interview and Nandi Rose hanging out with the kids at camp. 'Keep It Out' is from her last album, Lavender, and Nandi Rose recorded a live session from home for Cardinal Sessions back in April to promote new album, The Caretaker. That session is a bit short, so you might also like to watch her NPR Tiny Desk session from late 2018 as well.
Friday, 7 August 2020
Julia Jacklin - Pressure To Party (Live in KUTX Studio 1A)
A fast song from Julia Jacklin as part of her live session for KUTX, you can watch Julia's full session here
Emma Back - If I knew, Live at Richmond House Concert 2019
This is Emma Back performing 'If I knew' live at Richmond House in 2019. Emma recorded a full live session from her living room during lockdown back in May, which you can watch here.
Thursday, 6 August 2020
Fantasy Festival number 12: The Lineup
Emma Back: Emma Back is a singer, songwriter, violinist, teacher and community musician from Vermont. Her music is strongly influenced by Greek and Balkan traditions, and I interviewed her for The F-Word back in 2018, shortly before the release of her debut album Little World. You can find out more here.
Julia Jacklin: Australian singer and songwriter Julia Jacklin is two albums into a steadily building career. She seems to lean towards the Throwing Muses end of indie rock, and as with fellow compatriot Hatchie, her songwriting is drenched in sunshine and makes for great feel good music. You can find out more here.
Half Waif: Nandi Rose Plunkett's fourth album, The Caretaker, the follow up to the critically acclaimed Lavender, was released back in March. Seemingly more electronic and textured than her previous album, it builds on the success of it's earlier sibling and should see a steady return in terms of more people hearing her and being aware of her sophisticated songwriting and voice, which is reminiscent of early Laura Nyro at times. You can find her on Bandcamp.
Laura Gibson: Singer, songwriter and multi instrumentalist Laura Gibson has been a staple of the US underground for some time now. Whereas 2012's La Grande had overtones of gothic Americana, her most recent album, 2018's Goners, showcased a spikiness and an anger that hadn't been as apparent in her earlier writing. She will continue to surprise us. You can find out more here.
Cat Power: From underground star to overground star, to well respected singer, songwriter and musician, an influence and touchstone to many of the current generation of musicians, Chan Marshall has more than earned her place. You can find out more here.
Tracey Thorn: The legend that is Tracey Thorn first came to the public's attention in post punk band the Marine Girls back in 1980. She and Ben Watt formed Everything But The Girl as students in Hull in 1982. Since EBTG finished in 2000, she's become a writer, and her return to music in 2018 with the album Record, marked a new exciting direction. You can find out more here.
Regina Spektor: Russian American singer, songwriter and pianist Regina Spektor has been making delightfully clever, slightly off kilter records since 2001. She's one of those artists who just gets better and better, making music that is straightforward enough to not be out of place on Radio 2 ('Samson') to complex pop baroque's such as 'Small Bill$'. You can find out more here.
PJ Harvey: Polly Jean Harvey's debut album Dry was released 28 years ago this year. It is being re-released, along with her entire back catalogue of albums, over the next twelve months. As influenced by Captain Beefheart as she is compared to Patti Smith, she has twice won the Mercury Music Prize and she is one of UK music's quieter stateswomen. You can find out more here.
Julia Jacklin: Australian singer and songwriter Julia Jacklin is two albums into a steadily building career. She seems to lean towards the Throwing Muses end of indie rock, and as with fellow compatriot Hatchie, her songwriting is drenched in sunshine and makes for great feel good music. You can find out more here.
Half Waif: Nandi Rose Plunkett's fourth album, The Caretaker, the follow up to the critically acclaimed Lavender, was released back in March. Seemingly more electronic and textured than her previous album, it builds on the success of it's earlier sibling and should see a steady return in terms of more people hearing her and being aware of her sophisticated songwriting and voice, which is reminiscent of early Laura Nyro at times. You can find her on Bandcamp.
Laura Gibson: Singer, songwriter and multi instrumentalist Laura Gibson has been a staple of the US underground for some time now. Whereas 2012's La Grande had overtones of gothic Americana, her most recent album, 2018's Goners, showcased a spikiness and an anger that hadn't been as apparent in her earlier writing. She will continue to surprise us. You can find out more here.
Cat Power: From underground star to overground star, to well respected singer, songwriter and musician, an influence and touchstone to many of the current generation of musicians, Chan Marshall has more than earned her place. You can find out more here.
Tracey Thorn: The legend that is Tracey Thorn first came to the public's attention in post punk band the Marine Girls back in 1980. She and Ben Watt formed Everything But The Girl as students in Hull in 1982. Since EBTG finished in 2000, she's become a writer, and her return to music in 2018 with the album Record, marked a new exciting direction. You can find out more here.
Regina Spektor: Russian American singer, songwriter and pianist Regina Spektor has been making delightfully clever, slightly off kilter records since 2001. She's one of those artists who just gets better and better, making music that is straightforward enough to not be out of place on Radio 2 ('Samson') to complex pop baroque's such as 'Small Bill$'. You can find out more here.
PJ Harvey: Polly Jean Harvey's debut album Dry was released 28 years ago this year. It is being re-released, along with her entire back catalogue of albums, over the next twelve months. As influenced by Captain Beefheart as she is compared to Patti Smith, she has twice won the Mercury Music Prize and she is one of UK music's quieter stateswomen. You can find out more here.
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