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Sep 07 2021

TO WHERE I AM NOW

Any day when the alarm goes off before midday is an early day because it’s usually between 4 and 5 AM before I go to bed. So this morning I had a sesh with Anthony in Sydney at 12.30 PM. I just didn’t want to get up – 11.55, 12.00, 12.05 and finally I accepted reality and crawled out of bed. That haze after sleep when you’re still tired, hard to focus, eyes half-closed, shuffling instead of walking, bathroom, kitchen, computer. There’s nothing like papaya to wake you up, it freshens your mouth and pumps life into your veins. I compare waking up to being an inflatable swimming pool.

Olivia and I were expecting terrible weather today as it rained pretty hard last night or should I say this morning, meaning between 3 AM and 5 AM. But she rose an hour and a half after me and we walked out towards the non-inflatable swimming pool on a day with lots of different clouds – the kind of clouds that meteorologists can name. There was drama in the sky as if the clouds were at war with the blue arc, obscuring the bright positive translucent light, just to be spiteful. They didn’t need to be there, they weren’t even raining.

(In case you missed this most recent interview with Joe Matera)

On the way back a nice breeze and the life-threatening crossing where there’s the markings on the road like a zebra crossing but no lights to control the cars. Sometimes the cars ignore you and keep on driving but mostly they do stop. The only problem is that with two lanes, one lane stops and the other doesn’t. So I won’t even set foot on the crossing till I know both lanes have stopped. I’m not sure if it’s ignorance, rudeness or recklessness but as a pedestrian, you take your life in your hands every time you cross the road. The crossing is supposed to make it safer but that isn’t always the case if you have a driver with zero awareness who doesn’t see that the other cars stopped, the person on the crossing or even see that there is a crossing. My dad was Merseyside road safety boss, it’s the reason I don’t drive. I’ve said this before but he used to come home with posters for seat belt campaigns featuring pictures of pretty girls with stitches in their face where they went through the windscreen because they weren’t wearing a seatbelt, it puts you off.

We watched the first two episodes of the Paul McCartney / Rick Rubin docu series. Wonderful nerd fest which I won’t describe here except to say if you like this kind of thing you’re going to love it. Someone reminded me that signing up for the Disney channel might just be what I need for the Get Back film when it’s released. I watched Scotland beat Austria 0-1. Stephen at the label, Jerome, Olivia and I discussed the album we have made and came to the conclusion that it best be a project released next year. I didn’t even think about it whilst we were discussing it but when I see that we have Space Summit – Life This Way on September 10th, Arktik Lake – Shimmer EP on October 4th, Brix Smith et moi – Lost Angeles on October 15th and Afridi/Willson-Piper – In The End, The Birds Will Sing early November, that’s probably enough for this year – plus earlier in the year there was the second MOAT album, Poison Stream – slow down already.

Music today started as a result of chatting to Ed Rogers about the WFMU we will be doing together. He told me that Andy Partridge had a new EP out, My Failed Songwriting Career (2021), and I was going to listen tonight but I can’t find it digitally. I bought the EP but I’m going to have to wait. So I thought I’ll listen to TC&I, ex XTC members Terry Chambers and Colin Moulding’s EP Great Aspirations (2017) instead. I already have the EP in the archive but I couldn’t find that digitally either. So I looked at some of Andy Partridge’s collaborations and found an interesting one with ex Zappa guitarist Mike Keneally called Wing Beat Fantastic (2012). Sounds like an odd combination but great. I went on to more of Ed’s recommendations and was happy I did as he turned me on to North Sea Radio Orchestra’s Craig Fortnam and his solo album Ark (2021) which I immediately bought and the Canadian artist Harkness The Occasion (2021) that I can’t find to buy on vinyl but is available to listen to digitally, and you must. Last but not least I always buy everything by Chrissie Hynde because of her voice. Her last solo album Stockholm (2014) and most of the last couple of Pretenders albums Alone (2016) and Hate For Sale (2020) were a bit of a struggle and if you are aware of JP Chrissie and The Fairground Boys, Fidelity (2010), the jazzy Valve Bone Woe (2019) and now this latest album Standing In The Doorway (2021) covering Bob Dylan. With all kinds of guest appearances over the years, it seems like she’s searching for that old magic but who isn’t, it’s hard to keep it warm.

Album review: Craig Fortnam – ‘Ark’: North Sea Radio man gathers his world in a prog-pastoral-folk craft of intricacy and thoughtfulness

Music Of The Daze

Written by Marty Willson-Piper · Categorized: Blog

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This is my stolen 1965 Rickenbacker 12-string, serial number EB157. If there's any chance of this guitar coming back to me before I go to meet my maker, then that would be wonderful. Please contact me if you have any information.

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A visit in the studio today from old mate Mark Burgess from The Chameleons who has been hanging in Texas recently. I was thinking about the two of us growing up in the northwest of England and all these years later finding ourselves in such an unlikely spot together. We fixed a few issues in the universe and I carried on recording some guitars until Mark had to leave. Mark had played at the Galactic Headquarters next to the studio this year as Olivia and I had four years ago and this reminded me to remind myself to remind everyone to remind their friends that we will be playing there with Salim on Saturday, New Year’s Eve, for the ultimate in intimate performance. You can get tickets here (follow link below).

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Sadness manifested in a building, today we went to visit Paisley Park. Prince built Paisley Park in Chanhassen, about twenty minutes southwest of Minneapolis. It opened in 1987 and he recorded his later albums there. Apart from Prince, REM also recorded and mixed Out Of Time there, recording Kate Pearson’s vocal on Shiny Happy People vocal. Madonna had Prince play guitar on three songs from Like A Prayer and the two co-wrote Love Song, finishing it remotely due to Madonna not being able to stand the cold weather and the rather desolate location of the studio. Of course, there are things around but it’s not in the city and it’s not in the countryside, it’s in a suburb, no distractions, just what Prince wanted.

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This is my stolen 1965 Rickenbacker 12-string, serial number EB157. If there’s any chance of this guitar coming back to me before I go to meet my maker, then that would be wonderful. Please contact me if you have any information.

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