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Re: Rough Music
- Subject: Re: Rough Music
- From: "Paul Vearncombe" <vearn@wo...co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:25:19 +0100
I've never been into pidgeonholeing, so this is by no means a put-down.
Dragging out issue one of the "Blue Aeroplanes Information Service" (and we
never did establish if there was an issue two by the way), Gerard says in
his own 'story of' article: "To try and fuse 60's electric folk-rock with
post-punk snottiness and a touch of art was way out of kilter. Ask REM,
they were trying to do it as well."
If there ever was a manifesto, that seems to be it. Comprehensive, huh?
PV2
----- Original Message -----
From: <Drdaeve@ao...com>
To: <blueplanes@st...net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Blueplanes] Rough Music
> Hey Friendsloversplanes....
>
> ...are there good tracks and bad tracks? Really? There's some stuff I'm
not
> so sure about but I put that down to my failure to properly appreciate
what
> Gerard/BAs are up to...
>
> ...someone talked about
>
> 'Gerard's wilful folky experimentation (the original aim of the group
> remember)'
>
>
> ...not sure about that one. Can't hear a lot 'folky' on Bop Art, and I
> remember the Art Objects gigs as a total rock'n'roll experience....I
> think
GL/BAs
> have been about creating English rock'n'roll, and part of that has been
about
> celebrating the lost radicalism of English popular culture....a Skiminy
Ride
> (Fragile) happened when members of the local gentry/clergy were found to
be
> corrupt...effigies were paraded and burnt, to the sound of 'Rough Music',
the
> banging of pots and pans
> ...there's a good description in Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge....I can
see
> that GL/BAs are placing themselves in that tradition, but has someone in
the
> know said that wilful folky experimentation was the original aim of the
group?
> Not trying to be difficult or controversial at all, just interested,
really,
> in case there is a Blue Aeroplanes Manifesto out there that I've missed
along
> the way....
>
> ...I got my blue/green Beatniks with Altitude t-shirt in Sept 91 at the
Vic
> Rooms in Bristol, must have been touring Beatsongs. Wickedly ferocious
show
>
> I love it all I really do....
>
> DrDx
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