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We have 28 hours across 12 shows for October including, possibly, the last from Mark Cunliffe for a long time. Plus - it is already 20 years since John Peel died and we have some reminders.

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My most exciting discovery of the past month has been bedroom Bandcamp rock producer Skelephant from North Carolina. He's been quietly making albums for the past 7 or 8 years that can be best described lo-fi early Portugal the Man but also takee in the likes of BJM, Cosmic Americana et al.
On the noisier side of things I'm loving CPC Gangbangs, another new one from Party Dozen and we go back to one of Australia's finest scuzz garage bands of the 60's, the Missing Links.
New releases from Chalice King, Bhajan Boy, Beauty Stab, Neon Kittens and for the first time in a very long time I play a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds song off their latest album.
Session bassist and arranger Herbie Flowers passed this past month. He's the man that had you humming along to Take Walk on the Wild Side. You'll be surprised by some of the other tracks he worked on as well.
In the oldie basket I've got The Lurkers, Sid, Pink Military and Felt, who I've been re-discovering over the last couple of months.

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Felt - I Worship the Sun
Felt
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Powered by Audioscrobbler™There are four artists with the name Felt:

1) Felt were an English jangle pop band, formed in 1979 in Water Orton, Warwickshire, led by the mononymous Lawrence and usually included guitarist Maurice Deebank and drummer Gary Ainge.
The band claimed to have released ten albums and ten singles in ten years but actually released 11 singles if you include their debut Index on Shanghai Packaging. They were influenced by, among others, New York band Television and 60's icon Bob Dylan. Forming in 1979, Felt never broke through to the mainstream, but enjoyed a substantial cult following. Throughout the early 1980s, Felt released a number of oblique, minimalistic guitar pop gems. In 1986 they broke through with the single "Primitive Painters" (featuring the Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser), and the album "Forever Breathes The Lonely Word". Here, Hayward's trademark melodic songs are matched by a fuller sound - catchy organ lines from Martin Duffy (later of Primal Scream) and Deebank's cascading guitars feature throughout.
Following this, releases in 1987 of Poem Of The River, in 1988 of The Pictorial Jackson Review, and in 1989 of Me And A Monkey On The Moon, cemented Felt's cult following and reputation, before Lawrence split the band up to pursue 70s-influenced project, Denim, and subsequently Go-Kart Mozart.
Felt's influence continues to reverberate in the music of current bands like Belle and Sebastian who have acknowledged their admiration.



2) Felt is a collaboration between emcees Murs (Nick Carter) and Slug (Sean Daley of Atmosphere). The group has released two albums so far, with the first one being produced by Murs' fellow Living Legends member the grouch and the second one with Slugs long time beat maker ant behind the boards.

according to the Rhymesayers website (their label):
FELT is a musical collaboration with the long-term goal of having sex with b-level Hollywood actresses. On tour back in 2001, Murs and Slug were in a van driving from Eugene, OR to San Francisco, CA. Near Weed, CA on highway 5 South, there was a heated discussion over which rapper had the better chance of sleeping with Christina Ricci. Murs and Slug decided to make a record dedicated to Christina Ricci (with the hope of either Murs or Slug succeeding in having sex with her). Built on friendly competition, it was also an experiment to see if a rap record would be able to help breathe new life into her career.

The duo is coming at it once again with Aesop Rock taking control of the production. Felt 3 A Tribute to Rosie Perez was released in 2009.

3) Felt was an early '70 band from Alabama. Their sole album, titled FELT and issued in 1971, is full of good guitar work and fine vocals, and has become a very rare collectors' item. The band's leader Myke Jackson also made a solo album.

4) FELT is a Japanese doujinshi circle primarily focusing on the Touhou franchise, comprising of around 10 members. Their first album released in 2010, titled Milky Wink. They primarily focus on Ambient and Pop but also do Electronic vocal tracks as well. In 2020, it was announced on Twitter that the next album after Last Wink is going to be their final album as FELT believe they will disband afterwards.
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Before that we played:
Zoon Phonanta - Satellite Communications
Legless Crabs - Piercings & Tattoos
Pink Military - Wild West (1979)
Dope Lemon - Stonecutters
Punkband - Elegy Written in a Tesco Carpark
Skelephant - Mother Universe
Lou Reed - Vicious