Wednesday, May 31, 2006  5:01 am 

alt.bible relatives

Michael Rother - Sterntaler

My favourite uncle of 20jfg, sure to give us a Worthies Original on every visit, is Michael Rother.

With Sterntaler you get that initial opening sweetness which soon swells into a rich multi layered caramel, not in an overwhelming way, but just right. Jaki Liebezeit keeps the rhythm steady while Conrad Plank brings in the richer tasting dark toffee tones, and Michael Rother himself echoes an almost Hawaiian sound to his guitar playing, not dissimilar to early Phil Manzanera.

When the album goes into drum machine and some of that new fangled technology it looses me a bit. Overall there is an oldworldy comforting feel to Sterntaler that makes me long for simpler times when all this funny new music was just a glint in granddads eye and the world was a place safe for beard wearing progers.

Michael is still at it and playing at this rather marvellous event called Super Sonic brought to you by the lovely people at Capsule, in Birmingham for those of you lucky enough to live in middle earth.

Just check out that line-up - Isis, Michael Gira, Shy Child, Zombi, Rother and Mobius, Haddonfield Illinois, The Bug and Wrong Music all in one festival!! Woop! Makes us go all gooey inside, just like Jesus Licks do.

Jesus Licks - Dalek Chorus

Post Records artists the Jesus Licks have come up with the perfect soundtrack to all those hazy sunny days in the 80s Dan from TheDoClub spent reading tatty paperback copies of Doctor Who novels.

Apparently due to an inconsistency in the space time continuum and someone fixing it with a sonic screwdriver (with ice, shaken) Cliff Richard , Jive Bunny and Jason Donavan have not been permanently removed from the charts of this time and replaced by Jesus Licks. Their grinning faces now cover Smash Hits magazines, pencil cases and pillows.

So with banjo’s at dawn our brave heroes travel through time, escaping snakes, sharks and bandits, or joining them when its fun, to bring neu!-folk to the world! Wipe the sleep from your eyes, for this is a song of waking and listen. A cry for help, a note for understanding, a tale of evolution over 100’s of years sung to restraint rustic picking with a barley perceivable electronic buzz of the dysfunctional cyberman your receiving this transmission on, simple and beautifully human.

Our own cosmic travellers Genuine Guy and one third of the Bongo Dingbat and Odie collective are currently winding there way to the Primavera Sound 06 festival in Barcelona where we wish they much fun. They will return in need of sleep and comfort food, and hopefully this cyberspace transmission will give them succour in their time of need.

As for the weekend, for those of us remaining this Friday 2nd July in Brighton thedoclub is proud to present the intergalactic hypersexbeast glam rock of The Liars fav oddball eccentrics from Sheffield Pink Grease!

James from Headphonesex has already written the piece we were going to.

The new album is release by Barry 7 of Add N to X’s Horseglue records via Mute produced and by the legend that is Arthur Baker.

If you need anymore convincing not to miss it try these little vids of certain songs that have been killing it on Brighton Club dance floors since the first album came out.

Yes, they they really do have a home build synth and guitars shaped like machine guns.

and its even better in the flesh…ahh!

Also joining Pink Grease and thedoclub krew on Friday will be Miss Scarlet and Faris Horrors, who team up to spin a blistering selection of post-punk, garage and rocknroll to cause altercations on the dancefloor and early-morning headaches for the bouncers.

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