Crazy Cat Lady

Meet TC*/Marmalade/Ginger/Tigger/Hobbs [name yet to be decided] the latest addition to La Familigia Gargiulo. Literally showed up on the doorstep one day and my dear ol' mother [the crazy cat lady] decided he could stay - having established that he is indeed a stray.
A trip to the vet has been scheduled for the removal of his hurbles before he's introduced to Fatty & Posh. Oh and the dog adores him too - which is very handy.




*That Cat as apposed to Top Cat. Garfield was rejected on the grounds he is not fat, nor have we established if he likes Lasagne.

Wears The Trousers

I really should stay clear of Wears The Trousers - a website which basically just panders to my estrogen laced music addiction and thus costs me a whole shedful of green.

Just so I can spread the joy here are their latest finds...

Ida Maria ‘I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked’ [bonus points for a top title]


Cake Bake Betty - ‘Oklahoma City’ [crazy name, crazy sound, crazy video]


ps
I make no apologies for returning to the subject of one Alison Sudol aka A Fine Frenzy. Mind bogglingly beautiful with a voice to match, and d'ya know she can tun out a fair tune as well. Watching this left me with something in my eye...

Music Music Music

Currently taking up audio space

Jakob Dylan - Seeing Things
Was a big fan of Zimmerman Jr's band The Wallflowers. Not in anyway mumbling like his father, here he is on Letterman singing Something Good This Way Comes.


Katy Perry - One Of The Boys*
I suspect that, approaching 40, I am going through some sort of mid-life crisis, as quite frankly I have NO idea quite I like this frothy slice of disposable pop. The 30 year old me would have been horrified at this. I must say that anyone who writes a song called UR So Gay with the opening line "I hope you hang yourself with your H&M scarf" can't be all bad.


And here she is again Kissing A Girl 'parrently


Lykke Li - Youth Novel
What can I say? Madder than a bottle of chips but lovely tunes - here's I'm Good, I'm Gone it's like, weird man...


This is Dance Dance Dance and if it doesn't make your day just that little bit better then there's NO hope.


My Brightest Diamond - A Thousand Shark's Teeth
Shara Worden has a wonderful haunting voice that I think appeals to my inner emo goth - edgy, slightly creepy and full of approaching menace [her singing not me]
This isn't on the album I have but it gives you the idea.


The Watson Twins - Fire Songs
Came to my attention when they sang with Jenny Lewis - solo [or duo] they remind me very much of Treana Morris from Wire Daisies. Couldn't find a WT vid on the 'tube so here they are with the afore mentioned Ms Lewis...and you get Sara Silverman as a bonus.


Now I'm off to watch the penultimate episode of Dr Who. Excited? Not 'arf!!

*I have a suspicion that the STBGD may have bloged about Ms Perry a while back - if so then I apologise for being so far behind the curve.

Say What Now?

Overheard conversation of the year.

I'm stood in the gentle Manchester drizzle, as I my want, waiting for yet another gig to start when two women hurry past me and this little nugget drifts over...

"..yeah, well I was giving him a blowjob when I dropped my cigarette and set the table on fire.."

Oh the questions I wanted to ask.

New Album Aquisitions

99 reasons for not being up to date with the gig blogs. They fell off the back of an interwebs, honest guv...

Amanda Kaletsky	Wait [EP]
Ana Lann	Chocolate And Roses
Ane Brun	Changing Of The Seasons
Ashton Shepherd	Sounds So Good
Berry	Mademoiselle
Beth Rowley	Sweet Hours [EP]
Bobby Blumm	Everybody Loves
Cat Power	Jukebox
Clara Luzia	The Long Memory
Clare And The Reasons	The Movie
Clare Bowditch & The Feeding Set	The Moon Looked On
Counting Crows	Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
Dropkick	Dot The I
Duffy	Rockferry
Duke Special	Songs From The Deep Forest
Eileen Rose	At Our Tables
Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Girls! Girls! Girls!
Emily Barker	Photos, Fires, Fables
Emily Haines	Cut In Half And Also Double
Emily Loizeau	L'autre Bout Du Monde
Etta James	Gold
Forest City Lovers	Haunting Moon Sinking
Ghost Buffalo	The Magician
Goldfrapp	Seventh Tree
Heidi Talbot	In Love And Light
Helen Boulding	New Red Dress
Hopper	Deergirl
In Flight Radio	In Flight Radio
In Flight Radio	The Sound Inside
Isabelle Boulay	Au Moment D'etre a Vous
Isabelle Boulay	Etats D'amour
Isabelle Boulay	Fallait Pas
Isabelle Boulay	Mieux Qu'ici-bas
Isabelle Boulay	Nos Lendemains
Isabelle Boulay	Tout Un Jour
Isobel Campbell	Amorino
Isobel Campbell	Milk White Sheets
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan	Ballard Of The Broken
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan	Sunday At Devil Dirt
Jack Savoretti	Between The Minds Unplugged
Jean Michel Jarre	Magnetic Fields
Jean Michel Jarre	Equinox
Jean Michel Jarre	Oxygene
Jean Michel Jarre	Rendez-Vous
Joan Osborne	Breakfast In Bed
Kathleen Edwards	Asking For Flowers
Kathryn Williams & Neill MacCall	Two
Laura Veirs	Carbon Glacier
Laura Veirs	Year Of Meteors
Letters To Cleo	Aurora Gory Alice
Letters To Cleo	Go!
Letters To Cleo	Sister
Letters To Cleo	Wholesale Meats And Fish
Michelle Shocked	Arkansas Traveler
Michelle Shocked	Captain Swing
Michelle Shocked	Short Sharp Shocked
Michelle Shocked	The Texas Campfire Tapes
Mindy Smith	Long Island Shore
Mindy Smith	One Moment More
Mystery Jets	21
Natalie Grant	Relentless
Phoebe Killdeer And The Short Straws	Weather's Coming
Robots In Disguise	We're In The Music Biz
Room Eleven	Mmm Gumbo
Rubies	Explode From The Center
Sandrine	Dark Fades Into Light
Sara Melson	Dirty Mind
Sarabeth Tucek	Sarabeth Tucek
Sarah Slean	Night Bugs
Sarah Slean	Orphan Music
Sarah Slean	The Baroness
Sarah Slean	Day One
Secret Beauty Cream	Addicted To You
Sera Cahoone	Only As The Day Is Long
Sheila Sondergard	Spoke Too Loud
Shelby Lynn	Just A Little Lovin'
Sheryl Crow	Detours
Sia	Colour The Small One
Sia	Some People Have Real Problems
Suzy Mangion	The Other Side Of The Mountain
Talking Heads	Greatest Hits
The Afternoons	Baby, You Know The Deal
The Afternoons	Sweet Action
The Bonzo Dog Band	Cornology
The Hush Sound	Goodbye Blues
The Kills	Keep On Your Mean Side
The Kills	Midnight Boom
The Long Blondes	Couples
The Pigeon Detectives	Wait For Me
The Small Faces	Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
The Veronicas	Hook Me Up
The Veronicas	The Secret Life Of
Tift Merritt	Another Country
Tift Merritt	Bramble Rose
Tift Merritt	Tambourine
Tina Dico	Count To Ten
Tristan Prettyman	Hello
Tristan Prettyman	Twentythree
Wallis Bird	Spoons

Gig Update April

23	20	31/03/2008	Kathryn Williams & Neill MacColl - Chester
24	21	03/04/2008	Eileen Rose - Liverpool
25	22	05/04/2008	SIA - Manchester
26		06/04/2008	COMEDY - I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - Salford
27	23	08/04/2008	Eileen Rose - Manchester
28	24	09/04/2008	Eileen Rose - London
29	25	11/04/2008	KT Tunstall - London
30		17/04/2008	*** THE INDELICATES - MANCHESTER ***
31		19/04/2008	*** RAGZ - TAURUS MANCHESTER ***
32	26	20/04/2008	Helen Boudling - Sheffield
33	27	22/04/2008	Tom McRae & The Hotel Cafe - Manchester
34		24/04/2008	**** ALELA DIANE - MANCHESTER ***
35		26/04/2008	COMEDY - Dara O'Briain - The Lowry
36	28	02/05/2008	Gemma Hayes - Manchester
37	29	04/05/2008	Gemma Hayes - Nottingham
38	30	07/05/2008	Carina Round - Wolverhampton
39	31	22/05/2008	Feist - Manchester
40	32	25/05/2008	Martha Wainwright - Manchester
41	33	28/05/2008	Beth Rowley - Manchester
42	34	01/06/2008	Thea Gilmore - Nottingham
43	35	06/06/2008	Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - London
44	36	07/06/2008	Thea Gimore - Manchester
45	37	08/06/2008	Cara Dillon - Salford
46	38	11/06/2008	Cat Power - Manchester
47	39	12/06/2008	Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Manchester
48	40	15/06/2008	KT Tunstall - Delamere Forrest
49	41	21/06/2008	Crowded House - Westonbirt
50	42	25/06/2008	Thea Gilmore - Leeds
51	43	05/07/2008	Cornbury Festival
52	44	06/07/2008	Cornbury Festival
53	45	29/07/2008	kd lang - Manchester
54	46	12/10/2008	Glenn Tilbrook & The Fluffers -Manchester

Desert Island Discs

Fiona Apple - Across The Universe

Blur - Song 2

Rosalie Deighton - Lie To Me

Thea Gilmore - Inverigo

Aimee Mann - Invisible Ink

Nerina Pallot - My Last Tango

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Michelle Shocked - Anchorage