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Band of Holy Joy - The Tropic, Bristol 9th March 1989
Johny Brown Of Band Of Holy Joy Reveals His Perfect Ten
Having recently reviewing the incredible new single, A Place Called Home, I thought it would be intriguing to try to discover those perfect ten albums that inspire and influence frontman, Johny Brown TOP TEN ALBUMS These are off the top of my head and written under the worst most crushing hangover I’ve had in years. I can’t believe someone has just put me up for that ice bucket thing… Christ, I’m going to avoid the world and my bed for a few days with me heavy dose Cornelius Cardew book that I will never finish… anyway, ten albums… BITTER SPRINGS THAT SENTIMENTAL SLUSH I love the lyrics on this album. Simon Rivers is an English wordsmith of the highest order. Bitter Springs are a proper band and the inspired songs on here have seen me through some dark days sure enough. Gathering Dust always gets me emotionally and Ice Cold Glass of Beer is my song of preference for sitting with an Ice Cold Glass of Beer. This is my favourite music at the end of the day, this is what I love and gravitate towards… post punk bands, straight up outsider outfits, with a love of Northern Soul, New York Beat, and French Cool, a bit of emotional investment, a curious nature, and a weird slant to the song composition. Springs, Sect, Sexual Objects, these are the people I always return to, my Dylan’s, my Bowie’s my Young’s, definitely, these chaps. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN ENDE NEU This is a later Neubauten album and quite smooth in comparison to the earlier recordings, but all the better for it, takes you to some very interesting places. The Garden is classic and Nnaaaaammm is a great track for running through Northern pine woods until you collapse in a heap of midgie bites… FRANK SINATRA WATERTOWN What the fuck… A Sinatra concept album! Frank lives a comfortable life in a small nothing much happening town upstate and has a chick on the go, who is ‘a really good little cook in the kitchen’ only problem is she is after running off to New York City to find herself and probably become Lydia Lunch or Kathy Acker. She tells him this over good coffee and a slice of apple pie in the local diner. Frank is heartbroken and sings some of the best most obscure songs of his life as he tries to get his head around the fact she’s leaving, nay, gone, from Watertown. A stunning album. DONNA SUMMER I REMEMBER YESTERDAY I love every track on this album, and also throw in Wasted from the same period, it is Disco as art form, and through taking a song from most periods of American 21st Century culture, classical, jazz, soul, rock and roll it transmutes into something timeless which is still fresh sounding today. IGGY POP AND JAMES WILLIAMSON KILL CITY Great nasty portrayal of mid seventies poisonous excess in Los Angeles, every song hurts. NECTARINE NO 9 IT’S JUST THE WAY THINGS ARE JOE, IT’S JUST THE WAY THINGS ARE Davie Henderson / Jock Scott / Walter Tevis – a winning combination SAINT ETIENNE FOX BASE ALPHA The best British pop album ever made. Nothing Can Stop Us Now still blows the mind SEX PISTOLS LIVE AT ELECTRIC CIRCUS BOOTLEG 76 I’ve had this recording on various cassettes over the years, it was taped onto a cassette recorder by a guy called Mark Taylor who made me a copy early on in my life. I grew up with this recording of pure inspired chaos style and spite. I much prefer it to the album. Great band this, especially Matlock’s bass and backing vocals. I play this over and over. It still totally sets the blood racing and sounds best on a bus travelling through the city. SPOEK MATHAMBO MSHINI WAN I got into this through the greatly weird video of his version of She’s Lost Control but the album goes much deeper. A great new world voodoo shamanic techno album SUBWAY SECT WHAT’S THE MATTER BOY A most underrated and hard to come by album. Make Me Sad is the template and inspiration for many a Band Of Holy Joy song, and Vic is certainly the forerunner of Edwyn / Springs / Henderson and countless others. The man himself has the best taste in modern American R and B and obscure French literature. Great radio guest. To find out more about Band Of Holy Joy, their music and forthcoming live dates checkout their website http://www.bandofholyjoy.co.uk/
Johny Brown Of Band Of Holy Joy Reveals His Perfect Ten
Having recently reviewing the incredible new single, A Place Called Home, I thought it would be intriguing to try to discover those perfect ten albums that inspire and influence frontman, Johny Brown TOP TEN ALBUMS These are off the top of my head and written under the worst most crushing hangover I’ve had in years. I can’t believe someone has just put me up for that ice bucket thing… Christ, I’m going to avoid the world and my bed for a few days with me heavy dose Cornelius Cardew book that I will never finish… anyway, ten albums… BITTER SPRINGS THAT SENTIMENTAL SLUSH I love the lyrics on this album. Simon Rivers is an English wordsmith of the highest order. Bitter Springs are a proper band and the inspired songs on here have seen me through some dark days sure enough. Gathering Dust always gets me emotionally and Ice Cold Glass of Beer is my song of preference for sitting with an Ice Cold Glass of Beer. This is my favourite music at the end of the day, this is what I love and gravitate towards… post punk bands, straight up outsider outfits, with a love of Northern Soul, New York Beat, and French Cool, a bit of emotional investment, a curious nature, and a weird slant to the song composition. Springs, Sect, Sexual Objects, these are the people I always return to, my Dylan’s, my Bowie’s my Young’s, definitely, these chaps. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN ENDE NEU This is a later Neubauten album and quite smooth in comparison to the earlier recordings, but all the better for it, takes you to some very interesting places. The Garden is classic and Nnaaaaammm is a great track for running through Northern pine woods until you collapse in a heap of midgie bites… FRANK SINATRA WATERTOWN What the fuck… A Sinatra concept album! Frank lives a comfortable life in a small nothing much happening town upstate and has a chick on the go, who is ‘a really good little cook in the kitchen’ only problem is she is after running off to New York City to find herself and probably become Lydia Lunch or Kathy Acker. She tells him this over good coffee and a slice of apple pie in the local diner. Frank is heartbroken and sings some of the best most obscure songs of his life as he tries to get his head around the fact she’s leaving, nay, gone, from Watertown. A stunning album. DONNA SUMMER I REMEMBER YESTERDAY I love every track on this album, and also throw in Wasted from the same period, it is Disco as art form, and through taking a song from most periods of American 21st Century culture, classical, jazz, soul, rock and roll it transmutes into something timeless which is still fresh sounding today. IGGY POP AND JAMES WILLIAMSON KILL CITY Great nasty portrayal of mid seventies poisonous excess in Los Angeles, every song hurts. NECTARINE NO 9 IT’S JUST THE WAY THINGS ARE JOE, IT’S JUST THE WAY THINGS ARE Davie Henderson / Jock Scott / Walter Tevis – a winning combination SAINT ETIENNE FOX BASE ALPHA The best British pop album ever made. Nothing Can Stop Us Now still blows the mind SEX PISTOLS LIVE AT ELECTRIC CIRCUS BOOTLEG 76 I’ve had this recording on various cassettes over the years, it was taped onto a cassette recorder by a guy called Mark Taylor who made me a copy early on in my life. I grew up with this recording of pure inspired chaos style and spite. I much prefer it to the album. Great band this, especially Matlock’s bass and backing vocals. I play this over and over. It still totally sets the blood racing and sounds best on a bus travelling through the city. SPOEK MATHAMBO MSHINI WAN I got into this through the greatly weird video of his version of She’s Lost Control but the album goes much deeper. A great new world voodoo shamanic techno album SUBWAY SECT WHAT’S THE MATTER BOY A most underrated and hard to come by album. Make Me Sad is the template and inspiration for many a Band Of Holy Joy song, and Vic is certainly the forerunner of Edwyn / Springs / Henderson and countless others. The man himself has the best taste in modern American R and B and obscure French literature. Great radio guest. To find out more about Band Of Holy Joy, their music and forthcoming live dates checkout their website http://www.bandofholyjoy.co.uk/
Johny Brown photographed by Alison Lloyd.
Uher reel to reel tape machine used in Johny Brown's live radio-play: Into Outlandia.
Band of Holy Joy