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I was not aware of this. Like her even more now:
One of Clarks favoured musical tricks is to make the normal suddenly unsettling, whether by bending notes to make it seem as if the floor is shifting, or throwing in a guitar solo that sounds like an anxiety attack, or uprooting the mundane with an unexpected lyrical twist. On the song Birth in Reverse (its title taken from a Lorrie Moore short story, Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People), she sings, Oh what an ordinary day, take out the garbage, masturbate. I tell her it made me laugh.
No, she corrects, drily. That was deeply sexual. Thats weird that you werent turned on, fuck. Clark admits shes a comedy nerd (her first album is called Marry Me, after a recurring gag in the sitcom Arrested Development, and she has twice appeared in the sketch show Portlandia) and theres often a black humour in her lyrics. Not in a put the honking nose on the clown kind of way. Not like, you know, slapstick. But I think the Nick Cave song, There She Goes My Beautiful World, which I took the name St Vincent from, thats a hilarious song. It illustrates the squalor, and the grandeur.
From Guardian interview (http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/aug/07/-sp-st-vincent-interview-always-felt-like-weirdo)
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Okay guys, here it is, my entirely subject-to-change-and-in-no-particular-order top 10 of Cave songs:
From Her To Eternity
As I Sat Sadly By Her Side
Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?
Higgs Boson Blues
Oh My Lord
Green Eyes
Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum
New Morning
Babe, I'm On Fire
Straight To You
I don't even want to look at it as I regret all the omissions already... and it's totally non-reflective of my favourite albums, as it really should have everything off Tender Prey and NMSWP on there as well... which would, of course, be impossible.
Close contenders on the B-list:
City Of Refuge
We Call Upon The Author
There She Goes My Beautiful World
Good Good Day
Come Into My Sleep
Stranger Than Kindness
Lay Me Low
Nobody's Baby Now
Grief Came Riding
Babe, You Turn Me On
Supernaturally
Sheep May Safely Graze
I could go on...
With each of these lists I'm thinking 'Oh, yeah forgot about THAT', in this one it's 'Nobody's Baby Now', or 'Nobby's a Baby Now', as Scruffy would say
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I think you forgot Jive Bunny's "Swing the Mood".
You could be right, you could be WRONG
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Ok fuck it here are my top ten songs, going to try and cover all moods.
When I first came to town
I let love in
Oh my Lord
Jubilee street
Your funeral my trial
Mercy
Loverman
John Finns wife
Babe you turn me on
The mercy seat
Ugh so many missed out....
Like it. Very different from mine which just goes to show you never will please all the people all the time when you've got such a stonking back catalogue!
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In my opinion medleys are never a good idea.
n officers
The only medley I can think of, of the top of my head, in which the sum is better than the individual parts were is Kylie's Everything Taboo routine, from The Showgirl: Homecoming Live album, but I realise this won't be to everyone's taste!
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10 songs, in no particular order and straight of thetop of my head. Not considered or revised, just the first 10 I think of...
Papa won't leave you henry
west country girl
I'm on Fire
The weeping song
The curse of milhaven
god is in the house
are you the one
the mercy seat
people ain't no good
Do you love me
bubbling under:
Into your arms
lime tree arbour
the ship song
Similarly...
People ain't no good
Hallelujah
Lime tree arbour
Henry Lee
Midnight Man
There She Goes
Tupelo
Deanna
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Cannibal's Hymn
(bubbling under Lucy, Mercy Seat, Into My Arms.etc.etc)
If I could only save one from the waves, it would probably be Lime tree arbour - pretty much the perfect Nick Cave song, for me.
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I agree really about push the sky, especially after seeing quite a few of the songs live, when they were so much better. I hardly ever play it now, and when I do I skip a fair few.
I have bootlegs that are much better so listen to them if I want to hear the songs, and the jubilee street from the Glastonbury rip is better than the album version by a mile
The live Jubilee Street would be in my top ten Nick Cave tracks, the Push The Sky Away version wouldn't.
I just haven't got into PTSA at all. I think it's trying too hard to not be a NCATBS album.
Top ten songs - subject to constant change of course - now there's a challenge...
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Henry's Dream = Tender Prey >
Let Love In >
Push The Sky Away = Abattoir Blues >
Your Funeral My Trial >
Batman's Call = No More Shall We Part >
Good Son >
The Firstborn Is Dad >
Murder Ballads>
From Here To Eternity >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Nocturama
That is hard and I'm not even sure I agree. Seems wrong to be putting albums as good as Murder Ballads and FHTE near the bottom of lists.
Not listened to Kicking against the Pricks or Dig Lazarus Dig sufficiently to include them.
FFS!
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I really don't like camping - it's the struggling in and out of the tent/ clothes thing plus having to make breakfast outside of a kitchen. Having said that, I camped on a couple of desert islands in Australia and that was fun. But not in the UK for me, unless it's a necessity (e.g. Glastonbury).
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This year I took a Bronica GS-1 to Glastonbury which shoots 6x7 film. I've just finished having them developed and scanned. They're on line now at http://gareths.photos
There's also an album on there with my dslr photos from this year, includes this one taken Monday morning at 4am.
If you're viewing the photos on a computer there's some hidden fun surprises. On your keyboard press.. up up down down left right left right B A A A... Or for the initiated, enter the Konami code
Enjoy x
Great photos - I love the tents in the sun with THAT rain cloud coming in, and the nighttime view over the festival from the G sign - quality work!
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I also got one of these phone calls which really annoyed me as it struck me as really cynical - to create a petition in order to get contact details of potential donors. Was the petition really genuine?
One thing you may have noticed at Glastonbury is a distinct lack of collection buckets etc, which as I understand is GFL's preference (a fact I learnt when trying to arrange the Glasto world cup).
Seems to me that this is a way water aid (and perhaps the others, though I've not seen it) are trying to get around this restriction, and if GFL get wind of it there'll probably be quite a swift kicking coming their way.
Yes the petition is genuine (you can still sign it) and will be presented to world leaders at a UN meeting in September when they meet to decide development priorities for the next fifteen years. WaterAid want them to prioritise clean water and sanitation for everyone in the world - particularly the poorest countries where there is little infrastructure or money to make these basic human needs a reality. The petition will be used to show there is widespread support for these aims.
Women and girls are disproportionately affected by these issues as they are usually the ones often trekking long distances to fetch water, or who are vulnerable to assault when they have to go to the toilet somewhere unsafe.
If you don't want to receive further calls or emails from a charity you should notify them that you want to be taken off their lists and I'm sure they'll comply - they gain nothing by contacting grumpy, upset people!
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And I wasn't there, which always makes for a shit year.
Apart from 2013.. and 2003 and 1995, or in fact any year before 1997.
But 2002 and 2011, man those were shit years without me!
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Obviously lineup is going to be highly subjective. You say that was an amazing run of artists I'm not bothered by any of them except Kenny.
I also generally don't see much on the Pyramid so was more of an impression from our group over the whole site rather than just one stage.
I know a lot of the stages are booked separately, so I don't know if extra spend on the headliners means all other stages getting their budgets reduced or just cheaper acts further down on the pyramid.
Either way thought this year was loads better and maybe 2013 is only considered vintage because of the Stones which is wierd when so many people say it's not about the headliners.
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This doesn't sound too painful:
#TeamBarry
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Ditto, it seemed to me they had spent so much on the stones that the rest of the line up was weaker as a result, this year there just seemed to be quality acts everywhere and was clashtastic.
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Yes I did thanks! Partly because I'd convinced myself it couldn't match up to last year and yet, while there was no OMG moment for me like The Stones, I think I actually enjoyed it more. Just goes to show it's not all about the musicSounds like you had a great one!
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Didn't:
*see any bands at The Park or John Peel stages
*get to the SE corner
*worry about missing anything
*have a boring moment
*think Dolly Parton was miming
*expect Ade Edmondson's Bad Shepherds to be the most enjoyable thing I saw all weekend.
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Hubby has bought John Grant tickets.
I'll probably get St Vincent tickets too, but that's because I DIDN'T see her!
In a 'reverse the streams' kind of way, I'd already bought John Grant and St Vincent tickets, so didn't go and see either of them at Glastonbury.
However, will be up for any gigs by Tune-Yards and Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra on the back of 2014.
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Just to clarify Carlos' post, the chips and gravy aren't in the mug with the tea. I know some of you London types would think we-d do that but we're posh and would put the chips and gravy on a plate or in a bowl. Or a takeaway carton if we were on a date.
If you pulled the chips from the tea that would be fine. In London everything's 'pulled' these days. Or drunk out of a jam jar.
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Why's that?
Ongoing investigations?
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Was the first time I've seen him and I was impressed, although found the setting a bit 'meh.' The National also good, plus saw Caitlin Rose in the tent which was great. Not bad for a free ticket I was offered yesterday morning!Only Love Can Break Your Heart was gorgeous.
And NY did finish about 10 mins early, but I guess fitting another song in might have been difficult, given how long they were lasting!
Nick Cave
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'In 2006, Clark began recording a studio album, under the stage name St. Vincent. In an interview on The Colbert Report, she said that she "took [her] moniker from a Nick Cave song, which refers to the hospital in which Dylan Thomas died. "The reference is to the line "And Dylan Thomas died drunk in / St. Vincent's hospital" from Cave's song "There She Goes my Beautiful World" off the album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus. Its the place where poetry comes to die, she has said. Thats me.[16] [6] The name is also a reference to her great-grandmother, whose middle name was St. Vincent.[17]'
Very nice.
I love that song but agree - it's kind of the reverse of Jubilee Street in that it's magnificent on record but rarely so great live. Incidentally, talking of TSGMBW as we are, my Uni English tutor described John Wilmot as being a cross between Mick Jagger and Lady Diana, which has always stuck with me. His poetry is filthy and brilliant too, if you haven't read it.