So, what have you been listening to lately?

[uwe]

Glam-mas are doing it for themselves ...

[Dave W]

[uwe]

Rousingly frantic, sounds like an encore after a great gig. The Kinks were a great live act, never mind how the thankless Limeys always underrated their own. If it hadn't been for those long US tours to support them, the Bruddahs Davies & Co. would have needed to pack up a long time ago.

What's with the reunion that is supposedly underway?

[Dave W]

Rousingly frantic, sounds like an encore after a great gig. The Kinks were a great live act, never mind how the thankless Limeys always underrated their own. If it hadn't been for those long US tours to support them, the Bruddahs Davies & Co. would have needed to pack up a long time ago.

What's with the reunion that is supposedly underway?

It's been a little more than a year since they confirmed they were recording together again. Live performances? No idea if there were any planned, and the pandemic would have shelved them for now anyway.

[Basvarken]

After the Common Linnets that Uwe posted a while back, here's some more Dutch southern music:



I heard them on the radio this morning and I thought it was Blackberry Smoke.

[gearHed289]

A band from Rotterdam that I discovered over the weekend - Dool. "Pop goth meets doom metal" is a guilty pleasure of mine (Type O Negative, H.I.M.). 

[uwe]

Yes, life is a sad abyss, tearHed289 ... Hope is just the absence of insight. Soundgarden is my Beach Boys. Despair, reign o'er me ... 



But at least they seem to be enjoying themselves! 

[westen44]

More music from the Netherlands.  Anneke van Giersbergen. 

[Basvarken]

A band from Rotterdam that I discovered over the weekend - Dool. "Pop goth meets doom metal" is a guilty pleasure of mine (Type O Negative, H.I.M.). 

The lead singer is a bit of a tv personality. Her name is Ryanne van Dorst. She is actually quite funny and down to earth. Not as dark as you might think if you look at the video.
She was born as hermaphrodite by the way.

[uwe]

Hermawot??? The plot thickens then. 

Actually, I found her quite buoyant for a doomie. She They need to work on that depressive image. (And, yes, I like Type O Negative and H.I.M. too - and while we are depressive - Depeche Mode as well.  )

[Basvarken]

She/they used to call themselves Ella Bandita. Here's  a tv performance from 11 years ago

[uwe]

I like her Patti Smith/Chrissie Hynde vibe.

[gearHed289]

tearHed289 ...

The lead singer is a bit of a tv personality. Her name is Ryanne van Dorst. She is actually quite funny and down to earth. Not as dark as you might think if you look at the video.
She was born as hermaphrodite by the way.

Interesting. I watched a good portion of their set at Wacken 2018 over the weekend and they're really good live. I figured she was gay or non-binary or something just by the way she carries herself.

and while we are depressive - Depeche Mode as well.  )

Of course!

[uwe]

My wife and I always argue about this - for inexplicable reasons she favors Ted Neeley -, but I hold that nothing beats the rawness and emotion of young Ian's voice in the original first recording. And the scream at 02:27 was an improvisational idea of his, not conceived by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

[uwe]

Our Iowa-Yanks-meet-Swedish-girl-who-can-sing-and-decide-to-travel-back-in-time-to-the-late-60ies-quartet (meanwhile sans their former French lead guitarist) are at it again: