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FOTM’s Punk Special 1.4.2010

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Flavour Of The Monthissa kiirastorstain “punk-special”

Turkulainen indieklubi Flavour Of The Month pistää 1.4. kiirastorstain ja aprillipäivän kunniaksi hiukan tavallista enemmän punkiksi. Ihan tanakinta hardcorea ei toki ole luvassa, vaan FOTM pysyy leviskässään ja tarjoilee punk-henkistä ja -taustaista musisointia omasta näkökulmastaan.

Illan avaa juuri turkulaisella pikkumerkillä Airiston Punk-levyt seiskatuumaisen vinyyli-EP:n julkaissut Jukka Kiesi, jonka akustinen punk-trubadurismi haisee aidolta ja puhkuu silkkaa asiaa.

Sessioiden ulkomaalaisvieraan osassa kuullaan saksalais-suomalaista Martti Trillitschiä, joka esiintyy vinksahtaneen aliaksensa Mäkkelä’s Trash Loungen takaa. Vanhasta brittipunkista, pubrockista ja amerikkalaisesta vaihtoehtorokista musiikilliset juurensa versonut Martti tunnetaan paitsi miehenä, joka esitteli saksalaisille Eläkeläiset, myös sooloartistina, jonka musiikissa yhdistyvät Billy Bragg, jenkkiläiset singer-songwriterit sekä suomalainen melankolia.

Pääesiintyjänä lavalle nousee debyyttiesiintymisensä tekevä 1981. Nimensä mukaisen vuoden punkin ja uuden aallon innoittama yhtye on innoittunut mm. bändeistä kuten The Mob, Crass, Joy Division sekä New Model Army ja tiedossa on ennakkotietojen mukaan “lohdutonta mutta ajoittain myös äärimmäisen tanssittavaa kuravelliä”…

lyhyesti:

FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH esittää:
1981
Mäkkelä’s Trash Lounge (GER)
Jukka Kiesi
+ FOTM DJ team plays punk, rock & fight songs
to 1.4. 2010, klo 21-03
Pikku-Torre, Yliopistonkatu 30, Turku
liput 4€

Airiston punk-levyt at myspace (Jukka Kiesi songs and more)
1981 at myspace
Mäkkelä’s Trash Lounge at myspace

Unfortunately it looks like I’m going to miss this one myself, because I’ve got the flu (or the playoff fever) and it doesn’t seem to give up too easily. Three evenings of 38° C fever and eventhough it looks like the worst is behind, tomorrow comes a little too soon.

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Review: Drive-By Truckers – The Big To-Do

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Drive-By Truckers: The Big To-Do (ATO Records, 2010)

Drive-By Truckers is still a great band. Yeah, it’s true that The Dirty South was a stunning album and Drive-By Truckers probably can’t ever reach the same level of perfectness. A Blessing and A Curse flew under my radar, but I really enjoyed Brighter Than Creation’s Dark even though some editing could have been done.  The new one called The Big To-Do isn’t entirely flawless either, but there’s still enough great songs to keep one interested. The album starts of brilliantly and the opening trio of Daddy Learned To Fly, Fourth Night Of My Drinking and Birthday Boy introduces the good old rockin’ Drive-By Truckers. Especially the latter two are fantastic songs. Unfortunately the album took a little boring direction in the middle, but then the  great first single This Fucking Job shooted the album back to the right path and rest of the album stayed on a high but not groundbreaking level. In overall, The Big To-Do is a really good solid album, but only a few times it rises into something really spectacular.

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Drive-By Truckers Website
Drive-By Truckers at myspace

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Review: The Fox Hunt – Long Way To Go

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The Fox Hunt: Long Way To Go (Skull City Records, 2010)

The way things are going and my music taste evolving, I probably end up moving to some abandonded house on the Appalachian Mountains by the time I’m 60 and spend the rest of my days sitting on my front porch listening to string bands singing beautiful songs about broken hearts while digesting more alcohol than my body can safely handle.

The fox hunt as an sporting activity should be a closed chapter in history books, but the band called The Fox Hunt needs to be mentioned in every chapter if I try to write a novel about my new favourite bands. I’m just totally addicted to this stuff. I got their debut Nowhere Bound and this new album Long Way To Go a little over a week ago and I think they are both amazing albums. The only reason to say that they are not completely perfect albums  is the fact that if you would take the best half of both of them and joined them together than that album would be even better and actually pretty much the best album ever. More bands should follow The Fox Hunt and have banjo, fiddle, mandolin and upright bass in their instrument arsenal, but still it’s the singing that I love the most.  Both lead vocals and the harmonies are pure gold throughout the record. The songs often have a heartbreaking core, but they are injected to your veins with such a joyful and beautiful playing & singing that you end up smiling even if the character in the song is trying to pick the pieces of his broken heart from the gutter. Just wonderful stuff altogether if you are into things like string bands, bluegrass, roots music and well country music in general. Think of early Old Crow Medicine Show for example. Well think of great music. This is my favourite album of the year so far.

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Listen to Lower Than I Should Be:
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Listen to Troublemakin’ Woman:
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The Fox Hunt Website
The Fox Hunt at myspace

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