Archive for May, 2009
Black Christmas
A Christmas carol, in the middle of May?
The recording of “Velocity Girl” last night put me in mind of this catchy little seasonal offering that I recorded towards the end of 2006, as a private release for distribution to friends and colleagues in place of Christmas cards. Given that I was in the final [...]Cover – Velocity Girl
If there’s one song that sums up the C86 jangly guitar sound for me it’s Primal Scream’s “Velocity Girl”. It’s sad, then, that the Scream disavow their pre-Screamadelica discography now as though they’re embarrassing teenage diary entries.
They are, of course, perfect pop.
Armed with an array of distortion pedals of different shapes and sizes, I [...]