Did we tell you about the Living Room? It’s to be a small space in the corner of June’s Swop n Shop at Derby’s Silk Mill Museum. We’re going to be using authentic items of 60s and 70s furniture from the Silk Mill’s collection in order to create a space where you can relax between hectic bouts of swopping and shopping.
Best of all, though, is the stack of vinyl and record player. You can play whatever you want from the Silk Mill’s record collection; thus allowing exactly the sort of sounds which might once have prevailed in times past soak once more into the fabric of this faded furniture.
Unfortunately, we haven’t yet had a chance to browse through the Silk Mill’s record collection. We’ve got it on good authority, though, that to do so would be like rifling through a magpie’s nest. These aren’t records that have been saved and salvaged. Rather, they’ve been acquired. This makes for a real mixed bag of nuts which ranges, we understand, from The Moody Blues to the hits of The Beatles as “re-imagined” by The Panpipe Orchestra of Lower Solihull.
We hope as much, anyway.
In any case, you can sink into a vintage chair and take the weight off your feet whilst you listen to the sort of thing which, at the very least, you wouldn’t ever hear on Radio One.
Or Radio Two, for that matter. I wouldn’t rule out Radio Three, though.
This unexpected musical boon has inspired us to establish The Swop n Shop Juke Box. We’re going to share with you the sort of sounds which have been radiating from our speakers throughout the week.
This week we’ve been quite addicted to My Psychoanalyst – homegrown talent, straight from Derby!
Photo taken from Last.fm
They join a grand lineage of bands whose names begin with “My” – My Morning Jacket, My Bloody Valentine, My Vitriol and My Chemical Romance. My Psychoanalyst, though, sound like nobody except My Psychoanalyst. Their sound is very much their own – a rare thing to hear these days, and an even rarer thing to hear from a guitar band. We like them because they prove that there’s still life in the old guitar/bass/drums/vocals set-up. Lots and lots of life.
We hear golden shades of Teenage Fanclub in such wonderfully named songs as Next Time You See Me I’ll Be Covered In Hair. The song of which we simply cannot get enough, though, is Meme. It’s the sort of song which, when you first hear it, makes you wonder where it’s been all your life. To us it sounds like Biffy Clyro at their most playful covered by Fleet Foxes at their most starry-eyed.
Give it a go. You can download one of their albums for free from their Bandcamp.
Do you know of – or, even better – do you play in any local bands who you think deserve our time? Let us know! We’d love to hear from you.
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