Widow Twanky
May. 7th, 2008 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I ain't blogging today because I'm recording very intensely for the "Joemus" album and writing my next New York Times piece.Joe Howe is a fucking genius, man, he sits in Glasgow sending me, pretty much every day, completely amazing stuff that sounds like Guernica jamming with unicorns and colour television masts up on the moors. I then sing songs on top of it. I'm also working on my own stuff, and today made a song I really love.
The song's called Widow Twanky (seen here in a rather natty early 20th century version) and I sing it super-electro-falsetto. It's a 50s-style ballad about a man ditched by his girlfriend, who internalizes her in order not to lose her, and becomes a female impersonator. Anyway, back to work...
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Date: 2008-05-07 04:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-07 05:19 pm (UTC)Joe and I were going to do album together a while back, but life and such got in the way. It was going to be an alternative history of the 20th Century. It might have been quite good.
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Date: 2008-05-07 06:44 pm (UTC)Blimey, that's a subject that interests me a great deal. Looking forward to it.
-- Ross
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Date: 2008-05-07 08:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-07 10:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-08 11:34 am (UTC)considering you were my most played artist of 2007 (http://www.last.fm/user/womanonfire/charts/?charttype=12month&subtype=artist&range=106)...mhm
considering your music is at this very moment helping me through one of the most hellish periods of work i've ever had...
i must say i'm glad you decided to make a new album! and not be an artistwriterblogger full time
and the twanky torch songs seem like a very desirable direction. can't wait to hear it!
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Date: 2008-05-08 11:43 am (UTC)ha! like i have time to sleep!
Date: 2008-05-08 11:50 am (UTC)summerisle is very good music to sleep to. perfect dream states.
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Date: 2008-05-08 09:12 pm (UTC)