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A Fistfull

Yep, 2009 is the year of the Ox, and also the year that A Fistful Of Records celebrates its five year anniversary. That means paaaaaaaaaaaaarty !!! So on saturday March 14th we have a totally mad outburst of Fistful mayham, right at the heart of it all, dB’s club in Utrecht, NL. First of all there’s gonna be a gig of Cheap Time, starring Jeffrey Novak (who made his debut on Fistful back in 2005), on gtr + vox ! We’re also very pleased to welcome our friends Polar Strong from France, who come all the way from Bordeaux driving up to Holland just to be able to play with their heroes of Cheap Time. Arriving on their bikes are localsEl Zombie, still going stronger, giggin’, boozin’ & just zombyin’ around.... Flying in from downtown Sheffield, England are The Hipshakes, and guess what, their bass player Andrew is a real 100 % Proto Idiot so he’s just gonna do a solo gig under that moniker. From Amsterdam we have turbo red-light-district
speedking rockerss Anomalys, plus there’s a real bunch of dj’s showing up, Pete Slovenly being one of them. Anyway, don’t miss it, be there and bring all your ugly friends too ! This may well be Holland’s garage event of the year..... Other attractions include an exhibition of blow-ups of Fistful and dB’s artwork by Joan van der Werf, and a brand new 7 inch from Madison, Whizzconsin’ rockerz The Hussy ! More about that one soon.

De instore van La Caravane Passe op vrijdag 6 maart gaat helaas niet door. Wel gewoon 's avonds in EKKO...

PLATO UTRECHT Instore update

Zat 21-2 De Staat (14:30)
Woe 25-2 Wheels On Fire (17:00)
Vri 27-2 Elle Bandita (17:00)
Vri 06-3 La Caravane Passe (17:00)
Zat 07-3 Storybox (17:00)
Vri 13-3 Kyteman (tbc)
Vri 20-3 Paulusma (17:00)
Zat 28-3 Stuurbaard Bakkebaard (tbc)
Vri 24-4 Dead Guitars (16:00)

RIP: Joe Cuba

PVC in his punk-rock incarnation

PVC werkte ooit bij het Platen Manneke (later Plato) in Utrecht en is nog altijd een graag geziene gast in onze winkel. Tegenwoordig is hij meer ambient dan Eno en maakt hij radioprogramma's met het geluid van brommende ijskasten en zoemende TL-buizen. Lang geleden zag hij er zo uit...

Re-issue Rodriguez next May

Light in the Attic to Reissue Rodriguez's Coming From Reality

More good news for lovers of quality folk rock. Rodriguez's second album, 1971's Coming From Reality, will get Light in the Attic's deluxe reissue treatment May 5. Also, the Detroit troubadour will be touring the UK, Europe, and North America this year; plus, a Swedish company is filming a documentary on the man.
Press release after the cut.
"Heikki's Suburbia Bus Tour"

RODRIGUEZ - COMING FROM REALITY OUT MAY 5TH, 2009 ON LIGHT IN THE ATTIC

Back in 1971, Coming From Reality was Rodriguez’s last gasp, the follow-up to Cold Fact and the final album he was allowed to record for the Sussex label. Unearthed, once again by Light In The Attic records, it’s another treat for fans new and old, designed - at the time - as Rodriguez’s vision of a perfect pop album.
Coming From Reality found Rodriguez decamping from Detroit to London’s Lansdowne Studios, where the album was recorded with some of the UK’s top talent including Chris Spedding (Sex Pistols, Dusty Springfield, Harry Nilsson) and producer Steve Rowland (The Pretty Things, PJ Proby and the man who discovered The Cure), who recalls Coming From Reality as his all time favorite recording project.
Highlights include the super-poppy To Whom It May Concern, the Rocky Raccoon-inspired A Most Disgusting Song and period piece Heikki's Suburbia Bus Tour. The reissue also includes three previously unreleased bonus tracks recorded in Detroit in 1972 with Cold Fact collaborators Mike Theodore & Dennis Coffey, representing the last thing the trio ever did together.
Meanwhile, the Rodriguez story keeps gathering pace. A Swedish film company is working on a feature length documentary about the enigmatic performer’s music and life. Rodriguez is planning to bring his live show to the UK and Europe come Spring/Summer 2009, along with further North American touring.
“It's an extraordinary trip,” says Rodriguez of his new lease on life. “It feels like Picasso, Monet. All these exciting new thoughts coming at me. It's global. I'm lucky to have this second chance. It's very real and totally unexpected.”
Sixto Rodriguez, then. Still coming from reality, and bigger than ever before

source: http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2009/02/05/lita_to_reissue_rodriguez_s_co

For more info on Sixto check http://www.sugarman.org/
For more info on the Sussex label check: http://www.sussexlabel.blogspot.com/

Instore nieuws...

Paulusma bij Plato:

20 maart in Plato Utrecht
27 maart in Plato Zwolle
24 april in Plato Enschede
(aanvang 17.00 uur)

Ace Records baas Roger Armstrong over Lux Interior.

Glam

Dit voorjaar verschijnt er bij Excelsior een verzamel CD met Nederlandse Glam. Nee, geen 80's hair-metal, maar mannen uit de stal van Peter Koelewijn die zich in de eerste helft van de jaren 70 in opdracht van hun broodheer in strakke latex broeken hesen en zich staande proberden te houden op plateau zolen. En het is geen grap, op het engelse RPM label verscheen al eerder de prachtige CD Velvet Tinmine en dankzij samensteller Jos de Groot zal nu ook dit vaak ondergewaardeerde stukje nederpopgeschiedenis zijn eigen monument krijgen. Eén en ander wordt in april grepresenteert op de Utrechtse platenbeurs in het bijzijn van originele bandleden.

A man on a mission...

A Tale Of Two Cities

RIP: Lux Interior

Kyteman in Plato Utrecht

Uitverkochte optredens in Utrecht en de hit van Noorderslag, het valt niet te ontkennen, er gaat het komende jaar veel gebeuren rond Kyteman en zijn hip-hop orkest. Op 13 mei spelen ze in Plato Utrecht. Aanvang en aantal bandleden nog onbekend...

Wheels On Fire instore Plato Utrecht

25 februari Wheels on Fire instore: Wheels on Fire, a four-piece band from Ohio (USA), has been described as Elvis Costello meets the Stooges. After touring Europe and the US extensively, Wheels on Fire locked themselves in their basement with a couple microphones and a tape machine to record the songs that had materialized on the road. In the summer of 2008, they played a show with Jack Oblivion and gave him a copy of the new home recordings, which he then passed on to the famed Bruce Watson at Fat Possum Records. A compilation of these songs, titled GET FAMOUS!, is now available on Big Legal Mess/Fat Possum Records. With no bass player, the band’s rhythm section relies instead on Matt Chaney’s primal drumbeats and Susan Musser’s wailing keys to build a frenzied, rhythmic scream. Mike Chaney and John Garris add to the howling with their blistering guitars and dual lead vocals as they sing songs about sex, UFOs and the teenage blues. Honing their live shows in support of acts such as King Kahn and the Shrines, Jack-O and The Tennessee Tearjerkers, Rivercity Tanlines and the Reigning Sound, Wheels on Fire has emerged as a razor sharp, blood letting rock’n’roll machine. Wheels on Fire will be touring Europe and the US all of 2009.

Luisteren kan op hun myspace pagina

Q: What happens at the record fair?

A: A lot of men venture further from their goal of having plentiful sex by looking for records that quite often sing about plentiful sex.

Prachtige analyse van het fenomeen "platenbeurs" (en vooral die in Utrecht) door Johan Kugelberg... The Psycho-Geography of Record Fairs