The Brit’s saved Rock and Roll? Who knew? Lovely BBC doc showing how the brits shook up Rock and Roll in the USA, and the Poms take on 1960’s USA. Herman’s Hermits playing black segregated audiences in the south!! The Byrds were a faux brit pop band?? Elvis meets the Beatles, the KKK reacting to Lennon saying that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus, yadda yadda yadda. Great vintage video.
Dan Deacon was pretty fabulous last time he visited. Electronic music mayhem from the professor. 3 Feb at Whammy Bar.
Laneways
30 Jan. Book here http://www.lanewayfestival.co.nz/ – its being held down past the Auckland Viaduct at the somewhat grandiosely named Silo Park.
Choices, choices, choices. For the first time three stages are running so you can’t see all the bands (unless you are very fast on your feet). Looking below it is not clear if the stages have a particular musical bias, it’s just a matter of picking what you want to hear and manoeuvring yourself to the right stage at the same time.
I will be looking out for the alt grungy bands mostly, that is Yuck, Girls and Cults. However all of the bands have their attractions, from the force that is (Sir) Shayne P. Carter to the kraut-rockish Horrors.
Here are links to playlists featuring some of these bands, and to save me writing, their entry in the All Music Guide -Â (a work in progress)