Saw Carrie Brownstein (the one in the middle in Chris’s picture) and Janet Weiss (the one on the right) down at Butlins (q.v.) in Minehead a few years ago checking into their chalet as the excellent Wild Flag. Weiss also played drums on the recent Steve Malkmus (q.v.) and the Jicks album. The third member of the band, Corin Tucker, was also in riot grll (q.v.) band Heavens to Betsy, who apparently released a split single (q.v.) with someone called Bratmobile.
21 November 2016
Custurdcream
With all due apologies to Nigel and co., Sleater-Kinney are clearly the finest rock band on the planet. Great gig at the Wylam Brewery in the Toon on Friday, by the way.
21 November 2016
EXXO
Wow, suppose I’ve heard them before and always known they have lots in common with lots of bands I enjoy, but just spent a couple of hours investigating their stuff properly, prompted by this thread, and never realised they were so ‘big’. David Letterman show appearances, etc!
21 November 2016
daryl
@Custurdcream
I’ve never detected any negative connotations in the namecheck of the band, to be honest.
21 November 2016
EXXO
I assumed that Custo was confessing s/he doesn’t believe the 4 Lads to be the best band on the planet. We are a broad church indeed.
21 November 2016
HandyBiteSize
@Exxo, That Letterman appearance where they play Jumpers, when Janet’s kick drum, um, kicks in, I get the biggest goosies every time
Janet Weiss is, of course, NOT named after the character in the musical referenced in Our Tune
21 November 2016
EXXO
Blimey I’ve even been watching S-K interviews.
And Carrie’s programme ‘Portlandia’ for the first time. Bit hit & miss but I enjoyed, amongst other sketches, ‘The Best bit is Going Home’ about middle-aged gig-goers, ‘History of Hip Hop’ about, errm, middle-aged gig-goers. And ‘Spoiler Alert’, about people’s generally shite taste in TV.
But I thought it was funnier than the lot of them.
21 November 2016
Custurdcream
Hi Darryl – I think Exxo has it right. Love the biscuits. As my daughter just said over tea, (as I sat there in my 4 Lads t-shirt), why wouldn’t you make Nigel poet laureate – apart from the fact he prob5sbly wouldn’t want it? It’s just that Carrie, Corin and Janet are separately and jointly wonderful. Love ’em to bits!
21 November 2016
Custurdcream
I recommend Carrie’s ‘Hunger Makes Me A Modem Girl’ as a very readable and honest story of how insecurity and intelligence work together and make someone into a musical genius.
21 November 2016
EXXO
Ta for the recommendation – it must be good at “£16 used and new”. I’ll wait for it to be down to around the “£2.98 new” mark which Kim Gordon’s effort has reached.
Always interesting about insecurity driving a lot of creative efforts. My own lack of achievement in anything much is largely down to laziness but also in large measure lack of insecurity, especially since I finally met Mrs. Right. I could do that, but I don’t really want to, and in large measure I no longer need to.
[Sorry to always be gradually writing a crap piecemeal autobiography through the medium of The Lyrics Project. The whole ‘parallel lives’ aspect of being another 1963 Birkenhead Nigel kind of does that to me].
21 November 2016
Custurdcream
Writing an autobiography, if it only ever has the one reader, at least helps reveal you to yourself. Don’t know what the Carrie Brownstein book cost me – it was a late birthday pressie, pre-ordered for when the paperback came out. £16 sounds like the hardback. I’m a cheapskate even when others buy me things.
21 November 2016
Huddersfield’s very own… Steve malkmus
One of the greatest bands that exist or have existed within my lifetime. The Wild Flag album was great too, and having Mary Timony (of Autoclave and Helium, and latterly Ex-Hex, which was also the title of one of her solo records) involved qualifies the outfit as a Riot-Grrrl “supergroup” I guess…
22 November 2016
EXXO
Paperback, eh? OK. Amazon has so far stubbornly refused to reveal its existence but ‘Stones have it at £6.99.
22 November 2016
EXXO
£4.52 new from Amazon (free deliv if I order another volume or two).
22 November 2016
jODRELL BANKSY
Named for the main road in Olympia, Washington suburb of Lacey, where no one’s flying in anytime soon. I reckon it was the frisson betwixt a typical 90s rockist name and the bland (if hyper-local) reality that did it for ’em.
Maybe a Moroder tribute act called A552?
22 November 2016
Huddersfield’s very own… Steve malkmus
“Sleater” is apparently pronounced “Slater” on their side of the pond. I’ve known this for years but can’t quite retrain myself to say it that way.
The band appeared in Sonic Youth’s video for the late 1990s single “Sunday” alongside an adolescent Macaulay Culkin.
23 November 2016
Huddersfield’s very own… Steve malkmus
Apologies for the double-post (albeit with a long gap)…
I’ve been listening to the Wild Flag record for the first time in aeons, and I must (editorially?) recommend that you check it out if you haven’t already.
13 February 2017
Huddersfield’s very own… Steve malkmus
Another one… I was having one of my frequent autistic brainfarts when recalling the Sonic Youth video: having finally finished reading Carrie Brownstein’s autobiography, she corrected me by describing the shoot of the Sonic Youth video which was in fact for “Nevermind (What was it Anyway?)”, and not the same video which starred an acne-covered former child star.
In my defence, the two videos do have a similar mood or tone to them, and it’s been a long time since I played SY’s “Corporate Ghost” DVD.
this leaden paul
No bass player, but they seem to get by.
21 November 2016
Jeff dReadnought
Saw Carrie Brownstein (the one in the middle in Chris’s picture) and Janet Weiss (the one on the right) down at Butlins (q.v.) in Minehead a few years ago checking into their chalet as the excellent Wild Flag. Weiss also played drums on the recent Steve Malkmus (q.v.) and the Jicks album. The third member of the band, Corin Tucker, was also in riot grll (q.v.) band Heavens to Betsy, who apparently released a split single (q.v.) with someone called Bratmobile.
21 November 2016
Custurdcream
With all due apologies to Nigel and co., Sleater-Kinney are clearly the finest rock band on the planet.
Great gig at the Wylam Brewery in the Toon on Friday, by the way.
21 November 2016
EXXO
Wow, suppose I’ve heard them before and always known they have lots in common with lots of bands I enjoy, but just spent a couple of hours investigating their stuff properly, prompted by this thread, and never realised they were so ‘big’. David Letterman show appearances, etc!
21 November 2016
daryl
@Custurdcream
I’ve never detected any negative connotations in the namecheck of the band, to be honest.
21 November 2016
EXXO
I assumed that Custo was confessing s/he doesn’t believe the 4 Lads to be the best band on the planet. We are a broad church indeed.
21 November 2016
HandyBiteSize
@Exxo, That Letterman appearance where they play Jumpers, when Janet’s kick drum, um, kicks in, I get the biggest goosies every time
Janet Weiss is, of course, NOT named after the character in the musical referenced in Our Tune
21 November 2016
EXXO
Blimey I’ve even been watching S-K interviews.
And Carrie’s programme ‘Portlandia’ for the first time. Bit hit & miss but I enjoyed, amongst other sketches, ‘The Best bit is Going Home’ about middle-aged gig-goers, ‘History of Hip Hop’ about, errm, middle-aged gig-goers. And ‘Spoiler Alert’, about people’s generally shite taste in TV.
21 November 2016
EXXO
Maybe Rolling Stone thought ‘History of Hip Hop’ was too cringeworthy to be in their top 15.
http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/lists/15-best-portlandia-sketches-20150107/put-a-bird-on-it-20150107
But I thought it was funnier than the lot of them.
21 November 2016
Custurdcream
Hi Darryl – I think Exxo has it right. Love the biscuits. As my daughter just said over tea, (as I sat there in my 4 Lads t-shirt), why wouldn’t you make Nigel poet laureate – apart from the fact he prob5sbly wouldn’t want it?
It’s just that Carrie, Corin and Janet are separately and jointly wonderful. Love ’em to bits!
21 November 2016
Custurdcream
I recommend Carrie’s ‘Hunger Makes Me A Modem Girl’ as a very readable and honest story of how insecurity and intelligence work together and make someone into a musical genius.
21 November 2016
EXXO
Ta for the recommendation – it must be good at “£16 used and new”. I’ll wait for it to be down to around the “£2.98 new” mark which Kim Gordon’s effort has reached.
Always interesting about insecurity driving a lot of creative efforts. My own lack of achievement in anything much is largely down to laziness but also in large measure lack of insecurity, especially since I finally met Mrs. Right. I could do that, but I don’t really want to, and in large measure I no longer need to.
[Sorry to always be gradually writing a crap piecemeal autobiography through the medium of The Lyrics Project. The whole ‘parallel lives’ aspect of being another 1963 Birkenhead Nigel kind of does that to me].
21 November 2016
Custurdcream
Writing an autobiography, if it only ever has the one reader, at least helps reveal you to yourself.
Don’t know what the Carrie Brownstein book cost me – it was a late birthday pressie, pre-ordered for when the paperback came out. £16 sounds like the hardback. I’m a cheapskate even when others buy me things.
21 November 2016
Huddersfield’s very own… Steve malkmus
One of the greatest bands that exist or have existed within my lifetime. The Wild Flag album was great too, and having Mary Timony (of Autoclave and Helium, and latterly Ex-Hex, which was also the title of one of her solo records) involved qualifies the outfit as a Riot-Grrrl “supergroup” I guess…
22 November 2016
EXXO
Paperback, eh? OK. Amazon has so far stubbornly refused to reveal its existence but ‘Stones have it at £6.99.
22 November 2016
EXXO
£4.52 new from Amazon (free deliv if I order another volume or two).
22 November 2016
jODRELL BANKSY
Named for the main road in Olympia, Washington suburb of Lacey, where no one’s flying in anytime soon. I reckon it was the frisson betwixt a typical 90s rockist name and the bland (if hyper-local) reality that did it for ’em.
Maybe a Moroder tribute act called A552?
22 November 2016
Huddersfield’s very own… Steve malkmus
“Sleater” is apparently pronounced “Slater” on their side of the pond. I’ve known this for years but can’t quite retrain myself to say it that way.
The band appeared in Sonic Youth’s video for the late 1990s single “Sunday” alongside an adolescent Macaulay Culkin.
23 November 2016
Huddersfield’s very own… Steve malkmus
Apologies for the double-post (albeit with a long gap)…
I’ve been listening to the Wild Flag record for the first time in aeons, and I must (editorially?) recommend that you check it out if you haven’t already.
13 February 2017
Huddersfield’s very own… Steve malkmus
Another one… I was having one of my frequent autistic brainfarts when recalling the Sonic Youth video: having finally finished reading Carrie Brownstein’s autobiography, she corrected me by describing the shoot of the Sonic Youth video which was in fact for “Nevermind (What was it Anyway?)”, and not the same video which starred an acne-covered former child star.
In my defence, the two videos do have a similar mood or tone to them, and it’s been a long time since I played SY’s “Corporate Ghost” DVD.
23 February 2017