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Sharon Van Etten took her new single, I Don't Want To Let You Down onto the Ellen show last week. (Sidenote: I don't think the book shop set looks very convincing these days. It might be a while since I last watched Ellen.)
Allo Darlin went to KEXP and did a live set. It's lovely, and it's here:
If you're feeling a bit underwhelmed by the what-is-it-now-sixth-or- seventh coming of Johnny Marr, you can cheer yourself up with him doing There Is A Light The Never Goes Out on Sara Cox's show yesterday morning on Radio 2.
Is there an extra level of enjoyment? Why, yes, because inexplicably, Brian Cox and Genesis are sat in front of the camera while Marr plays, with mixed levels of awkwardness. It's very much how I picture Eurovision voting panels to look like.
The New Pornographers did Letterman yesterday. Here, don't take my word for it - here they are...
Fancy watching Sia do a song with the New York Gay Men's Choir? Let us help you with that:
Robin Carmody just pointed out that out of three great music moments in a 2006 post, the only one remaining active was a Jam appearance which is such awful quality it's unlikely even Weller could identify himself in the clip.
This calls for a revisit.
So... here's a rebuilt version, this time with embeds.
First, here's Britney Spears doing Toxic on Blue Peter:
Some classic 'point camera at TV' work there.
As a bonus, here's Britney doing I Was Born To Make You Happy on BP:
Next up, Stevie Wonder doing Superstition. On Sesame Street:
And, finally, once again, it's The Jam on Tiswas. Think of it as a Public Information Film about the risks of video tape degradation:
While that last post and list of winners suggests the NME Awards had all the attractiveness of pork chops poorly cooked six weeks past expiration dates, they did at least provide an excuse for this to happen:
Yes, that's Metronomy with Mutya Keisha Siobhan doing Love Letters last night. It doesn't quite hang together as well as you might have hoped, but it's nice it happened at all.
Shirley Collins hasn't played live for 35 years - she's suffered from dysphonia, which effectively scuppered her folk career.
Hadn't played live, that should read. On Saturday night, she returned as an unbilled support at Current 93's date at Union Chapel. Attn Magazine was there:
“I don’t think I would have done this for anyone else but David Tibet,” she announces to a stunned applause, before quietly slipping into a rich, earthly rendition of “All The Pretty Little Horses”. Her voice swoops at the commencement of each line, channelling the sound of age into a sort of momentum; gorgeous vocal curvatures both smoothed and textured like pebble edges, wearing her years of existence like a cloak that trails and dances behind every lyric.There's something magnificent about a gig review which can make you well up, isn't there?
[...]
It later transpires that David Tibet has been trying to encourage her to perform again since he met her back in 1994, and as he stumbles over words in an attempt to express his gratitude for her appearance, the magnitude of the occasion becomes clear.
Less keen on Depeche Mode? How about The Cure, then, also from this weekend's Austin City Limits festival:
Depeche Mode played Austin City Limits this weekend. Here's the whole thing:
Very much enjoyed Dinosaur Jr last night on the Press Red stream.
Until July 29th, 2013 you can watch the set on iPlayer.
Possibly more resilient will be this track, from the BBC's YouTube presence, of Watch The Corners:
This is lifted from a now-out-of-print Greenpeace benefit album...
[You can buy copies of In A Field Of Their Own still...
or donate direct to Greenpeace]
[Part of Glastonbury 1993]
Remember when you couldn't open your front door without finding Evan Dando on your doorstep, offering to do a couple of acoustic tracks? Some councils had to create special teams to deal with that challenge.
Off a free covermount.
[Part of Glastonbury 1993]
[Buy: Come On Feel The Lemonheads]
Apparently filmed by MTV. Twenty years ago was a very different place...
[Buy: Belly - Star]
[Part of Glastonbury 1993]
Actually filmed. On the NME stage. (Younger readers: the NME was the name of the makeshift paper blankets that used to be handed out as people arrived on site. Traditionally, people would burn them on camp fires before the first day of the event was over.)
[Buy: Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld]
[Part of Glastonbury 1993]
Let's take a quick journey back through - ulp - twenty years, and dip our beaks into Glastonbury 1993. From an age when it wasn't all filmed and streamed...
First up, here's Suede doing Moving, over a backdrop of a photo of people:
Try also:
The Orb
Belly
Lemonheads
Mega City Four
[Buy: Suede - Suede]
Look! Chvrches on Jimmy Fallon's show. (Trigger warning: may feature pre-roll advert for crisps, but being described as chips)
Finishing up, then, it's a cover of one of the few songs from Thriller to not make it out as a single in its own right:
[Concluding the Quadron Quarter-past quartet.]
This was recorded at the Eagle Rock Arts Center on Quadron's first tour of the US, earlier this year. Warning: Might be kinda acoustic.
[Part of the Quadron Quarter-past quartet. Concludes in an hour]
