June Jazz

A great month for music - Glastonbury is a very fine thing! So great, in fact, that I’m leaving some for next month!

• Wicked Game (Chris Isaak Cover) - Tenacious D

  A sub two minute cover of a classic that somehow captures the spirit of the original, captures the essence of Tenacious D and multiplies the awesome. Absolutely love this.

• Wembley Stadium 2008 Concert - Foo Fighters

  When the Foo Fighters played in Wembley I wasn’t able to go and I had major FOMO. The Foos gig at Meadowbank was one of my favourite ever (Foos and NIN on the same stage!). I relistened to Zane Lowe’s BBC highlights of the Wembley gig and felt a pang of regret that’s still raw after all these years - that gig was a band at their peak. Thank you to all of the engineers and camera people who captured it! (The full BBC session isn’t available but the selection of YouTube videos do a fine job).

• Glastonbury 2023 Set - The Churnups

  So when I relistened to the Wembley Foo Fighters set at the start of the month I wasn’t to know that the surprise band for Glasto would be the Foos. I saw an article saying it was their biggest ever crowd (100k ish people) - I don’t need to verify it to know that 100k is a lot of people and that their set was a blinder. The energy was off the scale!

• Miss Your Birthday - Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers

  I love hearing that this band are on the lineup for support for the Foo Fighters in Australia and New Zealand - some fab songs.

• What I wouldn’t Do - A Fine Frenzy

  As ever, I’m a fan of discovering actors who can sing… and it turns out that Alison Sudol is a singer with a big backcatalogue that can act.

• I Threw Glass at my Friend’s Eyes and Now I’m on Probation - Destroy Boys

  Lots of energy on this one! Love it.

• THE MOST MYSTERIOUS SONG ON THE INTERNET - Band name not known

  Catchy… but who is it by?

• Annabelle - Creeper

  Also catchy - but in a very emo/pop-punk kind of way.

• Life Sentence - MALEVOLENCE

  I’ve definitely been listening to some heavier stuff this month - this track stands out as being at the more epic end.

• Commando highscore (Keygen) - ACME - MultiPlant II GPS

  I know little of the keygen music scene - but this tune is amazing.

• Dopamine - The Arcadian Wild

  One of those songs that you can listen to on repeat ad infinitum.

• Glastonbury 2023 Set - Chvrches

  In an outstanding set Miracle, Final Girl and Mother We Share were all standout tracks.

• Glastonbury 2023 Set - Måneskin

  A very slick and passionate set.

• Glastonbury 2023 Set - Sparks

  Cate Blanchett’s dance was a very Sparks moment! And closing with All That was fab. It’s fascinating to see how a band in their mid and late seventies have been reignighted (lol) by the documentary and Edgar Wright’s interest.

• Glastonbury 2023 Set Covering The Smiths - Rick Astley & Blossoms

  Rick’s own set performance was fun but somehow coming along and reclaiming much-loved songs from a much-hated frontman was a more serious and more momentous affair. Certainly more than karaoke. How Soon Is Now and There Is a Light That Never Goes Out were next level! Also, their bass player got way too little coverage - stunning work. Also - who sets off flares inside a tent? Idiots. I’d have hated being in that tent for that reason alone.

• That’s What I Like - Kelsi Luck

  Always a fan of cinemagraphs… and this is the first time I remember seeing them in a music video - nice idea.

• Glastonbury 2023 Set - Pale Waves

  Not a band that I’d heard of but they played a solid set.

• Glastonbury 2023 Set - The Big Moon

  A pretty joyous set.

• Glastonbury 2023 Set - Texas

  Five star set - choooons all the way through.

• Glastonbury 2023 Set - Guns N’ Roses

  I have this weird idea in my head that GNR are at least a decade older than they actually are. They are doing okay for 60 year-olds but my word the singing is shrill - the falsetto verse sining on Sweet Child was atrocious… and because of that they could have cut a few tracks. Or bulked out with a second singer? Slash was on fire - crazy to think of how much better the other 64 “better” ranked guitar players in the world are (according to The Rolling Stone magazine). Drums and guitar made this show. And Dave Grohl’s rock out to Paradise City.

• Glastonbury 2023 Set - Royal Blood

  Oooft! What an opener!! What a closer!! So much energy in between! I know that this band isn’t quite a two-piece now but the sound they manage to wring out of those two instruments is amazing.