9 posts tagged “irish”
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09/20/08 powerhouse arena, dumbo, brooklyn, new york
09/21/08 BOSTON, MA CLUB PASSIM 09/23/08 IOTA CAFE Arlington, VA 09/24/08 THE CAMEL Richmond, VA 09/25/08 TIN ANGEL PHILADELPHIA, PA 09/26/08 PUCK LIVE Doylestown, PA 09/27/08 CLUB CAFE Pittsburgh, PA 09/28/08 GREEN BUILDING LOUISEVILLE, Kentucky 09/29/08 DOUGLAS CORNER CAFE NASHVILLE, TN 10/01/08 SUNSET TAVERN SEATTLE, WA 10/02/08 ALBERTA ST. PUB PORTLAND, OR 10/04/08 SOPHIA’S THAI KITCHEN DAVIS, California 10/08/08 HOTEL CAFE LOS ANGELES, California 10/11/08 IRON HORSE MUSIC HALL NORTHAMPTON, MA 11/06/08 EMPIRE BELFAST, Ireland 11/07/08 WHELANS Dublin 11/08/08 PAVILLION Cork 11/12/08 KENNY’S VILLAGE INN LAHINCH, Clare 11/14/08 SPIRIT Store Dundalk,Louth 11/15/08 ROISIN DUBH Galway 11/27/08 SOL Y SOMBRA KILLORGAN, Kerry 11/28/08 BLACKBIRD BALLYCOTTON, Cork 11/29/08 MOKA LIVE CASTLEBAR, Mayo 12/05/08 THE THATCH RAHAN, Offaly |
Mark Geary's fourth album, Opium, quietly creeps in stores today, September 16th. SonaBlast! Records are doing an excellent job releasing these singer/songwriter music, so if you're at all interested in folk music, you should definitely see what else they've released.
Geary was Irish-born (one of eight siblings, no less), emigrated to New York when he was 19 years old and started his career as a musician. By 1999, he released his debut album and nearly 10 years later we have Opium.
This album comes across as a pretty calming album, most of the songs here are just Mark and his acoustic guitar. The few exceptions really stands out because they're so different from the acoustic folk.
"Not on Your Life" is one of those song. I instantly marked it as a 'favorite' as soon as the song nears its ending. I just really like how upbeat the song sounds, despite its dark lyrics.
The trick is to smile, son
when you livin' that way
it's not about slowing
it's all about sin
we better get goin'
I'll count to ten
not on your life, on your life
The other outstanding track on this album is "Facin' the Fall". I believe the girl singer on this duet is by his guitarist, Ann Scott, but there are no special credits on the liner notes.
The 'single' on this album is "Tuesday", which was made into a cute art music video:
It looks like Geary will be making a return back to Ireland on his new tour dates, which I'm quite jealous of. Opium is out today, check with the usual music outlets for the album!
An interesting note about this album: Gracenote automatically named this album as "Opium Disc 1" which lead me to believe there is a Disc 2, but quickly checking amazon and his record label, it looks like this is a single 11-track CD. Perhaps we'll see Opium Disc 2 in the future? I'll be sure to keep you in the loop if that's the case.
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08/10/08 Westfair Amphitheatre Council Bluffs, Iowa
08/13/08 Sziget Festival Budapest 08/14/08 Frequency Festival Salzburg 08/15/08 Gambel Open Air Gambel 08/16/08 Highfield Festival Erfurt 08/17/08 Beautiful Days Festival Exeter 08/19/08 Lucky Rijseen 08/20/08 Traum Kiel 08/21/08 Festival Malmo 08/23/08 Reading Festival Reading 08/24/08 Leeds Festival Leeds 09/12/08 The Asylum Portland, Maine 09/15/08 Starland Ballroom Sayreville, NJ, New Jersey 09/16/08 The Electric Factory Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 09/18/08 The Norva Norfolk, Virginia 09/19/08 House of Blues North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 09/20/08 Headliners Columbia, South Carolina 09/21/08 Amos Southend Charlottle, North Carolina 09/23/08 Varsity Theatre Baton Rouge, Louisiana 09/24/08 House of Blues Dallas, Texas 09/25/08 Verizon Wireless Theatre Houston, Texas 09/27/08 Schnepf Farms (EDGEFEST) Queen Creek, Arizona 09/28/08 Viejas Concerts In The Park Alpine, California 09/29/08 House of Blues Anaheim, California 10/10/08 Knitting Factory Boise, Idaho 10/11/08 Roseland Theatre Portland, Oregon 10/13/08 MacEwan Hall Calgary, Alberta 10/14/08 Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, British Columbia 10/16/08 Bell Memorial Union Concert - Cal State Chico Chico, California 10/17/08 Arcata Community Center Arcata, California 10/18/08 Radisson Hotel Sacramento - The Grove Sacramento, California 10/19/08 The Fillmore San Francisco, California 10/20/08 The Fillmore San Francisco, California 10/24/08 The Pearl - Palms Concert Theatre Las Vegas, Nevada 11/02/08 Academy Newcastle 11/03/08 Barrowlands Glasgow 11/05/08 Astoria London 11/06/08 Academy Manchester 11/07/08 Ambassador Dublin 11/08/08 Academy Birmingham 11/09/08 Academy Bristol 11/11/08 013 Tilburg 11/12/08 Gr Freiheit Hamburg 11/13/08 Tragarn Goteborg 11/14/08 Rockefeller Oslo 11/15/08 Arenan Stockholm 11/16/08 Vega Copenhagen 11/18/08 Huxley’s Berlin 11/19/08 Turbinhalle Oberhausen 11/20/08 Schachthof Wiesbaden 11/21/08 Tonhalle Munich 11/22/08 Z7 Basel 11/24/08 Listhalle Graz 11/27/08 Estragon Bologna 11/29/08 Razzmatazz 2 Barcelona 11/30/08 Rockstar Bilbao 12/02/08 Elysee Montmartre Paris 12/03/08 Limburghal Genk 12/04/08 Melkweg Amsterdam 12/06/08 Cruzan Amphitheatre West Palm Beach, Florida |
I'm sitting here on the couch, waiting for food and listening to the upcoming Bark, Hide and Horn's National Road for review for 8/12, and I swear the guy is singing "leave my belly alone." I can't be bothered to check my iPod to find out what track that is (edit: the track is "This Abdomen Has Flown").
We have a few things coming up, which I'm pretty excited about. Derek is going to handle Tricky - Knowle West Boy for September 9th and Soup will be taking the Deerhunter - Microcastle for October 28th. The big one for me will probably be Noah and the Whale - Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down, the band that apparently Laura Marling used to be in before she went solo.
So basically, some really great, awesome, quality bands that we really love are coming in! You can always figure out what we're reviewing on site.w♥m (check out September 9th - insane, eight albums!) I must really sound like a broken record by now, but if you think you have what it takes to produce a 200+ word article/review, please contact me. At the moment, I have way too much music submitted and not enough dedicated writers.
So today, I will be heading out to the annual Irish Fair of Minnesota (you would think they would put this closer to St Patrick's Day?). I am especially looking forward to seeing Flogging Molly at the event, they're scheduled to appear around 9pm tonight.
If I'm not completely wasted, I might update to let you know how it turned out.
Update: There was a whole lot of walking around yesterday. The event was free, but you had to buy these "food tickets", which are really design for you to spend 6 tickets and have 4 useless tickets left over (so you're basically giving $4 to the event holder). The food and drinks were understandably overpriced as the whole event was free. Yet, for some reason, I still need to complain about my $7 Fish & Chips.
We didn't spend too much time at the Irish craft stuff, but wasted some time listening to Irish storytelling, watching sheeps grazing the grass (not. very. exciting.), and looking at new/traditional Irish photographies and art.
The real attraction for us was the Flogging Molly show, who actually arrived earlier than scheduled. They were very anxious to get on stage and rock out. And it shows, Dave King came on stage with a pint in his hand, dressed in a suit - and launched into "Paddy's Lament", a very rocking song from their latest album, Float.
He made jokes about how they went to the Science Museum and discovered that the only dinosaurs there, were themselves. There were also lyrics changes, notably anytime a location was mentioned, it was changed to "Saint Paul, Minnesota".
After five songs, the mostly young, punk, goth(?), gypsy crowd started getting rowdy and eventually forced me to flee my stage left corner. I had to leave through the front barrier, as looking behind me, there were over 1,000 people staring back at me. I got this sense of enviness as the young folks at the front thought I had been stage diving and wanted to hi-five me, screaming "yeaah man, you raawk!"
Yep, that's me alright, crowd surfer extraordinaire.
I ended up watching the rest of the full set, over 1½ hour, complete with a two-song encore, with three police officers enjoying the show from the back.
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I was pretty thrilled when I received Connected: 90's 12" Mix to review, as I was already well familiar with all the songs and artists on the two promo discs. In fact, I had the review written weeks ago, but waited until it got closer to the release date of July 7th to post the review. I'm glad I waited because by the last hour, they decided to upped the anti and added a third disc and changing the cover artwork (and not to mention that they reshuffled the track listing). As you can see with the links to artists we've previously covered on W♥M, that we really like the first disc.
One of the major differences I've noticed right away was that they had replaced Electronic's "Getting Away With It" with New Order's "World in Motion", which is fine as they are more or less Bernard Sumner. If there were other artists and songs that were dropped, it's probably due to licensing issues.
I have to say that I did agree that "World in Motion" is better fitted for this compilation, because this song is so closely associated with the 1990 World Cup. It just feels good to hear the competitive "it's one on one", a song that's sure to be played at every World Cup.... although whenever I hear that rap from Jamaican-born football player John Barnes, it just drowns the songs in late 80s/early 90s.
In 80s and going to the 90s, the three major releases for singles were: 7", 12" and cassingle. The 90s introduced us to the CD single (and eventually the double CD singles, parts one and two), but this compilation collects all the 12" mixes. Usually the 12" mix were special because they're often exclusive to the 12" and were catered to underground DJs who needed them in this format to scratch and live mix.
Even if you know all these songs from hearing them on the radio, these dance remixes always adds something new to something already familiar.
These tracks demonstrate England's evolution of dance music. You see, in the early 90s, there was a breaking point in the music timeline. One group became what you might know as Britpop, while the other group focused more on dance (raves and techno). You hear the second group's diverse music on these tracks.
From early Madchester (Stone Roses, Happy Mondays) to funk (Deee Lite) to house (M People, Nuyorican Soul) to big stadium dance rock (U2, Primal Scream) to even trip hop (Tricky, Massive Attack, Portishead), it's all here: all the big hits!
There are a few outstanding tracks from the two discs: the remix of Deee Lite's funky "Groove Is In The Heart", the Bottom Won Mix of Stone Roses's amazing baseline of a dance classic "Fool's Gold", Stereo MCs' "Connected" (of course!), Snap's extended mix of "Rhythm is a Dance", and Soup Dragons' trippy "I'm Free" the 12" mix.
The new tracks that were added to the album, included two that I already know and love: Moloko's "Fun for Me" and Beats International's "Dub Be Good to Me". Since I've already mentioned Moloko's song in a previous article, I should tell you about Beats International.
The guy behind Beats International is really Norman Cook - aka Fatboy Slim. As you can hear from his remix of "Be Good to Me", he really knows how to manipulate the song. Check out that bass and the mixing of a DJ introducing the song "Tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty, you're listening to the boy from the big bad city. This is jam hot" and also the outro.
There is one song that kind of bothered me, not that it isn't good (because I love "Jump Around"), but because it seems to me that House of Pain shouldn't belong here. You see, looking at all these artists, they all seem to be based in the UK and they're mostly dance, and House of Pain is from the US and leans towards rap. If you listen to this album, this song should definitely "jump" out at you.
Overall, this was a very enjoyable collection that made me a feel a little nostalgic of yesteryear.
Below are the final track listing.
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Connected: 90's 12" Mix will be released July 7th in the UK by Universal Records. Fans of 90s dance music will want to check this out.
Links:
www.umtv.co.uk
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Last year, anonymous posted a mash-up of "Whiskey in the Jar" (The Dubliners/The Pogues) with "It's Tricky" (by Run DMC), and I'll have to say that those two songs goes together quite well!
So, "Whiskey in the Jar" is a very well-known Irish traditional song about a highwayman, who eventually was betrayed by his Jenny, or Molly, depending on the version of the song being sung.
Quite a few people have covered this song, including a very curious metallized version by Metallica (it's actually quite good!). Got to love their pronunciation of "jar-ar-oh". Must be heard to be believed.
Postens Dramatiske Selskab or PDS remade this song as "Svikefulle Mari", only it's entirely in Norwegian. I quite like this version, they seem like a pretty fun bunch from their world travel photographs. You can download this song on their website.
Please note: this song is best performed live - especially during the singalong chorus:
Musha ring dumma do damma da
Whack for the daddy 'ol
Whack for the daddy 'ol
There's whiskey in the jar
Enjoy this cover lover post.... with a pint.
03/18/2008 00:51:04
vu
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"Paddy's Lamentation" is an Irish traditional song. It tells the story about a starving Irish farmer who left the green of Ireland to sail to America for opportunities. Instead, he finds himself in a middle of an American Civil war. The best lines in the song has got to be about his time serving under General Thomas Meagher.
General Meagher was he said, if you get shot or lose your head
Every murdered soul of youse will get a pension
Well meself I lost me leg, they gave me a wooden peg,
And by God this is the truth to you I mention
I believe the song is actually based on a real Paddy or Patrick, can anyone verify this for me? I thought I read about the real origin on the liner notes for Sinead O'Connor's Sean-Nos Nua album, but that's currently out on loan.
The first version of this song that I've heard is O'Connor's version, which is fairly recent. So basically I believe it's also my favorite version. What made this version so good is that she added additional lyrics (perhaps these lyrics were dropped over the years to shorten the song?).
In the liner notes, she did credit hearing this song for the first time by Mary Black (mary-black.net). In my research on her version first appeared on the compilation De Danann - Anthem in 1985, but I have the soundtrack to Long Journey Home which uses the same recording.
Apparently, Black is quite famous in her homeland of Ireland since 1983. In 1989, she released No Frontiers which is one of the best-selling albums of up to that time period. By the time Babes in the Wood in 1991, it went straight to #1 in the Irish charts.
After 25 years in the industry, Black is still producing music and recently release Full Tide in 2005.
Linda Thompson (myspace.com) has a pretty neat version on the Gangs of New York sountrack.
I
actually own and love this Martin Scorsese film. Who knew Leonardo DiCaprio
could pull off as Irish?
Daniel Day-Lewis is absolutely amazing in this film.
Anyway, Thompson's version doesn't have any music, but she carries the song very well with just her voice.
I don't know much about her, except she was married Richard Thompson, of Fairport Convention fame. Fairport Convention was considered by many as the first electric-folk band.
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04/19/08 Bürgerhaus
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Speaking of bands I know nothing about, Dhalia's Lane (dhalia.de) has a live version of "Paddy's Lamentation" available on their website. It was recorded fairly recently, last September 2007 at Sänger Berk Demiray.
Since I'm far too lazy to get the German information translated, I can guess that they're a folk/celtic band from Germany. They seem to be quite busy, with their entire tour dates planned out through the whole year!
Looking at their full discography on de.wikipedia.org, I was able to determine that they were previously known as Wild Silk (1995-1999), but changed their name to Dhalia, then finally Dhalia's Lane.
I don't know why they changed their names, but I'm guessing it's probably due to changing band members or Dhalia might have been too common... Perhaps someone can translate some German for me?
One of my sister's favorite band is Flogging Molly (floggingmolly.com) has a song called "Paddy's Lament" on their latest album, Float.
Listening to the song, it doesn't seem like it shares anything with the traditional song - except for its title. Still the song's not half bad!
If you're not familar with Flogging Molly, they are a seven-piece band from Los Angeles, California - currently on tour according to their myspace.
Their sound is best described as mostly Irish traditional, with a weird mix of punk and even country.
The band's name came from their regular routine of playing every Monday night at Molly Malone's pub.
We used to play there every Monday night and we felt like we were flogging it to death, so we called the band Flogging Molly
Lastly, I have "The Storyteller (Paddy's Song)" by Pentagle (jacquimcshee.co.uk). The song has nothing to do with "Paddy's Lamentation", but I couldn't help but notice the Irish-type song and that "paddy" name.
This original band broke up in 1973, but a new incarnation appeared shortly after 1981.
The new Pentagle was the band responsible for this song, available on their 1991's album Think of Tomorrow .
Interestingly enough, "pent"agle always has five band members, and they have a pentagram symbol from Sir Gawain's shield...
Last year, the original band members were awarded the BBC Radio 2's Lifetime Achievement award. The original Pentagle reunite for a 12 date UK tour.
Well that's pretty it for me for "Paddy's Lamentation". If you know of other covers, please drop me a line!
03/16/2008 23:23:02
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| Hellou wrote: Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:39 PM |
Hello you,
I`ve read your news about Dhalia`s Lane. I am Diana Hübner and want to give a short information. The singer in front of the photo isn`t me. It`s Anna Hachulla. But the voice is mine. I`ve leaved the band in summer 2008, now she is the only female singer. :-)
Greetings Diana
The theme for these reviews are Singles and EPs. Reviewing singles and especially 1-track songs are fast and easy, because obviously I'm not vested in hours listening to a full length album.
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Saint Bernadette - I Wanna Tell You Something... W♥M favorites Saint Bernadette have a new EP called I Wanna Tell You Something... to be released March 17th (although the street date announced on their myspace is closer to March 4th). Please refer to my original article to read about the band. It looks like they (and EVERY other band!) are going to be playing at SXSW this year as well as a few unconfirmed dates. [ read more ] |
The Black Crowes - Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution I have The Black Crowes's Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution 1-track radio promo here. There's really not a whole lot to write about when you're just given one song to listen to. The good news is that if you like old The Black Crowes, this song sounds exactly like what they sounded like on their quadtriple southern blues/rock album, Shake Your Moneymaker - which is not a bad thing at all if you dislike change. [ read more ] |
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Télépathique Télépathique are a dance groove/big beat/DJ duo consisting of Mylene (who does all the vocals) and Erico Theobaldo (who handles all the drums, turntables, and various programming), based out of São Paulo, Brazil. I believe they are already a big hit throughout Europe and their hometown with their album Last Time on Earth (2006), but Americans will finally hear about them through their debut North American single: Love & Lust to be release March 18 on The Control Group. [ read more ] |
Arianna Solare - Book of Us
Arianna Solare, a singer from Los Angeles, California, released her debut EP called Book Of Us sometime late last year. Looking at her myspace, I thought she is a one-woman folk singer, but this EP has a full backing band of Angelo Vermuelen (guitars), Henrik Linde (bass), Chris Steele (drums), Brent Arnold (cello), and Dan Trollinger (piano). [ read more ] |
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Delorentos Delorentos are a rock band from Dublin, Ireland. It looks like they've released at least six singles/EPs and one debut album (In Love With Detail, 20 April 2007). They were kind enough to provided me with one song from their Basis of Everything EP. The song starts off really slow and quiet, but when it picks up (exactly at the 1 minute mark), it's pretty good. I definitely like the energy and the guitar work on the later half of the song. [ read more ] |
Goodtimes Goodtimes Goodtimes Goodtimes is basically Franc Cinelli, who plays something he calls "alt-folk". His debut album is called Glue (which I think was released in 2007), which I was only offered a few songs his website. Although he's Italian, he did grow up in London, so his songs only have a British accent. Between the four songs I have, I think with its jangly acoustic guitars, I liked "Kids" the best. [ read more ] |
02/25/2008 08:25:53
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ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY
The Frames are from Dublin, Ireland. They must really love touring, as they've released two live albums, and according to the guitarist's Rob Bochnik, he's been recording all their live shows using a AKG C60 Microphone. Plus, they really love their encores. For the encore in Minneapolis (4/17/2007), they had four songs! And I think they do that four-song-encore everynight for this tour, which consists of a violin solo, a guitar/violin duet, and two full band songs. When I say full band, I mean they have a pretty full band: two guitarists, a bassist, a keyboardist, a violinist, and a drummer.
So I'm putting up this live track from Seattle, Washington. I liked this song, "Revelate" - the "album art" is a concert photo in Minneapolis, that I took with my camera from last night. That background singing is not the audience, I think it was an audio put in by the controller, but it sounded like the audience is singing along.
I'm also going to include their banter about this dog, they called Deefer ("D for Dog"), which I thought was pretty funny off their "Set List" live album. This is the kind of long banters that I like at concerts, you know those three plus minutes of the band talking and telling jokes.
| solace wrote: Apr 18, 2007 at 2:11 PM |
hey Vu!
great to "meet" you again last night ;)nice pick of songs to share! i yelled for Revelate a couple times to no avail ;).
glad you enjoyed them. as much as i do like their records, their live show is in another league altogether.
and yeah, that D for Dog story (among many others of Glen's are hilarious). he tells different stories about the same songs all the time, it's great.
check out the acoustic set he did on the Current yesterday, along w/ a killer cover of Van the Man's "Astral Weeks"
vu 
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PS, I posted "How to get a copy of We♥Music CD", but it's set to neighborhood privacy, so just ask me to add you as a friend to view the post.
Happy St Patrick's Day! I have to head out pretty soon, meet up with some friends. We're going to drink some green beer and see a parade in downtown. Today's the day where I put on my green Doc Martens.
I've put up some more Irish music videos and ran across Black 47. This is the New York band, formed in 1989 and was named after the infamous Irish Potato Famine 1845-47.
I'm surprise to see that the band is still around and released Elvis Murphys' Green Suede Shoes in 2005 and Bittersweet Sixteen (collection) in 2006.
The first music video I've seen from them is "Funky Ceili", which played a few times on MTV's 120 Minutes. The song is about an Irish bank worker (probably based on the singer, Larry Kirwan's true story) who's down on his luck and went off to America. The song's for his girl, Bridie.
If you're wondering what a funky ceili is, it's from the Gaelic word Ceilidh which means a social gathering with music, dancing, etc. Céilí is the Irish spelling while Cèilidh is the Scotish.
Here are some more video selections:
Compulsion were originally called Thee Amazing Colossal Men (formed in 1990 in Ireland). They moved to London in 1992, and signed with One Little Indian Records (home of such acts as the Sugarcubes, Black Box Recorder, and Sneaker Pimps) and became known as Compulsion.
They've released two albums (Comforter and The Future is Medium), and broke up the same year their second album was released (1996).
Being in the States, it's hard for me to track down their records, I think I'm missing their second LP and Question Time for the Proles and I Like Compulsion and Compulsion Likes Me (which all looks like they were released post-Mall Monarky). Which is about right, because by that time, I kind of lost interest in the direction the band was taking. However, if I ever see a Compulsion CD that I don't have, I will always pick it up.
So, we have here the first song that I've heard from Compulsion: "Why do we care?" It pretty much sums up their (punk) attitude and there is an UNBELIEVABLE catchy "a-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" bit! I love it.
If you like TAM or S*M*A*S*H, you'd probably really like Compulsion as they came from that same era and were clasified as "New Wave of New Wave". Check them out, I miss bands like this!
Random Trivia: US and UK editions of Comforter are different. Some limited editions of Comforter (UK) came with a second disc which collected their first two EPs. So if you're trying to pick up this album, make sure it has the second CD!
vu
Check out 3/9/07 Show - Britpop, it offers 20 tracks of Britpop stuff (nothing you don't already have, of course).
