Comments on: Wampire Beak Hen (d) https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d Lollards in the high church of low culture Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:32:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Matt DC https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/comment-page-1#comment-375014 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:32:35 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/#comment-375014 (It doesn’t particularly remind me of my college days, but then again my college days were mostly spent vituperatively railing against the UK equivalent of ‘preppy’ signifiers in pretty much all their forms.)

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By: Matt DC https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/comment-page-1#comment-375013 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:30:34 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/#comment-375013 The 30-minute thing really boosts the whole addictive nature of this album, it exemplifies the cliche of listening to a record all the way through and then immediately starting again from track one.

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By: Marcello Carlin https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/comment-page-1#comment-373706 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:51:13 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/#comment-373706 Not even Val Woonican (See me – Ed.).

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By: Billy Smart https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/comment-page-1#comment-373647 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:10:39 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/#comment-373647 Not Victoria Williams, then? Or Vow Wow?

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By: Marcello Carlin https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/comment-page-1#comment-373304 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:40:51 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/#comment-373304 I think the VW album is the best VW debut album I’ve heard since Virginia Wade’s Never Mind The Ball Cocks.

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By: CarsmileSteve https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/comment-page-1#comment-373299 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:35:41 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/#comment-373299 also, the track that APetridis refered to as “like ski sunday” is clearly like barnacle bill, ie the blue peter theme (pre-mike oldfield versh)

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By: CarsmileSteve https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/comment-page-1#comment-373298 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:31:39 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/#comment-373298 um, i think this might be the best debut album i’ve heard since “if yr feeling sinister” (yes yes, whatever)… i’m hearing quite a lot of bellysebby in it, but then i would, wouldn’t i?

also HURRAY for 30 minute alBUMs

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By: Marcello Carlin https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/comment-page-1#comment-373295 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:23:45 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/#comment-373295 Does the “indie market” really still exist, though, in all bar name?

Since VM are on the XL label I’m assuming they are in part being subsidised by Adele.

(topic-unrelated but still necessary PS to XL: why Adele over Annie?)

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/comment-page-1#comment-373284 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:10:05 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/#comment-373284 Also I’m specifically thinking of the indie market here – obviously post-punk was hardly absent as an influence in music before being “rediscovered” by guitar groups a few years ago, so it’s more that I’m hoping for a shift to new pop within the indie nation (though as a response to entryism rather than a means to it).

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By: Marcello Carlin https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/comment-page-1#comment-373278 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:55:49 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/#comment-373278 As opposed to the people who have been advancing New Pop over the last dozen years or so – most of whom happen to be black and/or female and largely guitar-free (even with Xenomania you always think of a photograph of a guitar whenever they use the instrument rather than the thing itself).

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/comment-page-1#comment-373257 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:03:21 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/#comment-373257 One of them is non-white! (Though he doesn’t play the guitar).

No conflict at all (ideally) – thinking stuff out as a natural impulse when starting a pop project.

I see New Pop influences all around me but I think the market is, yes, more likely to acknowledge them in the form of VW.

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By: Marcello Carlin https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/comment-page-1#comment-373229 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:52:00 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/#comment-373229 possible/inevitable conflict between “natural way of things” and “well thought out” alert.

also rather depressing that New Pop as influence can only seemingly be acknowledged when legitimised by white boys with guitars.

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By: Pete https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/comment-page-1#comment-372979 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:40:21 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/#comment-372979 All sounds good, I expect an update Steve.

Oh and Tom, if you were at the same college as me, yr apostrophe is in the wrong place!

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By: CarsmileSteve https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/comment-page-1#comment-372914 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:34:28 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/01/wampire-beak-hen-d/#comment-372914 wait, how are you watching university challenge half an hour before it’s on?

i bought it from HMV this morning (i can’t remember the last time i did this, but i wasn’t sure when i’d next get to a record shop) and am listening to it for the FIRST TIME right now.

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