Lemon Jelly - In the Bath

A wonderful excursion into unknown musical territory... cheeky fun and all 😃

#music #Lemon-Jelly #quirky #fun #chill

25 years too late, i want to thank all of you UK music pirates who left open their napster and limewire clients on 33.6k/56k dialup connections for hours at a time in the middle of the night in 2000.

when i was a teenager in the late 90s and early 2000s, canada was still recovering from a decade of hopeless grunge, there weren't many options for learning about new music aside from the radio. 99% of it was dead pop and rock. but a local university radio station (CJSR) exclusively played all kinds of music you couldn't find anywhere else.

one night, at 2am, a CJSR deejay queued up a track by a band called Lemon Jelly. after decades of despondent punk/rock/grunge, it was the most refreshing and uplifting thing i had ever heard. the kind of music that was just glad if you smiled a bit.

except, i couldn't find it anywhere. the big local shops like HMV didn't import LJ's label, and i couldn't afford to import it myself from a UK music store.

that week, i spent dozens of hours digging through every limewire/napster share i could find. and finally, i found it: someone in the UK had dumped the entire CD to 128kbit mp3s, as well as recordings from BBC 1's The Breezeblock.

a year later, i was finally able to buy their CD in-store, along with the incredible Illustrator vector artwork by lemon jelly themselves. i not only became a fan of LJ, but became strongly influenced by their low-poly vector illustration style in my own design work.

so: a belated thank you UK napsterites for sharing your music overseas 🙏

#uk #music #downtempo #lemonjelly #yeg

So what's next? I've covered Kings and Queens in the Tune Tuesday theme of Kings, Queens, Jacks and Jokers. Now we've gotta deal with the Jacks. And I can think of nothing better than Lemon Jelly's A Tune For Jack, it's so upbeat and happy and fun.

https://open.spotify.com/track/1AKHclGKFc3fjv0V9qnZ3w?si=65fd934643f54405

#KingsQueensJacksJokers #Music #TuneTuesday #LemonJelly

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins

Lemon Jelly:
🎵 Nice Weather For Ducks

#LemonJelly

https://gattuso.bandcamp.com/track/happy-note-lemon-jelly-nice-weather-for-ducks-mashup-mix

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq

Lemon Jelly:
🎵 Space Walk

#LemonJelly

https://fringemusicarchives.bandcamp.com/track/space-walk-fma-edit

https://open.spotify.com/track/1bne4gsJshCv77LeKqQb1A

Sitrep #LakeMacquarie: It's a bit wet.

Lemon Jelly, Nice Weather for Ducks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFeOa2vBZeI

#LemonJelly

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox

Lemon Jelly:
🎵 Nice Weather For Ducks

#LemonJelly

https://gattuso.bandcamp.com/track/happy-note-lemon-jelly-nice-weather-for-ducks-mashup-mix

I'm listening to Lemon Jelly's 'lemonjelly.ky' and it's making me want to watch Spaced...

#NowPlaying #LemonJelly