#NowPlaying #PostPunk #GarageRock
No one remembers Augsberg's #CreepingCandies anymore - but man I used to looove these ESL-damaged Bavarian longhairs something fierce. So did #NikkiSudden (RIP), who produced their first 4 records.
https://thecreepingcandies.bandcamp.com/track/ride-your-own-horse
from the album Celebration - Tracks & Traces of 40 Years
Nikki Sudden died twenty years ago today.
This was a big one for me because he'd performed live on my WFMU radio program just days before he passed. The events of that night are presumably the last studio recordings he ever made, and so obviously remain very close to my heart.
I was a huge Nikki fan and always went out of my way to see him perform when he'd hit NYC. Even then, his gigs felt like an alien visitation from some other dimension -- he was a classic rock and roller with a seminal artpunk past. A considerable departure from the hipster posing and faux-No-Wave culture that was gathering steam in early aughts NYC. His gigs weren't the type you'd show up to dressed in a hoodie and jeans -- something about his presence signaled that dressing sharply was the expectation, and for (single, mid 30ish) me that meant anything from my black velvet suit jacket to a pair of red leather John Fluevog kicks. A little embarrassing upon review many years later, but these sartorial choices seemed spot-on in the moment.
I was unusually nervous the night he performed live on my show. I'd had plenty of revered bands down for FMU sessions by 2006, but Nikki accepting my invitation felt different. He was a bona fide legend! I did my best to bottle up the gushing fanboy routine, and his initial skeptical glances at me through the studio glass softened as the night progressed. By 11 PM, we were sharing a bottle of champagne, laughing, and discussing plans for him to return to the station on his next stateside visit. Before he left, he signed my copy of "The Bible Belt", his solo LP from 1983.
And a few days later, he was gone.
RIP Nikki Sudden. Art punk terrorist in the Swell Maps, Bolan/Bowie refugee in the Jacobites, and prolific solo troubadour who played an outsized role in shaping my understanding of art and life’s various tragedies.
#nikkisudden #swellmaps #postpunk #jacobites #staybruised #wfmu
Junkie #falsetto? I say unequivocally this is a thing (plus, there's medical research: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0892199724004478).
Examples include #KeithRichards in the #RollingStones' "Coming Down Again", or #DaveKusworth's work with #NikkiSudden in #TheJacobites . . . or better still, those solo acoustic turns by #JohnnyThunders. For a while Johnny's voice got so jaundiced and gossamer-thin, you'd think his vocal folds had been replaced by corn husks! But it's what he left us, utterly affective, part and parcel to his essential beauty. Miss him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nTuNu-JOq4&list=RD6nTuNu-JOq4&start_radio=1
Ein lütter Wink von einem Song, den ich (glaub ich) in den letzten Wochen 2008 gehört habe, bevor ich aus meiner Geburtsstadt zog…
Die Lyrics versteh’ ich zwar bis heude nicht inhaltlich (wieso braucht man da keine #EGitarre n? Und für immer Sklave sein… das hat wohl was mit #BDSM zu tun? Hab’ da keinen Blassen von und hoff’, das läuft #SSC / #SaneSafeConsensual …)
Mega Lead-Melodie, dabei. #NikkiSudden #LoveNest
New post from Everything's swirling
Advent Calendar - 23 - Eux Autres - Another Christmas at Home
Annoyingly I don't own a physical copy of this although it did get a vinyl release in 2009 - but I keep hoping one will turn up in my xmas stocking some time. This is an absolute gem, and sometimes it's my absolute favourite xmas song.
#PopMusicAdventCalendar #PopMusic #AdventCalendar #Christmas #Xmas
#EuxAutres #IndiePop #Slade #TheJacobites #NikkiSudden
https://www.grange85.co.uk/swirling/2022/12/23/advent-calendar-23/
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