Posted in Art d'Ecco, Death, Electricity, End of the World, Funny (ha ha), Futility, Gambling, Outer Space, Red Dwarf, Rob Grant, Sparks, Threats, Time Travel, Violence, Yuck! on June 29, 2021| Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: ART D’ECCO “Angst in My Pants” (2021).
I saw Art D’ecco open a show a few years ago and I’ve become mildly obsessed with hi. I’m delighted to see that he’s getting some promotion and success.
His new album In Standard Definition is a great synth pop retro dance infusion. But in addition to that he has released two standalone covers.
Art D’ecco covering Sparks is a pretty natural decision. as his label puts it.
Posted in Art d'Ecco, Better Than Life, Corporate skewering, Culture Shock, Death, Doug Naylor, Drinking, End of the World, Environmentalism, Extinction, Failure, Feminism, Funny (ha ha), Futility, Grant Naylor, Marriage Trouble, Mind control, Outer Space, Quarantine, Red Dwarf, Religion, Revenge, Rob Grant, Robots, Sci-fi, Science, Shapeshifters, The Jam, Threats, Time Travel, Video Games, Violence, Virginity (Loss of), Yuck! on June 28, 2021| Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: ART D’ECCO-“That’s Entertainment” (2021).
I saw Art D’ecco open a show a few years ago and I’ve become mildly obsessed with hi. I’m delighted to see that he’s getting some promotion and success.
His new album In Standard Definition is a great synth pop retro dance infusion. But in addition to that he has released two standalone covers.
This one, a cover of The Jam’s “That’s Entertainment” was a little concerning for me. This song is one of my all time favorite songs and I’m always nervous when a song like this gets covered.
But Art D’ecco does a great job. There’s acoustic guitars, a grooving bass line, cool harmony vocals and, best of all, he keeps the way the chorus offers the short “That’s” and the stretched out “en ter tain ment.” He even does the falsetto note (of course).
But what’s most enlightening about is cover is D’ecco’s voice. He seems to be stretching out of his comfort zone a little and it really shows off how good a singer her really is.
[READ: April 21, 2021] Last Human
I’m not sure what got me on my recent Red Dwarf reading kick (finding out that they had just released a new series was certainly a spark). I was sure I had read all of these books before and yet none of them were familiar to me at all.
The Grant Naylor team wrote two books and the second one ended on a cliffhanger.
Then for reasons I’m not willing to dig into, both Rob Grant and Doug Naylor each wrote a sequel to that book. But neither book is like the other and they both go in very different directions. Naylor’s book was really dark and very violent. Grant’s was also dark and very violent, but in very different ways.
The previous book ended with an old Lister being sent to a planet where everything goes backwards so that he can de-age to about the same age he was when he was on the series. They plan to meet him 36 years later at Niagara Falls.
In this book Naylor has the crew place Kochanski’s ashes on the planet Kochanski so she came back to life and she and Lister were able to live their lives backwards together for some thirty years.
But this book opens much further back–to the birth of the first humanoid. (more…)
Posted in Art d'Ecco, Canadian Music, David Bowie, Philadelphia, PA, Sparks, Temples, The Foundry, The Retinas on January 24, 2020| Leave a Comment »
[ATTENDED: January 24, 2020] Art d’Ecco [rescheduled from November 10, 2019, replaced Mattiel]
Art d’Ecco is a band from Vancouver. Well, technically, Art d’Ecco is the singer and it is his band. Either way it is a fantastic name which perfectly encapsulates the look of he and style of dandies from the Pacific Northwest playing excellent garage glam.
I didn’t realize that there were going to be two opening acts. So when The Retinas finished I assumed that Temples were coming out next. (I also assumed I’d be getting home really early if the headliners were going on at 9:15).
I was surprised when Art d’Ecco came out because, while I didn’t exactly know what Temples looked like, I was fairly certain they weren’t a glammy band. Plus, what happened to the singer’s big curly hair?
I was happy to discover that this wasn’t Temples because I didn’t think I could have been that off in my expectations. But I was even happier to discover this new (to me) band who were fantastic. (more…)
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