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Review: Mick Farren & Andy Colquhoun review
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Mick Farren & Andy Colquhoun
Black Vinyl Dress (Gonzo)
Michael Anthony 'Mick' Farren, writer, journo, poet, counter-culture rabble rouser, ‘proto’ punk and serial collaborator with, amongst others, Lemmy, Chrissie Hynde, Hawkwind, Wayne Kramer and, on this his final outing, ex-Deviant and Pink Fairy Andy Colquhoun. Sadly no longer with us since collapsing onstage during a Deviants performance in July of 2013 Farren, never a fan of his own voice, elects to narrate songs here, his delivery a cross between John Cooper Clarke, Alan Rickman and William Burroughs as Colquhoun ensures there is more than enough sonic variety to keep the results more than just a glorified poetry reading.
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Black Vinyl Dress (Gonzo)
Michael Anthony 'Mick' Farren, writer, journo, poet, counter-culture rabble rouser, ‘proto’ punk and serial collaborator with, amongst others, Lemmy, Chrissie Hynde, Hawkwind, Wayne Kramer and, on this his final outing, ex-Deviant and Pink Fairy Andy Colquhoun. Sadly no longer with us since collapsing onstage during a Deviants performance in July of 2013 Farren, never a fan of his own voice, elects to narrate songs here, his delivery a cross between John Cooper Clarke, Alan Rickman and William Burroughs as Colquhoun ensures there is more than enough sonic variety to keep the results more than just a glorified poetry reading.Ray Harper
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Review: GERMAN MICK FARREN/ANDY COLQUHOUN REVIEW
Can there be a better death for a rock musician, as (except maybe at home in his sleep) on the stage to die? (Almost) exactly is the English musician and writer Mick Farren happened when, on 27, heJuly 2013 collapsed on stage during a concert at the age of 69 years and died the same evening.His artistic career began when he moved to the first half of the sixties went to London to study and also brought his being a musician on the move. With the band The Deviants he published from 1967 to 1969 three slices before 1970 for the first solo album "Mona - The Carnivorous Circus" came. He then focused for several years been stepped on his writing career, the music but never really let go.He was a short time a member of the Pink Fairies (anyone still reminiscent of "Uncle Harry's Last Freakout"?), but without being involved in recordings.
Mid-seventies, there was a relatively short reunion of the Deviants , what the spark at the good Mickwas after all flare up again so far that in 1978, the great (of course, from punk rock influenced) solo album Vampires Stole My Lunch Money appeared. Here, among other things, it was Wilko Johnson(ex- Dr Feelgood , RIP) and Chrissie Hynde ( The Pretenders ) in the studio to help you. The Deviants were also found over the decades again sporadically, playing shows, and there were also sporadic albums . With this band he was also on the stage, had come as the day of his death.
In the spring of 2012 was Mick Farren one last time with material for a full album in a recording studio. There should be no ordinary rock album, but he recited his designated texts (at different rates) to click tracks and handed the result is then multi-instrumentalist Andy Colquhoun ( The Deviants ), to highlight the text with more rock and bluesy music. The result is now available and goes by the lovely name "Black Vinyl Dress".
If you like this kind of performance or simply want to retest times, which is then also our lifestyle served by this disc. I have Mick Farren actually always liked and it also makes her what if the asthmatics his lyrics with the distinctive voice - sometimes peaceful, sometimes a bit excited - barking into the microphone. And as already mentioned, the whole was then deposited with rock and blues songs that round out this Chose then also outstanding.
It is logical that this record of the former White Panther (UK) activists is not necessarily for everyone.But finally Anchecken costs nothing and maybe big favor is one or the other of you but to find the presented 14 'songs'. Especially since the texts of bullocks anyway can provide a consistently high quality. So who the man never knew before: Do not be shy pretend and listen!
Line-up:
Mick Farren (vocals),
Andy Colquhoun (all instruments and programming, additional vocals)
Mick Farren (vocals),
Andy Colquhoun (all instruments and programming, additional vocals)
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Review: BELGIAN MICK FARREN/ANDY COLQUHOUN REVIEW
Mick Farren was the rock singer with one of the most wild hairdos ever. Late 60s His black nest flew back and forth during the performances of his punk , hevy metal and rock group The Deviants ' , a band that he himself had formed under the name ' The Social Deviants . " In 1967 Soon there were a lot of members away from the original formation and the group was shortened to 'The Deviants ' .Mid- 70s was Mick Farren record an album for the independent label Stiff Records. It was an EP " Screwed Up " on which guitarist Larry Wallis (former " Motörhead " ) , bassist Andy Colquhoun (former " Warsaw Pact " ) and Alan Powell ( ex - ' Hawkwind ' ) played a role .
Since 1980, returned to the severely asthmatic Mick Farren only very sporadically back into the musical spotlight and he came back once more in June 2011 for a live performance at the famous Glastonbury Festival , along with his old buddy Andy Colquhoun . On July 27, 2013 he performed at age 69 again with 'The Deviants ' in 'The Borderline ' in Soho , London when he collapsed on stage and later died in hospital .
The old punk rocker , anarchist, journalist and street politician Mick Farren had just one last , not quite finished album that was completed by Andy Colquhoun after his death and now posthumously brought under the title "Black Vinyl Dress" on the market.
Mick Farren was for years known as a symbol of the acrimonious underground scene , and he later wrote for the popular British music magazine NME New Music Express ' and delivered columns off to the American newspaper " City Beat " and the " International Times . He was also the author of 23 novels both fiction, non -fiction and biographical inspired .
Now also have some information about this latest record " Black Vinyl Dress" . Fourteen songs were recorded with this Andy Colquhoun on guitar , bass and keyboards and Jaki Windmill on percussion . Colquhoun composed the music and wrote all the lyrics Mick Farren , except composed by John Lennon & Paul McCartney song " Tomorrow Never Knows " that the Beatles recorded in 1966 as the last track on the album " Revolver " .
This album starts with a very melodic pop song " Black Dogs Circle " which Mick Farren rather a poem contributes to sing , something moreover on the title track and several other songs of this album will happen. Not for nothing , he called himself a " lousy singer but an excellent rock star ." The songs on this album regularly think of Nick Cave which is very often in the dark shadows of the pop and rock music tends to move.
The repetitive guitar riff in " Venus On Her Shell " is a clever discovery of Andy Colquhoun which he leaves a threatening tone of the story told here flow . In "The Dark Matter" Jaki Windmill doing something similar on percussion while Mick Farren recites his lines in full Frank Zappa - style . The we feel best musical songs on this CD are " Cigarettes " , it is very hard for anything from Nick Cave slip off " Beautiful Women " and " Beatles' cover " Tomorrow Never Knows " which Jaki Windmill for real vocal vocals are coming worry.
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Review: FRENCH MICK FARREN/ANDY COLQUHOUN REVIEW
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Review: MICK FARREN and ANDY COLQUHOUN – The Woman In The Black Vinyl Dress
Mick Farren’s passing in July 2013 robbed rock ‘n’ roll of one if its most inflammatory movers. Never so much of a vocalist Farren documented his time via word – spoken, written and kind of sung – and always kept it quite conceptual. That’s why his final album, given the music by Mick’s long-time co-conspirator Andy Colquhoun, latter-day Pink Fairy and Deviant, could be seen as a sequel to the original DEVIANTS’ final LP, "3" whence the woman in black comes, although this time the playfulness is very limited, having succumbed to the gloom. It oozes out of “Dark Matter” which, as Farren recites, communicates with him, and out of the closing cover of “Tomorrow Never Knows” that takes nihilism to the dancefloor, yet Mick’s old game is in play in the Brechtian choir of “Beautiful Women” and in the harmonies and riffs of “Pick Up The Scissors And Run” with their warped escapism offering a way out of “I Don’t Like It Here ” – a humid, if human experience.
Elsewhere, belligerence reigns, the sharp groove under “AK47″ and the bruised opener “Black Dog’s Circle” presenting the black-and-blue vision as Colquhoun’s blues guitar waltzes between the blackness of Farren’s lines, and not for nothing its first licks vaguely quote “Dark Eyes” to link it to the danger of the aforementioned assault rifle. By the same token “Cocaine + Gunpowder” thrives on a dirge-like percussion, while the shred-bumper “If I Was A Hun On My Pony” glorifies intelligently barbaric destruction, and the wet social dream of “Black Vinyl Dress” is contrasted with an acoustic lace whose shape follows the tonal inflections of the poet’s voice. That’s where Mick’s rhetoric hits the spot: soft yet solid, and it’s so sad he left this place right from the stage, on a high note.
