So, apparently I’ve only done three posts since the start of 2010 which isn’t the way to ‘build’ an ‘audience’. So here’s some pop-ish things that have been pre-occupying me of late…
Most exciting was the news from the Philippines that Manila’s No 1 indiepop club, The Strict Rules of Polite Society, were theming their Christmas club night on December 22 around Kaleida and Pastel Collision. I know! I wish we had recorded more than 21 songs now. Still, it looks as if everyone had a good time, judging from the pictures on the FB page <a (which has 871 members). I have swapped a couple of emails with Geraldine who is one of the people behind the club, too. She and her pals seem on a mission to spread the indiepop word in their part of the world and take it from being a cult into being a musical mainstream thing (though some folk prefer to keep it secret – familiar scenes).
Course it is exciting that there are pockets of enthusiasm for our otherwise long-forgotten pop. They have asked me to go and DJ too and I have already checked the fare. Maybe I will emigrate.
More Googling reveals that Los Angeles’ Hungry Beat night, a night of classic English pop, 60s grooves and northern soul has fitted in our own Here Comes The Summer somewhere between The Smiths, St Etienne, Otis Redding and Brigitte Bardot.
And – surely – Los Angeles’ coolest web radio station, Dublab, is also no stranger to the Collision. On the link provided, DJ Marion kicks off her show with a PC song and talks about how she’s wanted to get hold of it for ages.
So maybe it was all worth it after all!
Anyway, it’s 13 years since I made a record and obviously that’s 1) too long but 2) a good thing, as if I had been making records continuously for all that period I would surely have run out of ideas by now like everyone else does and would be clinging to the past rather than, you know, contemplating a triumphant return.
At some point.
