rachael dadd

[tonywojo]

gonna see her tomorrow at a free gig in london

anybody aware?

[Dr Evil]

Check out her pals Rozi Plain and Kate Stables.

[tonywojo]

Check out her pals Rozi Plain and Kate Stables.

if theyre as good as her it will be a right threesome

awsome dre

ta again

[shadows on the trees]

if theyre as good as her it will be a right threesome

awsome dre

ta again

This is total crap
yet again wojo, thank you
bullshit haiku, yeh

[tonywojo]

This is total crap
yet again wojo, thank you
bullshit haiku, yeh

She is a very good singer songwriter!

[Scouser]

This is total crap
yet again wojo, thank you
bullshit haiku, yeh

Just ignore everything the stupid cunt says SOTT, its the only way to keep your sanity.

[tonywojo]

Just ignore everything the stupid cunt says SOTT, its the only way to keep your sanity.

Press the ignore button, people. That is what it is there for.

[Dr Evil]

This is total crap
yet again wojo, thank you
bullshit haiku, yeh

Of course there is no accounting for taste-some people have it, others don't. However if someone had DARED to tell me that some girls, seeming to have nothing more than twee, Joni Mitchell style folk posted on the net, were equal or even superior to my post-punk gods, I would have assumed they were nuts as well! I quite understand your outrage. So I will not argue. Just go and see Rozi Plain and Rachael Dadd live. And when you buy all their records ask if they will sign them for you. I can't wait to see the look on your face.

[shadows on the trees]

This atonal crap
makes my ears bleed red rivers
make it stop stop stop

[Dr Evil]

This atonal crap
makes my ears bleed red rivers
make it stop stop stop

You must be talking about "The Fountain" because even these girls more lazy efforts are at least melodic and don't sound as if they have been gargling with nitric acid. However, I will forgive your ignorance.
This statement quite clearly demonstrates that you have never been to one of their shows or bought any of their albums. I recommend "A Noisy Noise Annoys a Noisy Seagull" and "Inside Over Here" by Rozi Plain and "After the Ant Fight" by Rachael Dadd.
And Rozi has an amazing new (unrecorded) song out called "Wiggling" which, along with the poignant "Bathtimer" and "Common Ears" and the pulsatingly joyful "Rook Rook Crow" are simply stunning.
As for Rachael on "Until We Fall Apart" this is so awesome as to be beyond description. Together with Kate they are like a powerful, unstoppable machine.
Go to Hamptons in Southampton (I assume you are British) and whilst unfortunately Kate will not be attending, I can promise you that both Rozi and Rachael will leave you a shaking wreck. If any of you think I have wasted your time or petrol, bring a cane and I will bend over for six of the best, film it, and put it on YouTube.
I also apologise, not for being over the top, but actually understating their greatness.
I HATE traditional folk-this is something else again, new, strange and wonderful, but only a live show or my magic video camera can capture it.

[electrabunny]

This atonal crap
makes my ears bleed red rivers
make it stop stop stop

Sorry, but I'm with Shadows on this one...just not my cup of tea. Too folksy.

[tonywojo]

Sorry, but I'm with Shadows on this one...just not my cup of tea. Too folksy.

And I'm with dre.
Sexual divisions.

[electrabunny]

And I'm with dre.
Sexual divisions.

I guess the men on here are pussies!

(or maybe the women on here are just bitches?)

[Dr Evil]

Sorry, but I'm with Shadows on this one...just not my cup of tea. Too folksy.

Ah...that is why I was so reluctant to even post the names of these artists here, because the stuff on the web is mediocre to say the least. So the critics are a bit like people who have seen (bad) clips or exerpts from a film and without actually going to see the film, write an entire review trashing it. Even Rachael's better songs on the net are a pale shadow of the show I filmed. Think of the difference between the watered down version of Bedbugs & Ballyhoo on the grey album and the original-the watered down version wouldn't gain any new fans.
Actually I have had the exactly the same problem championing the Bunnymen to people, because the stuff the public know about in no way reflects the greatness and mystery of the band at its best. But at least in their case there IS some very good video on YouTube.
As for Rozi Plain, forget about finding anything less than the most twee folk on the net, the idea that she is a brilliant singer-songwriter, dark and edgy must seem like the rantings of a lunatic.
So the only way to find out the truth is to go to a live show-lets face it, no-one is going to buy the records on the evidence presented, or have the patience to listen through the folky stuff to find gems comparable in quality (but not style) to the best post-punk. Another alternative would be to get my film put on the net, but I will have to meet them and ask permission-maybe they don't want their best stuff ripped?
By next month I will have completed my film of them by following the tour, and I will send it up to the BBC. I have no doubt that they will then get a slot on "Later with Jools Holland" , "The Culture Show" or perhaps they might show my complete film.
I have not lost my marbles, despite all appearances. I worship the Chameleons -though some people don't get them! Are they a "blokes" band? Siouxie and the Banshees, Joy Division and great Post-Bunnymen bands such as Radiohead and The Verve, along with completely original innovators such as Bristol's S.J. Esau (think of Jimi Hendrix meets The Who with 100 times the ferocity) but even in the case of this man, when I got his records they did not seem to capture the full power of the performance-another job for my magic camera! Rozi (and Rachael when she is not in Japan) come from there. I live in the New Forest, Hampshire, but for me Bristol is now a cultural nexus in much the same way that Liverpool was in the 80' and perhaps Manchester still is. Interestingly, there is some trashy mobile phone footage of the very show I filmed in Bournemouth on the NME site, and it is totally boring. It's as if my video camera was capturing a performance from a completely different show in another dimension! My film was great-but the the man who arranged the show said that was a tame performance by Rozi's standards (no criticism of Rachael and Kate.) There is mobile footage of them during one of the few boring songs of the whole show (I switched my HD camera off during it to save the battery) so once again, nothing to recommend them.
There is only one thing on the net that hints at the quality of these acts-a radio show presented by David Garland (Spinning On Air) but this involves listening to a nervous Rozi do twee folk until we get to one of her five great songs (she is young, there will be more) called "Wiggling" but I don't know if any of you have the patience to trawl through the filler, so I won't bother posting the link.
I could send you the film (on DVD or HD Blu-Ray) but (1) I want to get all of their best work, particularly Rozi who only did half her best songs on the film and (2) I don't know how much they would want for them-I'd be prepared to pay- I don't believe in ripping people off by copying and giving away their best songs for nothing, even to sceptics. So until then, the best thing would be to go to a live show and find out if I am "king of the bullshit" or the new John Peel/Anton Corbjin.
By the way, Guy Garvey likes them, and he is a man of good taste.

[black francis]

Pay them no mind Dr. Evil. These are the same people who didn't like Agent Ribbons. Savages all of them.