The Allender Calendar: Episode 20: Simon Love This month on the pod I'm joined by London-based Cardiff-born musician Simon Love! Simon is a superb songwriter with excellent pop smarts, an innate feeling for hooks, and a gift for Ray Davies-esq...

The one true prince of Wales @simonloverules.bsky.social is this month’s guest on The Allender Calendar! Simon’s new album is an absolute peach. Get it here!

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Similar to Gormenghast in that sense

Episode 20: Simon Love Podcast Episode · The Allender Calendar · 20 April · 1hr 10min

Another week, another podcast. This time it’s “The Allender Calendar” with @robinallender.bsky.social asking me questions about my new album “The One True Prince Of Wales (in exile after abdication)”

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The Allender Calendar: Episode 20: Simon Love This month on the pod I'm joined by London-based Cardiff-born musician Simon Love! Simon is a superb songwriter with excellent pop smarts, an innate feeling for hooks, and a gift for Ray Davies-esq...

The one true prince of Wales @simonloverules.bsky.social is this month’s guest on The Allender Calendar! Simon’s new album is an absolute peach. Get it here!

pod.fo/e/4021e0

Crikey that's a good question. Maybe the Michelle chord? He's very fond of a minor 7 too.

The way he's playing the guitar, with those tricksy chord movements, is amazing. And you can definitely hear a psychedelic, as well as a Latin, influence. Weirdly it sounds to me like it could be on Innervisions.

Loved this! And never heard that version of Step Inside Love, incredible.

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Well, happy thrremony at tremony at the liremony at the libraremony at the library day to all who celebrate

Yeah I feel that what makes Uncanny good is people narrating their first hand experiences, so it loses something if it’s just Danny relating something that happened to someone else

The thing with that Geese story is you have to think of all the bands who had huge marketing budgets who got nowhere because no one liked their music. Ultimately the music connects with people. No one is being forced at gunpoint to listen to Geese (unless the album cover is a subliminal threat).

I’ve got a good theory about the latest Uncanny - none of it actually happened

I have two tickets for Eiko Ishibashi/Jim O’Rourke at Union Chapel on 13 April, let me know if interested!

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UNSOUND 2025 ARTIST TALK: JIM O’ROURKE YouTube video by Unsound Festival

Unsound have just uploaded a great interview with Jim O’Rourke from last year.

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The Beatles - Long, Long, Long (Stripped Down Mix, Only George's Vocals & Guitar) YouTube video by Deirdre

#TeamGeorge

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Agreed

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Outlook - I found the singer the world forgot - BBC Sounds Joshua Henry on his mission to bring lost musical genius Bill Fay back into the light

Was awake in the night listening to the news and ended up hearing this fantastic doc about Bill Fay

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I have two tickets for Eiko Ishibashi/Jim O’Rourke at Union Chapel on 13 April, let me know if interested!

unionchapel.org.uk/whats-on/eik...

A copy of Select magazine from 1996 with the band Ash on the cover posing as superheroes.

Terrific gift from @danhancox.bsky.social – a 1996 issue of Select! It features an entire article about what bands from 1992 (‘the pre-Britpop era’s darkest hour’) are up to now. It was only 4 years ago. What are 2022 bands up to now?

Also loved when that Home Alone remake came out and he tweeted ‘This looks fucking shit!’

Hello, I am mental.

This, from The Onion, is strangely moving.

Using Spotify is just as bad as using X, in some aspects, even more consequential: Spotify is actively killing music, not just exploiting musicians. All other streaming platforms are better, and have as wide a choice. Migrating your playlists is dead easy. Please leave that evil platform - now.

Where does David Mitchell buy his shirts is it the worst shirts you can possibly buy dotcom

Kanye West being booked to headline Wireless Fest on all three nights feels like a major and utterly grim cultural shift. Ten years ago, a huge artist who recorded and released a tune called “Heil H*tler” would have gone to the wilderness and stayed there. But he has been welcomed back in through the front door. And this is on the heads of the festival organisers, each of whom should be publicly grilled about this choice. Indulgence of anti-Semitism is one of the early warning signs of the return of old horrors, and it doesn’t get more indulgent than this.

It was only when I worked it out on the guitar to teach it did I realise how subtly complex it is, really McCartney-esque. The verses are in 6/4 (or a bar of 4 and a bar of 2) for example, but you don't really notice. And then the way the chords shift under the harpsichord solo is total genius.

Brilliant stuff Andy. My personal fave CH song is English Trees. Do you know it? Absolutely heartbreaking. I feel like, in some way, it's about the drummer Paul Hester.

INVENTORY: AN UNRELIABLE GUIDE TO MY RECORD COLLECTION by Andy Miller

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon.

This week: Distant Sun by Crowded House. And if you don't like Crowded House, you can stuff it up your arse for nothing and fuck off while you're doing it.

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The Whole of the Moon has got the worst groove of any song

People really seem to struggle with the idea that Bob Dylan is basically a weird guy