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It is indeed bizarre, Only weeks have sounded like commercial vaine- One thing that. teetty’ehheys Queen‘s Hall‘s own ago, Hole were just another link suicide, Now, as she says, ‘grunge me is when people think we re. tundraising events. ‘This (albeit female) in a chain of noisy . sells’, and the band are being taken somehow not creating value, like . isdefiniteiy the biggest , young bands to cross the Atlantic, to dinner by prospective managers “the black ’ or “the dark or shit like says, atndit relally came They had announced themselves Who say things like ‘COUttheY’ We th‘s' wgre. not! I thmk the Chm“ m ah on qhm f ilmg yf ' with a single, ‘Teenage Whore’, and COUid make some Stupid money right roek ththg ‘5 50 new to them that twigigchic?“ 0 "me an album, Pretty On The Inside, that now-i She lUSt finds it Scary and they’re not 956‘} to physiotherapist at the Sick brought to mind, 533’» ‘3 Strung’om threatens to keep touring and Intellegtuahsfqtlon’ nOt used}? any Kids. She‘s interested in Mudhoney or a ragged Sonic Youth. touring 50 that the band doesn’t have “attatwc wr‘tmg' To them, 'I 3 gm to music and asked me to Even now, they should be known to make decisions like that. bethe real thmg- realty hav? to be organise a concert.‘ only by the relatively small (but ‘Because we’re in LA, we’re totally this teenage PTOStttUte ‘vthat 5 the Haj/ins gone through . growing) circle of grunge-hounds isolated. There’s no bands there , iI‘S way they want me tobe' various Posgbtcéccnanos who make it their business to know like everyone there is fence-sitting H018 Play the Mafia”, Glasgow 0" ‘Ctne'ttdtngénv'ttfitgn‘. these things. But then Kurt Cobain i and desperately trying to be famous Sat 14. d’mas‘ '00 a 5
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l repertoire oi Gershwin, Porter, Kern, PC'fotmancc with S‘fong V JAZZ and the rest, and plays them with a local 1m"? was the b‘st I way of raismg most 3 k 3 lovely, salt-edged tone which owes . money. .Thc conductor, pl e i more to the example oi Lester Young Roderick Brydon, who : than the players oi the Bop era. lives in Zurich now, was Unlike Bop, where the tune is largely closely associated with the It would be easy to lake the playing oi a springboard lor an exploration oi sco in its early years and
the likes oi saxophonist Spike Robinson iar too much tor granted, simply because what he does is uniussy, lineiy judged, and, it not quite sell-aliasing, certainly does not call
he‘s delighted to come back to his home city, especially as it marksthe first time he‘s worked with the SCO Chorus.‘ says Crookall. ‘We‘re hoping
uncharted and occasionally incoherent regions, he plays within the melodic and harmonic boundaries ol these standard tunes, but treats them as a challenge ratherthan a restriction, and
attention to itselt by displays of an occasion tor a wonderfully subtle 5 to raise £20,000, and inappropriate virtuosity or llery * 4 ~ = exhibition oi music-matting. His latest ! we're well on the way to pyrotechnics. spit. Robinson Scottish visit brings him to Glasgow, in doing that with £16590 ‘ Within the medium oi mainstream the able company ol his HEP recording 1 ttckct money already In- ien, however, Robinson is an absolute the latest oi which, ‘Stairway To The partners, the Brian Kelloclt Trio. ‘ Inge” 3'“ S": 50"” a??? delight to listen to. The veteran Stars', was released earlier this year. (Kenny Mathieson) i dean; Oricgftzc‘vtafigc‘: iazzman’s cause has been taken up in a Robinson, whose odd, sideways-on Spilte Robinson plays the Glasgow (Cam, M2,") ' series oi recordings irom Alastair embouchure is instantly distinctive, Society oi Musicians on Sun 8. .The Messiah t, a, ,he Wm Robinson's HEP Records in Edinburgh, iavours the classic American song Hall. Edinburgh on Sat 7.
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