The podcast of the well-known popular and with-it British beat combo gear fab. http://www.primroseleague.co.uk en-us Copyright and Music Publishing 2007-2009 Daniel Earwicker. All Rights Reserved. Tue, 05 May 2009 19:48:00 -0000 Tue, 05 May 2009 19:48:00 -0000 http://www.primroseleague.co.uk inquires@primroseleague.co.uk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPs_tFEMxIA http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/DearPrudencePodcast.mp3 Wasn't intending to do this but started playing it, it sounded okay so I got distracted and ended up overcooking my rice. Podcasts Mon, 15 June 2009 14:23:08 -0000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLYGGfVErJs http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/WalterJim.mp3 Combination of 'Do You Remember Walter' by The Kinks and 'Spring Heeled Jim' by Morrissey. From the albums 'The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society' and 'Vauxhall & I' respectively. Podcasts Sun, 24 May 2009 14:41:29 -0000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQVu77R-8Sk http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/Superstition.mp3 Stevie Wonder tells it like it is... Podcasts Tue, 05 May 2009 19:48:00 -0000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iODjMBYLo0c http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/04_Stealing_All_Those_Cars.mp3 Astonishingly brilliant fourth track from the emerging 2009 album called 'Letters To Cyril Connolly'. Podcasts Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:45:00 -0000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_GuP9H2dRI http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/HowSoonIsNowRemastered.mp3 Same recording as the mono version but remixed, and in stereo. Podcasts Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:01:00 -0000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu9jC1vfFRIr http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/LushBreeze.mp3 From 19 years ago, a B-side of the 'Sweetness and Light' EP (which got to number 47 in the UK charts) and which I probably purchased from Our Price Records. Lush always made good use of Rickenbackers as rhythm guitars. Also I think the chords in this are great, moving around in an instinctive way and the bass does something interesting and strange in the chorus, quite Brian Wilson-ish if you ask me, which you didn't, but there we are. Lush = the Beach Boys of Camden in the 90s. Podcasts Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:05:36 -0000 http://www.youtube.com/user/danielearwicker http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/TheQueenIsDead1.mp3 A couple of minutes of the title track. Podcasts Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:01:00 -0000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeVPJecUxBM http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/03_Whos_Controlling_the_World.mp3 Really rather good third track from the emerging 2009 album called 'Letters To Cyril Connolly'. Podcasts Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:40:00 -0000 http://www.primroseleague.co.uk http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/02_A_Better_Personality.mp3 Groovy second track from the emerging 2009 album called 'Letters To Cyril Connolly'. Podcasts Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:56:00 -0000 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hKAVYBA4mJQ http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/Edward_Corcoran.mp3 On the mandolin and 12 string acoustic. I wasn't sure what chords to play so I chose some that sounded nice. Podcasts Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:06:00 -0000 http://www.primroseleague.co.uk http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/01_We_Do_These_Things.mp3 First recording from what will eventually be an album called 'Letters To Cyril Connolly'. Podcasts Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:05:00 -0000 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LO7APbGFBzE http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/WishYouWereHere.mp3 Warning: may contain traces of banjo. Podcasts Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:10:00 -0000 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GGWn0gPnI28 http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/WontBeWrong.mp3 Podcasts Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:10:00 -0000 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LO7APbGFBzE http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/youjusthavent.mp3 New Smiths instrumental cover. I fixed the intro since doing the video - can you spot the difference? Podcasts Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:20:00 -0000 http://www.primroseleague.co.uk http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/Stigmata/01_Whitewash.mp3 Stigmata Playing Up Again Podcasts Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:01:00 -0000 http://www.primroseleague.co.uk http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/Stigmata/02_Disaster.mp3 Stigmata Playing Up Again Podcasts Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:02:00 -0000 http://www.primroseleague.co.uk http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/Stigmata/03_Hammer.mp3 Stigmata Playing Up Again Podcasts Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:03:00 -0000 http://www.primroseleague.co.uk http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/Stigmata/04_A_Kind_Of_Therapy.mp3 Stigmata Playing Up Again Podcasts Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:04:00 -0000 http://www.primroseleague.co.uk http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/Stigmata/05_Long_Way_Down.mp3 Stigmata Playing Up Again Podcasts Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:05:00 -0000 http://www.primroseleague.co.uk http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/Stigmata/06_The_World_Is_Waiting_For_Your_Invention.mp3 Stigmata Playing Up Again Podcasts Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:06:00 -0000 http://www.primroseleague.co.uk http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/Stigmata/07_Hypochondria.mp3 Stigmata Playing Up Again Podcasts Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:07:00 -0000 http://www.primroseleague.co.uk http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/Stigmata/08_Wedding_Of_The_Future.mp3 Stigmata Playing Up Again Podcasts Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:08:00 -0000 http://www.primroseleague.co.uk http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/Stigmata/09_Twenty_Easy_Payments.mp3 Stigmata Playing Up Again Podcasts Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:09:00 -0000 http://www.primroseleague.co.uk http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/Stigmata/10_Guerrilla_Warfare.mp3 Stigmata Playing Up Again Podcasts Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:10:00 -0000 http://www.primroseleague.co.uk http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/Stigmata/11_Whats_It_Like_To_Always_Be_Wrong.mp3 Stigmata Playing Up Again Podcasts Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:11:00 -0000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjbbc1qmZiQ http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/FeelFlows.mp3 This is a very different mix to what is on the soundtrack of the video. The guitars build up gradually during the instrumental section, and are quiet in the verses. What you hear in the video is just taken directly from the Roland VS2480CD, and I wasn't touching the faders, so it isn't really how I wanted it to sound. Also the stereo makes a lot of difference. Podcasts Wed, 30 Dec 2007 14:18:00 -0000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrsQ74P91gM http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/HandsomeDevil.mp3 Not in the same key as the 'Hatful...' session version - a tone lower, like some live versions. there are actually four guitar tracks all playing the same thing to beef it up, two on the Ric (as seen in the video) and two on the Tele custom '72 Podcasts Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:51:00 -0000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vnTHeoweo0 http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/stopme.mp3 I've always really liked the sound of this record. And why use one guitar when you can use five? It certainly helps to flesh out the sound. This is simple to play so it's more of an enjoyable production exercise, like How Soon Is Now. Podcasts Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:51:00 -0000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v59GjMvUY-I http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/Shirley.mp3 The lead guitar on the record sounds like it's played on electric (probably telecaster) and accoustic guitars, but the credits say Marr only did "electric guitar". So did Billy Bragg play the accoustic track? It seems about ten times as complicated as the stuff he normally plays and is very much in Johnny's style. Anyway, it's quite hard to hear but I've played what I imagine it to be and made it more prominent in the mix. Podcasts Sat, 08 July 2007 17:00:00 -0000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v59GjMvUY-I http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/Barbarism2.mp3 Capo on the 2nd fret on the bass, because it's much easier to hit the low F# smoothly. And same on the guitar - Marr appears to tune his guitar up a tone instead, which must make the strings more tense so they slice your fingers up. Sod that. Podcasts Sat, 06 May 2007 15:28:00 -0000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_GuP9H2dRI http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/HowSoonIsNow.mp3 Introducing the Rickenbacker 660/12. Podcasts Sat, 19 May 2007 15:28:00 -0000 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aBrWN3mSOJk http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/LuciferSam.mp3 A Syd Barrett song from 1967's 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'. Podcasts Sat, 23 May 2007 15:28:00 -0000 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0FtKxmynpy4 http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/NowhereFast.mp3 This was a lot of fun to work out and a lot of fun to play, which is why I couldn't resist doing the whole song (it's pretty short anyway), and I hope it's fun to sing along too, it's a bloody great song. Probably my favourite of these Smiths things I've done so far! So thanks for the suggestion, those people who suggested it. EVERY SENSIBLE CHILD WILL KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS. Podcasts Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:00:00 -0000 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eB8ZwFhqxco http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/PaintAVulgarPicture.mp3 You can see three different guitar parts being recorded here: rhythm, bass and lead. It took a long time for this song to grow on me. It seemed quite a boring, overly long song about the hard life of a pop star. But it has two things going for it: 1. the way it winds back and forth between the keys of D and B (by playing the C/A shapes with capo on 2nd fret). 2. the solo is one of the few guitar solos I enjoy - a carefully phrased melody with no disgusting unnecessary jazz twiddling. Lean and economical. On a par with 'Stairway to Heaven' and Hendrix's 'All Along the Watchtower'. And, er... Eddie Van Halen in Michael Jackson's 'Beat It'. (That last one was a joke.) Podcasts Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:00:00 -0000 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4dr8Iy3_zZ0 http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/ThereIsALight.mp3 Playing all these parts, building them up layer by layer, has made me appreciate this song properly for the first time. It's wonderful how the music stands on its own (no slight to Moz - his contribution to the track was among his best). Podcasts Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:00:00 -0000 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MnzUvcT2Yd4 http://www.primroseleague.co.uk/music/WonderfulWoman.mp3 The 12-inch b-side of This Charming Man, and also appeared in a Radio 1 session that has yet to be commercially released. Sounds better without the vocals (there, I've said it). Video features critically acclaimed trousers. Podcasts Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:00:00 -0000