Holiday Mix #6

Here's a mix I made of some of my very favorite jams

Love, Nedelle

1. Nina Simone "Please Read Me"
2. The Bee Gees "Please Read Me"
3. Biff Rose "Shell of a Man"
4. The Nu-Sounds "I Fall Asleep Counting My Blessings"
5. Billie Holiday "I Get Along Without You Very Well"
6. Art Tatum "Over the Rainbow"
7. Prince and the Revolution "Teacher, Teacher"
8. Denise Darlington "War No Right"
9. Shirley Ellis "The Clapping Song"
10. The Acoustix "River of No Return"
11. Judy Garland (Untitled)
12. Bobby McFerrin "Blackbird"
13. Abida Parveen "Ho Jamaalo"
14. Dion and the Belmonts "Where or When"
15. Stevie Wonder "Never Had a Dream Come True"

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photo grab bag '09

'carpool ghoul'
(*this person in the back seat is not real!)

It's All For L-O-V-E

Corey is our space efficiency expert

funraces

on a day off we went to the movies

it was a slow night

Skate or Die of Cleveland Desolation (Crew)

read this ridiculous "interview"

Nov. dates with Fiery Furnaces and Dent May

hi everybody
this'll probably be the last tour for a little while...
but we wanted to let you about some shows we just added -
hope to see you at one of em!

11-04 - Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's
11-05 - Northampton, MA - Pearl Street
11-06 - Troy, NY - Revolution Hall
11-07 - Toronto, ON - El Mocambo
11-10 - Toledo, OH - Frankie's Inner City
11-11 - Ferndale, MI - The Magic Bag
11-12 - Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall
11-13 - Madison, WI - Majestic Theatre
11-14 - St Paul, MN - The Turf Club
11-17 - Vancouver, BC - The Red Room
11-18 - Seattle, WA - Chop Suey
11-20 - San Francisco, CA - Slim's
11-21 - Los Angeles, CA - The El Rey

(all shows w/ Fiery Furnaces + Dent May)

oh, and also - we added an Orlando show in Oct :

10-10 - Winter Park, FL - Rollins College

mix #5

here's a brand new mix for you all -
hope you can dig it!

and by the way, if you live in Orlando FL come to Rollins College on the 10th - and we might even play another one somewhere on the 8th...

Francis Bebey
Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo de Cotonou
Cortijo and his Combo
Ngone Ndiaye
Etoile de Dakar
John Baker
Duke Ellington/Charles Mingus/Max Roach
Ellie Greenwich
Capt. Beefheart
Negash Tekie
Pinchos Jassinowsky
The Residents
Robo Arigo
Ornette Coleman
Alvarius B
Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy
Abdel Halim Hafez
Glenn Gould (Bach "Goldberg Variations")
Renata Tibaldi (from Verdi's "Falstaff")
Miriam Makeba
John Schneider (Lou Harrison guitar music)
The Robert Corbert Orchestra plays the theme to "Dark Shadows"

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Ban for Birmingham buskers who only knew Wonderwall and Faith

Aug. 20, 2009 - A ‘busking duo from hell’ who turned Moseley into anything but an oasis with their renditions of just two songs have been turfed out of the area.

Guitar-strumming James Ryan and pal Andrew Stevens, who would bash dustbin lids and street furniture with drumsticks, only knew two hits - Wonderwall by Oasis and George Michael’s Faith.

But the plug has now been pulled on their impromptu gigs after fed-up residents, plagued by their late night begging antics, said it turned Moseley village into a nightmare of loud noise and fighting.

Now 40-year-old Ryan, from Dollery Drive, Edgbaston, and Stevens, also known as Andrew Cave, 39, of no fixed address, have been banned from entering parts of Moseley and playing musical instruments in public in the area.

The pair were also banned from begging anywhere in England and Wales.

They were warned they faced jail if they breached the two-year anti-social behaviour orders handed down yesterday by District Judge Qureshi at Birmingham Magistrates Court.

After the hearing, Ryan said: “The whole thing’s about playing a guitar, it’s a joke. Most people loved it.”

Birmingham City Council said the pair stood outside various pubs in Moseley singing and begging, often playing from early evening into the early hours.

The pair also waited outside taxi ranks and cashpoints along St Mary’s Row demanding money.

Revellers often joined in with them at pub closing time. As well as the excessive noise nuisance fights would often break out between groups heading home, the council said.