Joss Hutton from Bath, UK, is a (very) occasional I-94 Bar contrib, part-time DJ and supposed guitarist in The Stripchords (if and when).
Top Ten occurrences (good & bad) of 2010 (in no particular order)
1) Parting Gifts “Strychnine Dandelion” (In The Red)
A one shot 45 sesh that turned into a mutha of a swoonsome albium, this hook-up betwixt Greg Cartwright and Coco Hames delivers on every possible level.
2) Reigning Sound “Love & Curses” (In The Red) & live in Memphis, 27 March
Simply one of the finest gigs I’ve ever seen — that man Cartwright (again) and his eminent cohorts fired exceptional tuneage like a musical splat gun one rainy nite in Memphis. Serious wampum, kids. And the Sivad-referencing album they were pushing is lightning (and heartache) in a bottle.
3) Jack O & The Tennessee Tearjerkers live in Memphis, 27 March
The second half of that ‘ticularly rare and appreciated 101% live entertainment opportunity was a late set at another great Midtown venue by Greg’s on-off-on musical pard, the equally gifted Jack O. He be rock’n'roll, incarnate.
4) Sivads of March & “Cigarette Girl”
Bear with me, we’ll leave Memphis soon, but first I wanna sing the praises of Mike McCarthy, whose four-day wingding in celebration of Bluff City’s TV horror host with the most, Sivad, was a hoot’n'holler from start to hangover. Not content with forcing the Bluff City to grokk the weird genius of the late’n’ great Watson Davis, the man known as JMM also spent 2010 promoting his amazing new flick, “Cigarette Girl”. We joined him at Edinburgh Film Festival for a sold-out screening in the main auditorium, alongside spiritual bro Lindsay Hutton. Fantastic scenes, as ver kids may once have said…
5) Book corner: “Outsiders by Insiders” Jerome Blanes (Misty Lane) & “Forever Changes” John Einarson (Jawbone Press)
Mr Blanes’ tome concerning Holland’s greatest-ever biet combo got a loving Engerlish translation and expansion courtesy of the one, the only Lenny Helsing. Simply incredible! As is Mr Einarson’s Arthurly volume, not least for the inclusion of the Memphis-born (oops, sorry) musical genius’s unfinished autobio.
6) Stooges & Suicide live in London, 2nd May
Blimus!
7) “New York, New York…”
Dunno why it took me so long to get to the Big Apple, given that I’ve been obsessing about it for a quarter century — props to my better half for insisting that we finally go. Two local mensches, The Hound and Nick D (American Death Ray), proved excellent ambassadors. Ever’ting was pretty much as I’d allus imagined and I’m still digesting the pastrami sandwich I ate at the Carnegie Deli. *burp* Must return and blow the froth off a few at Manitoba’s…
Boardwalk Empire
Started off weirdly non-engrossing, with a Scorsese-directed opener, but developed into something pretty darn snat. Serious props to Steve Buscemi, Kelly Macdonald and Stephen Graham fer the superior make-believing, like.
9) B-Side the A-Side
Our DJ nite down the local pub continues to draw a weird and wonderful collection of locals and guests from further afield, and keeps the old musical cogs turning. Plus we get paid in beer!
10) The This Sucks Dept.
Deaths (Reg King, Mark Linkous, LX Chilton, my mate Rob Evans, and more, sadly…); the living dead (Thatcher, the LibCons); our jukebox (couldn’t get anyone to fix it, so we had to say bye-byes); Morris Minor repairs (£1,500, mostly welding); war; pestilence, etc…
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