Couldn't help myself... just one more. I saw Holly Golightly at The Social, or was it the Rescue Rooms, a few years ago. She did well to step out from under Billy Childish's shadow and shed her own light on the scene. The YouTube clip above is a bit raw - if you wanna hear a regular recording try this instead... Enjoy!
I was listening to a radio station on LastFM and glanced over at the Mac when a 'cave man' voice caught my attention. The Music Machine's Sean Bonniwell.
Along with the likes of Jim Sohns, Sky Saxon, Roky Erickson and perhaps less obviously the likes of Don Glen Vliet and Dick Dodd, Bonniwell's voice really epitomises the sound of 60s Punk, Garage and Psychedelia...
I got into this stuff after meeting friends with a similar taste for old fashioned Blues and Rock'n'Roll. Sharing music on 'tape' we all got into the diversity of sounds. One or two people even formed their own bands sometimes playing renditions of the old songs. 9 Men was my friend Dave's band in Chesterfield (Art foundation years) and the Grizzeldas was Liam's band in London (Sculpture degree years).
Of course, plenty of new music has come along since, but I still like to listen to the old stuff too.
If you want a taste of the caveman, look out for compilation albums like 'Highs In The Mid Sixties' and the 'Pebbles' albums. In the meantime take a look at YouTube.
"Another year, another Mayfly hatch." Easy or no, it's not an occasion to miss!
Action plan: Start by warming up with a few easy fish and then target something more challenging; you know, like the fish rising under the tree on the far bank, or even the impossible and monster fish rising in the back eddy beyond the midstream torrent.
Well, that's how my fishing buddy Simon and I set about it again this year - we had a ball! Settling for more southern streams and in particular the Wandle, where only nesh trout are to be found, friend and colleague, Theo, couldn't make it again - better luck next year mate!
An evening produced countless fish, with several large ones amongst them. Only a few stocked fish showed their [relatively] ugly faces.
Successful flies included the Grey Wulff and the French Partridge Mayfly. Most successful of all however, like in every year we've fished the Mayfly hatch, was the Mayfly Emerger pattern, illustrated above. A version with a fine cream SLF thorax caught the very biggest trout, while the hares ear thorax tying gave very good account of itself.
(You can get the recipe at FFR »)
