From the Applecart Festival 2012 Website: Whether or not Scritti Politti’s Green Gartside is the brainiest man in pop music (The Guardian, Feb 2011) is a question that can wait for another day. One thing that is definitely unarguable is that his band’s back catalogue is utterly flawless – an audacious stroll from post-punk to perfect pop, block party hip hop to astrally projected soul music.From the early single on Rough Trade (the label he remains on to this day) ‘The Sweetest Girl’ through his purple patch in the mid 80s which saw ‘Wood Beez’, ‘Absolute’ and The Word Girl’ go top ten through working with Miles Davis on ‘Oh Patti’ to his Mercury nominated White Bread, Black beer in 2006. Thirty years on from his epochal debut, Gartside is playing The Apple Cart. Expect a fair few songs to remember.

Ticket information, a nice map and other info can be found here.

John

Scritti Politti will play live at 2 venues coming up!

First they plan to play live at the Lexington on March 13th. This was planned and tickets were offered via “The Word Magazine” (seams appropriate n’est pas?) The link to We Got Tickets says it is sold out. Perhaps a look into the secondary market is worth a look for would-be concert goers. Thanks to Bibbly-o-tek visitor DD for bringing this to our attention!

Also Rhodri tweeted recently that they will be performing live at Bush Hall on April 25th. This show sold out very quickly so a second date has been added.  You can catch them a day earlier, on the 24th!  At the time I posted this article, tickets were still available for the 24th here.

An interesting tidbit: (from the Bush Hall website) Scritti Politti have since slimmed down to a 4-piece, with Green playing alongside Dicky Moore, Rhodri Marsden and Rob Smoughton. The show will feature songs from both the past and the present; it marks a proper return to live work for the band, with a handful of festival appearances scheduled over the summer.

Note: Rob Smoughton was the drummer from Hot Chip during their 2010 tour.

John

Due to reasons beyond the control of the British Music Experience, the promoter and Roland Gift, this event has been cancelled. Ticketmaster will automatically refund all tickets booked for this event to the credit/debit card used to book.

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John

Scritti Politti joined the social network FaceBook and Twitter today in an effort to promote band related news and information regarding upcoming UK music festivals that they plan to participate in moving forward. The FaceBook page can be found here and the Twitter feed can be found here.  Thanks Rhodri Marsden for posting this on Scritti Politti Share the Love’s FaceBook page.  To date this has been the most active FaceBook page devoted to Scritti Politti. Rhodri Marsden is Scritti’s current keyboard player and one of the original “Traitorous Three” (which were really five) back in 2006.  Bibbly-o-tek.com welcomes this development as fans will be able to get Scritti related news faster than ever. Congratulations on having an official presence on these social networks!

Scritti Politti is scheduled to play live the 2012 Green Man Festival this August in Wales. Click here for a link for more information.   For tickets click here.  Click this link for a  really cool time lapse video from Green Man 2011.

This show has been CANCELLED!

Click the pic above for a full-sized version of the poster.

The Co-operative’s British Music Experience live show on February 25th, 2012 at the 02 in North Greenwich London will feature Roland Gift from Fine Young Cannibals.  Special guests include Jack Hues from Wang Chung and Green Gartisde (along with Rhodri).

Click here for more information and tickets!

(Music fans find Scritti Politti on YouTube and FaceBook – Scriiti Politti Fans visit Bibbly-o-tek.com)

 …a dog’s a dog and a cat’s a cat….

As far as I know, this was the worldwide debut of this song…

Click here to watch the video.

Thanks for helping us with the song title, Rhodri!

John

PS- The graphic I found online is a dog and a cat with a green background. Seamed fitting. Too cutesy?

Watch the videos and write your own review below!

Here are videos for Absolute, and a new song called Overcoats, plus Forgiven from Rough Trade Summertime Blues CD in 2007 and Day Late and Dollar Short from the recent Absolute Best of Scritti Politti compilation Green published with David Gamson. Click the full screen button for a bigger view.

(Shamless plug: Don’t leave Bibbly-o-tek.com a Day Late and a Dollar Short, click the donate button up and to the right! We are not trying to get rich, just could use a little help. You know there is no better place for your favorite Scritti content! Help us pay for this site and keep it going!)

Thanks to an Anonymous Bibbly-o-tek.com regular reader for the videos!

John

UPDATED (Dec 10): The new song is called “Overcoats” -Thanks Rhodri!

Thanks to Bibbly-o-tek.com reader Jonathan, we have a video of Green singing “Free Ride” at the Nick Drake Tribute show.

Green Gartside Free Ride Nick Drake tribute Sydney Opera

Thanks again, Jonathan!

Here are 2 interviews recently unearthed from the Cupid and Psyche era.

Listen to an audio clip from an American radio station can heard here.

Thanks Justin Bindley for creating an MP3 from an old cassette and sending it on!

Watch a series of interviews and clips from MTV (from the 80′s when they played music!) that I found in my video archive that never made it to this site from my old Scritti Cola site. (It is still refreshing as ever!)

John