bibbly-o-tek http://bibbly-o-tek.com the Scritti Politti source Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:38:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Scritti Politti now on Social Networks! http://bibbly-o-tek.com/2012/02/04/scritti-politti-now-on-social-networks/ http://bibbly-o-tek.com/2012/02/04/scritti-politti-now-on-social-networks/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:44:18 +0000 John http://bibbly-o-tek.com/?p=1097
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!
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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.

Thanks to Gavin for brining this to our attention!
John
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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!

The promotional material says “The Perfect Way” will be among the tunes played, but I am told this is not the case. March into spring for other gigs at UK venues that have not been announced, but are being worked on.  Summer festivals are also planned. Stay tuned for more info.
 
John
 
Thanks Adam for bringing info on this gig to our attention!

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

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 …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?

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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!

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Live from Three Kings in Clerkenwell. Robyn Hitchcock and friends played the Beatles album Revolver in honour of its 40th birthday.

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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!

]]> http://bibbly-o-tek.com/2011/12/02/1023/feed/ 0 Green Gartside plays two low-key London shows http://bibbly-o-tek.com/2011/10/25/green-gartside-plays-two-low-key-london-shows/ http://bibbly-o-tek.com/2011/10/25/green-gartside-plays-two-low-key-london-shows/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:25:32 +0000 admin http://bibbly-o-tek.com/?p=1011 In the mail:

Thursday 8th December & Friday 9th December
Green Gartside + Friends
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, London E8 3AS
admission £12

To mark the end of the year that saw the release of the Scritti Politti retrospective, “Absolute”, Green will be playing two very low-key shows featuring Scritti Politti material – the first for nearly four years.

On successive nights, Green and friends will be taking over the small back room of a neighbourhood pub for two evenings of live music and DJs. Each night will conclude with an hour-long set by Green, accompanied by members of Scritti Politti and playing a mixture of very new, quite new, quite old and very old material.

Robyn Hitchcock and Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor will play short support sets; Rough Trade’s Geoff Travis will be taking care of DJ duties.

One batch of 50 tickets (per night) will go on sale at midday BST on Tuesday 8th NOVEMBER from the following URLs:

Thursday 8th December show: bit.ly/green-thursday
Friday 9th December show: bit.ly/green-friday

Another batch of 50 will be made available from the same URLs at midday on 29th November. And that’s it! A maximum of four tickets can be bought per person; no tickets will be available on the door on the night.

If you aren’t lucky enough to get hold of a ticket, Green hopes to repeat this event at some point early next year in the run up to the finishing of the next Scritti album.

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The Guardian is running a daily look at pop songs from the past – The Sweetest Girl was chosen on Monday 17 October.

That’s nice. Read Nick’s personal digging in the past →

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