Hola, muchachos y muchachas!
Forget my 96-hour mini-break-to-Madrid-and-London details for un momento, massive travel, passport and equipment snafus for our lads, let's jump right in with the burgundy-suited Rapiers y Los Madrilenos locos at Festival Surforama, Club Gruta 77, Madrid, between (yawn!) 2 and 3:30 a.m. Sunday, 27 September 2009.First, behold the awesome rat-a-tat rhythm guitaring from Neil Ainsby, on a borrowed Fender Jaguar no less, bashing out The Snobs' reckless Buckleshoe Stomp. Que maravilloso!
Now don't be L7, come and learn to dance like they do in Madrid when Wooly Bully rears its head and shredmeister Colin Pryce-Jones transposes Sam the Sham sax solos for Stratocaster.
For Merseybeat's sake, they've got some Hippy, Hippy Shake, Rock and Roll Music and Money:
Nathan J. Hulse sings a lead on I'm a Hog for You Baby:
Full vocal throttle, Neil channels John Lennon on Do You Love Me:More fast rhythm guitar down to New Orleans:
For a mini-"Best of British" section, out comes Saturday Night at the Duckpond and the oh-so-rarely heard Baby Sittin', recorded for the Straight to the Point LP.
Great stuff Greg. Approve of your colour tag "burgundy". When I initially heard they were red, I thought ... Think they look classy when you see them.
Posted by: Ralph Gowling | 30 September 2009 at 05:23 PM
The new togs have a burgundy-black sheen, a glorious colour combo in my book, since I was a kid-o! Still, Colin wasn't entirely happy with the lapels, slightly off from spec, but that's perfectionism for you.
Posted by: Greg O. | 30 September 2009 at 08:41 PM
Ha, yes, Colin was bemoaning the lapel situation on these new suits when I saw them in Fleetwood a month or so ago. Bet they look fab, very Young Ones, in the 'cloth' as it were. Great clips Greg. Just like a Beatle Week gig by the looks of it! Fab stuff.
Posted by: Tony Shaker | 01 October 2009 at 07:03 AM