The NME reported yesterday that Domino Recordings are set to release an Orange Juice 7 disc boxset on the 8th of November, possibly due to overwhelming public demand after The Joint played the title track of Edwyn Collins’ new CD “Losing Sleep” last Saturday. Possibly.
Entitled “Coals To Newcastle”, the release will comprise their entire discography plus video footage.
I’m particularly looking forward to the latter because it will include the official promo for “What Presence?!” – which I reckon to be the best Orange Juice single and a piece of video I’ve never seen. Derek Jarman directed to boot.
It’s been an interesting World Cup. My wish at the start of the tournament was for a Spain versus Netherlands final with Spain edging it. That way, either the best team in the world is rewarded for several years of brilliant football OR the Dutch finally complete what they could not finish in 1974 and 1978. Never in my wildest dreams did I think it would happen! Roll on Monday morning.
But my abiding memory of the World Cup 2010 (apart from France, England, and Italy all hilariously choking) is of Paul the Octopus who has been successfully predicting the Germany results – including the semi-final loss to Spain.
It’s not that were weren’t giving the show our full attention last weekend, it’s just that we came across this entirely by accident. It must have been when we were researching something musical about some musician. Or something.
As mentioned on the show on Saturday, when I played “Havanna Sex Dwarf” – a track from the new Booka Shade album “More” – the first thing that popped into my mind like some weird flashback was Flat Eric – the crazy head nodding puppet from the Mr Oizo video for “Flat Beat”. Who knew that a puppet could have so much funk going on?
The Herb Whisperer also reminded me that Flat Eric was the star of Levi’s StaPrest commercials in 1999. Forgot about that.
So here’s your chance to reminisce too, with one of the greatest music videos of all time…
And just to go overboard, here’s the Levi’s adverts…
