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Shack – Pull Together DOWNLOAD HERE

Backstage…

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Set List
2nd November 2007
Glasgow Academy

‘This is Music’
‘Sonnet’
‘All In The Mind’
‘Weeping Willow’
‘Life’s An Ocean’
‘Space And Time’
‘Sit And Wonder’ (New Song)
‘Velvet Morning’
‘Already There’
‘Let The Damage Begin’
‘A Northern Soul’
‘The Drugs Don’t Work’
‘The Rolling People’
‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’
‘Man Called Sun’
‘Lucky Man’
‘Come On’

(Intro… Holy Are You, then…) This Is Music

This Is Music

Sit And Wonder

Bittersweet Symphony

All In The Mind

Sit And Wonder (sound’s not as good)

Already There

Let The Damage Begin (sound is appalling)

Life’s An Ocean

Bittersweet Symphony

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SHACK: ‘TIME MACHINE’ – The best of.

Time Machine the best of Shack is out now on Sour Mash/Big Brother Recordings. The album contains songs from the albums Waterpistol, HMS Fable, Here’s Tom With The Weather and The Corner Of Miles And Gil (although nothing from The Magical World Of The Strands), plus two brand new tracks – .

Track listing:
1. I Know You Well
2. Comedy
3. Cup Of Tea
4. Al’s Vacation
5. Pull Together
6. Meant To Be
7. Butterfly
8. Sgt Major
9. On The Terrace
10. Undecided
11. Cornish Town
12. Miles Apart
13. Streets Of Kenny
14. Shelley Brown
15. Neighbours
16. Holiday Abroad
17. Wanda

To get you in the mood here’s a collection of some of the best YouTube footage of the band, ranging from official promo videos to tracks recorded by fans at gigs.

Shack – A House Is Not A Motel

Shack – Wanda

Shack – Something Like You

Shack – Miles Apart

Shack – I Know You Well

Shack – Butterfly

SHACK – Streets Of Kenny

Shack – Comedy

Shack-Cup Of Tea

Shack – Comedy

Shack – The Casa – Liverpool 2006

SHACK AT RADIO MERSEYSIDE 2007

Shack -als vacation

Shack – Oscar

Shack – Electronic Press Kit 2007 (Part 1)

Shack – Electronic Press Kit 2007 (Part 2)

SHACK: ‘TIME MACHINE’ – The best of.

September 24th (Sour Mash/Big Brother Recordings) On 24th September 2007 Shack release ‘Time Machine’: a collection of their greatest songs. The album contains songs from their five acclaimed releases, as well as two brand new tracks. Track listing:

* I Know You Well
* Comedy
* Cup Of Tea
* Al’s Vacation
* Pull Together
* Meant To Be
* Butterfly
* Sgt. Major
* On the Terrace
* Undecided
* Cornish Town
* Miles Apart
* Streets of Kenny
* Shelley Brown
* Neighbours

* plus brand new tracks ‘Holiday Abroad’ and ‘Wanda’.

A live tour will accompany the release of ‘Time Machine’ with dates to be announced.

packshot of time machine album

‘Time Machine’ is an appropriate name for a ‘best of’ Shack: for a band whose music is time-less, grounded in nothing but a purity of spirit and melody. Since Shack formed in 1988 they have charmed bleary-eyed romantics, inspired critical praise at every turn and enthused a generation of contemporary heroes – Oasis, The Coral and The Zutons amongst them. Noel Gallagher loved them so much he now releases their records. Shack have always captured the sound of “truth and beauty”.

Shack’s tenure as auteurs of ‘truth and beauty’ has literally careered – often from one seeming disaster to fortuitous event and all points in between. Formed out of the remnants of 80s should-have-beens The Pale Fountains, the Scouse brothers Mick and John Head set out on a saga of near-biblical proportions infused with the spirit of melody and mysticism captured by fellow star sailors Love, Nick Drake, Tim Buckley, Sly & The Family Stone, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Harry Nilsson and The Beatles. Shack albums are equal parts psychedelia, honesty, storytelling, love lost, love found and light and shade. So it was that the master tapes for their embarrassingly staggering ‘Waterpistol’ album were lost, the record label went bust and the studio burnt down; but the world evidently needed this record and eventually this masterpiece of understatement came out in 1994. Waterpistol lends ‘Neighbours’, ‘Sgt Major’ and ‘Undecided’ to ‘Time Machine’.

A leisurely seven years later (during which time the band became the backing band for the late Arthur Lee’s Love for a while – true hero worship and kindred spirits joining forces) Shack re-emerged as The Strands. and introduced a small but feverish group of Head-heads to ‘their The Magical World.’ A veritable blink of an eye in Shack-time passed before ‘HMS Fable’ docked – an almost-mainstream vision of life from the narcotic fringes of what Mick calls “states of consciousness”. ‘Pull Together’, ‘Comedy’, ‘Streets Of Kenny’ and ‘Cornish Town’ are taken from ‘HMS Fable’

Two more memorable albums have followed: ‘Here’s Tom With the Weather’ (2003) and ‘.The Corner of Miles and Gil’ (2006). These additions to Shack’s peerless collection are full of funny and forlorn tales of love, friendship and the spectrum of human experience; Mick a life-long storytelling natural who grew up, as did John, on the hard-knock housing estate of Kensington (‘Kenny’) in Liverpool, with his head both lost in the clouds and buried among the pages of Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Wordsworth.

All the while, Shack have been making some of the most beautiful music ever created by soul men gifted in melody. Almost 20 years since their immaculate conception, Shack are still here, still intact and still in love with truth and beauty.

“The journey we’ve had together has been beautifully turbulent,” laughed John in 2003. “But there’s times when we glide and we’re gliding forward now.” His brother, typically understated, summed up the Shack experience. “The story is what it is. But so are the songs and so are the records. Because?we’re good.”

Better than good: With Shack’s ‘Time Machine’ you can discover for yourself.

OASIS – Lord Don’t Slow Me Down

I’m tired and I’m sick
Got a habit that I just can’t kick
Feel hungover and I’m all in love
When the lights go down
I’m gonna shoot ‘em all

Say “Alright”
Don’t be afraid
You gotta keep dreaming in the bed you made
And if it tastes like shit
Well it beats sleeping rough on the floor

Keep saying that my head’s locked up in the clouds
Keep praying that the lord won’t slow me down
I’m tired and I’m sick
Got a habit that I can’t, won’t lick
Feel hungover and I’m all in love
Let the lights go down
Me and you are gonna shoot them all

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Butterfly live from 2006

And a bonus (if you crank up the volume), Oscar live from 2000

Nice one for uploading these.

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When strangers chance upon Lee Mavers in Huyton or in town, they ask, ‘when is the new La’s record is out?’ he normally says something along the lines of, ‘really soon, or watch this space’. This has been going on for the last 17 years or so. Maybe, just maybe, one day he’ll put us out of our misery.

So what would the second La’s album sound like? I Am The Key and Was It Something I Said were destined for the second record and they are up there with the best but they never made it to vinyl or CD.

If you collect The La’s you’ll already have these two tracks from radio broadcasts…

The La’s – I Am The Key. DOWNLOAD

The La’s – Was It Something I Said. DOWNLOAD

And from the Kitchen tape…

The La’s – She Came Down In The Morning. DOWNLOAD

Human Race can be heard in our podcast. HERE
Rain Dance is penciled in for the next installment of the podcast.

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This Is Music.
The links to these MP3 files are only live for a short length of time. The idea is to get you into some cool music that maybe you haven’t heard before. You’ll then be armed with the knowledge to make some serious purchases of the artist’s back / future catalogue.

The Manics are not a band that are not likely to feature here too often but today they make more sense than any other.
Manic Street Preachers – South Yorkshire Mass Murderer. DOWNLOAD
Please note the download link has been removed. If you follow the link you’ll see why.

Hillsborough Justice Campaign

Manics

S.Y.M.M.

The subtext of this song I’ve thought about it for so long
But it’s really not the sort of thing that people want to hear us sing
The context of this song well I could go on and on
But it’s still unfashionable to believe in principles

South South Yorkshire – Mass Murderer
How can you sleep at night, sleep at night
South South Yorkshire – Mass Murderer
How can you sleep at night, sleep at night

The reason for this song well it may be a pointless one
But thank you Jimmy McGovern for reminding me of what lives on
The ending for this song well I haven’t really thought of one
There’s nothing I could ever say that could really take the pain away

South South Yorkshire – Mass Murderer
How can you sleep at night, sleep at night
South South Yorkshire – Mass Murderer
How can you sleep at night, sleep at night

Manic Street Preachers
Written by: Bradfield/Jones/Moore

Yes, Edgar from The Stairs, The Isrites and The Big Kids. Yes, he from Ian McCullough, Paul Weller, Saint Etienne and The La’s bass duties. Yes, he’s from Liverpool. Yes, he did release a solo album. Yes, the record company did pay £100 to send it in for nomination for the Mercury Music Prize. Yes, there is a Japanese import of the LP available featuring bonus live cuts such as this… DOWNLOAD
Yes, you should buy it.

Here’s what they said in Japan. LINK