Sinking Ships Live Videos
Posted: November 5, 2011 Filed under: Video 1 Comment »I’d been meaning to make some decent live videos of The Sinking Ships for sometime. A bit of a sticking point was where to do it. After considering halls, factories, fields and the like, I finally realised that my lounge at home was actually a decent place. So, a couple of weeks ago we emptied everything out and set ourselves up. Then Urs Rusterholz and Raphaelle Gisi came round and filmed us playing a couple of tunes. Here are the results:
Our next task is to make one of these story video thingmyjigs. We’ll see…
TO DO: records, videos, books….
Posted: April 25, 2011 Filed under: blether Leave a comment »I’m planning to get a few things done this year. Hopefully not over ambitious.
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Gordon Bell & The Sinking Ships
1. First up I’m hoping to finish a short album with the Sinking Ships. At a later date this might become a longer album, but hey… small steps.
2. Sometime in the midst of that we’ll do a video. I actually got my camera to do just that, but thus far have wound up fliming other bands and taking photos of plants and household pets…, so… we better do a wee video.
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Gordon Bell
3. As always there are new songs. I’ll release an album sometime this year. It will be called, “Tapeworms”.
4. I have been listening to old plasticpsychobabble recordings from ten years ago. This is basically me pre Gustav Bertha. I actually quite like a lot of it. So, I’ve decided I’ll remaster a selection and release a record. I’ll put it out under my own name and call it plasticpsychobabble.
5. I’m slowly writing up all my lyrics from about 1999 until now. I plan to do a book of them and mix it up with some suitable photos. I doubt anyone will be remotely interested, but what the heck, I’ll do it for prosperity. That and it keeps me off the streets, eh?
OK, there you go. My To Do list… I’ll see how well I did by Jan 2012.
Flyers…
Posted: March 12, 2011 Filed under: blether Leave a comment »I was on here a while ago moaning about flyers that bars and venues do for bands. Anyway, I ought to congratulate the flip side. Big kudos to Kafi Für Dich for doing us a couple of lovely flyers. I show one of them here. Definitely two of my favourites so far! Thanks, and thanks too for letting us play your lovely place too. 
Spring Feeling
Posted: February 12, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »Was sitting eating a kebab down by the Rhine this afternoon. The sun was in our faces and we needed your sunglasses on. Cycling back I saw the temperature was 14 degrees. Winter will of course be back, but nice to get a taste of Spring. I must be getting old if I start posting about the weather. Bugger.
62. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Posted: December 16, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »If you like the show you can subscribe through:
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Slightly late but bang on schedule, of course there is no schedule. It’s nearly Christmas and Gordon was playing at a Christmas market with the Sinking Ships. He especially enjoyed being told they should be playing more Christmas music. Tunes galore in this big bumper edition and news of a free EP in the return of the Big Cheese. Ah nostalgia. Tracklisting is
The Shrugs – Half Fish Half Man,
The Second Academy – Bohemian Grove,
Artemis – Seven,
Dr Mic and the Brain Ninjas – Sun in the Sky,
Dan O – 7 Skies,
Dustin Edge – Weights and Measures,
Simplified – All Along the Way,
Guillermo Sohrya – Missing,
Alexandre Falcao – Far Landscapes
Way Past Bedtime 60. Bring me your sound
Posted: September 10, 2010 Filed under: Podcast Episode | Tags: Alan McClure, alex harvey, alternative, artistlaunch, cabaret, culture, Edith Piaf, Glasgow, Gordon Bell, Gustav Bertha, indie, Kol Simcha, music, Phil Brown, pop, Richard Kapp, Scotland, Scottish, Shank Godley Butcher, Swiss, Switzerland, The Geese, underground 1 Comment »
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Mister Bell got back from a British Minitour so he warbles on about that and then shares the dates of his Swiss mini tour this month. He just goes on and on without saying anything interesting at all. Thankfully there is good music to stop you drifting off into a stupour or unsubscribing completely. But only if you send it to us.
Alex Harvey – Nervous, The Geese – Tinder, Phil Brown – You’ve got me floating (live), Richard Kapp and the Gowns – Pieces, Shank Godley Butcher – Noone Wins, Kol Simcha – Freilach, Edith Piaf – Le vieux piano
The Lost Art of Penance
Posted: August 2, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized 2 Comments »For those of you that missed the free album download, do not despair, you can now buy The Lost Art of Penance from iTunes or CD Baby!
Dulcitone
Posted: July 19, 2010 Filed under: Music Leave a comment »I have just bought a Dulcitone. I’m hoping this is the end of long search for my perfect busking instrument. I’ve already bought and half learnt the accordion. I can *kind of* play it, but the leap to really master it is one I just don’t quite have the energy to make. Basically I’ve been looking for something portable that can be played like a piano and needs no electricity or amplification. I’ve already become obsessed with dulcimers and cymbalons through this journey which has had me seriously considering a trip to Hungary or Poland. So, enter the Dulcitone which I discovered accidentally while looking up harmoniums. There are some wierd karmic things going on here I swear it. It turns out the dulcitone was made in Glasgow by a fellow called Thomas Machell in the late 1800s. Glasgow is of course where I was born and I really do have a thing about objects from around this time. The instrument is not in perfect condition by a long way. I’ll see exactly how much when it arrives. I’ve probably paid over the odds for it and even more as it needs shipped from California to Switzerland plus whatever restoration work it’s going to require but somehow the idea of having this has overwhelmed me. I’m going to document this pretty fully over on whereisgordypops.wordpress.com with videos and photos. If you read that blog regularly, you have been warned.
59th Way Past Bedtime Podcast
Posted: June 26, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Edith Piaf, Gordon Bell, Richard Kapp, Sandra Rayne, The Clowns, The Round Square Leave a comment »59. The Lost Art of Penance(play)
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Gordon spins a couple of tracks from his new album aswell as deluging you with the very finest tunes in podlandia. Gordon Bell – Voodoo Doll, Richard Kapp and the Gowns – It’s Too Loud, The Round Square – Stop Freaking Me OUt, Sandra Rayne – Better Next Year, Edith Piaf – Mon Dieux, The Clowns – Generation D, Gordon Bell – Galileo
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The Lost of Art of Penance
Posted: June 21, 2010 Filed under: Release Leave a comment »
Finally it’s out. And you can grab it for a limited time for FREE here:-
This link will die when the album hits iTunes.
Special thanks to Grant and Gigi for their contributions. And a few others, you know who you are… although some of you don’t but that’s OK too. It’s Scottish Lounge Chanson at it’s finest and I used everything except the Kazoo this time.
Enjoy!
