Daniel Johnston & Friends - Glasgow - 23/07/08

The Duck is back! I've not posted for quacking ages for many reasons but mostly because I got obsessed with fixies and spent a month solid watching the MASH trailer and researching bar tape and shit. I built my bike up over Christmas and throughout January I've been all depressed and at a loose end so didn't bother posting here.

This blog has been going for just over a year now, 30,000 unique users (according to my stat counter) visited in 2008 which is pretty bloody amazing, just goes to prove that I'm the best :-p To celebrate this I'm staging a bit of a competition...

A photo I shot of Daniel Johnston backstage in Manchester back in 2007 has been used on the sleeve of a vinyl issue of his Lost and Found album put out by COPPERTREE RECORDS which in their own words is "...a lavish double album with a double-weight embossed sleeve, full colour inner lyric sleeves and virgin vinyl for the 180g pressings." In my words "it's fucking lovely!" check it out in all it's photobooth glory...

To be in with the chance of winning a copy of the record all you've got to do is download this A4 BOXING DUCK and get arty farty with it. I don't care whether you colour it in with pens, crayons, pencils, Photoshop, MS Paint or glue and glitter just make sure you make it special. Feel free to draw on your own characters, stick on cuttings, add speech bubbles etc. When you have finished post it to:

Boxing Duck

C/O Exist Outlet,

214 Oxford Street

Swansea

SA1 3BG

Wales

UK

Or if you are going the digital route email it to boxingduck@me.com

I will scan and upload every entry and my favourite one will get the vinyl in the post, the deadline is in a 2 months from today so make sure I get your entry by the 7th april 2009!!!

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Now for the download, Daniel toured with a bunch of 'friends' last year under the catchy title of "An Evening with Daniel Johnston and friends" which I would have loved to have attended but I was fighting 'The Man' at the time and was proper 'skint' so it was a no go. Luckily the internet is full of presents and I found this great recording of their performance at the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow. Daniel is "... supported and backed by Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse, Scout Niblett, James McNew of Yo La Tengo, Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub and Jad Fair of Half Japanese." The setlist is flipping radical, check it:

Mean Girls Give Pleasure
There Is A Sense Of Humor
Mask
Mountain Top
Speeding Motorcycle
Casper
Hey Joe
Fish
Rain
Go
Story Of An Artist
Rock This Town
Walking The Cow
Love Enchanted
Rock N Roll
Crowd
True Love Will Find You In The End
Devil Town
Most Beautiful Widow

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Parenthetical Girls - Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff - 18.11.08

Parenthetical Girls have a girlie boy man woman guys gals thing going on, know what I'm saying? It's all gender switch lyrics an' shit, which is always good, and in the case of Parenthetical Girls it's bloody good! This gig was in a weenie little venue, the downstairs of Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff.

There were three support bands who I will review...now!
Zissou: Heavy on haircuts and "indie". Nice cover of Nashville Parthenon by CFTPA.
Hail! The Planes: Terrible name, sounded really good during the intro for the first song but the singing spoiled it. Really didn't like the guy singing but when the girl sang it was really good. She should sing all the songs.
Ladybird: Sort of, like, funtime guitar pop. Ok.

There was one headline band who I will review...now!
Parenthetic Girls: Absolutely amazing, possibly the gig of the year and certainly in my top ten of all time. All four members of the band switch instruments between pretty much every song which I usually find a bit wack but in this case I thought it was spiffing. Zac was just great, he was "air twiddling", doing sort of scooty marching both forwards and backwards, rolling around on the floor, climbing on the seats, crawling across the bar, drumming on the walls, doors, steps, speakers, singing from outside the venue, and at one point he was even flat on his back with his head between the legs of the one, the only, the, Boxing Duck!,,,,,,,,,,,,,

(Click the photo to see the rest from the gig...)

Some dude from Los Campesinos! (?) sang the first song and kept giving me the evil's all night, I've never bothered listening to them, the name is a bit to (sic) fun sounding for me, I'm not a big fan of fun. Track, list:

Love Connection
Love Connection Pt. II
Four Words
I Was The Dancer
Avenue Of Trees
Gut Symmetries
The Weight She Fell Under
Stolen Children
This Regrettable End

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IT'S BOYCOTT AND ABUSE TIME!

Tonight the person who runs Wicked Trips and Rising Viper Records in Swansea, South Wales attacked me. He repeatedly punched me in the face and ripped my hoody (by http://www.existclothing.com an awesome Swansea skate shop and clothing brand) over I'm not sure what. It seems he had read my music blog "Boxing Duck!" and seemed to be very upset because I was enjoying music and sharing what I liked, he finds this very offensive and rather upsetting. I would suggest you do not associate yourselves with either http://www.wickedtrips.com/ nor http://risingviper.com/.

If you ever experience something like this in Swansea I urge you to contact http://www.south-wales.police.uk/ who I am sure will help you resolve the issue or just do nothing which is why I didn't contact them, I'm just using their link to benefit my cause, whoop.

I hope you enjoyed this free speech broadcast.

Yours Sincerely
The Boxing Duck!

Disclaimer: Boxing Duck! does not encourage nor endorse abuse but fully supports boycotting :-p

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Live at Kool Haus, Torono, ON - 10.04.06

I've not really got any exciting stories about Yeah Yeah Yeah's really, just that they are a great band and this is a great sounding recording from one of their gigs in 2006.

Seeing as I have nowt to say I have knocked up some killer animated gifs for y'all, hope you like them...

Here is the setlist...

Live at Kool Haus, Torono, ON - 10.04.06

Gold Lion
Honeybear
Black Tongue
Fancy
Phenomena
Mysteries
Cheated Hearts
Dudley
The Sweets
Y Control
Miles Away
Turn Into
Crowd Noise
Maps
Warrior
Tick
Art Star
Modern Romance
Date With the Night

...and here are the download links...

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Enjoy you krazee kidz!

Jonathan Richman - Live at Central Park SummerStage - 29.06.00

Well lookie here, what's this? It can't be? Can it? IT IS! A JONATHAN RICHMAN BOOTLEG FROM 2000!!! All right, bloody hell, calm down isit? Oh ok, I agree it is pretty exciting, and it's also really really great quality in both sound and content :-D

I loooooooove Jojo, I love him so much that I am getting a Jojo tattoo some time soon, I have my Silver Jews and Daniel Johnston tattoos that can be read as either happy or sad depending on whether you are happy or sad but I want a bright Richman one that just says (not literally) "don't be sad, be happy!" cause I need to stop all this 'I'm depressed' business! Yes, I'm depressed but buying black trousers to wear with my 20,000 black band t-shirts is not a good thing, I need some colour in my life. They say "once you go black, you don't go back" but I think it's about time I at least tried to go back, maybe I should go to more bakeries but they don't really cater for vegans. I have discovered that one of the bakeries in town has a fridge that is FREEZING at the back and most of the time the Diet Coke right at the back has ice in it so I usually buy my pop from there; I don't think Jonathan was talking about pop when he wrote those lyrics though. :-s

If you were to look at my last.fm page you'd see that my top two artists are The Fall and Jonathan Richman, two musical oddities that you wouldn't really put in the same camp but they have a lot in common I suppose, I'm not gonna write about it like some kind of Pitchfork type, instead just take a second to think about it yourself...

I don't half write some rubbish on this blog, it doesn't give enough insight into my mangled brain enough to achieve a book deal yet it isn't boring enough to just post the download link and be done with it. How about some questions? Throw some questions at me in the comments, that'll be a gas, ask me anything, just don't ask me about why I think Star Wars is a big pile of crap cause it just is, m'kay.

I am currently downloading some very very rare Modern Lovers live recordings from '76 and '78, I'll share them some day...

This recording has really great quality and has three (I think) unreleased songs in the form of Silent Treatment, Barcelona and I'm Not Obsessed With Her...

Intro
Her Mystery Not Of High Heels And Eye Shadow
Egyptian Reggae
Give Paris One More Chance
Silent Treatment
Pablo Picasso
Nineteen in Naples
I'm So Confused
I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar
Couples Must Fight
Barcelona
I'm Not Obsessed With Her
I'm a Little Airplane
Rooming House on Venice Beach
Let Her Go Into the Darkness
True Love is Not Nice
Vampire Girl
You Can't Talk to the Dude

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