yeah i can't find the twitter either
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 4 September 2017 23:30 (six years ago) link
yeah, she's the one who hasn't tweeted since June. people itt are displeased by her political leanings, not by anything she's said about the band
― the old rugged crocs (unregistered), Monday, 4 September 2017 23:42 (six years ago) link
Thanks for clearing that up. I was starting to wonder if "Rosie Cuckston" was the most common name in Birmingham or something.
― Wichita prepares for totality (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 00:55 (six years ago) link
I really wish I hadn't looked at her twitter account to see if she'd mentioned anything about it.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), maandag 4 september 2017 19:25 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
:-/
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 08:49 (six years ago) link
she's had a few articles published in spiked fyi eg:
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/keeping_abreast_of_liberal_hypocrisy/13975#.Wa5vlMaQzcs
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 09:51 (six years ago) link
*immediately feels gross for linking to spiked*
That sucks. I don't like when things like that happen to the mind of someone who has been such a kindred presence.
Pram (with Rosie) had a plane of their own, and they were the absolute rulers of it. If there must be a Pram without her, I do think instrumental/film scoring is the approach most likely to be worthwhile.
ps Chrysalis is one of the best songs ever recorded
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 12:00 (six years ago) link
never tweet your heroes
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
truth
― maura, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
"Dark Island" became a great favourite of mine a few years ago, a strong Broadcast influence evident throughout but completely it's own thing.
Spiked? For fuck's sake, Rosie. Why did it have to be that coven of wankers?
― Pheeel, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
she wasn't very nice the one time I met her (which was in 2002) so I'm not incredibly surprised. Still like the music
― akm, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 17:39 (six years ago) link
New Pram.http://www.treblezine.com/pram-new-album-across-the-meridian-announced/
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Thursday, 14 June 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
Oh fuck
― sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Thursday, 14 June 2018 23:40 (five years ago) link
Pram fill the crater sized hole left by trish Keenan’s death
So are they all instrumental now?
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 15 June 2018 10:00 (five years ago) link
No Rosie no cred tho
― sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Friday, 15 June 2018 12:08 (five years ago) link
Yes but Rosie is nuts now
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Friday, 15 June 2018 12:47 (five years ago) link
Separate the art from artist imo
Dunno I mean I just love her voice
― sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Friday, 15 June 2018 12:48 (five years ago) link
No me tooWas being flip
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Friday, 15 June 2018 12:49 (five years ago) link
Lol good on ya
― sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Friday, 15 June 2018 12:51 (five years ago) link
broadcast were such a pram rip off. 'the stars are so big...' is underrated magic. new songs a bore w/o cuckston vox though
― meaulnes, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 01:08 (five years ago) link
I...am annoyed I missed this news earlier.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 01:11 (five years ago) link
broadcast - a pram rip off? LOL
― lost in sublimation (Ross), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 01:11 (five years ago) link
pram are amazing but c'mon
― lost in sublimation (Ross), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 01:12 (five years ago) link
I love both and don't really see it.
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 04:43 (five years ago) link
they're more like the voodoo queens
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 04:46 (five years ago) link
I always thought of Pram as the weird sister in the basement doing taxidermy and catching bugs to chloroform and mount.
Broadcast upstairs watching French new wave movies and listening to 60s pop and Jean Jacques Perrey.
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 08:56 (five years ago) link
Very apt
Rosie’s voice is def more of an acquired taste tho it has “smoothed” out since the earlier records obviously
Also broadcast took a stylistic dip on that last record (not including children of Alice). Saw them on tender buttons tour and witch cults - TB was all ring modulated gnarled synths and a good time. Witch tour had tons of hammerHorror style occult projections onstage - some of the music wasn’t recognizable as on record and older hits were played sparingly.
With witch, focus group collab ep and especiallyMother is the Milky Way - broadcast were going increasingly acoustic and minimal, closer to a tripped out folk sound. much different than anything pram did - i still haven’t found mother ep around here but I’ll upload it when I do.
― lost in sublimation (Ross), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 09:03 (five years ago) link
Also always worth saying trish was a sweetheart
― lost in sublimation (Ross), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 09:06 (five years ago) link
ok i drunkposted last night -- but i remember listening to first broadcast LP at my friends, ready to get excited about getting into them, and it totally reeked of pram in every way, and i got bored after the first half anyway.
― meaulnes, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 11:35 (five years ago) link
Hi meaulnes
― lost in sublimation (Ross), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 11:38 (five years ago) link
...hi. sorry, im a gobshite.
― meaulnes, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 12:20 (five years ago) link
Nah you’re not, I gotta work on my drunk posting myselfWelcome
― lost in sublimation (Ross), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 13:12 (five years ago) link
I always thought of Pram as the weird sister in the basement doing taxidermy and catching bugs to chloroform and mount.Broadcast upstairs watching French new wave movies and listening to 60s pop and Jean Jacques Perrey.― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 08:56 (five hours ago) Permalink
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 08:56 (five hours ago) Permalink
Love this description
― daavid, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
pram were more piano magic than broadcast but they all fit in the same continuum
― akm, Thursday, 21 June 2018 03:25 (five years ago) link
Listened to North Pole radio station this evening because thread
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 June 2018 03:45 (five years ago) link
Excellent record. Pram also have stunning diver set for their records
― mind how you go (Ross), Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:23 (five years ago) link
My single favorite pram song is on the Meshes EP - “Chrysalis”
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 June 2018 11:46 (five years ago) link
new record is so good <3
― maura, Monday, 23 July 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
^this
Saw them live for the first time last night. Fascinating. Can't think of anyone who constructs a four minute song in the same way they do.
― Jeff W, Monday, 23 July 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
very glad to hear that maura!
― Ross, Friday, 27 July 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
listening on youtube, there are vocals on 'electra' and 'shadow of twilight' so if it's not rosie then who is it that is singing? it sounds like rosie. maybe i am listening to the wrong thing. amazing that the horn player has never improved. is it still mr verdigris horn? maybe a bit like what bits of a plone album would sound like now on the instrumentals, but then they've always shared some similarities. i must admit that i am not as familiar with song titles on the domino releases. maybe i've heard all of these before? and me once saying they were my favorite band. they are still my favorite band to blast in the car with the windows down.
― Keythkeythkeyth, Friday, 27 July 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
goes a bit smooth jazz in places(ladder to the moon), hmmm...but next one is better, old timey jazz. why isn't there a filmmaker making movies designed to use pram songs as the soundtrack? the video someone made for the single??? is great, maybe they've got an entire movie in them.
― Keythkeythkeyth, Friday, 27 July 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link
sam owen plays bass and sings
― maura, Friday, 27 July 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link
Current line-up:Sam(antha) Owen - vocals, flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone, accordion, keyboards, bassMatt Eaton - guitar, samplerMax Simpson - keyboards/synth, sampler, melodicaHarry Dawes - trombone, theremin, stylophoneplus there's an excellent female drummer playing with them live atm
― Jeff W, Saturday, 28 July 2018 11:06 (five years ago) link
stuart maconie had a chat with sam and max on the freak zone a couple of weeks ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b91w1t (starts about 49 minutes in, available for 10 more days)
― koogs, Saturday, 28 July 2018 11:36 (five years ago) link
i have made a 2 disc pram mix that i can put online when life is normal again, but it compiles everything from their eps to lps
― transcendental headache (Ross), Monday, 30 July 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
Oh please do ross
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Monday, 30 July 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
will do jon
anyone care to elaborate on whether there is vocals on this at all
or is it all instrumental
― sleepy sweet (Ross), Thursday, 2 August 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
jeff w says above there are vocals
― akm, Thursday, 2 August 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
Dimeadozen
― svend, Sunday, 12 August 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
New pram is classic as fuck
― yes, said (Ross), Saturday, 1 September 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
Agreed
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 1 September 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
My man
― yes, said (Ross), Sunday, 2 September 2018 05:19 (five years ago) link
Love your thoughts on it in the other thread
― yes, said (Ross), Sunday, 2 September 2018 05:20 (five years ago) link
I don't know why I didn't listen to them much before, they are pretty much exactly my kind of thing
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 2 September 2018 05:28 (five years ago) link
Big love ❤️
― yes, said (Ross), Sunday, 2 September 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
Picked the new album up on a whim a couple of weeks ago, just listening now and it's great. Sixties jazz/spy movie vibes, sounds great. Will need to work backwards, I have 'The Moving Frontier' but don't recall enjoying it anywhere near as much.
― michaellambert, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
just get the 'iron lung' ep and 'the stars are so big...' 'imaginary animals' is alright, too!
― meaulnes, Thursday, 22 November 2018 03:49 (five years ago) link
And the meshes ep
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 22 November 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
Did it ever get mentioned that Rosie Cuckston stood as a Brexit Party candidate in the 2019 General Election?
https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/3327/election/397
...and lost badly (hurrah!)
She's in Reform UK now, so I wouldn't be surprised if she stood again in the upcoming GE.
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Friday, 5 January 2024 13:36 (three months ago) link
there was definitely mention of her right-wing politics somewhere on her, no idea which thread
― ufo, Friday, 5 January 2024 14:18 (three months ago) link
*here
― ufo, Friday, 5 January 2024 14:19 (three months ago) link
years ago I happened to look at her Twitter to see if she'd made any comments about leaving Pram and was appalled by the political content, as somewhat chronicled in this thread
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Friday, 5 January 2024 15:04 (three months ago) link
oh now i see it was in this thread in 2017, so long ago
― ufo, Friday, 5 January 2024 16:13 (three months ago) link
Yes, but actually standing as a parliamentary candidate for the Brexit Party (ffs) wasn't.
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Friday, 5 January 2024 16:35 (three months ago) link