Result. Another utterly spurious series. In the UK we're fortunate to have a BBC Radio programme called 6 for Music. It's not perfect, some of the DJs are a bit irritating and sometimes the music becomes slightly predictable. But it has some really quality people, Mark Radcliffe, Stuart Maconie, Marc Riley, Gideon Coe and musicians such as Jarvis Cocker and John Cooper Clarke who really know what they're doing. And they sometimes play things that you don't really see coming.
Like this for instance on Ratcliffe & Maconie this afternoon. An album track from a record that changed my perspective at least slightly in the early 80s. Felt got their name from a misheard Television lyric, 'How I fell' from Marquee Moon's, Venus. They were a spindly, indie Brummy version of Television in their early days. They never really stood a chance of achieving their dreams of glory but there's much on this album, (and their other records), which I savoured at the time. Long drawn out introverted, melancholic songs with full on crafted guitar interludes of thwarted ambition. This is Cathedral one of its better tracks. Just great to hear on afternoon radio thirty years later as I toiled at my computer. 6 Music soundtracks the emotional drift of the middle-aged music obsessive and I'm grateful to it.
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