Manchester trio Marconi Union worked with sound therapists to create the soothing tune, which allegedly ’slows breathing and reduces brain activity.‘

Weightless is an right minute track induces sleep with its sustaining rhythm that starts at 60 beats per minute and gradually slows to around 50 bpm.

Sound therapy has been used for thousands of years to help people relax and improve health and well-being. Weightless is ideal for putting on at the end of a stressful day and unwinding.

On 30th January 2012, Just Music will be re-issuing two albums by Marconi Union:
Under Wires and Searchlights & Distance.

The video covers a bit of the gig (at 3:35 into the video), but mostly includes some eye popping street magic that has Tinie praising Dynamo as ‘the best magician in the world’. In the video, Dynamo performs tricks like:

-Having Tinie pulling a metal chain through his neck (not for the faint-hearted, that one!) – 1:25

-Making a Panasonic TA1 camera appear inside a beer bottle – 2:10

-Removing Tinie’s sunglasses on his album cover through the CD’s hard plastic – 4:10

Enjoy the show!

The song taken from the album Tap Root Manuscript also presented Diamond with his personal breakthrough in the UK, where the single peaked at number three in the charts and set the rumours going about what the song was actually about.

The line ‘Cracklin’ Rosie you’re store bought woman’ had many believing that somehow this song was referring to a particular lady of the night or prostitute, but Diamond later enlightened fans with the truth behind the song.

It turned out to be a song about a Rosé wine, but of course no ordinary Rosé, Cracklin’ Rosie was a homemade alcoholic brew made and drunk by a native Canadian tribe.

As usual there are various stories about how Diamond came to write about the homemade brew, some say that the singer actually visited the tribe and the song is about his personal experience, but the story told in the book Neil Diamond: The Solitary Star says that Diamond heard the story from a reporter before writing the song.

Either way the story is that there is a native tribe in Canada whose men outnumber their women. Those single men that were unlucky enough not to have a date at the weekend would gather around the fire drinking Cracklin’ Rosé, which Diamond changed to Cracklin’ Rosie.

Enough of that! Here is Neil Diamond performing Cracklin’ Rosie live in 1970.

When the Pixies broke up in 1992 after only six years together their fans were shocked, the grunge era was peaking and the band that started it all was splitting up. The split was very nasty and it seemed unlikely that they would ever get back together again.

Against all the odd’s  Pixies reunited in 2004 and despite the odd dispute have remained pretty much together since. In the eleven years that they were apart the Pixies music continued to grow in cult status, probably owing much to Kurt Cobain’s acknowledgement to the debt that Nirvana owed to the band.

Pixies have announced plans of a European tour this October and will be playing shows in the UK in London, Glasgow and Dublin. The tour is being called the Doolittle tour, to mark the twentieth anniversary of the album of the same name. They will play all the tracks from Doolittle throughout the tour, including all singles and related B sides.

The band will perform at the O2 Brixton Academy in London for four nights, two night’s at Dublin’s Olympia and one night in Scotland at the Glasgow SECC. Such is the demand for tickets for Pixies shows that a further night has now been added in Dublin for the 30 September, before the two October dates.

There is no doubt that  Pixies have, during their time apart, become something of a phenomenon, one of the great bands of their generation and one of the most influential rock band’s of recent history. Quite why they did not achieve the global success of Nirvana or indeed Pearl Jam is hard to fathom.

In the short time they were originally together the Pixies produced four excellent albums, providing aback catalogue that many band’s would die for, making for some excellent live shows.

Pixies – Gigantic -  this is one of the rare tracks that Kim Deal gets to sing.

Pixies European Tour

September 30        Dublin Olympia

October 1 & 2         Dublin Olympia

October 4                Glasgow SECC

October 6,7,8,9    London O2 Brixton Academy

October 13              Amsterdam Heineken Music Hall

October 15              Paris Zenit de Paris

November 10        Frankfurt Jarhunderthalle

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U2 – One

Here’s a great live performance of Joy Division with Steven Morris (drums), Bernard Sumner (guitar), Peter Hook (bas) and the late Ian Curtis (vocals) performing Shadowplay.

Dr. Dog – The Beach

This track is from 1971, it was anumber one hit for Dave & Ansil Collins called Double Barrel, and at school, an absolute must have!

Dave & Ansil Collins – Double Barrel

Broken English is considered to be her best album and this is a great track with a video directed by Derek Jarman, I believe. She still looked good back then.

Marianne Faithful – Ballad Of Lucy Jordan

Along with Blondie, Talking Heads and Wayne County & The Electric Chairs, The Ramones were one of the original New York punk bands that made a scene playing CBGB’s Greenwich Village’s in the early 1970’s.

Here is a rare rough clip of The Ramones playing Judy Is A Punk, allegedly from 1974.