williamson's spray by katharine eastman
This track sounds exactly like a melange of the last five things I've done, which means it really is a whatever of the last few things that I've done, which means it's exactly the same as the last things I did, only tweaked and I think made better than any of them - even though I know that focusing on one tiny thing and trying to make it perfect is always doomed. But I have come close.
To keep my weight down I pretty much live entirely on just 30+ vitamins/etc every day and Montezuma 100% dark chocolate. It's the same price in Waitrose as it is anywhere else - and cheaper than in the actual Montezuma shop itself - so I buy it in Waitrose - four or five bars at a time and that means I get a free newspaper. It means I get the chocolate about as fast as I eat it, but I get the newspapers faster than I care to read them. So I have a backlog. I am a long way from living among tunnels of stop-in hoarder newspapers - my pile of newspaper backloggery is literally only about 6 inches high. I read things in reverse chronological order, so can be forgiven for only just having heard about Wet Leg - thanks to the Observer and my good-ish friend Kitty Empire.
They're going to be huge, or are huge, or were huge, even though at the time of Kitty's writing they'd only done about 2 tracks, and all their future worldwide gigs are all sold out including the Joiners next year - oh the relief of wondering/worrying if I should go - I wish every gig sold out the instant it was announced, it'd make my life so much less stressful.
You can imagine - yr old and yet you try to keep up with what the young are liking and you're wondering what you'd've made of it if you too were 20-something now ....... and of course thanks to Bandcamp, home of us all, large and small, Wet Leg are available for listening, and I have listened. Reminded me of Penetration - one of those third-rate """punky""" bands - not even second-rate (e.g. XRaySpex) or first-rate (early Siouxsie).
I know quite a few women of around my own age who have daughters in their 20s and mother and daughter are real friends - in a way which my generation never had with our own parents - and where the daughter is the mature one and the mother is the bonkers silly funny offbeat one - and this I think is why I like the next generation more than an oldie should - they are just so grown up, so sensible and mature - they're not trying to piss us off by wearing swastikas and spitting, they're wearing our cast-off clothes and sounding like Penetration and reassuring us that we aren't missing anything
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(recorded over the last few days, photo Dean Hill last month)
