New Dulli

Tonight I was supposed to be seeing Greg Dulli live but with the lockdown due to Covid-19 understandably everything is cancelled. Who knows when we'll all be able to go to a concert again and write about it here but it's a sacrifice I'm more than happy to make to ensure we all remain safe. In the meantime I'll be listening to Dulli's excellent new solo album Random Desire, and watching his brilliant video homage to Bob Fosse (I watched Fosse/Verdon TV series too, Greg) made for the fantastic track, Pantomima.

Dulli and Lanegan at the Royal Festival Hall

An Evening With Greg Dulli & Mark Lanegan
Jimmy Gnecco
Duke Garwood
Royal Festival Hall, 19 July 2009

"I've been found out," quips a particularly well-fed-looking Greg Dulli when amid the screams for Lanegan as they walk on stage, comes a lone "Duuuuuuulllliiiiii". Appropriate really given that this show, more than any others recently, saw The Twilight Singers frontman take back the spotlight from the domineering presence of Mark Lanegan, unafraid to overshadow his deep-voiced best pal.

Dulli & Lanegan at the Union Chapel

 

An Evening With Greg Dulli & Mark Lanegan

Duke Garwood

Union Chapel, 19 January 2009

Anyone who knows me can tell you I have a long time love affair with Mr Dulli, the dashing larger than life (literally these days) former frontman of The Afghan Whigs, current Twilight Singer and one half of The Gutter Twins. He was once described as "the Dean Martin of grunge" but Greg is way more sassy than that, unafraid to cut down hecklers with a single witty line and shake his booty, funky-style, that's part Prince, part embarrassing dad at a wedding. The collaboration with his best pal Lanegan has been a long time coming, and certainly worth the wait on record, but live so far the results have been mixed due to Lanegan's towering, silent stage presence that prefers to let his booming voice make up for the lack of any charismatic chats or interaction with the audience.

My Favourite Albums Of 2008

I thought I may as well start off with a list of my favourite albums from 2008, because it probably best sets the scene for what will be on this blog. In order to compile my astonishingly brilliant list I am using this foolproof equation to calculate the perfect top 10: my most played albums on last.fm + the albums I think I like best + whatever ones are the coolest. It's an incredibly mathematical, painstaking process that obviously has taken me weeks to perfect, which is why I'm only posting it now. So at long last, here it is: