The Clientele In Brighton, April 14th

hopefully or you'll be the only tosser standing there. ;-)

When are they playing? I spend some of my time in Brighton.

Looks like this Saturday to me :). Did you mean where?

Um. Yeah. Something like that! I should have read the subject before replying really.

Won't be in Brighton then, watching the mighty Ipswich welcoming a Bobby Robson team back to Portman Road for the first time since he left to manage England, been looking forward to it for the last year!

*bitter rant*

Last season my team, Crystal Palace, were in the same division as Ipswich. Next season you could well be in the Champions' League and we are going to be extremely lucky not to end up in the Second Division. Enough said. I'm sorry. This has been an extremely, bitterly envious posting.

*goes back to worrying about Huddersfield's goal difference, or something*

Robin - I did not know you were a Palace fan !, the team I have supported since 1983 (it is a long story) Pompey (Portsmouth) - are also going through the relegation escape act at the mo,

The Relegation run in and we still have a showdown with the Palace at home ! in early May !

Music wise

Portsmouth have The Cranes - who do Crystal Palace or Croydon have?

PS have you seen this 1st Division Relegation Calculator as the matches go by..bookmark it now!. It is not just a question of what your team does but how good/crap the results of the fellow strugglers are.

Saint Etienne are enough to claim, I think. They even *recorded* at Ian Catt's studio in Croydon, which isn't something many bands can claim.

FWIW the relegation table I generated had Palace and Pompey finishing four points clear and Crewe somehow slipping into the last relegation place. Wishful thinking, I fear, something we both need.

For which read "four points clear of relegation" though that should be obvious, for anyone who cares about this tedious thread.

Palace won't go down, I wouldn't worry. I suppose you're too close to the zone to really enjoy Rangers plight though! The first looks quite strange this year though with lots of high profile teams looking like going down. I've been a bit sorry for Huddersfield though as last year they were one of the teams that really impressed me, and had seemed to be on a real progession since their promotion - until they sold us Marcus Stewart, the fools.

Weird stand for away supporters you have down there at Selhurst Park though. Sorry I'm ranting a bit, but what does it feel like to go to your home ground as an away supporter when you play Wimbledon?

This is worse than the Pearl Jam live release thingie...

speaking of the clientele, pam berry really was a very poor choice for guest vocalist on their most recent single. am i the only one who cringes each and every moment when she opens her mouth? why exactly is she such an indie icon? black tambourine, castaway stones, glo-worm, etc. the evidence is stacked against her quite severely. the relict's girl is delightfully generic but at least a fair distance from repulsion.

The only Pam Berry-sung track I own (apart from the Clientele single which I can't play yet) is a track by the Pines on a Papercuts compilation, and that I like a great deal. A richer voice than most indie singers, I'd say.

Anyway in the end I didn't go to Brighton because Isabel got ill and I spent my Easter weekend playing Doctor. Hope it was a grand gig.

It was a marvellous show (same set as Sunday's, for anyone interested). They really are getting better and better. It made a trip from civilisation to Camden-on-Sea worthwhile.

As far as Keith's comments on Pam Berry go, I think she has a tremendous voice: it's beautiful, it's enormously expressive, and (most importantly) it quite often sends shivers down my spine. The single with the Clientele is, I think, one of her *and* their best moments, and that's saying something.

I couldn't agree more with you, Tim. The single is a wonderful, spacey, exotic masterpiece. Great to see the Clientele breaking into the cloisters of ILM at so many points. And Pam Berry's voice sends shivers down my spine, I compare it to a velvety, heavy red wine taken in slow sips. Beautiful.

since track & field fever seems to be de rigeur all of a sudden, did anyone see olympic lifts? how great were they? sassy-fresh hip hop practioners from belfast at the fey pop convention. heavens. i was squinting at the world from behind a regular monsoon of gin by that stage & may be woefully wide of the mark but they positively rocked.& yes, the clientele were exquisite.

Pam Berry and Alasdair Maclean are two of my favorite singers, but on the single, I don't think their voices quite blend. Sometimes, I think this can be effective, as in "Lazy Line Painter Jane". I didn't get to listen to the single enough before losing access to a record player to be able to tell how it is with them. I remember individual parts that I liked a lot, but when they sang together, I think I got the impression that one or the other was holding back. On the other hand, Pam's and Joe's voices complement each other perfectly.

By the way, don't you think Alasdair would sound great singing with Chrissie Hynde? They've both got this soft edge to their voices, like that kind of stationery that looks like it's been torn - I guess to create an antique effect.

I just listened to the single again, and I was wrong. Their voices are different, but the pairing still works. It's lovely!

Is anyone going to see the Clientele in LA or SF? Would anyone who is going like to meet up? Could we start to get reports rolling in fron the East Coast? (OK, so it's a bit early.)