Name: That Old Fashioned Feeling by BalthazarB
Duration: 4 min 23 s
Description: Recorded one sunny afternoon with two microphones and two guitars this was the last time I was able to make music with the inimitable Theo Marks before he emigrated to Canada. It's rough around the edges but full of joy and friendship, like a life well lived.

Recorded one sunny afternoon with two microphones and two guitars this was the last time I was able to make music with the inimitable Theo Marks before he emigrated to Canada. It's rough around the edges but full of joy and friendship, like a life well lived.

That Old Fashioned Feeling

The story of a boy and his hallucination learning to live peacefully together. Featuring lyrics and vocals by https://soundcloud.com/balthazarb

Painting

Having recently been enjoying the excellent audiobook of Stalin Ate My Homework by Alexei Sayle,  I decided to play Alexei's classic 1984 hit Ullo John Got A New Motor on my Saturday night show on 6 Music. When I floated the idea on Twitter loads of people were keen to hear it on air and started quoting lines from the song at me.

But it seems the regular 7" single mix has vanished off the face of the bloody planet. The BBC no longer have a copy in their library, you can't buy a download on iTunes or a CD on Play or Amazon. The only video versions on YouTube are absolutely awful quality. But what you can find on iTunes is loads of Karaoke versions because it's such a well-loved classic

In the end my Twitter friend Drew Tabori sent me an audio file of the sweary 12" version, so we finally did get to play it on Saturday 3rd February 2013, although (as you can hear) it was severely edited down for BBC compliance purposes....

Check out that audiobook by the way: www.audible.co.uk/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B004EW5PSW

ALEXEI SAYLE - Ullo John Got A New Motor - on 6 Music

Hailing from the city of Brighton in the UK, Balthazar B is the ‘nom de plume’ of indie-folk troubadour Alex Dowding. His songs are characterised by rich melodies floating through lush, intimate arrangements - sometimes playful indie-pop at other times Americana-inspired folk. All laced up with thought-provoking narrative-driven lyrics. If Jeff Tweedy and George Harrison had a love-child (and what a visceral thought that is) this is what it would sound like.

In the past he has lived in both London and Paris. In the London years he had a spell playing bass for shoegaze outfit Televise (Simon Scott - Slowdive) and in Paris opened shows for The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. The twists in the road on the way to his current home in the Netherlands have born many compositional fruits - he has released 1 LP (I Am The Tide) and 2 EP’s (Like Shrapnel, Capella)

His 3rd EP (The Dove and the Porcupine), released on December 11th, was recorded in his home studio nestled in the Dutch countryside during the Corona lockdown period. Many parts were recorded by friends remotely and sent back to the studio. The result is a surprisingly warm, intimate record with many faces. 6 songs spanning 30 minutes touch on the joy of whistleblowing, the genius of Dylan, untrustworthy writers and the misery of being too drunk to get your keys in the front door.

That Old Fashioned Feeling

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