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(1447 views)Giving It Large & Lording It!
This weeks featured artists who are criminally ignored by the mainstream are the one & only Lord Large. A fluid 10-piece soul/funk/60's beat line-up based around 2 permanent members, Stephen Large (formerly of Electric Soft Parade) & Andrew Jones and featuring various special guest vocalists including Northern Soul Legends Clem Curtis (of The Foundations) & Dean Parrish, plus Glen Tilbrook of Squeeze fame, Linda Lewis, and a guest appearence by Steve Cradock of Ocean Colour Scene.
At a time when this sort of retro soul/jazz is enjoying massive exposure courtesy of Ms Amy Winehouse it seems odd that Lord Large should be largely ignored (pardon the pun!)
Think Northern Soul, Hammond Organ, Jools Holland's RnB Orchestra, The Style Council, Jazz n Funk, classic 60's beat, and you have an idea of the musical melting pot that is Lord Large. This is one of my top 3 favourite albums of 2007 so far, along with The Bees and Little Man Tate. It's joyous, upbeat, feelgood fun played by people clearly enjoying themselves, and features a song penned by Paul Weller when he was only 15 yrs old, Left Right & Centre. If you find any of the above remotely interesting but haven't checked this album out yet then do yourself a favour and get into it!
Fans include Paul Weller, Rod Stewart, Graham Coxon, Mark Lamarr, Phil Jupitus, Janice Long & Gary Crowley. You might want to add yourselves to that list :-)
MySpace:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=47903550
YouTube (Advert for album):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWh-1K4BQ5Y
Buy:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lords-First-Eleven-Lord-Large/dp/B000HT39HU/ref=sr_1_1/026-1037478-8122833?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1176204509&sr=1-1
(Check out my previous blogs on The Bees, Milburn, Black Keys, Get Cape, Little Man Tate & Little Barrie)
Tags: Ocean Colour Scene Squeeze Rod Stewart Paul Weller The Style Council Jools Holland Graham Coxon Electric Soft Parade The Bees Amy Winehouse Lord Large
Comments
debs44 said:I really like this album too! I agree with you, everybody should get into this!! Love The Bees album too btw
11 April 2007 8:54pm
SpikeB said:Will check them out.
24 May 2007 3:27pm
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