Wednesday 1 July 2009

A view from her room


The old idea about how in order to get you need to move to London. But does it bring happiness? There's a great quote from Weekend's singer Alison Statton about how A View From Her Room "is, thinly disguised, about me and how unhappy I was when I settled in London. It's about a day when the rush hour traffic was going past outside my window and I had to keep the window open and hear it as it was so hot in the middle of last summer. There's an air of escape in it as well I think ...". A View From Her Room is an important London record in other senses too. It was the record of the summer of 1982, and in particular this 12" version woke a lot of people from the punk generation up to the possibilities of jazz.




5 comments:

  1. Crikey, I've just swanned in here from Miss Ally's and found the only other person in the world who likes 'A View From Her Room' and Laurel & Hardy (Version) as much as I do. I'd call it kismet if I knew how to spell it.

    Hello!

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  2. I think we may have a comrade in arms. Mr Fruitier Than Thou has been prompted to dig out and post a Laurel and Hardy Kid Jensen session and is busy searching for their Peel session.

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  3. Then there was three...
    Love WEEKEND but currently annoyed I can only find 2 tracks from the Jensen session.. They will turn up one day...
    Mr H
    The PEEL Laurel & Hardy session is here
    http://rapidshare.com/files/254096371/Laurel___Hardy_-_John_Peel_20.10.1982.mp3

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  4. I think I have the one you mean on a weird Vinyl Japan CD of Weekend odds and sods. Do you want a copy? It's got the OGWT tracks and the Ronnie Scott's live LP on.

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