HeyJaredChristian Madden
Thoughts, recommendations and fading memories of a life in music. Sent to you on a Saturday morning.
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Highlands and Islands (opens the original)
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On my thirtieth birthday we had a party at the Bridge in Burnley, it felt like I’d come along way in life and it needed to be done but with hindsight it feels a barely notable age. I spent the night wearing a hat shaped like a birthday cake and falling asleep in various corners of the pub, arseholed on Duval but refusing to be sent home. I think it went on till around four but I don’t feel like I was “meaningfully present." Am I ever?In what looks now like a planning oversight Nathan and me had
Big Numbers (opens the original)
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Maz introduced me to this gem when we were in fifth year approacing our GCSEs. It’s Tom Waits from his 1992 album Bone Machine. It’s a beautiful, poignant song and a wonderful video which opens with a solid minute of true Waits madness.It resonated in every way you could imagine with both of us, we really didn’t want to grow up and we didn’t want to be like everybody else. Everybody around us was starting to alter their behaviour, putting gel in their hair and wearing aftershave. There was an em
Madden at the Movies (opens the original)
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We all got to go to the pictures the other night. I get to go a lot to be fair, I go to Clitheroe Everyman on my own on weekday mornings. Sometimes I go on my own and enjoy a screen to myself. Sometimes I go to something called “Silver Screen” where they offer cake and coffee for over 55s. They ask me, “Would you like carrot cake or chocolate cake with your coffee?”“Oh no,” I say, “I’m only 49!”“Haha,” they laugh, “Here you are, just take some cake anyway.” Perhaps they think I am 55, I look old
Those That Can’t (opens the original)
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About ten years ago Mike Moore introduced me to one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen, Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films. I’ve probably told you a few times that you’ve got to watch it, it’s hilarious first and foremost but if you spent most of your childhood summers watching piles of VHS tapes in an endless stream it’ll light up all sorts of memories in your brain. I just found the whole thing on Youtube anyway so I’ve removed one of the barriers that previously t
Not a Team Player (opens the original)
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There's one last chapter to the Denny Laine story that I have to document. It felt like such a big chunk of my life as a teenager, my first experience playing with a band that wasn't full of my friends and family and they were my first gigs outside of East Lancashire. I look back over the period though and I was in and out in six months, less than a human gestation period. The last part is interesting nonetheless, it won't make it into any biographies about Denny or any grand history of the musi
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