Today eleven song choices, adding up to that week end magic 55 to celebrate Original Penguin’s 55th Birthday, are inspired by The Big Pink
The band are to Dj at Original Penguin’s 55th birthday party on 30th June in London. Also appearing are The Strange Boys and MTV’s Phil Clifton, you can win tickets to attend thanks to ClashMusic in our competition HERE.
You can hear, and read about, all of the 55 song choices on ClashMusic.com HERE.
The Big Pink – Dominoes
The Big Pink’s breakthrough single, also featured on a television advertisment for the XboX gaming system.
Comanechi – Mesmerising Fingers
Comanechi features The Big Pink’s drummer Akiko and picked up acclaim with their album ‘Crime Of Love’ (read our review of it HERE).
PRE – Haircut Tacos
Another of Akiko’s side projects, this time with a full line up and her credited as the bizarrely named ‘exceedingly good keex’.
The Teardrop Explodes – Reward
Featuring the infamous Julian Cope in his pop stars days. Cope also appeared on Top of the Pops while tripping during the band’s performance of ‘Passionate Friend’.
Klaxons – Golden Skans
The poster boys of nu-rave, the Klaxons wisely took time out after their ‘Myths Of The Near Future’ debut album to let the hype die down before announcing their return with a second album ‘Surfing The Void’.
Crystal Castles – Celestica
Former 8-bit scream merchants, Ethan Kath and Alice Glass, have gone all melodic on this first taster from their forthcoming new album, again self titled.
Apache Beat – Tropics
This New York band have their debut album ‘Last Chants’ in the bag with a release date yet to be announced but a new single ‘Another Day’ is due out on July 7th.
Io Echo – Addicted
Pop fact about the Los Angeles band, their guitarist Leopold Ross co-composed the score for the Densil Washingtoon clunker ‘The Book Of Eli’.
A Grave With No Name – Stone Setting
A Grave With No Name is centred around songwriter Alex Shields with ‘Stone Setting’ appearing on their ‘Mountain Debris’ album released on the No Pain In Pop record label in November 2009.
Exploding Plastic Inevitable
A taster from one of Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable parties where the Velvet Underground played as the house band and all manner of ‘arty’ happenings happened.
The Band – Cripple Creek (lIve at The Big Pink)
The Big Pink was the name of Bob Dylan and The Band’s ‘clubhouse’ in upstate New York when The Band performed as his backing band on some of his classic albums.
