Thursday 27th October 2011
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Free music series 'WEEKLY WEEPING' Singles Club
No. 12: Southern Charles
This week, we hand the floor over to our old friend Mr. Southern Charles who unveils a brand new piece as well as a remix by the Godfather of Soul, the late great James Brown.
The original composition is entitled I Started the Fire Which Burned Down the School. Like all things, it is based on a true story. It was created as it was recorded.
The remix of the James Brown hit Living In America was originally the opening music for the 2nd ever Southern Charles show back in 2009. The James Brown Estate contacted Weeping Truckers asking if we would ike to be involved in the James Brown remix project It's A Woman's Womain's Woman's World.*
WEEKLY WEEPING SINGLES CLUB #12
SOUTHERN CHARLES I Started the Fire Which Burned Down the School
JAMES BROWN Living in America (Southern Charles mix)
We will endeavour to put the entire archive of Weekly Weeping online once the kids have grown up and we've buried the dog.**
* Possibly not true. However, when we went to see a Brian Wilson concert recently he told the audience that "the Gershwin Estate approached me about doing an album of his tunes." (Gershwin Estate = team of money-grubbing lawyers, natch.)
** It will hopefully be sooner than that but we are growing tired of making vague and useless promises about "release dates" and all that nonsense when we are effectively screaming into the wind. These things will fly out when they spread their wings.
About Weeping Truckers
WT is a creative outlet, mostly masquerading as an olde thyme record label, run by a man called Jeremy Charles Singer who appears in various projects, including Hank and Sir Clement.
For a full list of recordings by Hank, please go here. A more complete discography will appear once we have vetted all the potential interns.
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How many years have we been fooled by the robber barons who make our lives a continuing misery?
Five? Ten? Fifty? Five hundred? Two thousand?
Luckily, we have each other, right? And the music of all those we love. There is an alternative to the sound of fat men coming over briefcases of cash whilst singing off-key renditions of We Are the Champions. There must be, right?
Hank Video Archive Jukebox!
Here is a clip of the very first song of the very first Hank show from July 2002 at the smelly and not-much missed back room of Oasis, Toronto - a cover of the old Bruce Hornsby and the Range standard The Way It Is. More from the vaults in the coming years.
In Weeping Truckers news this week, there are vague and unsubstantiated rumours of a collaboration with Mr. Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub and Euros Childs for a Joe Meek covers album. Also, work continues in fits and starts on the (hopefully) 2012 Hank releases Hank Play Rave Anthems of the 1990s (originally due in 2007) and Showers of Happiness. We have heard some rough mixes and are happy to report that they are both crammed with the girl group soulful house disco country balladry guitar swing hit sound of Hank that you know and love but cannot predict.
Links to those we love
Have a gander at these WT-approved sites. You've got some time, doncha?
Learn to Swim - tons of free, downloadable gems. A must for fans of Radiophonic Workshop, Ghost Box, electronica, etc.
Blocks Recording Club - they have very kindly put out all three Hank LPs. Maybe they will put out some more.
Lex Vaughn - possibly the greatest living person
ubuweb - bloody amazing selection of avant-garde stuff
George Michael Twitter feed - the only reason to be on Twitter
Steve Albini's blog about the meals he makes
Chart Stats - incredible resource for UK chart obsessives. Makes the Guinness Book of Hit Singles look like a photocopied pamphlet.
Rave Generator - old skoooool!
Pulsate - listen to the circles
Oblique Strategies - a little pick-me-up should you be staring with despair into the void
Popular - brilliant reviews of every UK number 1 single (for fans of Chart Stats)
Trunk Records - lovely jubbly
Hank music featured in acclaimed online Catalan animation series "Arròs cavat"
It's true. See for yourself. Hank music features in episodes 3, 7, 8 and 12.
Hank music also featured in Sook-Yin Lee's feature film 'Year of the Carnivore'
Or specifically, the song Distraction from 2009's premier pop obscurity The Luck of the Singers. Film website link.
Weeping Truckers EXCLUSIVE - New Beatles LP!
We are thrilled to announce that Weeping Truckers has obtained the rights to the highly sought after cassette-only release by Glaswegian combo The Please Please Love Me Do Long Long Long's featuring such classics as I Want to Fuck Your Hand, And Your Bird Can Fuck and Fuckia. Watch this space.
It is impossible, therefore it is not
It is not, because it is impossible. It is, therefore it is possible. If it is, it cannot be impossible. (with apologies to R.D. Laing)
Thanks to Michael Corrin for writing some code for this page. Otherwise, it would be an incoherent jumbled mess. What's that you say?
Sir Clement - Can't Count Corn E.P. is available for free download (see below). Also, here is the critically-acclaimed promotional film for the eponymous number.
Download Can't Count Corn E.P, as a 3-song zip file right here.
Or, if you are picky, you can select the individual numbers:
1. Can't Count Corn - Chorus: I can't count corn I can't count corn I can't count corn I can't
2. You Fetter It - Chorus: Yooooooou fetter it! Yooooooou fetter it!
3. Best Kind of Cock - no chorus but multiple allusions to sex
Jeremy and Lex enjoy a brisk summer walk in the glorious wonderland that is Toronto, July 2011.
Sir Clement bask in the rays of goodwill emanating from the masses at Toronto Pride, July 2011. That's Lynne T on tambourine. What a woman.
Jeremy Singer prepares dictaphone compilation
Over the last few years, Hank frontman Jeremy Singer has recorded hundreds of hours of dictaphone recordings: sketches, improvisations, personal musings and ansamachine messages. These initmate analogue excerpts are now in the process of being handpicked for the upcoming Cab Williamson presents 'Dictabeat, volumes 1-9', soon to be available via mail order. There will be a strictly limited edition box set of CDs and dictaphone cassettes as well as yer precious mp3s as a free download. This is a rare instance where the limitations of mp3 audio work in favour of the material. All the recordings are hissy and in mono and sound like ghostly echoes of memory. Perfect for your early morning gym workout, what?
Anyone here from myspace?
Fuck you, Murdoch.
Southern Charles is exuberant
Newish Weeping Truckers project Southern Charles will be battling for survival in the urban landscape of unknown musical acts. But he just laughs in the face of rejection and apathy anyway. Download the first 10 singles right here. And here is a Southern Charles tune which is called 'Playah' for some reason. What is he saying? What are you hearing? Southern would love to know: southerncharles@weepingtruckers.com
Exclusive Plot video here! This song was voted Favourite Hank Song About Graves in an online poll recently
Directed by Victoria Kent. Taken from The Luck of the Singers. WATCH IT!
Whatever Happened to the Forster Appeal Video Remix!
Here is a video remix of the previously unreleased Sick Wife Elizabeth Mix of Whatever Happened to the Forster Appeal? Compare and contrast with the original video for added fun times.
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Weeping Truckers Upcoming Releases
Hank - Showers of Happiness/Hank Play Rave Anthems of the 1990s (strictly limited handmade CDR edition/download)
Jeremy Charles Singer - Cab Williamson presents 'Dictabeat' volumes 1-9 (strictly limited dictaphone cassette edition/download)
Southern Charles - Living Between Peacocks and Bones
The PPLMDLLLs - The Fuck Album (reissue)
We imagine these will be available sometime in 2012 or thereabouts unless you want to give us a load of money to speed up the process. Didn't think so.
The Luck of the Singers by Hank (Blocks Recording Club, 2009) - "one of the best, yet most tragically overlooked, records of the 21st century. Quel esprit! C'est divin!"
Buy Hank on vinyl here and here (you get a free download of the entire LP too).
Email us if, at any point in your life, you have floated or flown in the air by yourself.
Weeping Truckers alumni directs new Mantler video
This is the new video by Hank member Christopher A Cummings a.k.a. Mantler: 'I Guarantee You A Good Time' co-directed by Jeremy Charles Singer and Chris. Filmed in the tropical climes of East Toronto and Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. This song was recently awarded the coveted BBC 6Music Record of the Week. Jolly good show, Christopher!
'Slabcake' from our English cousins Learn to Swim
Learn to Swim Recordings recorded four quite excellent podcasts recently featuring an eclectic selection of the weird and wonderful. Show 3 contains an exclusive 13-minute suite of Living Between Peacocks and Bones by Southern Charles and there is some Hank scattered amongst all four programs. Go here to listen: http://learntoswimrecordings.co.uk/broadcasts.htm