Issue 35 / July 2013
July 2013 issue of Bido Lito! Featuring AMIQUE, TWO SUNSETS, SUGARMEN, THE PHARCYDE and much more.
July 2013 issue of Bido Lito! Featuring AMIQUE, TWO SUNSETS, SUGARMEN, THE PHARCYDE and much more.
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Bido Lito! <strong>July</strong> <strong>2013</strong><br />
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Editorial<br />
We’ve all had those powerful moments of expectant reflection, the quiet before the storm. The<br />
young first-year professional sat in the stand of an empty football ground the night before his debut<br />
with the floodlights blazing: just him, an empty stadium and his thoughts. The cavernous music hall<br />
before doors. The empty examination hall. Well, I had one of those moments this week, at Arrowe Park<br />
Hospital Maternity Unit.<br />
All the obvious labour concerns aside - Cerys seems to have that all pretty much in the can - our<br />
little daytrip to the delivery suite brought with it one stark pressure, something that had until this<br />
point slipped me by. The phenomenon that is the delivery playlist, or what has now become the<br />
delivery DJ set.<br />
After I’d run through the logistics of bringing a pair of Technics 1210s, a Numark mixer and a<br />
disappointingly modest pair of powered speakers (space is a bit of an issue) into the delivery suite with<br />
the incredibly accommodating midwife, I was left with one question: how on earth do you soundtrack<br />
the arrival of a new-born baby? Now, I’ve DJ’d at many pretty important occasions: weddings, funerals,<br />
birthdays and all that jazz, but this takes things to a whole new level. Talk about pressure. I’d take the<br />
pushing over this any day.<br />
My initial thought was to go with Captain<br />
Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica, from start<br />
to finish, throughout the later stages of the<br />
birth. As an introduction to planet earth, I<br />
thought this would make an interesting first<br />
impression on young Buzz (that’s the name<br />
my mum has given to our unborn child and<br />
for ease I’ll use it here, but don’t worry it<br />
won’t stick). Cerys didn’t agree.<br />
Can’s Tago Mago and Country Joe And The<br />
Fish’s Electric Music For Mind And Body were<br />
Spiritualized perhaps?<br />
met with a similar fate. So, I’ve decided to<br />
break things down a little, and try to select a series of records to soundtrack key junctures in the labour.<br />
Rest assured, Europe’s The Final Countdown has been loaded up on the car stereo for the ride into<br />
the hospital, when that moment comes. Inner Circle’s Sweat is a dead cert as the contractions really<br />
start to take hold. I’m leaning towards Spiritualized’s Stop Your Crying for the Simba-held-aloft-by-Rafiki<br />
moment after the birth. This will be closely followed by Beastie Boys (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To<br />
Party!), as my post-birth realisation of impending incarceration kicks in.<br />
Admittedly there are a few holes there in terms of what I have on 7”, so I’m feeling a final spree<br />
may well be in order. But, I’m also looking for some help and guidance. We won’t be doing the whole<br />
constant-flow-of-baby-pictures-on-facebook thing, principally because I know how annoying it is (they<br />
all do kind of look the same, don’t they?), yet I’m openly encouraging some input into the delivery DJ<br />
set. Hell, we may even stream it from the labour ward (I’ll drop the guys at Arrowe Park a line and see<br />
what the wi-fi is like).<br />
So, I’d like your suggestions via Twitter @BidoLito on the hashtag #BirthBeats. If you were to be born<br />
to one tune what would it be? What song would you have had kick in just as you emerged into the<br />
world? The best suggestions may well make the cut...<br />
Personally speaking, and I’m not really a fan per se, but I think REM’s It’s the End of the World as We<br />
Know It (And I Feel Fine), may do the trick nicely.<br />
Craig G Pennington / @BidoLito<br />
Editor<br />
Features<br />
6<br />
8<br />
AMIQUE<br />
WHEN LAURA MET LAURA<br />
10<br />
CHEWING ON POP<br />
MUSIC’S CUD<br />
12<br />
TWO SUNSETS<br />
14 SUGARMEN<br />
16<br />
THE PHARCYDE<br />
Regulars<br />
4 NEWS<br />
18<br />
PREVIEWS/SHORTS<br />
20<br />
REVIEWS<br />
Bido Lito!<br />
<strong>Issue</strong> Thirty Five / <strong>July</strong> <strong>2013</strong><br />
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