Something 4 The Weekend # 237

Grinderman: Grinderman 2: "Palaces Of Montezuma" [mp3]

I just finished watching season 2 of Luther over at Netflix, and this was the song played over the closing credits of the final episode. If you haven't seen Luther, I highly recommend it. Idris Elba plays the fearless and brilliant detective, John Luther, taking on London criminals that are so absurd in their extremes that they could have been ripped from the cheesiest of comic books. As any good show of these times, seemingly everyone is morally ambiguous, or compromised to one extent or another, although in the end, like any good cop show, the good guys win. Anyways, Luther is an extremely well-done and engaging crime drama that I cannot recommend enough.

Grinderman is damn awesome too.

Hotcha! Hank

EVERYTHINGATHON! November 2008

It's the 1st of November, and that means a new episode of EVERYTHINGATHON! is uploaded and streaming over at my website of the same name...

http://www.everythingathon.com/home.htm

This month's episode is called THE NICK CAVE MYSTERY HOUR, and it's simply an hour of Nick Cave tunes threaded through an old DICK DIAMOND radio mystery...

Good stuff, so check it out through the month of November...

Hotcha! Hank

Something 4 The Weekend # 38

Nick Cave is a pretty intense performer, and so it was a hoot seeing him on Letterman's show, fronting Grinderman, an overtly racous RAWK band, laden with noise, serious facial hair, and Cave himself, the prowling preacher grinding out a big organ sound with one hand, while summoning angels or demons with the other, his voice, as always, larger than life...

And in the bridges, there he was, bless his heart, buzzing into his microphone like a honeybee...

Grinderman: "Honeybee (Let's Fly To Mars)": 188k mp3

It was a hoot because I'm guessing that Letterman's audience skews pretty heavily towards the retired community and cornfed tourists who fear God in a slightly more innocent way than Nick Cave does, and I can only imagine the looks on their faces while Cave & Co. were laying it down...

A heavy gospel that night, yeah...

Hotcha! Hank