If you peep inside the door of Topic records you'll see that even now it is piled high--floor to ceiling--with copies of Buena Vista Social club. Apparently they distribute World Circuit too.
Buena Vista Social Club is the highest selling world music CD according to the Guinness Book of Records. It still sells shed loads.
Don't ask me how I know that!
I also saw Ibrahim Ferrer in Montreux, Switzerland, as part of their 2005 music festival. he died a few months later.
really?? haven't heard about that. i just remember his lanky accent cropping up on random nights in the mid 90s when i wanted tolisten to mark & lard on radio 1.
i can't stand "world music" either tbh. especially the stuff that's essentially not very good pop music, with little or no "world" other than it's not from europe or the u.s.a... i used to work in a restaurant that played the whole putamayo back catalogue, all day every day. bland inane crap. i can *kind of* understand an appreciation of traditional music from faraway places and exotic cultures, but if they're just producing dull pop not even good enough to compete with the dull pop we've already got, i'm all for restraining orders!
He was always holding forth on the W7.
I liked what he did in Rwanda though.
Very brave. It made his subsequent anti-feminist whinge-ing seem particularly pathetic.
RIght - an absolute torrent of new members.
anniehall, kerry, hedgetrimmer, jo, out_and_stroud, jasonm, julie and fjt have all joined in the last week or so.
say hello. then say hello back.
Kia Ora neighbours
Bell-raiser is here.
You know, the problem with London, is that no matter where I live, I can never find enough wigs.
Thank you for providing our tiny neck of the woods... with a full head of hair.
Yes - I do hail from the slopes of New Zealand's Southern Alps.
But alas - now that my disguise has been nearly foiled... I will give no further clues as to my true identity.
For now - I remain nameless in the shadows of stroudgreen.org... safe in the knowledge that my anonymity can be restored by another visit to Pak's Wigs.
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i can't stand "world music" either tbh. especially the stuff that's essentially not very good pop music, with little or no "world" other than it's not from europe or the u.s.a... i used to work in a restaurant that played the whole putamayo back catalogue, all day every day. bland inane crap. i can *kind of* understand an appreciation of traditional music from faraway places and exotic cultures, but if they're just producing dull pop not even good enough to compete with the dull pop we've already got, i'm all for restraining orders!
I liked what he did in Rwanda though.
Very brave. It made his subsequent anti-feminist whinge-ing seem particularly pathetic.
Andy, how many of your members (guffaw) do you think don't live in Stroud Green? Presumably some ex-pats on here?
Bell-raiser is here.
You know, the problem with London, is that no matter where I live, I can never find enough wigs.
Thank you for providing our tiny neck of the woods... with a full head of hair.
BR
@ krappyrubsnif - the thought of you dressing up as your moniker gives me the creeps. Come to think of it so does your moniker. Always has.
Yes - I do hail from the slopes of New Zealand's Southern Alps.
But alas - now that my disguise has been nearly foiled... I will give no further clues as to my true identity.
For now - I remain nameless in the shadows of stroudgreen.org... safe in the knowledge that my anonymity can be restored by another visit to Pak's Wigs.
it's too orangey for crows, it's just for me and my dog