In the song Cancion Para Jordi: The clunk of the tape recorder and some scrabbling around implies that this is going to be pure lo-fi, a suspicion consolidated further by the tinkle of what sounds like a toy xylophone and the fragile vocals of the youthful Adrià Arbona. Anyway, that album was restricted to UK based acts and in this article I’d like to share some of the other amazing acts, broadly in that category (I said BROADLY) that I also discovered from around the world: Well, anyway, it featured tracks that were a kind of quirky lo-fi pop that may or may not necessarily have done justice to the (now a little hackneyed) term ‘ new weird’ but, honestly, I don’t really care. JDB and Sean had disappeared by this point, so I’d missed my chance with them, but Nicky was my top priority so - mission accomplished!Įarlier in 2009 I was involved in putting together the virtual compilation album Crumby Lovers: A New Weird UK Sampler (Yeah yeah, we know can you please just STOP going on about it?). I certainly hung around until he was gone, just looking at him in that sailor hat, be-jeweled eyes, and hearing him talk so close by was addling my head to a great extent. I think he said, and my cousin will back me up on this, “Oh those are lovely! Thanks - cheers, babe.” After that I have no idea what I said or did, getting my picture I’d brought along signed, and my photo taken with him (he put his hand on my back and shoulders - I thought I would tear apart into shreds!), and just saying, "Thank you so much!”. I had my pink rose bouquet with me, and when I was right in front of him said, “These are for you, Nicky!”. I waited as others got their picture with him and had him sign items they’d brought along.
Then she had to say it again, and I stammered, “…WHAT?!”, plowing through the crowd until there wasn’t any more room to do so. After awhile, my cousin said, “The guy in the sailor hat is over there.”, but I didn’t hear her. After it was over, I had to track down Nicky…their tour bus was right outside the front of the venue, so I waited there with my cousin (who was patient enough to come along with me and deal with my temporary insanity!).