At last this page has got some taste in a bountiful buckety makeover. The title "arnold lane" is wrong of course, as Bucket is a duo of Shmil Frankel and me, but without creating a new myspace site it will stay that way for the time being.
However the good news is that those poor unfortunates among you who don't possess a copy of the 2005 seminal live bombshell that is Peckham Pop can now listen to it in its entirety right here.
Sample the delights of the Deptford Duo's mastery of acoustic and electric basses, guitars, drums, percussion, found objects and electronics, all recorded at the wonderful Hugh Metcalfe's Klinker Club venues, as well as the Muses Cafe and Deptford's own Silo SE8 studio.
And not only that but the duo are about to embark on a series of live performances in and around the Tel Aviv area. Watch this space for more exciting developments.
Yes indeed that pot pourri of Peckham Pop returns to bash a bucket or two around diverse districts of London town.
Specifically at The Montague Arms on Friday 12th March, along with eclectic three-pieces One True Dog and Faux.
Myself and Shmil Frankel on a whistle-stop tour will perform Bucket favourites old and new using guitars and percussions.
And again at The Birds Nest in Deptford on Sunday 14th March with HandSonic percussive genius Illi Adato, and the duos of Psychoyogi and Tunes Under Fire.
A recent reunion with funksters Root Juice led by ace guitarist Ian Sheppard has led to a gig flooding in at The Crown pub in Twickenham on Friday 19 February.
It's a great chance for me to dust off my trusty old congas and timbales, shake a few shakers and tambourines and clonk a cowbell or two. The very cool Jonno Madden is in the drum seat this time and that's great as we seem to hit it off really well percussively speaking.
The music is a mix of instrumental groove jazz and funky soul standards such as Superstition and Crusaders songs, with lots of scope for solos. If that sounds boringly indulgent don't be put off, as this bunch of guys and gals is of a very high standard and their soloing is eloquent and stylish and very well worth hearing.
Belatedly updating the info on the benefit gig for Tom Bushe at The Others club in Stoke Newington last Friday.
A very cool space I must say and a lot of good work had gone in to make it very vibey with a backdrop of films showing and some very nice pieces playing on the sound system while I was there.
I really enjoyed the first band I think were called Vibe Machine with only sparse bass, drums and fender rhodes, one of my favourite sounds ever in the right hands, and a very snappy rapping vocalist. As we were to be playing more of an improv set I was concerned we wouldn't be able to live up to their very witty and together sound. But I was wrong to underestimate the power of true musicians to pull it all together when put on the spot.
Our line up was Drew Wilkes from The Homertones on bass and myself on kit, a well seasoned rhthym section I knew would hold it together without any prior rehearsal. You wouldn't know it but Drew hadn't even met saxman Ralph Bronstein or guitarist Tony TSR Seunaryan before the night. What a star.
Tony began with a solo song, then with myself accompanying and then with added bass from Drew. At that point Ralph Bronstein and poet Dave O'Kelly took the stage and by now we were a real band, and with Ralph's superb sax soloing and accompaniment and Dave's verse bringing out the beat in all of us, our set got a really good reception and I have to say for band that had never played together before, it was really good and most enjoyable.
And the best of it was that the night raised £200 for Tom!
