New Videos From Mikey & His Uke, Tym Morrison, And Earache Records!!
Today's post features a recent live-streamed concert, some surprise news on a prominent album re-release, and to kick things off, local punk musician Mikey Hawdon's two newest quarantune videos, courtesy of his YouTube channel! Today's newest one is a cover of Beck's "Loser" alongside Mikey's Inner City Surfers bandmate Dave Bahun on guitar & bass, as well as post-production editor Dean Glover on drums. In a surprise twist, Mikey is not playing ukelele at all, just handling vocals, but it is a fun cover while it lasts, and it retains the spirit of the original! Embedded below is yesterday's quarantune, a cover of the 1960 rock hit "Happy-Go-Lucky Me" by Paul Evans, which is notable in that Mikey reunites with his old Rising Tide bandmates Dustin Jones and Sheldon & Marshall Jaaskelainen for this video! In this case, Mikey's uke is the only instrument, with everyone sharing vocal duties, though this does bear some similarities to softer Tide originals.
It's great to see a pseudo reunion of The Rising Tide's 2010-2016 lineup here, and while the song is a surprising choice, they pull it off well with enthusiasm and good harmony! Give it a watch below, see much more from this daily video series above, and look for quarantune #76 tomorrow!
Next up, here's a surprising announcement, as defunct local black/doom metal band Woods of Ypres' final studio album "Woods V: Grey Skies & Electric Light" is reportedly being re-issued with bonus tracks! This announcement was made last week by Earache Records' US label manager Al Dawson on their Instagram page and the video embedded below during his daily series of postings there. The video first features Al reminiscing about how he met their late frontman David Gold circa 2009 during the "Green Album" tour cycle, his first impressions of their music and live show, and how the Earache deal came to be, including what appears to be his side of the "You Were The Light" sessions and why Earache didn't go with that as the band's first label release (as you'll recall, two of those 5 songs came out on the independently-released "Home" vinyl single in 2011.) Al then reflects on David's passing at the end of that year and Woods' musical progression.
Al revealed at the end that they will be including "some of those unreleased tracks" in a planned "Woods V" re-release scheduled for "October or so", and while it's left a little vague on whether he just means the other three "You Were The Light" songs or perhaps demos we didn't know about at all, it would be nice to hear them all these years later! However, despite saying in the video that Earache was "working with his family", actual Gold family members didn't seem to be immediately aware of this announcement in the Instagram comments. Hopefully there were just some crossed wires between the Golds and Earache, as I know fans would be eager to honour David's memory by buying these songs! Watch Al's announcement below, but in the interim, you can watch David, Joel Violette, and the Maddens recording the songs from "You Were The Light" at this link, while Joel remixed the otherwise unreleased "Accounting For Your Cruelty" for David's last YouTube upload.
...Billy Joel's "Piano Man", Alice In Chains' "Down In A Hole", and finally, Kim Mitchell's "All We Are". Eagle-eyed metalheads will also catch Tym playing some Yngwie Malmsteen, Megadeth, and White Zombie songs on request, but none were full with vocals. Aside from "All We Are", this was a completely different set from Tuesday, and there's some nice new and surprise cuts to take in during this live-stream! If you're not a Billy Joel fan, tread lightly. Tym performed well despite obviously warm conditions, but there were some glitches in the video where the feed jumped ahead a second or so. Give the whole concert a watch below, and look for more next month!
That's all for today, but stay tuned for a new news post on the site tomorrow! Thanks everyone!
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