NING STANDARD 204!
** ‘CHEER UP’ – IT’S A THIRD PANDA MISSIVE ABOUT THE ONGOING FIERCE PANDEMIC **
** ALBERT GOLD + MOON PANDA + MEMES DREAM OF A BETTER DAY **
** AND SAVE OUR BLOOMIN’ VENUES **
Hello there panda people. How sail you dreamboats? Since the 203RD edition of Ning Standard sauntered forth on April 15th it seems as though things have got even more sensationally mysterious out there. Markets and car showrooms are set to reopen next week, with retail shops to follow mid-June, but there is still no light on the horizon shining brightly for live music, alas. The Music Venue Trust is behind www.saveourvenues.co.uk which is raising funds for hundreds of paralysed venues across the nation. We’re diving in to buy one of those slinky twenty quid t-shirts – come join us.
For as long as the radio crackles - much like that beautifully gloomy bit in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows (Part I) where Nick Cave’s ‘O Children’ creeps through the shadows – the panda shall plough on regardless. Ipso facto, this month we bring news of three unfeasibly terrific brand new releases by Hackney soul boy ALBERT GOLD with ‘Satellite’, and Cali-Dane combo MOON PANDA with ‘Slow Drive’, and Glasgow duo MEMES, who are here to cheer everyone up with their ‘Cheer Up’ single.
We’ve also got a couple of cheeky new additions to the fierce panda Covid Version Sessions, wherein various bands locked into rockdown give the outdoor world reworkings of tunes which have touched them in some way, and all in support of the NHS. We’re overjoyed to say that China Bears and Jekyll have joined the esteemed list, which now looks like this:
NATIONAL SERVICE ‘LAST JANUARY’ (by The Twilight Sad)
LISTEN
DESPERATE JOURNALIST ‘THE FEAR’ (by Pulp)
LISTEN
MOON PANDA ‘CALL IT FATE, CALL IT KARMA’ (by The Strokes)
LISTEN
CHINA BEARS ‘Hackensack’ (by The Fountains Of Wayne)
LISTEN
JEKYLL ‘NIGHTPORTER’ (by Japan)
LISTEN
Don’t forget you can hear originals from all of the above, plus Ghost Suns and Scrounge and Italia 90 and Skint & Demoralised and so many more at the supremely Official Pandamonium! Spotify Playlist right now…