Sourcing fresh meat, a cabal of powerful Pygmalions, including Tompkins Square records and Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, declare Michael Chapman not an overlooked English Seventies singer-songwriter, but an innovator in the vein of John Fahey and the American primitive school of tranced-out folk blues instrumentals.
Now he’s the subject of a tribute record, Happy Birthday, staffed by famous fans and friends, and has a vinyl noise album due on Moore’s label.
Most significantly, the double CD Trainsong sees the seventy year old survivor re-record twenty-six principally acoustic, finger-picked numbers from his catalogue, stretching initially simple structures into unknown space, transforming them into intense, modal meditations.
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Joycey, readytogo.net
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Sam Rooney, Youtube
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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98rosjon, Twitter
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Fairy Pingu, Twitter
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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John Robins, Comedian
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Emilyistrendy, Youtube
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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A D Ward, Twitter
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Brighton Argus
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Slothy Matt, Twitter
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Coxy, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Spanner, dontstartmeoff.com
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Peter Ould, Twitter
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Kozzy06, Youtube
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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World Without End, Twitter
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Guest, Dontstartmeoff.com
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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Whoiscuriousgeorge, Youtube
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Tweeterkiryakou, Twitter
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Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Peter Fears, Twitter
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
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Tokyofist, Youtube
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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Sidsings000, Youtube
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Tres Ryan, Twitter
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Stokeylitfest, Twitter
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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter