After witnessing this week-end's Pitchfork festival, where the future of Rock - according to some currently in the hands of Indie Rock bands, the best of which to me sounded like The Velvet Underground on an off day, how's that for a future? - proved to be just as boring and uninspired, at least live, as the worst of the corporate rock/pop they're supposed to be reacting against, it is such a relief to be able to grab back into these old crates and turn to some good old-fashioned musicianship again. The most pompous statement of the week-end was somebody claiming that it was in the year 2001 after all that The Strokes rescued Rock!! Errr... from what? Ignorance?
Night Out is the 1979 debut studio album by Ellen Foley. Fresh from her stint with Meatloaf that introduced her voice to a global audience, it was Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson - and that remarkable voice of hers of course - that turned her debut album into a luscious epic that stands the test of time remarkably well.
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