![]() ![]() “We wake up, and we gotta play fast,” says Domi.ĭomi and JD Beck with Anderson. “You’ll go to a jam session and they’re playing, like, really slow R&B.” Adds Domi: “And on the radio, everything is the same tempo.” Naturally, Beck says, when he and Domi first started playing, they felt the need to harness the energy that they were missing. “When we were coming up as teenagers, around a lot of music that’s very slow,” says Beck, calling from Dallas. It’s what got them noticed in the first place. Paak’s label new Universal imprint Apeshit) one of the year’s most anticipated debuts. But it is Domi and JD Beck’s blithe disregard for convention, aesthetically and musically, that has made their debut album, Not Tight (released via Blue Note and Anderson. To be a fan of Domi and JD Beck is to be constantly reminded of testicles – a recent show at the Hollywood Bowl was memorialised on Domi’s Instagram as a set at “the Hollywood Ballsack”. They also have more in common with your average meme account admins than most artists signed to longstanding jazz label Blue Note: they refer to their rendition of John Coltrane’s My Favourite Things as My Favourite Ballsack their spin on Coltrane’s Giant Steps is, of course, Giant Nuts they once joked that their debut album would be called Pussy With Balls. At 22 and 19, respectively, they’re both undeniable prodigies – the former a keyboardist who plays with the same speed, intensity and militant precision that most people her age use to text, the latter a drummer who could probably keep perfect time with the ECG of a cardiac arrest. ![]() ![]() God bless the internet.D omi and JD Beck might be the first musicians to ever shitpost their way into the jazz pantheon. And it was all captured for glorious posterity in a brilliant 48-minute documentary from 1998 that you can enjoy online for free. That gives you an idea of what we’re dealing with here. Chaos was par for the course at the Yorkshire club, whose owner even hired an ex-SAS soldier to set fire to the stadium. In the nineties, Doncaster Rovers was a proper basket case of a football club. (Unfortunately the full documentary has since been deleted from YouTube, but you can still watch it on Dailymotion).ġ0 must-watch football shows and films you can stream right now They Think It’s All Rover We spoke to John Sitton about his career and that incident on our podcast in 2017: In an attempt to get something, anything out of his players, the Hackney-born Londoner tears strips out of the squad in an infamous diatribe in which he bizarrely tells two players to “bring yer fackin’ dinner, because by the time I’m finished with ya you’ll fackin’ need it.” It would be enough to drive any manager demented, and Sitton was no different. So let’s raise a glass to these magnificent pieces of work and pay tribute to the hours of entertainment they have given and will continue to give to us. This genre really exploded in the nineties after the success of the documentary following England’s failed USA 94 qualifying campaign (more on that in a moment) and we were bombarded with similar efforts throughout the decade – probably too many, in fact.įatigue eventually set in among the viewers and we didn’t see very many of them produced in the following two decades, the excellent Four Year Plan in 2011 being a glorious exception. We’ve gone behind the scenes at Man City, Leeds United, Borussia Dortmund and, most entertainingly, Sunderland, with a Spurs effort on the way as well. The recent resurgence of the fly-on-the-wall football documentary has been a welcome development, giving viewers an insight into the inner workings of some of the modern game’s biggest clubs. ![]() While we’re all stuck inside self-isolating due to the coronavirus pandemic with no live football on, we might as well occupy ourselves with some classic fly-on-the-wall football documentaries from the nineties – all of which are available to watch right now on YouTube. ![]()
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