Jonny Cragg on Beans on Toast
Photo: http://www.thetwentytwos.com/
Q: Jonny, my local British pub does not sell beans on toast. I’m downright indignant about this. Do you have any advice?
A: You need BRITISH BEANS, none o that US pork bbq bs. One can augment with a smear of Marmite on top of hot buttered toast and maybe some grated cheddar on the top of the beans. Me I’m all old school; i serve the beans on the side and butter toast. That way you preserve the integrity and crispness of the bread to the last mouthful as you fork the beans onto the toast, bit by bit. A tip for the beans is to slow cook them on the lowest heat in a shallow pan, don’t even let ‘em come to the boil or they’ll disintegrate. My personal favourite brand is Crosse and Blackwell but HP or Heinz (sky Blue can) are just fine.
Jonny x
Christian Langdon – Down
Originally posted on Christian Langdon’s MySpace page in early 2008 (est).
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Christian just added three new songs to his MySpace page:
Easy When You’re Young,
All the Way Down and
Blindfold
Check’em out.
Space Oddities interview w/ David Heinke (Arckid Session Drummer)
Can you detail your involvement in the music industry and association with Bryce Goggin prior to your time in the studio with Arckid?
I’ve been playing drums since I can remember, but my professional career began when I was 15 and played on an album by a band called Beggars (Island). It’s a solid debut album, but was deleted immediately by the record company. The only people who look for it now are fans of BRMC; Robert Been played bass on the record with me. That gig got me lots of other singer-songwriter-type demo gigs in the SF Bay area. I mean, they were demos, but it was still great to fly out from time to time. I grew up in Rockford, IL, and was in high school, so to fly anywhere to play drums was really cool.
Around 2000, I was in a proper band called Fuse, which got a small publishing deal from Warner-Chappell. We decided to use that money to fund an album, and Bryce was immediately on our short list based on the first two Spacehog albums. We met with him, we got on great, and we recorded the album in May of 2001. We tracked in CA and mixed in NJ. Sadly, like many great bands with great debut albums, we did not get signed and eventually broke up. But Bryce and I would email each other every couple of months–we definitely stayed in touch. So one day, out of the blue at the beginning of ‘06, Bryce called me and told me to call Roy right away.
