So the search for themed or appropriate songs continues. Today Wednesday. I wonder what musical delights await us? Well just to continue the tradition of beginning with a Wednesday that is not quite a Wednesday, we bring you and extract from the original TV series of The Addams Family. Here is a dance designed to get you moving this morning from Wednesday Addams.
Wednesday has proved the most difficult day so far, not because there are no songs but because there are fewer live performances to share. I would have liked to share John Lee Hooker’s Wednesday Evening Blues or Simon & Garfunkel’s Wednesday Morning 3.00am but no footage appears to exist. Instead Tori Amos.
Myra Ellen “Tori” Amos is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Amos was the lead singer of the short-lived 1980s group Y Kant Tori Read, before achieving her breakthrough as a solo artist in the early 1990s. Her songs focus on a broad range of topics, including sexuality, feminism, politics and religion. The song Wednesday is to be found on her seventh studio album Scarlet’s Walk.
Wolf Alice are a British alt rock band from London. Formed in 2010 as an acoustic duo comprising singer Ellie Roswell and guitarist Joff Oddie, since 2012 Wolf Alice have also featured bassist Theo Ellis and drummer Joel Amey. Wolf Alice released their debut single “Fluffy” in February 2013, and followed it with “Bros” in May. The band released their second studio album Visions of a Life in September 2017. It debuted at number two on the UK Album Chart, and received universal acclaim from music critics. Ranked as one of the best albums of the year by multiple publications, the album won the 2018 Mercury Prize. Their track Wednesday, is apparently only to be found on the limited-edition box set – bonus CD (B-Sides, Demos etc) of their debut album ‘My Love Is Cool’ – but there is video!
“Wednesday Week” is the seventh single released by The Undertones. The song was written in December 1979 by John O’Neill, during a Christmas break the band had taken while recording their second album, Hypnotised. The song was notably more mellow than each of the six singles the band had released previously, drawing influences from mid-sixties acts such as the Kinks and The Beatles. The single was released in July 1980 and peaked at #11 on the UK Singles Chart, making the song the band’s second highest charting single.
Lisa Anne Loeb is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, producer, touring artist, actress, author, and philanthropist who started her career with the platinum-selling number 1 hit song, “Stay (I Missed You)” from the film Reality Bites, the first number 1 single for an artist without a recording contract. Her studio albums include two back-to-back albums that were certified Gold; these were Tails and the Grammy-nominated Firecracker. “Waiting for Wednesday” is a track from Tails. The critics said that “Loeb has an undeniable gift for creating an air of intimacy and vulnerability, which may well be enough for ‘Stay’ fans looking for additional doses of contemplative melancholy.”
It is by the circuitous route that we find ourselves featuring a local girl duo called “Waiting for Wednesday”, who describe themselves as a feisty female duo with sweet and husky voices harmonise distinctively in their stirring songs on living, loving and losing. Influenced by the likes of Joni, Janis and Emmylou, they write stories in the folk tradition and play them with a rock passion and country twang.
