Welcome to the Radio Dreamsville Blog.

We started this blog as a place on the web to consolidate the Dreamsville Music Projects. Dreamsville is the website of wonderfully talented British guitarist and composer, Bill Nelson. During the 1970's, he was the leader of Be-Bop Deluxe and later of Bill Nelson's Red Noise. Since the early 80's, has produced an enormous body of work as a solo artist. This amazingly prolific and criminally overlooked artist runs a wonderful website for his fans which includes an active and vibrant Forum. Bill's annual conventions, known as Nelsonicas in Yorkshire attract fans from around the world and are the real world adjunct to the virtual community of his forum.
Bill's generous and supportive nature have molded the mood of the Forum, which is a place where many firm friendships have been made.
One of the Forums on Dreamsville Inn Forum, is called "The World and His Wife", taking it's title from a 1983 Nelson single on his own Cocteau Records.
On TWAHW, as it is called, members post links to their own music and videos. Over time, we have collaborated on a number of projects based around a theme, often connected to a holiday. Since members host their music on a variety of sites, this blog will provide an opportunity to consolidate the music projects under one virtual roof.

We have enjoyed working on these projects together and they have led to many wonderful opportunities for musicians from around the world to collaborate. Several virtual bands have been created in the process. We hope you will enjoy listening to the projects and explore the work of the musicians included within. In time, we hope to post all past and future projects as well as links to contributing artists work.

Feel free to visit:

Bill Nelson's Dreamsville Inn Forum



06 February 2011

Valentine's Day Massacre, Volume 1: Strange Worlds Collide

The Valentine's Day Massacre project from 2007 saw a tremendous outpouring of music from a the largest collection of musicians yet. The wealth of music inspired by romantic love snowballed and each new work posted inspired even more. I had not listened to the albums for several years and have been playing them for the past few days in preparation for this compiling this post. I have become very familiar with the work of many of the artists represented on Valentine's Massacre over the past four years through all the projects on which we have collaborated. During my recent listening, I was struck by the consistent high quality of the work, it's diversity of sound, and its consistent tone of nostalgic longing. I was also struck by how well I remembered all of the songs. I hope you will give a listen and let them creep into you memory as they have crept into mine.

In the words of Hairyvike, who organized the original Soudclick page, "We were fortunate to have some additional help and so offer special thanks to John Izzard, Radium Girl, Michael Punslinger and Quinalt for arranging the album, sorting out the artwork and generally pulling everything together!"

All of the songs may be downloaded as one file from Divshare.

The original project page is available at Soundclick.

The Dreamsville thread relating the creation of the project can be found here, and the thread discussing the creation of the artwork, the decisions on song order and reviews of the songs can be found there.

The artwork for Valentines Day Massaacre Volume 1: Strange Worlds Collide can be downloded here.


Onto the Music!

Stuttering Monks: Cap'n Bill's Lycra Pyjamas a wistful electronic reverie with a Japanese influence

Angeltide (featuring Michael Punslinger): Underwhelmed by Valentines (New Mix)
A beautiful guitar piece with a vocal by Punslinger

The Architect Sketch: Valentine Written for my wife in 2006 for the holiday. She didn't like it.

Angeltide: She's Alone Tonight

Planet Andy: Her Aura Proceeds Her
A dreamy Beatlesesque pop song..."She makes me calm and nervous all at once"

Stuttering Monks: Venus Arriving
Another dreamy electronic World piece with some haunting "found" vocals.

Senseless Budd: Opening Budds
The rickety sound of a ukelele blues

Triple Dog Dare (featuring Angeltide): Stole a Kiss
Punslinger steals a kiss and gives it back: assisted by Angeltide on a pop song propelled by wordplay.

Stuttering Monks: The Birds and the Bees
Found sound-an electronic melange of bird calls and electronic noises as a mating dance

Mick Wilson's Bloonoise: Suddenly I found Myself in Love
A Latin-tinged orchestral piece

Triple Dog Dare: Jumpin' for Joy
The Punsligner's skewed pop wordplay.

Dar Shelton: Resonant Spirits
An ambient collection of electronic noises swirled into a lovely symphony

Astrobleme: Mess It Up
Power pop electronic longing

Peter Brookes: Strange Girl
A lovely hook-filled Power Pop song, beautifully crafted and poignant.



Valentines Day Massacre, Volume 2, Scattering Atoms will be posted before Valentine's Day next week
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