This week's #ThursdayFiveList comes from @alicemcalicepants, and is a search for #SupergroupsAndSideProjects.
I could just pick five folk acts. Working with members of other bands has been integral to folk for as long as bands have been a thing (so basically forever). But that would feel like cheating.
So I've only got one folk supergroup, and them performing something not at all folky - a staggering cover of a piece of epic Scott Walker weirdness.
ØXN - Farmer in the City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE9VmdB_o5E
(ØXN are Radie Peat from Lankum, singer-songwriter Katie Kim, Eleanor Myler of experimental rock band Percolator, and veteran producer Spud Murphy)
Black Grape - In the Name of the Father
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prLFqx1fR-k
(Shaun Ryder, ably assisted by Bez and his vibes, steps out of his apparent deathbed and the ruins of the Happy Mondays to record the one perfect unshackled album of his career - alongside Kermit and Ged Lynch from Ruthless Rap Assassins, Paul Wagstaff from Paris Angels, producer/electronic artist Danny Saber, and also solo Manc rapper Psycho McCarthy, who filled in when Kermit was seriously ill for a time)
100 Proof Aged In Soul - Somebody's Been Sleeping In My Bed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dQ0F8NBSTM
(a supergroup with a varying line-up, involving members of assorted other soul acts, assembled by Holland-Dozier-Holland as a vehicle for their post-Motown songs)
Craven Faults - Lampes Mosse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my1uFRKVNjE
(the side project of someone in a post-rock band I've never heard of. Look, I don't know really, and he keeps his identity a secret, but I have an old friend who does know, although when he told me who it was, I did not recognise the name and promptly forgot it)
Bootsy's Rubber Band - I'd Rather Be With You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T62XibPMlXw
(it's debatable whether any part of the greater P-Funk universe really counts as a side project or an integral part of the glorious whole - but I'm going to include this anyway, if only because the Rubber Band did support Parliament on tour in 1977, which sort of makes it feel like a genuine side project)
