Saturday 23 May 2009

Israel wipes Palestine off the map

Full story at the 'BBC' here.

Mark Polizzotti - An evening with Maurice Roche 1983


Friday 22 May 2009

Paris Blues



Louis Armstrong - Paris Blues
(For someone special!)

The Drones (Off The Record) @ 'Aquarium Drunkard'

Over at 'Aquarium Drunkard' The Drones reflect on their city of residence (Melbourne in this case) and choose a handful of places they could not live without — be them bookstores, bars, restaurants or vistas.

"The Weather :: Though the summers get pretty warm, the other three seasons are more or less on the mild to freezing side, which means I get to rug up. I hate wearing shorts...
Joe’s Shoe Store :: This is my local bar. Everyone needs to have a local. Life is not complete without one. I can go into that place, not even open my mouth and still be served exactly what I was feeling like at the time. Also, the folks that run the place are as unruly as the unruliest of customers, so the mood is always right. One minute you’re talking to them about the middle-east crisis, the next you’re trying to talk them down off the bar and to put their clothes back on. How I miss it, when I’m away."
(One of my locals!)
Full story here.


The Drones - Minotaur

Girlz With Gunz # 44

'Tania' AKA Patty Hearst

REPOST - The Kid With The Replaceable Head

Photograph by David Shankbone



Here are 'The Kid With The Replaceable Head' and 'I'm your Man' by Richard Hell & the Voidoids as produced by Nick Lowe and released on Radar Records in 1979.

If anyone has a copy of the piece Richard Hell wrote on David Johansen for Lisa Robinson's 'Hit Parader' back in 1975/6 could they please get in touch with me.
It is almost Hell's manifesto about giving not 100 or 200% to rock'n'roll but 400%!
It was not reprinted in 'Hot & Cold'.

Cabaret Voltaire/New Order collaboration (Western Works Sheffield 07-09-80) FLAC


'Are You Ready Are You Ready Are You Ready For This?'
Peter Hook - Bass
Bernard Sumner - Guitar (and "whooping" in the background)
Stephen Morris - Simmons Drums, and the same Dr Rhythm drum machine used on Truth
Rob Gretton - Vocals
Various Cabs - sonic alterations

01 Dreams Never End (mix 1, quieter guitars)
02 Dreams Never End (mix 2, louder guitars)
03 Homage
04 Ceremony
05 Truth
06 Are You Ready Are You Ready Are You Ready For This?

"Kind souls, who wish to remain anonymous rescued this material from a 1/4" reel of tape that was up for auction on eBay, advertised as something else, and it was only in the reel transfer that it was discovered what it actually contained. It's been theorized that if this is not the master reel itself from the studio mixdown sessions, it's at the very least a direct, professional copy of it. The band could release this today, as-is. So I am honored to present it here..."

Full story and download at:
The Power of Independent Trucking
with more details here.
(Via 'Everything starts with an A')

BUY!

(Photo by TimN)
Some local artwork that went up last week.

Smoking # 15

Lamp (pervert!)

Thursday 21 May 2009

Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Tim Hodgkinson live at The Stone New York, December 16th 2006

Henry Cow - Living In The Heart of the Beast (Live Vevey Switzerland 1976)



Jon Stewart - Guantanamo Baywatch (The Final Season)

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We await the Vatican's response


"It documents a shameful catalogue of cruelty: neglect, physical, sexual and emotional abuse, perpetrated against children"
Cardinal Sean Brady
Leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland
On Ireland's 'Child Abuse Report'
(Yip - it sure does.)

Story at the 'BBC' here.
You can read the report here.

"The Christian Brothers, which ran several boys' institutions deemed to have harbored serial child molesters and sadists on their staff, insisted it had cooperated fully with the probe. The order successfully sued the commission in 2004 to keep the identities of all of its members, dead or alive, unnamed in the report. No real names, whether of victims or perpetrators, appear in the final document."
From 'Yahoo' here.

Girlz With Gunz # 43

Sheet!

More 'Dangerhorse' drama with EMI

EMI now remove Youtube video of 'Dark Night of the Soul'
This despite it having no music from the album!
You can still watch it here.
(Via 'Pitchfork' here.)

This is really starting to make even less sense than before!

Fireball XL5 - Intro & credits


(Thanx to 'coisas do arco da velha')

A Sad Story:
When I was about 5 I got from Santa a Fireball XL5 rocket that you shot up into the air with a catapult and it would separate in two and float down to earth on parachutes.
At least that was what should have happened!
Xmas morning and I went up to the hills behind where I lived with my Dad and shot my rocket up into the air only to see one half of it parachute down a couple of hundred feet into the quarry, where of course we were not allowed to go.
One launch that was all I got (bugger!)

NB: Trivia fans - the closing song is performed by Don Spencer who is Russell Crowe's father-in-law!
('Feathers, Furs & Fins' eh kids?)
TV21

HIV's spread around Europe mapped

Full story at the 'BBC' here.

REPOST - Killer Luka's amazing dolls




Killer Luka has five of her incredible creations over at Dennis Cooper's blog today.
Please check them out.
They are truly amazing.

The doll above is 'Edie as The Broken Girl'.

Flickr here.
'Habitat' blog here.
(Do check it out there is some amazing work there, a couple of examples of which are below.)

Wednesday 20 May 2009

Acid

LSD Blotter Art signed by The Merry Pranksters.
Available here.

Smith & Mighty - Essential Mix


Smith & Mighty Essential Mix (24-11-96)
at 'It's Coming Out Of Your Speaker'
here.

Tracklist:
Massive Attack - Any Love (Massive Attack)
Smith & Mighty - Walk On (Three Stripe)
McKelz Smith & Mighty - Mix Me Down Maestro (Three Stripe)
The General - The Time To Rhyme (FFRR)
Fresh 4 - Wishing On A Star (Ten)
Smith & Mighty - Anyone (Three Stripe)
Receiver - Irrational (Swarf Finger)
The Wild Bunch - The Look Of Love (4th & Broadway)
Smith & Mighty with McKelz & Tammy Payne - Seeds (White Label)
Wilks - A & R Man (White Label)
Dub Ghecko - Love To The Power Of Each (Duh Head)
Dub Ghecko - Love To The Power Of Each (Diih Head)
Smith & Mighty - Killa (FFRR)
Blue & Red/ Freddie - Blessed (Acetate Pressing)
Blue & Red - Unity (Acetate Pressing)
Blue & Red/ K.Oil - Don Anything (Acetate Pressing)
Tamlins - Baltimore Remix 2 (Acetate Pressing)
Tamlins - Baltimore Remix 3 (Acetate Pressing)
Smith & Mighty - Heavens In (Acetate Pressing)
Bally Sagoo - Ghuraliya (Columbia)
Virginity - Rainbows (More Rockers)
Flyn & Flora - New World (White Label)
Jazklash - Off The Edge (White Label)
Jazklash - BQE (White Label)
Smith & Mighty - Same (More Rockers)
Smith & Mighty - Higher (More Rockers)
More Rockers - Another Day (More Rockers)
More Rockers - Sound Boy (More Rockers)
More Rockers - Show Love (Acetate)
More Rockers - 162 (Acetate)
More Rockers- Nightfall (More Rockers)
More Rockers - First Time (More Rockers)
More Rockers - Frush (Acetate)
More Rockers - Das Ya One (More Rockers)
More Rockers - 1 2 3 Break (More Rockers)
Silent Poets - Talk Is Toy (Acetate)
Jazklash - Than The Haze (Acetate)
More Rockers - Bibo (Acetate)
More Rockers - Cure (Acetate)
Smith & Mighty - Down In Rwanda (More Rockers)
Flyn & Flora - Bass Speaker (White Label)

Girlz With Gunz # 42

Naked Lunch handbills


'Naked Lunch' book & film

Smoking # 14

(Photo by Richard Kern)

Stephen O'Malley (KTL) The Toff in Town Melbourne 18-09-07

(Photo by Casey Rice)
Warning! If you look at this photograph for too long there is a chance that a suitcase will come flying out of the smoke and hit you right in the face!

Smith & Mighty - Brain Scan

Smith & Mighty - Anyone (featuring Jackie Jackson)

Tuesday 19 May 2009

Smoking # 13

(Photo by Richard Kern)

A right pair...

Hitler & Franco - one more thing in common.
Story from the 'BBC' here.
However...

Girlz With Gunz # 41 (Fifi in DC!)

For Chook over in NZ

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Yer man on the telly


Shane MacGowan VS Danny Baker



Shane MacGowan VS Frank Skinner


Shane MacGowan VS Henry Rollins


Shane MacGowan VS Jack Doherty
(and why he ate a Beach Boys album!!!)



Shane MacGowan VS Shane MacGowan

Shane's new teeth

Nice to see Mr. MacGowan with a new set of teeth and nice to see that they are already yellow! Pearly white just really wouldn't have looked right.
I remember a pre Pogue Shane in 1978 or so getting a new set of caps to go over his already tombstone like teeth then and they must have lasted a couple of months if that! And with his birthday being on Xmas day maybe this was the wish come true.
(Thanx to the 'hangover-helper' for pointing me in this direction)

Sinead O'Connor & Shane MacGowan - Haunted

Make The Girl Dance - Baby, Baby, Baby

Monday 18 May 2009

Words by Tom McGrath (RIP)

Growing old
My jaws unfold
My face is wrinkled
Starting to crinkle
But we'll be bold
Before we're old
we'll show them what we're made of.

(From 'Laurel & hardy' 1976)

Chorus

Come walk beside me
Come take my hand and walk beside me
walk beside me till the gurgling stream
comes easing through the stones
rolling the pebbles all around and taking us down
into the further depths where coldness
laps in around our toes
splashes our ankles
but we have no regrets
we have no regrets
even though our feet are wet

(A homage to the aria of Bach's Goldberg variations 1999)

My sister in Glasgow attended Tom McGrath's funeral a couple of Fridays ago and very kindly sent me a copy of the Order of Service pamphlet.
The words above were printed on the back page.
Thanx WJN (with loveXXX)

WOW!


I have just discovered a couple of blogs both done by someone calling themself 'quantum retrocausality':

Identical Men From Parallel Universes
&
Circumambient Peripherisation

They are really something else indeed.
We obviously share an interest in some of the same subjects (Brion Gysin, On-U Sound and WSB immediately come to mind and I even have a post on Marshall McLuhan here) but believe me if these two blogs are at the top of the Premier League then mine is in the League One playoff final in comparison.

Check them out!

Bomb The Bass - Black River (featuring Mark Lanegan)

Updated information & help needed

Recently I put this album 'Russian Chants (Ambient Mix)' by Boris Feokistov & Bill Laswell up as my first post at my new(ish) blog and also put up some info that I found at 'Discogs'. However yesterday there was a comment left at the post from 'Anon':
"Info bout Feoktistov is not true. There are 2 diferent guys - one Russian folk player. Another, Russian orthodox composer and church regent Boris Feoktistov.
http://www.eipuser.ru/index.php?option=com_artistdirectory&task=singleArtist&id=2.
and this is link to original album
http://www.bogoslovy.ru/audio/feokt.htm."
So I am asking for help by someone who can speak Russian & English and who can perhaps help me out with a rough translation of the details at the above links as to be honest 'Babelfish' is not really helping.
NB: The second link will lead here and you can download what appear to be some of the original tracks from the album above before they have been remixed by Bill Laswell.

Sunday 17 May 2009

American family c.1910's

Via 'Vintage Photo' here.