Tuesday 18 November 2014

Band Aid

A must read from Neil Kulkarni on Band Aid 30

Hey, they're not making it easy for me to get behind this. I think part of the problem with Band Aid, both in its original 1984 incarnation and its new re-tooled 2014 version, is the utter fucking horribleness of everyone involved. If we're being forensic then we could blame Michael Buerk for starters. Michael Buerk's currently making 150 grand for appearing on a I'm A Celebrity, and could last week be heard on the open turd-strewn sewer that is The Moral Maze defaming a victim of rape. It was Michael Buerk who helped break the Ethiopia Famine story in 1984 and at that time, he had a choice as a journalist, to represent the famine and suffering as an act of nature or an act of politics. Fatally, as he continues to do, Buerk chose to treat us like idiots, giving out a totally simplistic and false portrayal of the situation that inevitably led to simplistic solutions, a headlock of simplicity that's endured ever since in most reactions to 'third world crises'. A 'famine caused by drought'. A 'biblical famine'...
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk and John Cage - Sound?? (1967)

Monday 17 November 2014

William S. Burroughs: Commissioner of Sewers (Klaus Maeck 1991)

Larry Charles's "Bob Dylan Slapstick-Comedy" Story

The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive

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Sacha Goldberger: Super Flemish

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Penny Rimbaud: my top 10 favourite albums

Do You Want to Build a Meth Lab?

Martin Rowson (Guardian UK)


Black Cab at Melbourne Town Hall

Well it was a spectacle for sure. Utilising the organ at the Town Hall looked great on paper and certainly was interesting live though not helped by the swimming pool acoustics of the venue but I think they made a few new fans if the after gig sales of the new CD are anything to go by. It was just a real pity that it was only a half hour set. All in all not one of the best gigs I have seen by them but you have another chance when their album launch takes place at Howlers on November 29th to witness how powerful they really can be live
So what about Tangerine Dream I hear you ask? Well fifteen minutes was all I could handle...you know I am going to have a problem when our asshat Lord Mayor digs them. Really do think that a Black Cab/Oneohtrix Point Never double bill would have been more up my alley. But hey looking on the bright side I didn't smell any patchouli oil, oh and Edgar, Melbourne is actually in Australia not New Zealand.
My thanks to Andrew for putting me on the door last night and James it was a missed opportunity to wear your Phantom Of The Opera Mask

Thurston Moore & Lou Reed

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Eldridge Cleaver: Black Panther (1970)

Too big to jail: why the government is quick to fine but slow to prosecute big corporations

Richard Lloyd: 'Scuse Me While I Hit This Guy

Remembering Peter Kassig: ‘His empathy and warmth were obvious

MGMT - Live on KCRW (15/4/14)


Interview
Setlist:
1. Alien Days
2. Cool Song No. 2
3. Mystery Disease
4. Time to Pretend
5. Introspection
6. Flash Delirium
7. The Youth
8. Siberian Breaks
9. Electric Feel
10. Congratulations

What Taylor Swift’s 8 seconds of static tells us about media consumption

Where America's Racist Tweets Come From

Sunday 16 November 2014

Double Jeopardy: In Alabama, a judge can override a jury that spares a murderer from the death penalty

Bloody kids! (C17th)

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DO NOT READ THIS

Swans to play Corner Hotel Melbourne Jan 20th 2015

Well that's a particularly good birthday present

Yellow Magic Orchestra: The Pre-MIDI Technology Behind Their Anthems

HA!


J. G. Ballard's original manuscript of Crash from the British Library's Ballard archive

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Sharetapes

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Ad Break: Orgy


Michael Putland: Tom Waits on Portobello Road (1976)


Captain Beefheart Interview by Richard Einhorn for WFMU, January 26, 1971


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Russia really needs a new propaganda department
Future Days: A Personal Restrospective of Can

Pauline Murray - Don't Dictate @ Toff In Town, Melbourne (8th Nov 2014)


I was supposed to be at this gig having won tickets but my pancreas had other plans that night

81% of Tor users can be de-anonymised by analysing router information, research indicates

Me Against the Music: How Should Fans Behave in the Digital Age?

Nasir al-Mulk Mosque Shiraz Iran


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So as I mentioned I will be heading off to this tonight

I first heard Tangerine Dream on John Peel's show and saw them play at City Hall in Glasgow in 1975. I seem to recall that it was ok but I do know that this gig put me off the smell of patchouli oil for life.
I did catch them again in London in 1981 and remember being bored out of my skull.
The only reason I am going tonight is for the support act Black Cab who last week finally released their (very) long awaited magnificent fourth album 'Games of the XXI Olympiad' and it has been amazing hearing these songs taking shape live over the the last three to four years.
While there is the added bonus of the Cab's getting their hands on the beast that is the Melbourne Town Hall organ, unfortunately they are only playing for 30 minutes...and then it will be this.
How long will I last?

Record Collectors

Photographer Eilon Paz left Israel in 2008 to try his luck in New York. “It was the worst time to try your luck. It was the beginning of the recession. There were no jobs to be found so I just found myself in record stores spending my money on records and nothing much more than that,” he said.
All that time spent around records gave Paz the idea to do a project on the people who collect them. After meeting African record collector and DJ Frank Gossner in Brooklyn, he became introduced to other collectors around the city and started posting photos and stories about them on his blog, Dust and Grooves. “I thought it was cool to shoot record collectors. I'm a collector myself,” he said. “I had shot musicians in Israel, but it was more of a job than a personal thing. This was my opportunity to express myself...”
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So I will be heading off to this tonight...



Saturday 15 November 2014

Dougie Wallace: Shoreditch Wild Life





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