Thirty days, 30 albums: how I fell in love with the Fall

Recording in Progress is a project conceived by PJ Harvey, in collaboration with Artangel and Somerset House, for the Inland Revenue’s former staff gymnasium and rifle range in the recently opened New Wing at Somerset House.
Harvey has chosen to record her ninth album inside an architectural installation designed by Somerset House-based Something & Son. The structure, a recording studio in the form of an enclosed box, has one-way glazing, displaying PJ Harvey, her band, producers and engineers as a mutating, multi-dimensional sound sculpture.
Visitors experience exactly what is happening at a particular moment in the studio, as Harvey and musicians, together with her longstanding producers Flood and John Parish, go through the creative process of recording an album of songs
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PJ Harvey’s glass studio will put ‘energy of the recording process’ on view

Edit deAk and Mike (now Walter) Robinson were the co-founders of Art-Rite magazine, a cheaply produced newsprint periodical, that covered the newest directions in art. Issue #13 was a collaboration with Alan Suicide who selected an assortment of images reflective of his view of the modern spirit. Edit and Mike along with video artist Paul Dougherty also created a film to accompany "Frankie Teardrop," an 11-minute song by Suicide. Done before the advent of the cable television program MTV, the film is an early example of the music video genre. Both Mike and Edit became influential art writers: Edit atArtforum; Walter at Art in America and Artnet.

The film is death oriented. The Thanatos instinct instead of the life instinct. Instead of being overt there is the use of end-of-civilization symbols like the corpse and sunsets.
- Mike Robinson
Frankie Teardrop" is a homicidal Punk epic. It's a working-class ballad about Frankie who's working from nine to five and can't survive. His solution is to kill off his family and then himself. But it's not done in an angry way. It's done in a frustrated way so the film implies this frustration.
- Edit deAk
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Built around the earliest, until now unseen, footage of the Clash in concert, filmed by Julien Temple as they opened the infamous Roxy club in a dilapidated Covent Garden on January 1st 1977, this show takes us on a time-travelling trip back to that strange planet that was Great Britain in the late 1970s and the moment when punk emerged into the mainstream consciousness.
Featuring the voices of Joe Strummer and the Clash from the time, and intercutting the raw and visceral footage of this iconic show, with telling moments from the BBC's New Year's Eve, Hogmanay and New Year's Day schedules of nearly 40 years ago, it celebrates that great enduring British custom of getting together, en masse and often substantially the worse for wear, to usher in the New Year.
New Year's Day is when we collectively take the time to reflect on the year that has just gone by and ponder what the new one might hold in store for us. Unknown to the unsuspecting British public, 1977 was of course the annus mirabilis of punk. The year in which the Clash themselves took off, catching the imagination of the nation's youth.
As their iconic song, 1977, counts us down to midnight, we'll share with them and Joe Strummer, in previously unseen interviews from the time, their hopes and predictions for the 12 months ahead

Worst French actor's name EVER

A couple of years ago I srsly fuct up a message to the wonderful Helen (ex of this parish) by Emily and I at a local Northcote pub. Hey but hopefully I will learn by my mistakes eh?

September 9, 199
Dear Friends,
When I saw your Calendar cover today about George Michael, "the reluctant pop star," my first reaction was he should thank the good Lord every morning when he wakes up to have all that he has., And that'll make two of us thanking God every morning for all that we have.
I don't understand a guy who lives "in hopes of reducing the strain of his celebrity status." Here's a kid who "wanted to be a pop star since I was about 7 years old." And now that he's a smash performer and songwriter at 27 he wants to quit doing what tons of gifted youngsters all over the world would shoot grandma for - just one crack at what he's complaining about.
Come on George, Loosen up. Swing, man, Dust off those gossamer wings and fly yourself to the moon of your choice and be grateful to carry the baggage we've all had to carry since those lean nights of sleeping on buses and helping the driver unload the instruments
And no more of that talk about "the tragedy of fame." The tragedy of fame is when no one shows up and you're singing to the cleaning lady in some empty joint that hasn't seen a paying customer since Saint Swithin's day. And you're nowhere near that; you're top dog on the top rung of a tall ladder called Stardom, which in latin means thanks-to-the-fans who were there when it was lonely.
Talent must not be wasted. Those who have it - and you obviously do or today's Calendar cover article would have been about Rudy Vallee - those who have talent must hug it, embrace it, nurture it and share it lest it be taken away from you as fast as it was loaned to you.
Trust me. I've been there.
(Signed, 'Frank Sinatra')
© 1990 Frank Sinatra
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Photos by Michael Cooper
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This is the original remix version featuring vocal samples by the Reverend Billy Graham which could not be cleared legally for release. The promo 12" 'HUM 1' was repressed with a new A-side mix where Gary Clail re-vocaled the text

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Most cancer types 'just bad luck'

America’s first highjacking

https://www.reddit.com/r/taylorswiftarmpit/

Doublevision - TV Wipeout
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Also filmed by Sleazy

There was a third part to Hipgnosis, in Peter Christopherson, though, right?
What happened was that Storm and I had struggles in those early years of Hipgnosis – I won’t say they were easy at all. We were a young, budding creative art house and it was learn-as-you-go, nobody gave us the ground rules, and we were working in a world that was extremely resentful of the kind of work we were doing.
The old fashioned record companies had their own sleeve art departments, were very staid in their views and didn’t want young upstarts encroaching on their world – while we were coming along with images like the Pink Floyd cow that had no writing on the front, no explanation, not even the name of the band, and they thought we were extremely disrespectful to the industry… which we were.
But at the same time, we knew that in the world in which we lived this was to be highly regarded. So Storm and I developed all this stuff together, but inevitably rifts and cracks started to appear, which we couldn’t wallpaper over, because we wanted to go different ways – I wanted to do much more of my own thing, and he wanted to plough onwards as we were and keep me back a bit.
Then we found Peter Christopherson by chance: he wandered into our studio looking for a job, and he had an amazing portfolio. He had these great pictures of people, naked figures, very bizarrely angled and posed – little did we know that he’d been working in a mortuary and they were corpses he’d photographed while he’d been there. But he was very good at lighting and good in the darkroom, so we employed him immediately, and thankfully he proved to be a very good balance between Storm and I – so if things got heated, Peter was a sort of bouncing board for both of us.
He was younger, he had a very different outlook to both of us, he was already involved with that very early movement of industrial music – which I think became, or fed into, punk in a way – he acted as a balance between the two of us, and the three of us together were just formidable in design, photography and ideas too.
Aubrey Powell

The rest of the set can be found HERE

01. Safe European Home
02. Yalla Yalla
03. Rudie Can’t Fail
04. Tony Adams
05. White Man In Hammersmith Palais
06. London Calling
07. Tommy Gun
08. X-Ray Style
09. White Riot

What Lou Reed Taught Me

Sony Hack Re-ignites Questions about Michael Jackson's Banned Song

Jeff Sparrow: In the end, we forget the anarchists, bombers and 'lone wolves'. But the hysteria they provoke stays with us

...and this is why ALL drugs should be legalised so you know exactly what you are taking

Murder, sex, drugs, art, politics… sneakers hanging on telephone lines have become a powerful urban symbol, inspiring genesis theories both hilarious and sinister. In an effort to get to the truth once and for all we asked the people of earth to help us solve this mystery. Using an on-line call out and a phone message bank, this documentary was made entirely from donated photographs, phoned-in theories, video, vlogs, and animation.
The Mystery of Flying Kicks is the result of a unique digital collaboration between the filmmakers and the international public.
Directed by Matthew Bate

'I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I’d rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas'

Trailer Trash

Here's my underwhelming 2014 year mix.
It's not a collection of the year's best tracks, sorry! There's some real beautiful music in there though, and some tracks that I really enjoyed playing in many different occasions.
It also turned out to be quite a dark.
And finally, 2014 was a great year for techno!
Tracklist:
Recondite - Stems
Rico Puestel - Roja Drifts By
Clark - The Grit In The Pearl
Doc Daneeka - I Promise (Feat Seven Davis Jr)
Phon.o - Crystal Math
Yoko Duo - Close These Curtains (Stimming Remix)
Shadow Child & Doorly - Piano Weapon
Floating Points - Sparkling Controversy
Hannah Wants & Chris Lorenzo - Girls
Makam - Girls Night
Anton Pieete - Dx Sunday
&ME - After Dark
Culoe De Song - Gyser
S:VT - Teach You (Desire) Pt 2
Traumer - Hoodlum
Recondite - Caldera
Gaiser - Krakdup
Dubfire - Exit (feat. Miss Kittin)
Julian Jeweil - Frida
Ron Costa - Litcue
Tale Of Us & Vaal - Concor
Butch - Tone 2.0
Sterac - Rotary
Heiko Laux - Brace
Audion - Dem Howl (Joris Voorn Remix)
Barnt - Geffen
David August - Epikur
Karenn - Pace Yourself
Yagya - Sleepygirl 12
Rival Consoles - Recovery

The Glue

‘The World Belongs to Satan’

'Stopping the boats' a fiction as Australia grows ever more isolationist on asylum

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Lingering impact of British nuclear tests in the Australian outback

High and dry? Party drug could target excess drinking