Friday 15 March 2019
Thursday 14 March 2019
Curtis Mayfield by Jason Heller
Curtis Mayfield’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Curtis Mayfield - Beat Club, Bremen, West Germany, January 19, 1972 Part 1/2
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Back in London in the early eighties I had a friend who put a funk band together called 'Work Party' and I went to see their debut gig at Covent Garden's Rockgarden. They were really good and a short while later when I was working at Dingwalls in Camden it was announced that Curtis Mayfield was to play and I managed to wangle my friend's band the support slot. Somewhere I may have still have recordings of those two gigs, I certainly do still have their first demo tape in storage. A great wee combo who I believe had another demo produced by Fritz Skidoo. Interestingly enough Fritz has no memory of this but I am sure that my friend, gerry Murphy, told me this just before I moved to Australia in 86
Curtis Mayfield - Beat Club, Bremen, West Germany, January 19, 1972 Part 1/2
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Back in London in the early eighties I had a friend who put a funk band together called 'Work Party' and I went to see their debut gig at Covent Garden's Rockgarden. They were really good and a short while later when I was working at Dingwalls in Camden it was announced that Curtis Mayfield was to play and I managed to wangle my friend's band the support slot. Somewhere I may have still have recordings of those two gigs, I certainly do still have their first demo tape in storage. A great wee combo who I believe had another demo produced by Fritz Skidoo. Interestingly enough Fritz has no memory of this but I am sure that my friend, gerry Murphy, told me this just before I moved to Australia in 86
Talk Talk - Eden (Rehearsal Cassette)
A late-stage rehearsal straight to cassette for reference. Recorded shortly before going into the studio, probably at John Henry rehearsal rooms. This is Mark on guitar, Lee on drums, and myself on piano and organ (the bass was always addressed in the studio once the basic track was down, which is why it doesn't feature here).
It's best to take the 8 minutes out and listen to the end, preferably in headphones, and in a quiet space
Thanks Stan
Joni Mitchell with LA Express - Old Grey Whistle Test (BBC 1974)
Joni Mitchell - Vocals/guitar/piano
Tom Scott - Saxophone
Robben Ford - Guitar
Max Bennett - Bass
John Guerin - Drums
Roger Kellaway - Keyboards
Friday 1 March 2019
Wednesday 27 February 2019
Sunday 4 November 2018
Thursday 25 October 2018
Tuesday 18 September 2018
Saturday 15 September 2018
Thursday 16 August 2018
Penny Reel R.I.P.
Penny Reel Selection on Manasseh KISS FM Show (199X)
Side A
Side B
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Pressure Drop 1 & 2 (the world's first reggae fanzine)
Published in 1975 and 1976
Edited by Nick Kimberley and Penny Reel with assistance from Chris Lane. I used to have these a l o n g time ago, the only two issues that were published, although Chris Lane says here:
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Side B
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Pressure Drop 1 & 2 (the world's first reggae fanzine)
Published in 1975 and 1976
Edited by Nick Kimberley and Penny Reel with assistance from Chris Lane. I used to have these a l o n g time ago, the only two issues that were published, although Chris Lane says here:
We were going to do a third one because we all agreed at the time that 1972 had been such a classic year for reggae. We were going to do a 1972 edition of Pressure Drop and write it as though it was actually 1972: “Look at this great record from Glen Brown, Merry Up. It’s like nothing you’ve ever heard before”. Of course we never got round to it but Nick knew someone at Pluto Press and we actually signed a contract and got paid a very small advance to write this book about reggae. It was going to be the history of reggae and I remember at the time that I even did a thing about dub and how dubs are mixed, the track layouts, why the Studio One dubs on the albums sound the way they do because they come from 2-track tape, how the Tubby’s dubs sound the way they do because they’re using 4-track tape, and the Channel One’s…My BIG thanks to Nigel for passing them along
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Thursday 9 August 2018
Tuesday 7 August 2018
Wednesday 1 August 2018
FUCK ROCK & ROLL (A Season In Hell)
Television
Tom Verlaine: gtr/vocals
Richard Hell: bass/vocals
Richard Lloyd: gtr/vocals
Billy Ficca: drums
ORK LOFT REHEARSALS, 1974
1. Fuck Rock and Roll (I’d Rather Read a Book)
2. Horizontal Ascension
3. I’m Gonna Find You
4. I Don’t Care
5. Marquee Moon
MAX’S KANSAS CITY, AUGUST 1974
6. You Rip My Feelings Out
7. Excitement
8. What I Heard
9. Telepathic Valentine
10. Change Your Channels
11. Judy
12. Psychotic Reaction
ENO / WILLIAMS DEMOS, DECEMBER 1974
13. Prove It
14. Friction
15. Venus De Milo
16. Double Exposure
17. Marquee Moon
CBGB, JANUARY 1975
18. Hard On Love (Fast Version)
19. UFO
20. Poor Circulation
21. Breakin’ In My Heart
CBGB, MARCH 1975
22. Blank Generation
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Tuesday 31 July 2018
Monday 30 July 2018
A Bigger Gnash by ex Specials bassie Horace Panter
A good reason to visit The Beano's 80th birthday exhibition at Dundee's (Scotland) temporarily renamed 'McMenace' Galleries
Tuesday 17 July 2018
The United States of Arms
U.S. weapons exports from 1950 to 2017. Data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's Arms Transfers Database. Units are expressed in trend indicator values (TIV). Each dot on the map = one TIV. Visualization by Will Geary
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Get Pissed On
@maddow It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Get Pissed On pic.twitter.com/UHi3De3tbL— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) July 17, 2018
Friday 13 July 2018
Wednesday 11 July 2018
Looking forward to Alexander Hacke & Danielle de Picciotto's 'Crossroads' tonight at ACMI
Info and tickets still available HERE
Tuesday 10 July 2018
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