Some other things...

Lawdamercy! Doesn't time fly? This is where I was 36 years ago this past weekend and here's a couple of photos taken then that have just turned up thanks to Charlie Charles. Echo & The Bunnymen making their London debut as a three piece and Joy Division. Man I seriously wish that I did still have that mixing desk copy of the Teardrop Explodes and the Bunnymen that Sharon from Final Solution gave me of their performances that weekend

Anyway onto some other things...
Ai Weiwei to attend the NGV expo here in Melbourne. While travel expenses are in the news out here in Australia here's some funny stories about moon travel claims. Scorsese has rebuilt Max's Kansas City. RIP Buddy Emmons. Some of Ollie Olsen's favourite records. Peter Capaldi and Craig Ferguson's punk band. The children of ISIS. The torture centre. Cool at 13, adrift at 23. The global war for sand. Michael Franti gets a great review. On the road. First we take Manhattan. How El Chapo builds his tunnels. Russia's prisons. Captain Sensible's guitar up for sale.
Australia's problem with racism explained perfectly. Funny how the Adam Goodes' affair is defined by old white men in the media out here. Bolt. Jones. Newman. McGuire.

This is the best response. We must stand against racism. Anyway talking of racists...
The party of ALA. Erikson hacked again eh?...and Blair seemed like such a nice boy. How unfortunate that with all the musicians demanding that Reclaim Australia/UPF stop using their songs they have to rely on the calibre of this and this. Talk about (c)rap. I almost preferred Burgess's neo nazi hardcore stuff...
Finally onto real music, the past three Thursday nights has seen me attending one of rock's true gentlemen Ed Kuepper's solo residency at my local The Northcote Social where Ed has played new unrecorded music in the first half of the show followed by audience requests in the second half. The final song in the series was a wonderful version of 'Eternally Yours' which also happened to be my request. I am really looking forward to hearing this new album when it is released as this is really strong material. Here's a recording from last Thursday of one of my favourites of the new songs 'Some Said'