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TACK>>HEAD - Stealing (Live @Stereo Glasgow 24/4/22)

Tonight Mix

Guitars. Loud GUITARS. LOUDER GUITARS

Tracklist:

Bobby Hodge - Gonna Take My Guitar / Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive / Hamilton Abi - Amsterdam (Demo) / Neil Young - Tonight's The Night / Spiritualized - The Mainline Song - The Lockdown Song / Ryan Adams - Dive / Loop - Isochrone / Fat White Family - Feet / Sea Power - Transmitter (Alternate Version) / Sonic Youth - Machine / Sparklehorse - Don't Take My Sunshine Away / Arab Strap - Just Enough / Sea Power - Amsterdam / The Sound - Dreams Then Plans / Rolling Stones - Can You Hear Me Knocking (Alternate Version) / MC5 - Rambling Rose / Slade - Hear Me Calling

Here's my recording of the last time Adrian Sherwood played out here in Melbourne (2018)

   

Adrian Sherwood - Live John Curtin Hotel Melbourne (14/3/18) ...and an intertview and live set for 3RRR from the same visit ...and here's the wonderful Karen Leng interviewing Adrian

TACK>>HEAD / MARK STEWART / ADRIAN SHERWOOD Mixes for the On-U Sound's 40th anniversary

Special Designer Song/Get This/Law of Repitition/Crosstown Traffic/Survival*/Hysteria*/What's My Mission Now (Unedited)/Ticking Time Bomb (12" Dub Mix)/Prologue*/Collision*/You Drummers Listen Good/Mind At The End of The Tether/M.O.V.E./Life In The Arena/Repitition (Dub)/Repitition/Bass Groove/The Right Beat 

with Mark Stewart*

  Tell Me The Hurt/Don't Let Me Down (Dub)/Strange Things (Dub)/Walk On The Wild Side (KLB Mix)/Stealing (Extended Mix)/ Mind & Movement/King Bee (Sherwood's Sharehead Dub Remix)/Take A Stroll/Funky President (Gary Clail Remix)/Change/Nobody To Somebody/Dubhead/Demolition House (Remix)/Super Stupid/Higher Ground/Airborn Ranger/I'm Afraid of Americans

  Mostly the Tack>>Head crew with tracks that were released under KLB's name Tracklist: Tack Unit (Intro) / Welcome /Play What You Want / Technology Works / Tick of Time Drub Dub / Mechanical Movements / Mechanical Movements Dub / Nine Times Nine / Dream World Dub / Dream World /Beat The Devil

  Sometimes I think it would be scary to live in Mark's head, other times I think it would be fun

  This mix of productions and remixes would be completely different ten minutes later

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TACK>>HEAD: GLASGOW & EDINBURGH

 

I am SO jealous of you guys 

PS: If anyone can get a poster like the one above that I can pay to be posted out to Australia I would be forever grateful

THE SHOW IS COMING!

TACK>>HEAD - Get This/Repitition Mix

 

Tracklist: 

Special Designer Song/Get This/Law of Repitition/Crosstown Traffic/Survival*/Hysteria*/What's My Mission Now (Unedited)/Ticking Time Bomb (12" Dub Mix)/Prologue*/Collision*/You Drummers Listen Good/Mind At The End of The Tether/M.O.V.E./Life In The Arena/Repitition (Dub)/Repitition/Bass Groove/The Right Beat 

TACK>>HEAD: Keith LeBlanc Skip McDonald Adrian Sherwood Doug Wimbish with Mark Stewart*

Julian Cope: The Modern Antiquarian

Save It For Later Mix

 Tracklist: 

1 Swan Lake (Alternate Mix) - PIL 

2 Change (Dub) - Killing Joke 

3 Save It For Later (Extended Mix) - The Beat 

4 Rock The Casbah - The Clash & Ranking Roger 

5 West One (Shine On Me) - The Ruts 

6 Making Love In Dub - The Orb With Lee Perry 

7 Safe From Harm - Horace Andy 

8 Yab Yum (Andrew Weatherall Remix) - Uzma

You Drummers Listen Good (A Keith LeBlanc Mix)

Tracklist: 

Tack Unit (Intro) / Welcome /Play What You Want / Technology Works / Tick of Time Drub Dub / Mechanical Movements / Mechanical Movements Dub / Nine Times Nine / Dream World Dub / Dream World /Beat The Devil 

As the parties of the century draw near and you really wish that you'd set off swimming in plenty of time to get back to the UK I thought I'd put a mix together of TACK>>HEAD tracks released under drummer Keith LeBlanc's name. All these sounds are what 30-35 years old and still like they come from the future...and then the bassie (the man who turned down joining the Stones to stay with Living Colour remember) says he likes the mix DON'T SCRIMP ON THE DECIBELS It even got a like from Doug Wimbish

And boy do I wish I could get one of these posters

Talking of Mr Wimbish, here's a Living Colour VS On-U Sound mix I put together about 6 months ago Tracklist: Hemp (ft Andy Fairley) / Visions (Adrian Sherwood Production) / Bless Those (Little Annie cover) / Auslander (Dub Länder Remix by Sherwood and Skip McDonald ft David Harrow's programming) / Choices Mash Up (Cover of Audio Active's Happy Shopper) / These Are Happy Times (Sherwood Production) / Release The Pressure (Sherwood Production with Mark Stewart co-writing credit) / Who Shot Ya? (Adrian Sherwood & Matt Smyth Remix) / Sacred Ground (Sherwood Production with Mark Stewart co-writing credit) / Sunshine of Your Love (Sherwood & McDonald Remix)

Killing Joke: The Death and Resurrection Show (2020)

Review

Horace Andy - Safe From Harm / Try Love / This Must Be Hell

From the forthcoming Midnight Rockers album +

Mr Simon says...

It just occurred to me that when I resigned from the Television Arts & Sciences Academy years ago I didn’t bother to slap anyone first, which I now have to concede is another of life’s missed opportunities.

— David Simon (@AoDespair) April 2, 2022

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HBO Releases Trailer for New Cop Drama From ‘The Wire’ Creator David Simon

HA!

Fuck This Mix

I don't listen to much guitar music these days but when I do... 

This one will blow the cobwebs away on this very dreich and jeelit Melbourne day. 

Trust me

Tracks from JARV IS, Swervedriver, The Nectarine No 9, Hoodoo Gurus, Killing Joke, Scars, Wah! Heat, The Jayhawks & Spiritualized 

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Here's a couple of other mixes I put together in the last week

Tracks from: Superoze, The Dream Syndicate, Sea Power, Pere Ubu, Acid Mothers Temple, Honolulu Mountain Daffodils, Loop and Julian Cope Tracks from Blanck Mass, Horace Andy, Moderat, Ibibio Sound Machine, Sven Väth, Suicide, Burial, Benga & Gnod

Mark Stewart VS Stephen Mallinder VS Eric Random - Cast No Shadow (Leæther Strip Mix)

eMERGENCVY heARTS

Ad Break: Bounty Bars

Doug Wimbish's Jungle Funk versioning their track 'Trance', with vocals by Skip McDonald

Loulou Picasso: Paris Exhibition (47/4 to 29/5/22)

galerie du jour - agnès b 

La FAB, Place Jean Michel Basquiat - 75013 Paris

The Cardinal & The Corpse / The Falconer / Asylum (Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair 1992 - 2000)

The Cardinal & The Corpse The Falconer 

...and the final part of the trilogy, Asylum (2000) can be watched on Vimeo 

HERE 

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Reimagining Loneliness: In Conversation with Iain Sinclair and Chris Petit

Return of the Reforgotten

Stewart Home - Shamen of Discontent or The Revenge of The Mirror People: A Detective Story In Four Acts

I was sending a message to Adam of the Bagging Area parish and while chewcking up the details of Peter Whitehead's Wholly Communion film I found that Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair's The Falconer film, which also has the added bonus of featuring Dave McKean's special effects and animation, had been uploaded online. 

Man I have been waiting to see this for SO long and then also realised that the complete trilogy can now be viewed.

Where to start?

Well when I first moved to London in 77/8 I was soon buying books with alarming regularity from Iain Sinclair's stall down in Islington's Camden Passage. I'd been introduced to him by Mike Hart, who had let me crash with him and his kid Stephen at their place in Wood Green until I got myself sorted out in the Big Smoke.

When I first saw Radio On I wasn't all that impressed to be honest and then I remembered that all the people telling me to see it were the same ones that had recommended Eraserhead to me the previous year. (I love Chris's novels tho).  Dave McKean? Well...he's been on the blog a few times

So many boxes are ticked. Interesting that some of the links above redirect to the very early days of Exile. And the cast? Well I knew a fair few of them back in my London days...anyway enjoy the films as much as I did. 

You never know you might get a few a few curiosities piqued...

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