jah wobble

The little girl from Mornington

LOU REED - MARK RIBOT - JOHN ZORN (Live in Milan 23rd September 2008)

(Imagine being in an old battered pick-up with an old dog beside you at night.
Hurtling downhill fast, with no headlights working.
Tom Waits fading in and out on the AM station.
With Sam Shepard driving.
That is the sound of Mark Ribot's guitar.)

('The Old Knit') @ Town Hall New York - March 1st 2007

'The Stone: Issue 3'
John Zorn and his post Ayler skronk aided and abetted on this occasion by Lou Reed on primal power chords and feedback and Laurie Anderson on violin and electronics.
A benefit for Zorn's not-for-profit experimental arts space 'The Stone'.

You can get it here.

(This one's for you Travis.)

Love Story

You can watch the documentary 'Love Story' for the next week over at Pitchfork here and as a bonus you can get their version of William DeVaughn's 'Be Thankful For What You've Got' here.

Merl Saunders RIP

Merl Saunders

(02/14/34 - 10/24/08)

James Chance & the Contortions - I Can't Stand Myself

'Grutzi Elvis'

James Chance by Bazooka

James Chance and the late Anya Phillips.

Another early 'ZE' release for you.
James Chance & The Pill Factory with 'That's When Your Heartaches Begin' (EP)
You can get it here.

Exactly!

Money well spent

It is a 'Vote Democrat' scarf!

Palin as President

Don't forget to go here.
Updated daily.

The Kid With The Replaceable Head

Photograph by David Shankbone

Here are 'The Kid With The Replaceable Head' and 'I'm your Man' by Richard Hell & the Voidoids as produced by Nick Lowe and released on Radar Records in 1979.

If anyone has a copy of the piece Richard Hell wrote on David Johansen for Lisa Robinson's 'Hit Parader' back in 1975/6 could they please get in touch with me.
It is almost Hell's manifesto about giving not 100 or 200% to rock'n'roll but 400%!
It was not reprinted in 'Hot & Cold'.

Marise Maas

'Hold One's Horses'

'Cheap Fizz'

'Untitled (Boots)'

When I was out today I saw a couple of etchings by Marise Maas for sale.
I knew Marise many years ago when she worked in a pub in Fitzroy.
When she went back to The Netherlands for a while I promised that I would write to her and I was happy subsequently to receive a postcard with her address in Haarlem on it.
So happy that I put it up on my window and the sun promptly faded all of the writing (including the address).
Marise had used a felt tip pen and there wasn't even an indentation that I could decipher.
She probably thinks that I was so rude for not keeping in touch after I promised that I would.

THE DEAD at P.S.U. (13/10/08) - JamBase Review

Photos by Jay Blakesberg.

Review from JamBase here.

Culture'n'croissants

The Spacebubs and I set off fairly early today.

Being only one (and a bit) he was very excited that we were going on a tram.

He was also fascinated by my 'T' shirt.
(NB: Image below is bad fake/copy of Rowan's original design.)

Spent the entire journey trying to get him to say "Keef".

Went and bought a ticket for Spiritualized.

That made me happy.
We were both happy.
That made me even happier.
Now for the 'kulchur'.

We should have seen these.

Unfortunately all the paintings had been packed away to go to Sydney for an exhibition opening tonight.
We were sad.
We went for croissants.
We were happy again.

Simone Maynard has an exhibition opening tomorrow in Brooklyn NY.
Details here.

Spiritualized live at The Prince of Wales, Melbourne 16th March 2004.
(6 song 3JJJ broadcast) here.
Audience recording of full gig here.