Still life with hat and what was a double JD!

Gira's hat

Èirinn gu bràth

(Photo of Erin at Michael Gira tonight by TimN)
Please excuse the (Scots) pun but as I said to you tonight, grace me with an invite and I shall be there in February!

(WHY DON'T MORE PEOPLE DRAW AT CONCERTS, IT WOULD CERTAINLY STOP THEM FROM TALKING!!!)

Some of us need our beauty sleep!

(Photo:TimN)
Okay that is it for a while. (Just got back from Michael Gira (above) at the Toff.) Please check back over the next couple of days and there will be more photos from the last five days as well as other things(!?!) I promise you will not regret it (but now...this 'gurl' needs her beauty sleep!!!)

Nick Cave - ATP 10/01/09

"I hope you are having a good time, I am, we are as well. Seeing some of the best stuff in the world"

"...thank you for coming, it's a commitment coming up the fucking mountain. I wouldn't have done it."

"...we can't play that one. It's not that good. Some weird rhymes. I was high at the time. Strangely"

(Photos:TimN)

Dirty Three - ATP 9/01/09

Warren Ellis (Dirty Three) - ATP 9/01/09

“...you put your shoes on your hands, and your hat on your feet.. and you’re not even getting any from your old lady… and everything is just fucked.”

Michael Gira - ATP 10/01/09

Following on from Michael Gira's very powerful solo performance at the ATP Festival up at Mount Buller yesterday (photos by TimN) I am really looking forward to catching the whole show tomorrow night at The Toff.

The Grinderman

Nick Cave (Grinderman) - Mt. Buller ATP 9/01/09
(Photo:TimN)

Blogging from the top of the world AKA The Sermon From The Mount!!!

The main stage.

The 'Ampitheatre' stage.

Well live and direct from the ATP festival here in the Victorian (Australia) alpine region...first thing to remember is that it may be summer down at sea level but up here it is bloody freezing as soon as that sun goes down! The organisers must have made a killing last night at the merchandise stall selling ATP hoodies! Though some people must have had the foresight to have looked up the weather info for this area as there were scarves and hats a go-go. However me in my shirt and shorts necessitated a little immediate retail therapy.


Random scribbles so far...no thanx to the Volvo driver who climbed up the mountain slowly and wasn't polite enough to let us pass in one of the designated areas which meant that on my arrival all I caught of James 'Blood' Ulmer was him saying "thank you" and packing away his guitar. The special guests yesterday were Grinderman who were pretty good with Nick Cave also playing keyboards with the Dirty Three and although they were supposed to play 'Ocean Songs' in it's entirety, time restraints meant that not every track was played. As for The Saints last night, I thought that Chris Bailey was a bit of a pompous prick back in '77 and well nothing seems to have changed! After they had played 'I'm Stranded' it was time for me to say goodnight...and bugger the original intention of staying in a little tent, my traveling companion and I snapped up a family size chalet (complete with spa!) further down the mountain and a good nights sleep was had by all.
As for today I have just finished seeing Michael Gira perform and he was really good. I am going to see him again in Melbourne on Monday night and am really looking forward to the whole show.
Anyway enough of this now, I am going to get something to eat and then enjoy the rest of tonight's bill which includes Ed Keupper's 'Laughing Clowns', Spiritualized and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

More tomorrow including photos.

Going - going - gone!!!

Interrupted Transmission

I will be out of the office(!) for a couple of days as after having just been to Spiritualized tonight I am now about to head up to Mt. Buller to go to the ATP Festival.
No doubt I will tell you ALL about it when I return.

Jason Pierce (Spiritualized) and his guitar! - Hi Fi Bar Melbourne 8th January 2009

(Photos by TimN)

Setlist:
Amazing Grace/You Lie You Cheat
Shine A Light
Cheapster
Soul On Fire
Sweet Talk
Sitting On Fire
Walkin' With Jesus
Oh Baby
Rated X
Think I'm In Love
Lay Back In The Sun
Death Take Your Fiddle
Life Is A Problem
Ladies & Gentlemen
She Kissed Me
Come Together
Take Me To The Other Side
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Oh Happy Day

'Walkin' With Jesus'
Warning:Audio is very bassy!

Richard Seaver RIP

Publisher Richard Seaver died earlier this week.
If you have ever read a book(s) in English by William Burroughs, Alex Trocchi, Henry Miller, Hubert Selby, The Marquis de Sade, Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco or Samuel Beckett etc. or 'The Story of 'O" (which he translated into English) it was due to this man.
'NY Times' obituary here.
PEN obit here.
'The Terror of Words' here. (Which details his connection to Alex Trocchi's early 1950's French magazine 'Merlin' and how Samuel Beckett was published in English for the first time.)

Dream on!

Brion Gysin & William S. Burroughs.