Tuesday, 3 February 2009

Too True

(Photo by TimN)

5 Most Obnoxious Front Men of All Time are...
1 Chris Bailey
2 Chris Bailey
3 Chris Bailey
4 Kate Cerebrano (sic) from I'm Talking ( but she's a religious nutter and can't help it)
5 Courtney Love ( but Kurt had just died)
Great gig though..god bless Ed Kuepper
Big Ern xxx
Melbourne Australia

A comment left at 'That Striped Sunlight Sound' here.

Monday, 2 February 2009

Throbbing Gristle - Discipline

Throbbing Gristle to play Coachella!!!

TG: Cosey, Chris, Sleazy & Gen.

Demonoid down again

Full story here.
UPDATE: BACK AGAIN.

John Coltrane - My Favourite Things (Live Germany 1961)

Sunday, 1 February 2009

Debord Game Guy

Guy Debord 1951

You can read about Guy Debord and his 'Game of War' board game here.

Thrillbillies indeed - a vertical backflip on a Big Wheel plastic toy trike!!!

Via 'Boingboing'

New album from Pete Doherty 'Grace/Wasteland' due on March 24

Full details and 'Last of the English Roses' mp3 available at 'Micropsia' here.
You can also download his diaries here and don't forget his sage advice here.

Grace/Wasteland
Set for release March 2009
1. Arcadie
2. Last of the English Roses
3. 1939 Returning
4. A Little Death Around the Eyes
5. Salome
6. Through the Looking Glass
7. Sweet By and By
8. Palace of Bone
9. Sheepskin Tearaway
10. Broken Love Song
11. New Love Grows on Trees
12. Lady, Don’t Fall Backwards
(13. B-Side I Am The Rain)

UPDATE: Three tracks from the album are available to download from 'Our Iron Lung' blog here.

Saturday, 31 January 2009

Piece

(Photo of Piece by Dennis Brown - November 2007)

The post the other day of the complete recordings of Turkey Bones & The Wild Dogs was inspired by recently meeting a bloke who it turned out was from Perth in Scotland.
When I was told this I casually mentioned that the only people I knew from that part of the world were the members of Turkey Bones (Scotty-vocals, Arab-bass, Herman-drums and Piece- guitar).
Dennis then mentioned that the last time he had been back home he had run into Piece at a Rezillos gig and you can see the resulting photo above.
I was trying to think when I first met Piece and it must have been 1977 or 78. From memory I seem to recall that he was a gas fitter and the house that I was living in at the time needed some work done.
At the time I was living right beside Alexandra Palace in North London and was hanging with a bunch of crazy guys who were mostly from Scotland and Liverpool who were all living in Muswell Hill.
I remember that Piece was sharing a house with Nik (from Alien Sex Fiend) and Razzle who would go on to drum with Hanoi Rocks before being killed when he was in a car that was being driven by Motley Crue's singer Vince Neill crashed.

TBC

Friday, 30 January 2009

Epic driving fail

John Martyn & Danny Thompson - Couldn't Love You More (OGWT 1977)

John Martyn - I'd Rather Be The Devil (OGWT 1973)

John Martyn & Danny Thompson - Big Muff

John Martyn - Small Hours (Live 1978)

John Martyn - Bless The Weather (Live 1978)