[E.O.M.S.]

Tuesday, 3 February 2009

The Situationist International - On the passage of a few people through a rather brief moment in time

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

WARNING: CONTAINS CLAPTRAP FROM MALCOLM MCLAREN.

The Bureau of Public Secrets

Several documents on Guy Debord's films have recently been added at the Bureau of Public Secrets website:
Technical Notes on Debord's First Three Films
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord.films/technotes.htm
Letter about Debord's Film "On the Passage of a Few Persons..."
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord.films/passage-letter.htm
Original Announcement of Debord's Film "The Society of the Spectacle"
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord.films/spectacle-announcement.htm
The Use of Stolen Films
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord.films/stolen-films.htm
The Themes of Debord's Film "In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni"
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord.films/ingirum-themes.htm
Instructions to the "In girum" Sound Engineer
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord.films/ingirum-soundtrack.htm
Debord Chronology
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord.films/chronology.htm
Debord Filmography
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord.films/filmography.htm
Texts Relating to Debord's Films
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord.films/bibliography.htm

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See also Guy Debord's "COMPLETE CINEMATIC WORKS", translated and edited by Ken Knabb and published by AK Press, which includes the scripts to all six of Debord's films plus 62 illustrations and extensive annotations
http://www.bopsecrets.org/cat.htm
For online excerpts from the filmscripts, along with the latest information on the films themselves, see
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord.films/index.htm
Knabb's translation of Debord's "The Society of the Spectacle" is online at http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord/index.htm
The Situationist International Anthology is online at
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/index.htm

Thanx to Ken Knabb for all the links.

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.

'The Society of The Spectacle' 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