My/our Wilco 'T' shirt(s) - a skull segue

Available here.
(So good that all members of my clan have one.
Though son # 1 bought his over in Scotland when Wilco and him found themselves in Glasgow at the same time. The rest of us had to wait until Wilco played in Melbourne last year)

Bye bye apocalypse!

From the 'creativeboysclub' @ Flckr here.
(Via 'thisisn'thappiness'.)

Emmylou Harris & Elvis Costello - Love Hurts (Live Letterman Show)

Go here to watch video of 'Sin City' performed by Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris live in 1973.

Previously:
Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris - 'Streets of Baltimore' live 1973 here. (Video)
Keith Richards & Norah Jones - 'Love Hurts' here. (Video)
The Flying Burrito Brothers - 'Christine's Tune' here. (Video)

The Flying Burrito Brothers - 'Live at The Palomino 1969' here. (Audio)

For Grazyna & Tricia.
Check comments for extra special, special bonus.

Some very thirsty koalas out there

Bear in mind (sorry) that koalas normally get all the liquid they need from the eating of eucalyptus leaves.

Bill Laswell/Axiom Sound System - Musical Freezone

(Thanx to Sinziana)

émission soundstage, 13/07/2006

Bill Laswell, bass
Zakir Hussain, tablas
Ustad Sultan Khan, vocals, sarangui
DJ disk
Karsh Kale, drums
Nils Petter Molvaer, trumpet
???, keyboards

"I hate your music."

The way it was

The Wanderers by Sean O'Hagen

Sean O'Hagen on U2's new album 'No Line On The Horizon' from 'The Observer' here.

The first times that I saw U2 was when they were the support act in various small pubs in London 1980. Nothing special I thought. When 'Boy' came out I didn't mind it and even bought it.
Then they started losing me and I had the misfortune to see them headline a festival in Belgium in 85 and it was horrible. Bono in full preacher mode.
However when 'Achtung Baby' came out I really thought that it was an interesting development and tried to persuade a lot of my friends who also didn't like U2 that it was worth listening to.
Over the years since then U2 have lost me again and Bono still irritates me beyond belief.
Reading the article by Paddy Dread* above has at least made me curious as to what the new album sounds like.

*Paddy Dread was the name Sean gave to the cops when we all had our names taken when the police raided a gig by Test Dept that was to have taken place at the 'Titan' railway arch in Waterloo, London in November 1983.

Eh?

More here.

Heroes

Woody Guthrie.

Victorian bushfires update

My fellow blogger Bob from 'That Striped Sunlight Sound' (a wonderful Australian music blog) has posted an update about the bushfires as well as news about the floods that have devasted northern Queensland.

There is a bonus to all this in that you can also grab hold of an interview with Robert Forster (The Go-Betweens) broadcast on the 'ABC' yesterday where he talks of his experience with natural disasters as well as performing his song 'If It Rains'.
Go here.

NB: On the right sidebar is a Red Cross symbol, that if clicked will take you to the homepage of the 'Australian Red Cross Victorian Bushfire Appeal' (or click here).

If you can spare a couple of dollars to donate it is certainly going to a very worthy cause.

Shack - The Streets of Kenny

نصرت فتح على خاں

“To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist,” he notes with a stern, but wise smile. “One must be willing to release one’s mind and soul from one’s body to achieve ecstasy through music. Qawwali is enlightenment itself.”

'The Spirit of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan'

by Andy Carvin

Here.

I was lucky enough to see Nusrat perform at Womadelaide in 1992.
When he sang it was as though angels were coming out of his mouth!

BONUS:
'Allah Hoo Allah Hoo'

Studio version and live version from Nusrat's last concert on May 4 1987.

Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Aafree Aafree