Leonard Cohen 'Live In London' O2 Arena: July 17, 2008 CD/DVD

Photograph: Domenech Castello/EPA

Live in London:

Disc one:

01 Dance Me to the End of Love
02 The Future
03 Ain't No Cure for Love
04 Bird on the Wire
05 Everybody Knows
06 In My Secret Life
07 Who By Fire
08 Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
09 Anthem
10 Introduction
11 Tower Of Song
12 Suzanne
13 The Gypsy's Wife

Disc two:

01 Boogie Street
02 Hallelujah
03 Democracy
04 I'm Your Man
05 Recitation w/ N.L.
06 Take This Waltz
07 So Long, Marianne
08 First We Take Manhattan
09 Sisters of Mercy
10 If It Be Your Will
11 Closing Time
12 I Tried to Leave You
13 Wither Thou Goest

Details from 'Pitchfork' here.
'Uncut' review of the gig here.
'Suzanne' - 'Amazon' exclusive video here.

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...and a subliminal skull smoke afterwards!

Not so subliminal sex

Subliminal 'Silence of the Lambs'

Dali skulls

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.