Cults & Inspirations

Richard Hell

Bio

I first became aware of Richard Hell through a couple of articles in the English music papers NME and Melody Maker back in 1975

Phil Minton & Dylan Nyoukis - Battersea Arts Centre 3 February 2009

Mhoraig Coull - APB

It was just such a shock seeing you.
Get in touch through blog if you see this.
A song for you.

Review - Leonard Cohen's first gig in the USA for fifteen years

(Photos by Kathryn Yu)

From 'Pitchfork' here.
More reviews here & here.

The Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon (Perfect Version)

Hazel Dooney press release (AKA Girlz With Gunz # 22)

'MODERN STRATEGIES OF SURVIVAL, LAKE EYRE ON ACID'

2003 High gloss enamel and reflective vinyl on board, 100cm x 150cm

Three more Hazel Dooney paintings under the hammer at Menzies Art Brands, 25th March
Menzies Art Brands http://www.menziesartbrands.com has announced that three more of Hazel Dooney's enamel paintings – a large work from the now hard-to-find Lake Eyre On Acid series and two smaller Sports Babes, Resized For Easy Consumption – have been submitted for Menzies' major auction of Australian art scheduled for 25th March, in Sydney. Last December, Dooney's large enamel on board painting, Dangerous Career Babe: The Aviatrix, painted in 2008, was sold for $A32,701 at Christie's auction Modern And Contemporary Australian And South African Art in London. This exceeded the low-end of Christie's pre-sale estimate and represented a new record for Dooney's work at auction – an extraordinary achievement during a global economic downturn, especially for a young artist who has yet to exhibit in Europe. Just a week before, one of Dooney's earliest works, a ten-year-old enamel painting, Drowned Ophelia, was sold in Sydney, at Deutscher-Menzies' high profile auction of contemporary art, for over $A13,000. With buyers premium and taxes added, this exceeded the very ambitious pre-sale estimate of $A10,000 to $A14,000. The painting was first sold for around $A1,200.

For further information, please visit http://www.hazeldooney.com and Hazel's popular blog, Self Vs. Self, at http://hazeldooney.blogspot.com

For an interview or further comment, please contact Evie at Hazel Dooney's studio, dooneystudio@gol.com.

Too kind - but what a turn of phrase...

'Permanent Transience'

"For a blast of highly literate neo-psychedelia, Mona will take care of you..."

See here.

Pills, thrills & heartbreaks (all while extremely well dressed)!

Gram Parsons

(Photo by Jim McCrary)

Nudie & GP

GP's Nudie suit in Nashville's country music museum.

(Photo by Ted Rheingold)

GP by Jim McCrary


'Gram Parsons - Fallen Angel' - Trailer


Bonus:
Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris rehearsing a couple of songs: 'The New Soft Shoe' & 'Still Feeling Blue'.
Recorded in 1972 (perhaps in a motel room).

'The Gashlycrumb Tinies' by Edward Gorey

A is for Amy who fell down the stairs.

B is for Basil assaulted by bears.

C is for Clara who wasted away.

D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh.

You can read the whole book by Edward Gorey here.
Thanx to Trevor Brown's 'baby art blog' for bringing back some childhood memories.

Didn't work for you Casper did it?

From 'thisisn'thappiness'

(Backstory: Jade (the most beautiful cat in the world) a couple of years ago presented me with one surviving kitten on my birthday. Casper (the friendly white kitten) is now the BIGGEST
cat known to mankind and will not move for anything, least of all something as pathetic as a laser-pointer!)

Dimming the lights

In support of fellow bloggers in New Zealand.

Go here for details.


Thanx to 'Ultra' for bringing this to my attention.

New U2 album leaks

'No Line On The Horizon' the new album from U2 leaked out into the blogsphere today.
Most links were very quickly removed but it is still available in a torrent of places, if you know where to look!

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Ed Kuepper joins The Bad Seeds

Ed Kuepper-ATP Mt Buller
(Photo by TimN)

Press Release:
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS announce the first of a string of summer festival appearances.
The band, featuring Ed Kuepper on guitar, will headline at German festivals Southside (Neuhausen Ob Eck) and Hurricane (Scheesel) in June, and at Oxegen Festival in Ireland on 11th July 2009.
Kuepper, formerly of Australian bands The Saints and Laughing Clowns, completes the current Bad Seeds live line up of Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, Thomas Wydler, Jim Sclavunos and Conway Savage.
Kuepper has been, and continues to be, a significant influence on contemporary Australian music. He formed the original version of the proto punk band The Saints in 1973 whilst in high school and when the original Saints split he formed what, in the eyes of many, was an even bolder enterprise - Laughing Clowns.
The Clowns broke up in 1984 and Kuepper launched a prolific solo career which has seen the release of more than 20 albums and several film and soundtrack projects. His latest studio recording was 'Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog' in 2007
This full schedule of festival dates promises to include some of the best and most exciting festivals that Europe and the British Isles have to offer. More very soon.

More from 'That Striped Sunlight Sound' here.

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.