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Wednesday, 15 April 2009

Nothing to say...

PLEASE JUST GO & WATCH

THIS.

Magnificent!

(Thanx again to the 'hangover helper'.)

Lars von Trier - Antichrist (trailer)

Tuesday, 14 April 2009

Material - Don't Lose Control (12"Mix)

Recently the A side was posted here.
Out of the ether here is the 'B' side.

The Beat - I Confess

Great interview with Dave Wakeling from 'Popdose' here.

The 10 most played songs in the UK

1. Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale

2. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

3. Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream

4. Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around

5. Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You

6. Robbie Williams - Angels

7. Elvis Presley - All Shook Up

8. Abba - Dancing Queen

9. Perry Como - Magic Moments

10. Bing Crosby - White Christmas

These are the most played songs in public places over the last 75 years according to the 'BBC' here.

Apart from the Everly Brothers I HATE every last one of the songs on the list!
For a list of the biggest selling artists of all time go here.

Bukkakeski

This is a Russian ad for MILK!!?
From 'AnimalNY' here.

Phil Spector guilty of murder

Phil Spector arriving at court to hear the verdict.

Full story from 'The Guardian' here and the 'BBC' here.

Monday, 13 April 2009

Coloured crayons as pixel art

The art of Christan Faur here.
Via 'drawn' here.

Don't you wish that YOU had been there?

Four nights of the best the post punk world had to offer in 1979 in the bowels of the London YMCA in Tottenham Court Road. Never had been there for a gig before nor again. It was a great place to watch bands though.
The unannounced band on the first night was Echo and the Bunnymen, still with 'Echo' (their drum machine). It was one of the first gigs that they and The Teardrop Explodes had played in London. I got given a mixing desk tape of both band's performance, very unfortunately long since gone.
Joy Division? Well another powerful performance, they truly were an amazing live band and while the records are brilliant, live it was something else, obviously without any of Martin Hannett's studio trickery.
Rema Rema were enjoyable, with Marco Pirroni on guitar and I fell in love with Max the drummer (who later released the single 'I Confess' as Dorothy on Industrial Records).
Cabaret Voltaire's performance can be heard on their 'Live At The YMCA' album. Though to be honest it doesn't give justice to their sound as it was recorded on a boogie box.
What can you say about Throbbing Gristle? Well again the performance has been released (as part of the TG24 box set) but unfortunately it omits the dubbed/fucked up version of the Village People's 'YMCA' that led into their performance and featured some amusing dance poses by Genesis.
Of the other bands that played Scritti Politti were as usual superb, so different to the entity that they became, this was spikey/angular music influenced by the spaces of dub. Lastly Mark Perry from the Good Missionaries really pissed me off by smashing his guitar at the end of their set. 'We Destroy All Rock'nRoll'? Nah, just an empty cliche Mark!
The promoters 'Final Solution' (!) went on to become the promoters of choice in London for that whole post punk crew and as I sold tickets from record shops that I worked at it meant that I could get into all the gigs free!
The NME/Rough Trade cassette C81, described by Simon Reynolds as 'post punk's swan song' can be found at my other blog here.

Bonus audio:
Joy Division Live at the YMCA 2 August 1979.
"Intro-Dead Souls-Disorder-Wilderness-Auto Suggestion-Transmission-Day of the Lords-She's Lost Control-Shadowplay-Atrocity Exhibition-Insight-Outro"