Cabaret Voltaire/New Order collaboration (Western Works Sheffield 07-09-80) FLAC

'Are You Ready Are You Ready Are You Ready For This?'
Peter Hook - Bass
Bernard Sumner - Guitar (and "whooping" in the background)
Stephen Morris - Simmons Drums, and the same Dr Rhythm drum machine used on Truth
Rob Gretton - Vocals
Various Cabs - sonic alterations

01 Dreams Never End (mix 1, quieter guitars)
02 Dreams Never End (mix 2, louder guitars)
03 Homage
04 Ceremony
05 Truth
06 Are You Ready Are You Ready Are You Ready For This?

"Kind souls, who wish to remain anonymous rescued this material from a 1/4" reel of tape that was up for auction on eBay, advertised as something else, and it was only in the reel transfer that it was discovered what it actually contained. It's been theorized that if this is not the master reel itself from the studio mixdown sessions, it's at the very least a direct, professional copy of it. The band could release this today, as-is. So I am honored to present it here..."

Full story and download at:
The Power of Independent Trucking
with more details here.
(Via 'Everything starts with an A')

BUY!

(Photo by TimN)
Some local artwork that went up last week.

Smoking # 15

Lamp (pervert!)

Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Tim Hodgkinson live at The Stone New York, December 16th 2006

Henry Cow - Living In The Heart of the Beast (Live Vevey Switzerland 1976)

Jon Stewart - Guantanamo Baywatch (The Final Season)

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	M - Th 11p / 10c
Guantanamo Baywatch - The Final Season
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We await the Vatican's response

"It documents a shameful catalogue of cruelty: neglect, physical, sexual and emotional abuse, perpetrated against children"

Cardinal Sean Brady
Leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland
On Ireland's 'Child Abuse Report'
(Yip - it sure does.)

Story at the 'BBC' here.
You can read the report here.

"The Christian Brothers, which ran several boys' institutions deemed to have harbored serial child molesters and sadists on their staff, insisted it had cooperated fully with the probe. The order successfully sued the commission in 2004 to keep the identities of all of its members, dead or alive, unnamed in the report. No real names, whether of victims or perpetrators, appear in the final document."
From 'Yahoo' here.

Girlz With Gunz # 43

Sheet!

More 'Dangerhorse' drama with EMI

EMI now remove Youtube video of 'Dark Night of the Soul'

This despite it having no music from the album!
You can still watch it here.
(Via 'Pitchfork' here.)

This is really starting to make even less sense than before!

Fireball XL5 - Intro & credits

(Thanx to 'coisas do arco da velha')

A Sad Story:
When I was about 5 I got from Santa a Fireball XL5 rocket that you shot up into the air with a catapult and it would separate in two and float down to earth on parachutes.
At least that was what should have happened!
Xmas morning and I went up to the hills behind where I lived with my Dad and shot my rocket up into the air only to see one half of it parachute down a couple of hundred feet into the quarry, where of course we were not allowed to go.
One launch that was all I got (bugger!)

NB: Trivia fans - the closing song is performed by Don Spencer who is Russell Crowe's father-in-law!
('Feathers, Furs & Fins' eh kids?)
TV21

HIV's spread around Europe mapped

Full story at the 'BBC' here.

REPOST - Killer Luka's amazing dolls

Killer Luka has five of her incredible creations over at Dennis Cooper's blog today.
Please check them out.
They are truly amazing.

The doll above is 'Edie as The Broken Girl'.

Flickr here.
'Habitat' blog here.
(Do check it out there is some amazing work there, a couple of examples of which are below.)

Infernosaurous

GSW to the face, 1918

Killer Luka

Acid

LSD Blotter Art signed by The Merry Pranksters.
Available here.