[E.O.M.S.]

Thursday, 5 November 2009

Why oh why?

One of my favourite pop groups of the 70's are set to reform next year and I am not allowed to tell you who it is until the official announcement!
(sigh!)

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Richard Butchins
(An old friend from a couple of lifetimes ago - for both of us!)

Professor David Nutt attacks ministers over ‘failure’ on alcohol

Alcohol is the “gateway drug” that remains the greatest threat to society, and the Government’s failure to address the problem epitomises its disregard for scientific evidence, Professor David Nutt said yesterday.

Professor Nutt said that the comparison he made between the harm caused by alcohol and Ecstasy, which led to his dismissal as head of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, was incontrovertible. He questioned the Government’s arbitrary approach to the assessment and control of harmful substances, and how ministers might think that giving alcohol a harm ranking was a distraction.

“When I say alcohol is more dangerous than Ecstasy, cannabis and LSD, I mean it, and the council means it,” Professor Nutt said. “The Government has to wake up to this time bomb and the health risks of alcohol. Across the political spectrum everyone knows that alcohol is the biggest killer.”

Professor Nutt said he felt that alcohol prices could be raised to triple the price at which some drinks were sold, with taxation the most obvious way of achieving this. He compared the treatment of his expertise to that of the Chief Medical Officer’s report on alcohol abuse. Earlier this year Sir Liam Donaldson found his recommendations for a minimum price per unit of alcohol, based on several scientific studies, dismissed by Downing Street the day before it was published.

@'The Times'

Samuli Kemppi - Dubiteknomiks 1

Vuelo

Tourisism (an intrepid mollusk)

The Abyss of Indiscretion
This texas dub mystery school combines mercury, iron and lead into dub massive. since the matter and substance of all things are indestructible, all its parts are subject to all forms, so that Each and Everything becomes Everything and Each, if not at one and the same time and in a single minute, then at various times and various moments, in sequence and alternation. all for one! one for all!
More
HERE

Pinch - Get Up (featuring Yolanda)

Das Kraftfuttermischwerk - Tief | Mixed for Proton Radio 06.09.2009

Tracklist:
Paul St. Hilaire & René Löwe - Faith [False Tuned]
Radio Slave - Neverending [Ostgut Tonträger]
Brendon Moeller - Changes [Third Ear Recordings]
Marko Fürstenberg - Strackebrot (Havantepe Remix) [tfe-records]
Quantec - Chaindata [Styrax Leaves]
P.Laoss - Speak French [unreleased]
Rhauder feat.Paul St.Hilaire - No News (Marko Fürstenberg Remix) [Ornaments]
Lowtek Soundsystem - Stella Polaris [Out Of Orbit Recordings]
Found a Way (feat. Tikiman) - Find A Way (Vocal plus Version) [Main Street Records]
Luke Hess - Transform [Echochord]
Grit - Deimos [ROHS!]
Consistent - Who Did (das Kfmw Remix) [tfe-records]

RePost - Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK (TV debut)

"So It Goes" August 28th 1976. R.I.P. Tony Wilson.
AND WHO SAYS THEY COULDN'T PLAY!

RePost - Gunpowder, Treason & Plot

'Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent
To blow up King and Parliament.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England’s overthrow;
By God’s providence he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!'

Until the nineteenth century there was a special Church of England service for this commemoration in the Book of Common Prayer. Guy Fawkes Day became a public holiday in 1606 when it was proclaimed by an Act of Parliament. In commemoration of the Gunpowder Plot on this day in 1605, when Guy Fawkes and his comrades tried to blow up King James I and the whole English Parliament, English people still burn a 'guy' in effigy.

More here.

Wednesday, 4 November 2009

Rhauder feat. Paul St.Hilaire - No News (Marko Fuerstenberg re-dub)

Lust

Love

Victim (allegedly)

Veteran rocker Mark E Smith faces RSPCA probe for chopping up rare red squirrels with hedge-clippers

Ever since Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat, hard-core rockers have had much to live up to in the depravity stakes.

So perhaps Mark E Smith, frontman of The Fall, was trying to go one better when he boasted of murdering endangered red squirrels with hedge clippers. The short-tempered punk rocker - said to have been one of Radio 1 DJ John Peel's favourite acts - bragged to a music magazine he had "killed a couple last weekend". But if the readers of Uncut magazine were impressed, the RSPCA is decidedly unamused by Smith's claims - and yesterday announced an investigation. Now the 51-year-old could be prosecuted under the Wildlife and Countryside Act if his backyard bloodbath is confirmed. The gruff singer claimed he would "happily set about an endangered red squirrel with a set of professional hedge-clippers". He added: "Squirrels mean nothing to me. I killed a couple last weekend actually. They were eating my garden fence. "My sisters are animal lovers and they had been leaving food out for these squirrels. They've got rats in the bloody house now. Serves 'em right." To make matters worse, the maverick frontman went on to add that he 'wouldn't have a problem' with running over seagulls for fun. But the RSPCA said its investigators were appalled by the remarks and were now preparing a prosecution.

@'Daily Mail'

(Thanx Michael)