Song(s) of the Day # 4,357 Donny Osmond
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Friday, 4 November 2011
Primal Scream, Richard Hell and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry to Feature on New Mark Stewart Album
On 25th November, Mark Stewart will release a double A-side 7” single featuring the tracks ‘Children of the Revolution’ and ‘Nothing is Sacred’. Both songs are taken from the recording sessions of his forthcoming album, although they will not be included on the record itself.
‘Children of the Revolution’ is Mark’s interpretation of the T. Rex classic featuring dancehall, grime and dubstep artist The Bug. ‘Nothing is Sacred’ is a collaboration with Eve Libertine from anarcho-punk band Crass, Mark’s Pop Group bandmate Dan Catsis and German band Slope.
The Pop Group are a post-punk band that formed in Bristol in the late 70s. They are widely considered to be one of the groups that influenced the later Bristol sound that is heard in genres such as trip-hop and drum’n’bass. The band reformed last year for several live performances and also announced plans to record a new album.
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'Working with Kenneth Anger, Lee Perry, Keith Levene and Richard Hell is like a dream come true. I have to pinch myself that it’s real and with the rest of the collaborators it’s all gone a bit Wizard Of Oz. Gina Birch is like a hurricane' – Mark Stewart
File reveals police view of drug squad raid on Keith Richards
For the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, this was his most famous drugs bust. He faced 25 charges in all, but in the true piratical spirit of rock'n'roll he walked away with just a £250 fine because it was obvious even to the judge that the police were trying to stitch him up.
That, at least, is the account Richards gives of his arrest in his recently-published memoir, Life. Johnny Depp may have modelled his portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean series on Richards, but the account in the Metropolitan police file of the raid, released this week by the National Archives, casts him in a somewhat less heroic role.
When the Chelsea drug squad raided his home in Cheyne Walk, London – just a few doors down from Mick Jagger's house – one bright Tuesday morning in June 1973 they found not only the expected collection of grass, cannabis resin, "Chinese" heroin, mandrax tablets, burnt spoons, syringes and pipes but also a .38 Smith and Wesson revolver, a shotgun and 110 rounds of ammunition. It would have seemed an open and shut case that should have attracted a hefty sentence, given Richards's famous record.
When the police arrived they found Richards and Anita Pallenberg, who they described as "his common law wife and a housewife", still asleep in their four-poster bed in their first-floor bedroom.
As Richards and Pallenberg were getting dressed, officers led by Detective Inspector Charles O'Hanlon, found a box full of drugs. The revolver was in a bedside cabinet and the ammunition in a nearby cupboard. In an upstairs bedroom the police also arrested the flamboyant Prince Jean Christien Stanislaus Klossowski, whom they described as "the self-claimed heir apparent to the Polish throne", but known to Richards and Jagger simply as Stash. More drugs were found in his room.
As soon as O'Hanlon challenged Richards about the drugs, he suggested they were "down to Marshall Chess" – the son of the founder of Chess records, the legendary Chicago blues label – who ran the Stones's own record label.
Richards claimed Chess was renting the house and they were just staying overnight after a late night finish to a long recording session. "It's got nothing to do with us. He rents this place. We only came here last night," O'Hanlon claimed Richards said. When the guitarist started to walk towards the bathroom, O'Hanlon said: "Keith, could you come back here?" "Mr Richards to you," came the reply. O'Hanlon insisted, however, that gold records on the walls inscribed to Keith Richards or the Rolling Stones painted a different picture.
Richards admitted he did own the house and that he didn't have a firearms licence for the guns. But he did try to get rid of some incriminating spoons which showed burn marks after being used to cook up heroin. O'Hanlon claimed that Richards had gone downstairs and "ordered a manservant" to bring him and Pallenberg some drinks. He then unsuccessfully tried to get the incriminating spoons from the bathroom to use to stir the drinks but was stopped by the police.
Richards said the revolver, complete with holster, was bought for him by a roadie named Leroy Leonard in San Francisco for $200 because he had just been to Jamaica and was advised he needed it for his protection: "There is some sort of trouble there and if you live there it's best for your own protection to have one. So I decided to get one together in readiness," he said, adding that he had only fired it once to test whether it worked. In his memoirs he claims the shotgun was an antique children's miniature made by a French nobleman in the 1880s. He says that at the trial the police tried to fit him up by charging him as though it were a sawn-off shotgun which carried an automatic year's prison sentence.
Richards says this was the only charge he pleaded not guilty to, and the police action so infuriated the judge that he gave him a £10 fine for each charge.
The police forensic report describes the weapon as a 9mm Belgian shotgun with a short barrel, under 24ins, that had not been used and was in poor condition. The report adds that despite the variety of drugs found the quantities were small.
At the trial Richards pleaded guilty to all the charges but one. As there was no evidence the weapons had been fired the only offence committed was not to have a licence for them – then a minor crime.
The minor nature of the offences may perhaps explain why the rock'n'roll hero escaped on this occasion with a fine rather than a Captain Sparrow-style victory.
Alan Travis @'The Guardian'
Smoking # 114 (Nazi Alert)
Marine Le Pen, leader of the ferociously right-wing Front National in France and presidential contender, was also visiting Washington.She had been down to meet Republican presidential contender Ron Paul – but his office had cancelled the meeting. That wasn't going to stop Le Pen, who launched a Marine invasion:
Following lunch and surrounded by dozens of reporters, many of whom had flown to Washington from Paris to cover her visit, Le Pen purposefully trudged across the street to the Cannon House Office Building, intent on forcing a meeting with Paul and blaming the media and political pressure from the French government for the cancellation.Fantastic.
After several fits and starts on the corner as her advisers struggled with which door to enter, Le Pen quickly escaped through a security checkpoint and down a hall.
With Paul on the floor voting, Le Pen hunkered down for 50 minutes in his office, and a tight-faced Paul eventually pushed his way through the reporters, staring straight ahead as he was asked repeatedly why he was meeting with the controversial leader.
Following the meeting — alternately described as "quick" by Miller and "very interesting; we spoke at length" by Le Pen — Le Pen praised Paul, and her own National Front, on their economic policies.
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Thursday, 3 November 2011
#OccupyOakland
Occupy Oakland demonstrators stand on top of a parked semi truck as thousands marched from downtown Oakland, Calif., to the port of Oakland, Nov. 2, 2011.
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Occupy Oakland protesters clash with police
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