Lo Songs – Numbers and Letters A and B – late additions
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Thursday, 22 December 2011
Smoking # 115
I'm sorry I have a hard enough time taking nuns seriously at the best of times but one with an Air Force tattoo?
My hexmass present to myself
His new album The Politics of Envy is due out 26th March, 2012 through Future Noise Music, and features a stellar cast, including original Clash/PiL guitarist Keith Levene, NYC punk innovator Richard Hell, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Gina Birch of the Raincoats, Slits bassist Tessa Pollitt, Jesus And Mary Chain bassist Douglas Hart, Factory Floor, Daddy G of Massive Attack and all of Primal Scream.
All roads have been leading to this. The Politics of Envy cages, consolidates and hotwires the rampant barrage of elements which have infused Mark Stewart’s work since his first band, The Pop Group blasted the post-punk landscape.
Vanity Kills kicks off the resulting LP with cult film-maker Kenneth Anger on Theremin, plus Richard Hell and Bristol new blood Kahn. Followed by Autonomia, featuring Bobby Gillespie’s frenetic call-and-response chant with Stewart, who wrote the song about Carlo Giuliani, killed at the 2001 G8 demonstrations in Genoa. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry guests on Gang War, spitting diamonds, with Tessa Pollitt blanketing the dense, heavyweight urban dubscape, before Stewart takes us into the slo-mo coldwave of Codex. Joined by Factory Floor and Youth for Want, Stewart then hits us with the album’s fine example of 21st-century schizoid wall of sound Gustav Says.
Railing against “corporate cocksuckers” and declaring “sanity sucks” on the cool disco electro Baby Bourgeois, we’re then taken into the huge, seething synth-crawl of Method to the Madness, providing one of the album’s atmospheric highlights, gouging beyond industrial or dubstep to create a frightening new take on modern mood music. Daddy G’s unmistakable deep-throat intonations make the perfect garnish for the bleak, heaving whale of a tune, that is Apocalypse Hotel. Being mutual fans of their work, Stewart gives us his version of David Bowie’s Letter to Hermione, now a spookily-orchestrated, beat-less lament. Stewart turns on the light and lets Keith Levene unleash some of his inimitable metal guitar jangle on Stereotype. They are joined by Factory Floor and Gina Birch on this slice of gorgeously-melancholic brilliance, an effortless modern pop classic, which provides the perfect end to this intoxicatingly provocative set of songs.
Continuing an unmatchable track record of anarchic pioneering and seismic influence, Mark Stewart is back with his eighth album and what must be his most high profile project to date, reasserting him as one of the great volcanic creative minds.
Disc Two: Bonus Dubs EP.
*Signed copies are strictly limited and will be sent out on a first come, first served basis. One signed copy per household. Once all signed copies have been sold the offer will be taken down and replaced with an unsigned version of the album. Signed copies are allocated upon the order processing, not when the order is placed.
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♪♫ David Bowie - The Jean Genie (TOTP 3/1/73)
Bonus:
Interview with John Henshall who found the footage...
The Lost recording of Jean Genie
Broadcast TOTP 3rd January 1973
A rare David Bowie Top of
the Pops performance will be shown on television for the first time
since it was originally broadcast in 1973.
It was believed that every recording of the singer's performing number two hit "The Jean Genie" had been destroyed. It emerged in October that one had been found - and it will feature in a Top of The Pops Christmas Special on BBC 2.
The footage belonged to TV cameraman John Henshall, who was unaware how rare the performance was.
Mr Henshall, from Oxfordshire, worked on the show and kept a copy of Bowie's appearance.
He mentioned that he had the tape during an interview on Johnnie Walker's Radio 2 show earlier this year, after which excited Bowie afficionados contacted him to explain its status.
The film was later shown at the Missing Believed Wiped event at the British Film Institute in London, which celebrates the discovery of long-lost TV shows.
The four-minute clip shows Bowie performing alongside his then-band The Spiders From Mars, who play a slightly extended version of Jean Genie.
It will be screened in full on the Top of The Pops special.
Tapes wiped
The performance has not been broadcast on TV since it originally aired on 4 January 1973, the day after it was recorded.
It was lost when hundreds of shows were wiped to allow video tape to be reused by the BBC, because of its high cost.
Mr Henshall was unaware until recently that the BBC had not kept a copy.
"I just couldn't believe that I was the only one with it. I just thought you wouldn't be mad enough to wipe a tape like that," he said earlier this month.
Mark Cooper, executive producer of Top Of The Pops 2, said: "Bowie singing The Jean Genie is electric and the kind of piece of archive that not only brings back how brilliant Top Of The Pops could be, but also how a piece of archive can speak to us down the years.
"I can't imagine what other piece of TOTP from the early Seventies would be as extraordinary a find."
BBC Two's 90-minute Top of the Pops Christmas Special will be screened at 19:30 GMT on Wednesday
Homeless people in the UK revealed to have life expectancy of just 47
Homeless people can expect their lives to be about 30 years shorter than average, with a likelihood of dying at around 47, a life expectancy comparable to that in the Congo, according to a report by the charity Crisis.
Homelessness: A Silent Killer reports that homeless people in the UK who suffer the stresses and strains of alcoholism and substance abuse live only a little longer than those in the poorest countries, with the average age of death at 47 for men and 43 for women. This compares with 77 for the general population. The research, by Sheffield University, calculated that drug and alcohol abuse were responsible for just over a third of deaths among the homeless. They were also nine times more likely to kill themselves than the general public, and twice as likely to die of infections.
Leslie Morphy, chief executive of Crisis, said: "It is shocking … homeless people are dying much younger than the general population. Life on the streets is harsh and the stress of being homeless is clearly taking its toll. This report paints a bleak picture of the consequences homelessness has on people's health and wellbeing. Ultimately, it shows that homelessness is killing people." Crisis warned that current NHS services do not meet the needs of homeless people and are at risk under the government's reorganisation of the NHS.
The charity was concerned that even while the health service was seeing rising budgets, the homeless were not considered a priority and that in a time of flat funding it was "clear that more needs to be done to tackle the health inequalities that persist for homeless people".
Morphy added: "Homeless people are amongst the most vulnerable in our society and it is clear that despite significant investment in the NHS they are not getting the help they need to address their health issues. Government must do more to improve the health of single homeless people and ensure they can access mainstream and specialist services.
Alex Bax, chief executive of London Pathway, a specialist homeless charity that works closely with University College Hospital, said services would only improve if the health outcomes of homeless people were made an explicit priority for all of the NHS. A separate report reveals almost 70,000 children will wake up on Christmas Day in temporary accommodation, without a permanent home to call their own.
According to government figures highlighted by Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity, there are currently 69,846 children in England living in temporary accommodation such as hostels, bed and breakfasts and refuges. With waiting lists lengthening and the government's cuts to housing benefit, there are worries that swelling numbers living in temporary shelter will become a permanent feature.
Kay Boycott, Shelter's policy director, said: "It's simply not right that in an affluent nation like ours, thousands of children will wake up on Christmas day wanting nothing more than a permanent roof over their head. We cannot underestimate the damage homelessness has on children's lives. They often miss out on vital schooling, because they are shunted from place to place and many become ill by the poor conditions they are forced to live in."
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
fieldproducer Neal Mann
RT @anguswalkeritv #northkorea the excellent Ben Lim from Reuters reports Kim Jung Un will rule alongside his uncle Jang Song Thaek
RT @anguswalkeritv #northkorea the excellent Ben Lim from Reuters reports Kim Jung Un will rule alongside his uncle Jang Song Thaek
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