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Art and Alzheimer’s

Urban Times and GV Art gallery have come together in a momentous collaboration set to explore the tale of scientific traumas via art. GV Art is a contemporary art gallery, in the heart of London, which aims to explore and acknowledge the inter-relationship between art and science, and how the areas cross over and inform one another. The gallery produces exhibitions and events that create a dialogue focused on how modern man interprets and understands the advances in both areas and how an overlap in the technological and the creative, the medical and the historical are paving the way for new aesthetic sensibilities to develop.
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Patti Smith & Lizzy Mercier Descloux as Arthur Rimbaud and his sister Isabelle (NYC 1977 )

♪♫ Patti Smith & Phillip Glass - Spell

Dave L Stevens of Stevens Internet Productions has generously uploaded to You Tube this stunning performance of "Spell" a.k.a."Footnote to Howl" by Patti Smith and her band, with Philip Glass on piano, and back-up "vocals" by saffron-robed Buddhist monks (the recitation was in honor of a visit by His Holiness the Dalai Lama). As Stevens himself notes, "Not seen for more than a decade. I directed and produced this interactive webcast. When Patti Smith begins "howling" on her clarinet, it's sublime."
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♪♫ Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Fire (1979)

French TV 'Midi Première' with Serge Gainsbourg

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Deep Roots Music

Vol. 1: Revival - Ranking Sounds

Vol. 2: Bunny Lee Story and Black Ark

Vol. 3: Money in My Pocket and Ghetto Riddims

(Thanx SJX!)

Fuck You Rudd!!!

Address Book and Privacy

Liverpool shirt sponsor in 'robust talks' with club over Luis Suárez

Said it yesterday and I will say it again today - Suárez HAS to go...

P.I.L. - One Drop

As promised, the first new Public Image Ltd. song in 20 years — a lilting, almost dub-ska track called “One Drop” — received its worldwide debut today via Steve Lamacq’s afternoon show on BBC’s 6 Music. You can stream the track, with the DJ’s intro and outro, via the player above. The song will be released on a vinyl EP as part of Record Store Day on April 21 in advance of the release of the full-length This Is PiL in May or June. Check out full details on the first new PiL music since 1992′s That What Is Not right here.
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Joy Division and New Order master tapes turn up in old bank vault

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has apparently found rare Joy Division and New Order master tapes when digging up the basement of a new restaurant in Manchester.
The new restaurant, which is being built in a former branch of the Midland bank, was being excavated when the tapes were found, alongside guns, gold and jewellery. The total value of the haul is £1.1 million, reports Holy Moly. Oliver has since given everything found in the basement to the treasury.
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Peter Hook says (in 2008):

Yeah, it was quite a strange situation, actually. When Factory went bankrupt, [Joy Division/New Order manager] Rob Gretton had his hands on a lot of New Order's live stuff, and a lot of film stuff. And it turns out, he put it in this vault to protect it [laughs] from the official receiver, I think. What happened was that the bank lost the record and didn't bill us for this vault. So when Rob died, he took the memory of the vault with him and nobody knew it existed.
Very recently, the lease has come up on the building, so the bank has had to move. So they had to track down the people who had these vaults, then realized that they hadn't been billing anybody, so they let us all off, which was quite nice. But we got our hands back on all this wonderful stuff which we thought had disappeared-- like a full stereo recording of the Tenth Summer Festival that we did with the Smiths. We were told those tapes had been destroyed!

There were about 200 New Order live tapes of mine that had been in storage since 1990 that I had forgotten about. I even found the original master tapes of [Joy Division's debut EP] An Ideal for Living. It's freaky, you know? To get your hands on that after all those years and see your writing on them is unbelievable. The thing is, we don't know what the hell to do with it [laughs]. But it was wonderful to get it back.?"

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