Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Don Letts: The Punk Rock Movie

Roxy club disc jockey Don Letts was given a Super 8 camera as a present by fashion editor Caroline Baker. When Letts started to film the acts at The Roxy, it was soon reported that he was making a movie, so Letts determined to film continuously for three months. He needed to sell his possessions in order to continue to purchase film.
The film features live footage of The Clash, the Sex Pistols, Wayne County & the Electric Chairs, Generation X, Slaughter and the Dogs, The Slits, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Eater, Subway Sect, X-Ray Spex, Alternative TV and Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers. Backstage footage of certain bands, such as Generation X, The Slits and Siouxsie and the Banshees, is also included.
All live footage was shot at the Roxy, except that of the Sex Pistols, who were filmed at The Screen On The Green cinema in London on 3 April 1977. The performance was Sid Vicious' first public concert with the band.

Directed by Don Letts
Produced by Peter Clifton
Bonus:
Sex Pistols: Number 1

Sex Pistols Number 1 is a compilation of TV clips from 1976 and 1977 intended to present the group and the punk rock scene visually, apart from the music. The short film was shown at Sex Pistols concerts from April 3, 1977 (at Screen on the Green, London) through January 14, 1978 (the last show in San Francisco).

Directed by Julien Temple and John Tiberi

CBGB's: The Roots of Punk

A documentary on CBGB's commissioned by its owner and creator, Hilly Kristal.
Bonus:
CBGB's: Blitzkrieg Bop

A documentary film examining the early glory days of the punk rock explosion with live performances recorded in New York in 1977. Here punk rock musicians candidly share their musical outlook and philosophies along with commentary by their managers, music critics and promoters.
Goodbye CBGB
Free New York episode #427 "Goodbye, CBGB"
This episode takes a look at the last night CBGB was open, on October 15, 2006. Several fans of the club tell us their opinions of and experiences at CBGB, including musician Matt Pless, artist Andrew Galindo, a member of the Hungry March Band, and legendary Lower East Side musician David Peel, who closes our program with the song "Goodbye, CBGB" while several photos of the club's interior remind us of what we're losing.
Directed by Chris F.

Which Side Are You On?

Happy Labor Day North American Workers!

On Labor Day, GOP Leadership Celebrates Management

Monday, 3 September 2012

Koch Suckers

The Carpenters - Live in Australia (1972)

00:02 - Help
02:37 - Love Is Surrender
04:30 - *Richard explains harmonies
07:30 - Ticket To Ride
11:40 - For All We Know
14:06 - Close To You
17:37 - Cinderella Rockefella
19:35 - Superstar
23:16 - *Band Introduction
26:47 - Medley
--------- Any Day Now
--------- Baby It's You
--------- Make It Easy On Yourself
--------- There's Always Something There To Remind Me
--------- Walk On By
--------- Do You Know The Way To San Jose?
39:04 - Hurting Each Other
42:28 - We've Only Just Begun

Yang Yongliang

Chinese new media artist Yang Yongliang was classically trained in Chinese painting and calligraphy from a very young age but uses digital tools to capture that time-tested aesthetic. Traditional Chinese culture permeates his cutting-edge creative process, using new techniques and software to interpret older forms, like Chinese landscape paintings.
Spaceboy and I often visit his piece in the Kid's Gallery at the NGV in Fed Square...

Sunday, 2 September 2012

Cat Scratch Fever

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(Thanx HerrB!)

Looking For Johnny: The Legend of Johnny Thunders

Wanna help finance this film?

Gawd! I truly despise EVERYTHING about Z*ppa

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Women are 'destroying the joint'

SOMEDAY ALL THE ADULTS WILL DIE

Boo-Hooray is pleased to announce Someday All The Adults Will Die: Punk Graphics 1971-1984, curated by Johan Kugelberg and Jon Savage, which will open at the Hayward Gallery in London this fall. The exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of punk graphic design, highlighting imagery before, during and after the punk years, drawing upon previously unseen public and private archives and collections. Punk and post-punk graphic design is illuminated by examples of homemade cassettes, fanzines, posters, handbills, records and clothing. Highlights include original artworks by Gee Vaucher, Jamie Reid, Gary Panter, John Holmstrom and Penny Rimbaud alongside numerous anonymous artists.
The exhibition coincides with the publication of Punk: An Aesthetic by Johan Kugelberg and Jon Savage, published by Rizzoli.
'SOMEDAY ALL THE ADULTS WILL DIE'

Punk Graphics 1971 - 1984

Hayward Gallery, London

13 September - 4 November 2012

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Uncommon Deities - The God of Single Cell Organisms

David Sylvian's Samadhisound will be releasing Uncommon Deities on the 24th September 2012. Last year's Punkt Festival played host to Uncommon Deities, an unusual confluence of talents and media. Walking into the gallery’s large space, visitors were greeted by a series of paintings by Atsushi Fukui that culminated in the striking, hermaphroditic figure in “The Botanist.” An audio installation by David Sylvian filled the space, and the opening night celebration brought poets and musicians into the mix: the acclaimed Norwegian poets Paal-Helge Haugen and Nils Christian Moe Repstad read alongside Evan Parker and Arve Henriksen, and their works were read in English by Sylvian, whose recorded voice was accompanied by John Tilbury, Philip Jeck, and Sidsel Endresen.
The CD release of Uncommon Deities isn’t a document of the installation, but a reinvention: the poems and Sylvian’s readings are placed in new settings by Jan Bang and Erik Honoré.
The cofounders of the Punkt festival and close collaborators on the original installation, Bang and Honoré draw on new performances by the deeply sympathetic trumpeter Arve Henriksen and the startling, elemental singer Sidsel Endresen. These improvisations join live material captured at last year’s Punkt events, in a production that’s spacious and atmospheric, somber and escapist, light-hearted and steeped in history - a recording as rich as the ancestry of the work that inspired it.
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(Thanx JA!)